Brouhaha ends game today...

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accuratehorn

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There may be some bad blood tomorrow, as a bench clearing incident ended the festivities today. I don't know who said what to whom first, but this is what I saw:
The Turtle coaches went out to home plate for the game ending handshake, our coaches arrived shortly thereafter. I believe everyone had gone down the line and shook hands, Augie being last, and one of the young coaches, maybe a student coach, said something to Augie which really set Augie off. He started coming towards the snapping turtle, and the rest of the coaches turn back (they were already heading to the dugout), and then J Brent Cox got in between the two as a peace maker, then both benches rushed towards each other and met in the home plate area.
A few guys had to be restrained by their respective teammates, after a brief shouting match.
I can only speculate what may have set this off, but I think it may have ensued following the insertion of our final reliever in the ninth inning. Three or four of the turtle batters and one assistant coach trotted out, the assistant with a stop watch, and were too close to the batter's circle, trying to time our pitcher. This is a long standing baseball no-no. The umpire asked the coach to move away, and he took some steps toward the dugout, then came right back to where he was originally.
I have seen pitchers warming up actually bean opposing players for doing this, it is considered very bush league.
But this may or may not have led to the incident following their defeat. They were getting real cocky after beating us in the first game and leading most of the second, prior to the wheels falling off their turtlemobile. They seemed a bit crest fallen.
May make for some fun tomorrow.
 
I caught wind of this while watching the online broadcoast. Unfortunately, the video feed had stopped and the only info on the faux-fracas came from the scattered comments Keith and Bill were making to each other on audio.

I'm sure the Maryland coaches were still fuming over a couple of curious eighth-inning calls, but they really should have focused their anger toward themselves--they gave the second game away thanks to a leadoff walk, three hit batsmen and a wild pitch in the eighth inning.
 
Was there today and yesterday and thought their team and alot of their fans were asses, esp. the handful around the left field foul pole. Not an excuse but the first game home plate umpire was atrocious. Tomorrow will be interesting............
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Their team acted like this game was for a trip to Omaha or something - way way too much emotion for the second day of the season. They didn't handle losing very well. Walking through the players and parents after the game, they were ********. Odd that the coach acted like that, because I thought the game on the field was pretty clean.

You hit 3 batters in an inning, you're going to give up runs. Don't blame the umpire, turtles.
 
I was told after the game by someone that was on the field that one of the coaches said to Augie as they were shaking hands " I used to think you were a legend now I just think you are a cheater". That's when Augie got pissed and the benches cleared. It should be very interesting tomorrow.
 
Oh no he di'nt!

I'm so bummed I missed the comeback in game 2 today. I was there all day, then left at the top of the 7th in game 2 to go meet my mom!!!
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Glad the boys pulled it off, should definitely be an interesting Sunday!

My dad works on the field and told me that same thing about that "cheater" comment. That coach is just a kid and will soon regret what he did (if he truly loves the college game).
 
Well, I think it's now obvious that Augie won't be inviting Maryland back for warm weather baseball next year.

After that classless performance by their team, coaches and fans, just saw off Maryland and let it float in the Atlantic.

And who the hell would pick a turtle as their mascot . . . ? One plop by Bevo and that thing would suffocate.
 
I got confirmation about KEYSORSOZE's testimony. I think (but not sure) it was the MD. head coach that popped off.
J. Brent Cox and Russ Ryan were right there went red hot ready to cook some turtles.
I loved the way the rest of the team swarmed over in support of their old coach.
 
If it was the ump's bad call, how does that make Augie a cheater? Or was the bad blood about something other than a questionable call? I'm completely lost trying to figure out where the Maryland camp is coming from on this one.

Home plate ump made some atrocious calls in today's first game that didn't go the 'Horns way, but you didn't see our coaches** and players baiting the Maryland dugout. Why? Cuz they whipped us and the Longhorns were mature enough to admit it and deal with it.



** Harmon and Augie got tossed in the first game for going after the ump, but they only directed their remarks toward him, as far as I know.
 
Not to detract from the post-game festivites, I just can't get the words "J Brent" and "peacemaker", in the same sentence, through my logic circuits.

Like someone above said, don't hit 3 batters in one inning and your odds of winning improve.

