See my reply to derm

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dermdoc said:

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BraxtonW said:

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BraxtonW said:

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trouble said:

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dermdoc said:

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trouble said:

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Nick just said the F word

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Your home plate blue buddy must love Mingione. Played him like a two dollar *****
The whole game

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I was STUNNED he didn't warn him early on. I've never seen him tolerate bull*****

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He should have tossed Mingione and Hage.

Umps basically bowed down to Mingione the last 2 games. And anyone who does not think it changes things can kiss my ass.

Kentucky came up in the first inning and would wipe out the chalk marks of the batter box by sweeping their cleats. And then sit on top of the plate with their arms and hands in the strike zone. So you could throw a strike and hit them. And neither ump the last two days did anything.

Total joke. League has to do something. They have been hbp 55 times in the last 17 games.

Not surprised with Ryan Broussard. Surprised today. Mingione played blue like a violin.

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He's a POS, but also our play is worse. Hard to put the loss blame on Kentucky when we are playing like a 13 u travel team

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Agree to an extent. When home plate blue lets the opposing team stand inside the batter's box and not give you the outside corner that strike window gets real small. Where they stood they could not move and get hit by a strike. Completely changed the weekend when Nroussard let them get away with it yesterday. It is almost impossible to pitch.

Blue has to do something there.

And it is one thing not to have the balls to do something (because they absolutely know what is going on) but then for home plate blue today to put up with Mingione's crap is piss poor.

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I can agree with you, but what if we decided to do it too? Wouldn't it have been smart? I just have a hard time blaming the series loss on anything else but ourselves

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I agree. But it is bs baseball. I hate it. Love winning but this is so chicken sheet.

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Oh yeah I think it's awful way to play. Hard to be proud about a win doing it.

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But I do not blame them for trying that. Blue needs to have balls and tell them to stop it. Everybody is so scared of making people mad.

And they are sad thing is, I have umoed. They know exactly what Mingione is doing. They are not stupid. Just scared.

Was Broussard the crew chief this weekend? How much control does he wield over the others?

I'm mostly just curious about that. Like how much do they follow his lead?

1-8 SEC and outscored 61-40 in those 9 games, including 31-25 by Kentucky.

To add insult to injury, OU and Bama were still playing well after 5:00. The 4:30 curfew is a joke. Don't know why the Aggies agreed to it.

We don't have a choice. It's set by the SEC office depending on travel plans.

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BraxtonW said:

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dermdoc said:

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BraxtonW said:

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dermdoc said:

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BraxtonW said:

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trouble said:

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dermdoc said:

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trouble said:

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Nick just said the F word

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Your home plate blue buddy must love Mingione. Played him like a two dollar *****
The whole game

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I was STUNNED he didn't warn him early on. I've never seen him tolerate bull*****

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He should have tossed Mingione and Hage.

Umps basically bowed down to Mingione the last 2 games. And anyone who does not think it changes things can kiss my ass.

Kentucky came up in the first inning and would wipe out the chalk marks of the batter box by sweeping their cleats. And then sit on top of the plate with their arms and hands in the strike zone. So you could throw a strike and hit them. And neither ump the last two days did anything.

Total joke. League has to do something. They have been hbp 55 times in the last 17 games.

Not surprised with Ryan Broussard. Surprised today. Mingione played blue like a violin.

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He's a POS, but also our play is worse. Hard to put the loss blame on Kentucky when we are playing like a 13 u travel team

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Agree to an extent. When home plate blue lets the opposing team stand inside the batter's box and not give you the outside corner that strike window gets real small. Where they stood they could not move and get hit by a strike. Completely changed the weekend when Nroussard let them get away with it yesterday. It is almost impossible to pitch.

Blue has to do something there.

And it is one thing not to have the balls to do something (because they absolutely know what is going on) but then for home plate blue today to put up with Mingione's crap is piss poor.

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I can agree with you, but what if we decided to do it too? Wouldn't it have been smart? I just have a hard time blaming the series loss on anything else but ourselves

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I agree. But it is bs baseball. I hate it. Love winning but this is so chicken sheet.

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Oh yeah I think it's awful way to play. Hard to be proud about a win doing it.

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But I do not blame them for trying that. Blue needs to have balls and tell them to stop it. Everybody is so scared of making people mad.

And they are sad thing is, I have umoed. They know exactly what Mingione is doing. They are not stupid. Just scared.

