Aggie Baseball

[Saggy Aggie]

Lsu runner was out.....

[caleb_mccaig]

Lsu runner was out.....

Just like how the LSU DE was offsides?

Lol I'm honestly starting to worry about a lot of A&M people on this board and on TigerDroppings melting down due to the school's inability to beat LSU in meaningful match-ups. It's honestly starting to get a bit hilarious with the excuses.

[hookandladder]

Just like how the LSU DE was offsides?

Lol I'm honestly starting to worry about a lot of A&M people on this board and on TigerDroppings melting down due to the school's inability to beat LSU in meaningful match-ups. It's honestly starting to get a bit hilarious with the excuses.

Its their carryover from the Big 12, LSU is their new Big Brother in the sec. LMAO

[1st and goal]

Baseball is a funny game. The first 2 games, the Ags gave up leads late after having good pitching performances in the first 6 innings. Frustrating to leave the bases loaded in more than one inning near the end of the game. The last game, LSU beat up the Aggie pitcher, but good Aggie defense left mucho RISP. Somehow A&M won after giving up so many hits.

[caleb_mccaig]

Baseball is a funny game. The first 2 games, the Ags gave up leads late after having good pitching performances in the first 6 innings. Frustrating to leave the bases loaded in more than one inning near the end of the game. The last game, LSU beat up the Aggie pitcher, but good Aggie defense left mucho RISP. Somehow A&M won after giving up so many hits.

LSU had very untimely hitting in the third game.

Baseball is a game where the best team doesn't always win and weird things seem to happen a good amount.

[1st and goal]

It ain't over til it's over.

Still pisses me off when the umps make bad calls that throw games. Whoever let them start calling strikes when the ball is a foot outside is crazy. I want them to be graded by the computer system (balls and strikes) after each game and have to answer for it in the big leagues. Call the strike zone as the manual states it. The worst 10% of umps get culled each month if they make X number of bad calls per game. Go back to the minors. Keep them on their toes.

Yah, I'm a hard arse.

[Saggy Aggie]

Just like how the LSU DE was offsides?

Lol I'm honestly starting to worry about a lot of A&M people on this board and on TigerDroppings melting down due to the school's inability to beat LSU in meaningful match-ups. It's honestly starting to get a bit hilarious with the excuses.

Are you saying that either of those were the correct call?

[Rabid Cougar]

Just like how the LSU DE was offsides?

Lol I'm honestly starting to worry about a lot of A&M people on this board and on TigerDroppings melting down due to the school's inability to beat LSU in meaningful match-ups. It's honestly starting to get a bit hilarious with the excuses.

Careful. Lets not forget 1989-1995. These things tend to swing back and forth.

[Rabid Cougar]

It ain't over til it's over.

Still pisses me off when the umps make bad calls that throw games. Whoever let them start calling strikes when the ball is a foot outside is crazy. I want them to be graded by the computer system (balls and strikes) after each game and have to answer for it in the big leagues. Call the strike zone as the manual states it. The worst 10% of umps get culled each month if they make X number of bad calls per game. Go back to the minors. Keep them on their toes.

Yah, I'm a hard arse.

That pitch was a strike all night long.

[caleb_mccaig]

Are you saying that either of those were the correct call?

A&M lost that football game because Kyle Allen didn't have the experience necessary to not leave the game in the refs hands and throw up a hail mary into triple coverage. Any experienced QB knows for sure whether there's a flag on a possible offsides before heaving up a ball in a game losing/winning situation like that.


The baseball call is different, especially in college. Every baseball fan goes into a game knowing that the refs aren't going to be perfect. The refs have never been and never will be perfect in this sport and that will never change. Complaining about a close out/safe call is fighting a losing battle.


The football call is different, but it still fell ultimately in Allen's hands to not lose that game on that given play and that's exactly what he did.

[Saggy Aggie]

A&M lost that football game because Kyle Allen didn't have the experience necessary to not leave the game in the refs hands and throw up a hail mary into triple coverage. Any experienced QB knows for sure whether there's a flag on a possible offsides before heaving up a ball in a game losing/winning situation like that.


The baseball call is different, especially in college. Every baseball fan goes into a game knowing that the refs aren't going to be perfect. The refs have never been and never will be perfect in this sport and that will never change. Complaining about a close out/safe call is fighting a losing battle.


The football call is different, but it still fell ultimately in Allen's hands to not lose that game on that given play and that's exactly what he did.

you didn't answer the question....

[Rabid Cougar]

Are you saying that either of those were the correct call?

YES, Anytime that it takes TV to go to frame by frame slow motion to decide "IF" a call is correct or not then whatever the official's call was is correct.
Just like the play at the plate last night during the Aggie - Tstate game. Banger at the plate. Ump called the Aggie runner safe but it took super slow motion to decern that the Aggie runner was out by milisecond. The LSU "offside" was just as close.

[msu97]

It ain't over til it's over.

Still pisses me off when the umps make bad calls that throw games. Whoever let them start calling strikes when the ball is a foot outside is crazy. I want them to be graded by the computer system (balls and strikes) after each game and have to answer for it in the big leagues. Call the strike zone as the manual states it. The worst 10% of umps get culled each month if they make X number of bad calls per game. Go back to the minors. Keep them on their toes.

Yah, I'm a hard arse.

I have visited and heard talks from the pitching coaches at LSU, Ole Miss, MSU, Auburn, Kentucky and ATM...

they have video to back and the drills to help pitchers throw to certain spots... 18 inches off the ground is a strike in the SEC and has been for years... about 1 foot off the plate on either side is a strike...

not saying it is right but it is what has been consistently called a strike in the SEC for the last 5-6 years...
I myself like it... it helps... I think it is one of the reasons the SEC pitchers do so well in the pros since they can consistently throw to those spots...

I wish high school umps would widen their strike zone to help the pitchers...

that was one great baseball series... two very good teams

[1st and goal]

I have visited and heard talks from the pitching coaches at LSU, Ole Miss, MSU, Auburn, Kentucky and ATM...

they have video to back and the drills to help pitchers throw to certain spots... 18 inches off the ground is a strike in the SEC and has been for years... about 1 foot off the plate on either side is a strike...

not saying it is right but it is what has been consistently called a strike in the SEC for the last 5-6 years...
I myself like it... it helps... I think it is one of the reasons the SEC pitchers do so well in the pros since they can consistently throw to those spots...

I wish high school umps would widen their strike zone to help the pitchers...

that was one great baseball series... two very good teams

I hated it back when Atlanta Braves had Smoltz and Maddux and they'd get the calls and the other teams wouldn't. Call it the way the original rules say, and use the new fangled computer system to give the umps a post game grade. It would be nice if there was someway to keep them honest. A frustrating weakness of the sport for a century and now they have the technology to do something about it. How often have you seen a batter take a 3-2 pitch, throw his bat and start trotting to first, and then the ump rings 'em up on their 3rd strike, just to demand respect.

I ain't saying I could do a great job of it, but for those that do, grade them to keep them on the up and up. My .02

[1st and goal]

That pitch was a strike all night long.

Nope.