The play in the 1st

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tejas77

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where the aggy 1st baseman was pulled off the bag, did he put his foot back on in time to get the runner or did we beat it out? The aggys sgure are crying about that call at Texags but I didn't get to watch it on TV, instead I listened to on the radio. So, was he safe or did that ump screw them again,, not that there's anything wrong with that.
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I think it was a bad call and our guy was out.

But, of course aggy has now taken this to a level of conspiracy and boycott and letter writing I had not realized was imaginable.

Like someone else said, try getting ****** out of an MNC game by some percentage point due to coaches voting for their buddy Stoops.

aggy thought that was funnier than hell.
 
I've seen the replay numerous times and I never can see whether or not he touches the bag. But like Keith Moreland said, the 1st baseman sealed the play by constantly trying to tag or retag it. Maybe if he runs off the field he sells it. Doesn't matter though. Great teams overcome adversity like that and aggy continued to muff the ball all over the field and leave runners on base. They're losers and didn't deserve to win. We did and did!
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All aggy on texags are foaming rabid-like spittle. They
say that without two bad calls for the Horns that aggy
would have swept the series. I hope a lot of you got
to see the absolutely stupid errors and aggy-like base-
running (the double play by Rupp was priceless). Aggy
needs to mature past childish whining, but I'm not holding
my breath. As has been said countless times, aggy makes
their own jokes (and effortlessly, I must admit).
 
I wouldn't regard today's issue a "blown call" because the video isn't conclusive. Even in slo-mo, it's hard to tell whether his foot touches the bag at the same time the ball is in his glove. He's absolutely dancing all over and around it, though.

However you saw it, it was about as easy a double-play opportunity as you're going to see and aggy couldn't execute. Plus, they got the benefit of some "major league" double plays Saturday afternoon.

In contrast, the called out on the aggy runner at third base yesterday was inexcusably wrong--the runner was safe at any speed.

I still think aggy scored what would've been the winning run on Friday night, but, as has been discussed ad nauseum, the video evidence for that play is far from conclusive.

Bottom line is aggy has no one to blame but itself for today's loss. Most seem incapable of owning up to that, however.
 
I have never, ever looked at Texags web site until it was mentioned here. Good Lord! It's kinda depressing.

It appears to me that they are just eaten up with envy, and have a pretty healthy inferiority complex. When I read their posts concerning the weekend series, first thing comes to my mind is "how old are these posters?". I'm talking physical age because for the most part, they sound like fairly young kids and I want to tell them to grow up. Their mental ages are readily apparent.

Just an observation.
 
I saw several replays and couldn't tell for sure. It was a tailor made double play ball, they should have executed it better than they did.
 
Only saw it once, from my seat. He raked his foot over and across the bag repeatedly. I can't believe he didn't get the call.

Everybody who has never been screwed by a bad call at first stand on their head.

Didn't think so.
 
Concerning you post about the aggie posters being old as my father, well, I'm 66, but that even makes me more amazed. Sure does sound like a bunch of spoiled kids to me. They are a truely amazing bunch. And I can make statements such as that. One of my sons is an A&M graduate, but not like this assemblage.
 
The thread over on Txags about this call and this game is hilarious, and you should all read it. Those people are not rational, and the cultists mentality is on full display.
I watched each channel's coverage of the the Sunday game, and saw several replays of the call.
Here's what appeared to happen: there never was a more tailor made double play ball, and they made a horrible throw to first, which drew the first baseman off the bag. The umpire was up the right field line a few yards, watching the bag intently. The first baseman's foot appeared to just tap the home plate side of the bag with the very tip of his toe, but the video did not show the ball to be in his glove, although it probably was by then. At that point, the momentum of the foot carried it across the bag and it landed on the outfield side of the bag a few inches away from the bag. The first baseman then stabbed at the bag with his foot and missed it. He never hit the bag with the foot except that first tip on the side away from the umpire, and he wasn't trying to touch the bag at that point, I think it may have accidentally just barely touched it as his momentum carried him across the bag, though.
The umpire could not see if the tip of the guy's toe just grazed the home plate side of the bag, and when the first baseman started wildly stabbing at the bag after that, and clearly missed the bag, the umpire made his call based on the view he had of the play.
As pointed out, there are umpires calls on every pitch and every ball put into play. Some of the calls are not going to be correct, because even a good umpire cannot have a perfect view from every angle. You have to keep playing the game, not adopt a loser mentality that some external force is out to get you, which aggy specializes in. It is always a watered down field, a bad call, or some other conspiracy to defraud them out of their much-deserved victories.
It can't be they fell apart, made several more mental errors than showed up on the scorebook, failed to cover second base more than once, ran the bases like clowns at the circus getting out of a Volkswagen, and got shut down by a great relief pitcher when they most needed a run, can it? No, it couldn't be that.
 
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