Big 12 Tournament: A microcosm of our season

Is anyone surprised that the baseball team blew a two run lead in the bottom of the 9th inning to OU last night? Because you had to think our sporadic offense and utter lack of anything resembling a decent bullpen would eventually cost us in a critical situation. For the record, this is our fifth loss this season in which we had a 9th inning lead.

It's a shame too because if we would have held on last night we'd have clinched a spot in Sunday's championship game meaning we could have had a day off today and rested whoever we needed to during Saturday's game against Texas A&M. Jamieson had made the decision to move Kyle Gibson back to the bullpen, where he excelled last season, which would seem to cure our bullpen woes even if it meant sacrificing a fantastic No. 2 starter. I don't know what the plans were but Gibby pitched 2.2 innings on Thursday and an inning last night. Had he not blown the save we probably could have gotten four or 5 innings out of him on Sunday and teamed him with someone like Nick Tepesch or Ian Berger and maybe even brought Crow back out to pitch an inning.

All in all I think it was a great strategy by Jamieson to move Gibby to the pen and if things would have gone as they should have we'd be in a fantastic position to win a conference championship. But you can't commit four errors (like the Tigers did) and expect to win a close game. Now we have to win tomorrow and get some help from Texas (who play OU tomorrow morning) and Mizzou must win their game against top seeded A&M just to get to Sunday. That could easily happen but our road to actually winning this tournament just got a helluva lot bumpier and our chances of hosting a regional now seem nonexistent.

I'll be back later tonight with some interesting links I have to pass along.