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Wow, their coach or one of them called Augie a cheater? On what basis? Becasue they didn't like a couple of umpiring calls? What would that have to do with any of our team or coaching staff?
I think he who lost his cool got set off in the 8th, first due to the hit batter call, which I assume the ump ruled the ball nicked the uniform or something, as it didn't bean the guy or anything. So the head coach goes ballistic and calls all three base umpires for a ruling, like they would know for sure that a pitched ball didn't nick a batter's uniform. Naturally they shrugged their shoulders and the call stood.
Then on the next batted ball, which I believe was the ground rule double, the batter hit or was hit by the second baseman's knee between first and second, and John Bible immediately pointed the runner to go to third due to interference. So Mr. Turtlehothead starts throwing a screaming fit over that call, like John Bible, (who has been president of the college baseball umpires association in the past, may not still be, but certainly there are few if any more credentialed umpires in all of college ball) doesn't know the rules of the game. Screaming, threatening coach quickly got the heaveho which didn't improve his mood for some reason.
So if these mascot challenged clowns don't like the umpiring calls, how does that make Texas coaches "cheaters." Is he saying we pay them to make biased calls or something. Is he saying our runner deliberately ran into their second baseman. Well boohoo, get the hell out of the way of the runner who has the right to run to second base.
Dude gives douchebags a bad name. Somebody mail him a clue prior to noon tomorrow.
 
Actually it was extremely smart base running - he saw the Maryland 2nd baseman was in the base path with his back to him (the runner) and intentionally brushed into him. Cheating? No, heads up baseball.
 
I have seen that on rundown plays, where the trapped runner barrells over a defender in the base path (not the defender with the ball, of course). The runner is awarded the next base. Our runner could have plowed into the turtle second baseman and flattened him, and been awarded the extra base. Sounds like our baserunner just showed the umpire that he could have done it, but just barely made contact. It's a part of baseball. The runner has that right.
Maybe an umpire will chime in with the exact rule here.
 
Number 9 for the terps was the one that said that **** to Augie. I have a picture that I will try to post later that shows number 9 standing or hiding as far back as he can get from the pushing on the field
 
Looks like Augie told the boys to bury these punks today. 10-0 after 3rd inning
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OK, I need to correct some things from yesterday. The interference play was not on the ground rule double, it was on another occasion. And although no one knew for sure, it sounds like the brouhaha was not over that play, it was over the young assistant #9 who was the guy who came out to time and chart the pitches while UT was inserting the last reliever yesterday in the ninth inning. He is the one who made the nasty remark to Augie and set everything in motion.
Maybe no one else on the Maryland team condoned or approved of this idiot's actions, it may have been all one stupid hothead's fault.
But were I Maryland, I wouldn't want someone like that associated with the program, he would be dismissed. He is a liability.
The rule applying to the coach reads something like while a reliever is warming up, the coaches must stay in or in the vicinity of the dugout. The in the vicinity wording does allow for some gray area, but the esteemed #9 was too far out onto the playing field, the umpire asked him to get back, and he moved right back where he was.
So this makes him mad and he calls Augie a cheater. Class act.
Looks like he poked a sleeping longhorn in the ribs, we kicked their tortoise tushes today. I couldn't believe it, but #9 had the nerve to come out after the game and briefly shake hands. He didn't open his fat mouth this time, though.
 
Before today's game while Hoby Milner was taking his warm up pitches both head coach Bakich and ******* # 9 were but well outside their dugout trying to time and chart the Hoby's pitches. So I suspect the head coach is very responsible for what happened during and after the game yesterday. Gary Ward revisited.
 
More than one person said the preferred baseball solution to the violation of the rule is for the pitcher to throw at the offending player or coach. Since we were nice enough not to use that solution, instead asking the umpires to move them back, we get called cheaters after Saturday's game. Classy, Maryland, classy.
 
Maryland baseball is an absolute joke. Their website claims that they have 3 active MLB'ers. Of those 3, you have 2 pitchers (Kevin Hart & Eric Milton) who didn't throw a pitch in the majors last year and an OF (Justin Maxwell) who was DFA'd before being traded to the Yankees' bench. Everyone should be a legend to those ***-clowns.
 
I was thinking exactly what Alex wrote, they ended some kids career and put him in the hospital as I recall.
 
Augie and the team did not make an issue of it, so without knowing the exact details, I don't suppose we should either. Maybe they apologized, or maybe we are taking the high road. Maybe there is more to it that we don't know. Maybe that is the last time Maryland will play at Disch-Falk, barring accidental tournament pairings. Onward through the fog.
 
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