Latest Locked on Longhorns Podcast discussing if the Texas Longhorns should create a Last Dance style documentary on the team?
Cami and Patrick kick off the latest podcast discussing the The Last Dance. Should the Texas Longhorns do a documentary on their 2006 National Championship run? Stories and interviews surrounding that magical run that culminated in a BCS National Championship? Or one that showed the timeline that led to the Big 12 losing four teams to other conferences?
In the world of recruiting there are the blue chip ratios. This calculates the number of four and five star recruits in a single class. Where do the Longhorns rank? Pro Football Focus tweeted out what is the biggest college football rivalry? A couple funny responses to that tweet with a Texas Longhorns angle.
The duo discuss the 44 teams that the Longhorns have yet to play and the seven that they haven’t beaten but played. Any surprises on this list? A couple big time programs that have yet to play Texas. With talk surrounding Alabama discussing playing TCU week one with USC likely out due to the coronavirus mandates in California. Should Texas look into cancel USF and play the Crimson Tide?
On Flashback Friday, Locked on Longhorns takes a look at the top 10 wins in school history and Eric Metcalf.
The duo open up Flashback Friday discussing the top wins in Texas Longhorns history including a couple games that featured Roger Staubach and Tom Landry. Cami gives the games that she would have included in the list.
As they continue Flashback Friday they discuss one of the best all-purpose players in former Longhorn Eric Metcalf. Should he be in the NFL Hall of Fame? Who are some of their favorite 2-sport athletes at Texas? Plus which Texas Longhorn from the past would they love to watch live?
CBS released their win projections for the Big 12, where is Texas projected? Which losses do they disagree with?
COVID-19 has postponed baseball, leaving players to work out on their own. The Clemens family has been working out together to stay in shape.
The coronavirus has taken its toll on athletes across the country, whether their sport was in season or out of season. Baseball was just getting started, with all teams in spring training before the season getting delayed.
For former Longhorn Kacy Clemens, he was entering his fourth season in MLB’s minor league system with the Toronto Blue Jays. Spanning from low A ball to AA, the lefty is hitting a career .226 with 26 home runs and 115 RBIs.
A more recent UT grad in Kody Clemens would have been in the middle of his third professional baseball season with the Houston Astros organization. Kody has hit a career .248 with 17 home runs and 83 RBIs.
Despite the shut down of baseball, Kacy and Kody have been staying in shape with the help of their 7x Cy Young-winning father, Roger Clemens.
Kacy Clemens (@KClemens21) with his dad @rogerclemens: “I want to find a 58-year-old around anywhere in the country that can come out here and throw 200 pitches at 60 feet like he does.” Son Kody (@kodyclem) added “In a hoody.” Kacy: “In a hundred degrees.” pic.twitter.com/r7jwyj9gRt
Soon enough, both Clemens brothers will be back on the field playing for their respective minor league baseball teams. With the Blue Jays and Astros have great minor league systems, both were on the edge of making the AA squad in 2020.
Until then, Roger will be pitching to them in a virtual ballpark, hopefully not giving up too many more home runs in Fenway Park.
Roger Clemens missed out on the Hall of Fame class in 2020 but is it time that the former Texas Longhorn get in?
Just a week ago the newest class for the National Baseball Hall of Fame was announced. The class of 2020 includes former New York Yankee Derek Jeter and former Colorado Rockies, Montreal Expos and St Louis Cardinals first baseman and right fielder Larry Walker. One name that just missed the class was former teammate of Jeter and former Texas Longhorns great Roger Clemens.
Clemens finished fourth among the candidates receiving 60.7% of the votes, the required threshold is 75%. Each year since 2014, Clemens has been gaining votes that started with just 35.4% and continued to grow until this past year at 60.7%. Under voting rules, Clemens has until 2022 to receive the necessary number for induction or he comes off the ballot for writers. It then moves to a committee that would meet in 2024.
The controversy surrounding Roger Clemens induction stems around the BALCO investigation that stated that Clemens received performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) from trainer Brian McNamee. Baseball purist believe that Clemens doesn’t deserve to be in the Hall of Fame based on this investigation. Clemens never admitted to taking steroids and had he admitted one would think the case against him in the Hall of Fame wouldn’t be as strong.
Given the era that Clemens played in, it seemed to be common place for players using steroids. While it is no excuse, given how Clemens performed before the accusations of PEDs, he deserves his opportunity to shine and be inducted. For the former Longhorn, 2021 just might be his best chance given how voters have been delivering their votes in recent years. It is hard to deny what Clemens accomplished on the mound and for that it is time to make it right.
Roger Clemens Accomplishments
11-time All-Star
Two-Time World Series Champion
Seven-time Cy Young Award Winner (Most All-Time)
American League Most Valuable Player (1986)
Two-Time Triple Crown Winner (ERA, Wins and Strikeouts)
It continues to be hard to take the Baseball Hall of Fame seriously.
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The Baseball Hall of Fame’s Class of 2020 was announced on Tuesday (Derek Jeter and Larry Walker) and once again two of the best players to ever play the game did not get their names called.
Which is pathetic.
Yup, another year of Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens not getting into the Hall makes it another year for us not to take that silly museum in Cooperstown all that seriously. Because come on, how are you not going to have Bonds and Clemens in there?
I know what you’re thinking – they cheated and allegedly took PEDs. Well boo-freaking-hoo. These two legends shined during a period of time in baseball when a lot of guys were juiced to the gills. Oh, and Bonds and Clemens also outperformed most of those juiced up players.
They also shined well before the steroid era, too, which only makes their cases even that more worthy.
Some baseball writers who get a HOF vote really need to get over themselves and do the right thing before it’s too late – both Bonds and Clemens have been eligible for the last eight years and have just two years of eligibility remaining. I don’t know how anyone could take that place seriously if these two guys don’t make it over the next two years.
Bonds is the all-time home run leader, has the most home runs in a season, is a 7-time NL MVP (including three that he won in the early 90s when he was a skinny little fella), is the all-time leader in walks, won eight Gold Gloves, and is a 12-time Silver Slugger award winner.
He’s the greatest baseball player of all time. And he’s not in the silly Hall of Fame.
How ridiculous.
Clemens is one of the greatest pitchers to ever play the game, as he racked up 354 wins in 24 seasons. He won over 20 games six different years. He led the league in strikeouts five times. He won seven Cy Youngs and did the double dip in 1986 when we won the AL Cy Young and the AL MVP awards, which is something that pitchers rarely pull off.
How he isn’t in the Hall of Fame is beyond me, too.
So congrats to Derek Jeter and Larry Walker for making it this year, but shame on those who don’t have the courage to do the right thing and actually make this Hall of Fame what it should be – a celebration of the best to ever do it.
Hopefully, things change soon.
Tuesday’s big winner: Las Vegas.
AP Photo/Laura Rauch
It was announced on Tuesday that this year’s NFL Draft will be held in Vegas and the league will – as you often do while in Vegas – go big. The red carpet event before the draft is going be in the fountains of the Bellagio with boats bringing players across. Boats! The main draft stage will be at Caesars Palace. It’s going to be nuts.
