The Official #1 Tennessee @ FSU CWS Game 3 Thread (Wed. June 19 3:45PM EST) (ESPN)

[VOLfrombama]

Same here. Know it sounds silly, but I set a timer for 3 1/2 hours from opening pitch and then check the score. I don't even get on this board until after the game ends. Can't see a score before it's final. If I watch a game live, we lose. I just finished watching the extended highlights of this one on YouTube. Great performance.

Maybe you should eat some sage or something.

 

[Woodlawn VOL]

The BaseVols are a rockin! GBO!

 

[Proud Army Wife]

Same here. Know it sounds silly, but I set a timer for 3 1/2 hours from opening pitch and then check the score. I don't even get on this board until after the game ends. Can't see a score before it's final. If I watch a game live, we lose. I just finished watching the extended highlights of this one on YouTube. Great performance.

Very few high stakes games have I watched that we won. The sweet 16 against Creighton, ‘22 Bama, and Sunday against UNC. The others I’ve watched, we lost. Actually in hindsight, that is a lie lol but I feel like it because any time we’re winning and I decide to turn on a game then we lose.

 

[Vawlz]

Grow up

Looks like your Noles lost. Tough luck, bud.

 

[VOLfrombama]

Very few high stakes games have I watched that we won. The sweet 16 against Creighton, ‘22 Bama, and Sunday against UNC. The others I’ve watched, we lost. Actually in hindsight, that is a lie lol but I feel like it because any time we’re winning and I decide to turn on a game then we lose.

True story. I made my wife leave the house in 22 against Bama. Bama took the lead in second half as soon as she got home from the grocery store. She called me from the publix parking lot when it was over and then went and bought cigars for us both.

 

[CAVPUT]

Very few high stakes games have I watched that we won. The sweet 16 against Creighton, ‘22 Bama, and Sunday against UNC. The others I’ve watched, we lost. Actually in hindsight, that is a lie lol but I feel like it because any time we’re winning and I decide to turn on a game then we lose.

The way I look at it, we're doing our part by sacrificing for the good of the team. Giving our all. Unsung heroes and heroines we are.

 

[Proud Army Wife]

The way I look at it, we're doing our part by sacrificing for the good of the team. Giving our all. Unsung heroes and heroines we are.

That’s the way I see it too. Any game that I start off watching, soon as we start losing I’ll turn it off and we end up winning. True story lol.

 

[Proud Army Wife]

True story. I made my wife leave the house in 22 against Bama. Bama took the lead in second half as soon as she got home from the grocery store. She called me from the publix parking lot when it was over and then went and bought cigars for us both.

Lmao your wife is a trooper. My husband doesn’t care about sports at all but he puts up with my bs.

 

[Hacksaw]

That’s the way I see it too. Any game that I start off watching, soon as we start losing I’ll turn it off and we end up winning. True story lol.

I think we've all felt like that at one time or another.

 

[Proud Army Wife]

I think we've all felt like that at one time or another.

Honestly I just can’t stand to watch any Vols team lose. Hurts me to my core because I love them all so much. I probably need help lol.

 

[TheBigOne10]

Cortez throws straight gas

 

[Hacksaw]

Honestly I just can’t stand to watch any Vols team lose. Hurts me to my core because I love them all so much. I probably need help lol.

If loving them is wrong, I don't wanna be right.

 

[Volprofch05]

Very few high stakes games have I watched that we won. The sweet 16 against Creighton, ‘22 Bama, and Sunday against UNC. The others I’ve watched, we lost. Actually in hindsight, that is a lie lol but I feel like it because any time we’re winning and I decide to turn on a game then we lose.

Could it be that high stakes games are harder to win?

 

[VOLfrombama]

Lmao your wife is a trooper. My husband doesn’t care about sports at all but he puts up with my bs.

We weren’t even married the last time they beat bama. She was willing to do whatever it took! Lol

 

[firestorm]

A topnotch result today in a game that was very entertaining, and undramatic because Tennessee controlled the game without struggle.

 

[25vol]

I think we've all felt like that at one time or another.

I swear to god in ‘22 against bama, all 5 times I went out to smoke a cigarette on the porch (Yeah, bad habit but I only like it when I’m drinking) Hyatt scored a touchdown.
My dad and uncles were in absolute disbelief. They kept telling me to go watch from outside the door and keep smoking!

 

[Volprofch05]

I swear to god in ‘22 against bama, all 5 times I went out to smoke a cigarette on the porch (Yeah, bad habit but I only like it when I’m drinking) Hyatt scored a touchdown.
My dad and uncles were in absolute disbelief. They kept telling me to go watch from outside the door and keep smoking!

That’s because Hyatt was scoring like every 5 minutes

 

[Hacksaw]

We weren’t even married the last time they beat bama. She was willing to do whatever it took! Lol

In that case, I'd suggest you could have been a little more creative.

 

[Dudleys87]

Is there any crying outside of baseball?

If you’ve ever hit the hitch on a pickup..

 

[turbovol]

This game unfolded perfectly today for us. We got an early lead and we got excellent pitching from our starter, which put the pressure
on them to come back or get eliminated. Had they gotten the lead, we would have started feeling pressure--and that would not have
been ideal, to say the least. We hit the ball well and made some clutch defensive plays to keep fsu from getting a
foothold in the game. Just a strong overall performance--and what a relief to not have to play a 2nd semifinal game. Big help. I always
thoroughly enjoy beating fsu. Only victories over bama and, maybe, florida, make me feel better.

Interesting that fsu coach jarrett has now been in 5 CWS---3 as a player with fsu in the early 90s, then once as the head coach with Notre Dame in either 2021 or 2022, I believe, and now has head coach with fsu. Hasn't won it yet--and has he said, it's tough to get here and very tough to win it. He also spent 3 years with Auburn.

He was asked today to compare our pitching staff now versus in 2022, and he rightly noted that in 22 we leaned heavily on strong-armed starters to give us 6 or so and then go to the pen whereas now we are less dependent on starters and have a staff that is constructed with a lot of different and effective throwing styles that can be mixed and utilized as needed in games.

 

[VOLfrombama]

In that case, I'd suggest you could have been a little more creative.

i would never kiss and tell

 

[NOLAPhil]

A&m is boring...but really freakin methodical and efficient.

 

[Drewbydoo]

That’s the way I see it too. Any game that I start off watching, soon as we start losing I’ll turn it off and we end up winning. True story lol.

Then I'm going to guess you really enjoyed last Friday night's come from behind win.

I think the 9th inning might be my favorite come from behind batting sequence ever and have watched twice after the game even though I watched it live. It kind of gives me the chills because in the moment, when was happening live, I was very sure our batters were disciplined enough to get the runs we needed.

I saved the link to it and it's in one of my pull down menus.

Plus, I like the celebration footage.

 

[txbo]

No, should’ve been pulled in the 3rd.

That’s what I would have done but I was drunk. I’m drunker now.

 

[TheBigOne10]

Lamkin gave us fits in the SEC tourney last year. And they have 2 or 3 other legitimate studs. We will have to be very disciplined and lay off the junk sliders.