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Travel rule is just stupid to begin with. You would think it would be an easy fix

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Was Broussard the crew chief this weekend? How much control does he wield over the others?

I'm mostly just curious about that. Like how much do they follow his lead?

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My opinion after following Aggie baseball for decades is that these guys just want to make their money and go home. And not piss off guys like Mingione, Vitello, Schloss (blues never would have done to him what happened this weekend), Van Horn, O'Sullivan, etc.

They want to get paid, stay at nice hotels, eat and drink, and laugh at people like me. Heck I get to an extent as we all like that.

But none have any balls.

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1-8 SEC and outscored 61-38 in those 9 games, including 31-23 by Kentucky.

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Yeah we suck.

But watching grown men umpires let Mingione scare them bothers me. And I used to ump.

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trouble said:

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MosesHallRAB04 said:

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dermdoc said:

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trouble said:

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dermdoc said:

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trouble said:

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Nick just said the F word

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Your home plate blue buddy must love Mingione. Played him like a two dollar *****
The whole game

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I was STUNNED he didn't warn him early on. I've never seen him tolerate bull*****

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He should have tossed Mingione and Hage.

Umps basically bowed down to Mingione the last 2 games. And anyone who does not think it changes things can kiss my ass.

Kentucky came up in the first inning and would wipe out the chalk marks of the batter box by sweeping their cleats. And then sit on top of the plate with their arms and hands in the strike zone. So you could throw a strike and hit them. And neither ump the last two days did anything.

Total joke. League has to do something. They have been hbp 55 times in the last 17 games.

Not surprised with Ryan Broussard. Surprised today. Mingione played blue like a violin.

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Or if you pitch in then pitch way in. Hit him in the ribs, not the elbow armor. If they still insist on doing that then when you go in go up and in. Bow ties

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Gotta put in someone you can afford to lose for 4 games to do that. And be ready for your coach to be tossed as well.

You can't just plunk people the way you used to. I'm not saying I agree with those rules just that that's the way it is.

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Losing Freshcorn for 4 games might be a net positive.

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And it would be 96

Agreed. This is junior minor Little League bs.
Give the umps the authority to shut it down.
If the Kentucky coach can look himself in the mirror, and feel good about his conscience, then so be it.
But, ours has to look himself in the mirror, and realize that being the head coach is not a popularity contest, and that you're going to upset people either way. Take a weed wacker to the lineup, and make the changes that you know need to be made, no matter the level of popularity of the player(s).

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Agreed. This is junior minor Little League bs.
Give the umps the authority to shut it down.
If the Kentucky coach can look himself in the mirror, and feel good about his conscience, then so be it.
But, ours has to look himself in the mirror, and realize that being the head coach is not a popularity contest, and that you're going to upset people either way. Take a weed walker to the lineup, and make the changes that you know need to be made, no matter the level of popularity of the player(s).

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Just be men.

If Royo had been able to bat at 4:27 and bunted, would UK have fielded ball and thrown to 1st?

I doubt it. They would have "bobbled".

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I doubt it. They would have "bobbled".

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Early tried. We showed bunt to give up an out to get 3 and umps let UK stall.

We could've played the full 9 and still gotten the hell beat out of us. Be glad they gave us some time back.

Doc,

Some of the worst examples of men are coaches.
I hate to say that, but it is true. That move was weak, win at all costs, I didn't do anything wrong coaching.
And I can't stand it. You see it all the time in youth sports.

Yup. Dealt with it last year in machine pitch little league

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Why would any coach want to be a part of this athletic department?

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because they like making money and we are stupidly-bad at giving it away in exchange for zero results.

If I were Earley, I would sign the contract whether I thought I could win or not. That's all on the AD.

We thought the players made the program, so we did whatever we could to keep as many as we could. We were only half-right.

Mingione is everything that is wrong in sports. I know Michael Earley and he is everything right.

Life sucks but Jesus is Lord!

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You know, we had a top 5 coach but for whatever reason, we **** the bed and couldn't keep him. He went to sip land and has already turned them around. Meanwhile, we won't make the SEC tournament. This is proof positive we are absolutely the worst run athletic department in the country. We can't get out of our own way and will always find a way to **** things up

Why would any coach want to be a part of this athletic department? It's been said we have a culture problems. It's the athletic department as a whole.

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Yeah it's the AD's fault the upside down pineapple scene in college Station wasn't deep enough for Schloss

I keep thinking about the events that even led up to Schloss coming to A&M as well as his time here.

Things just seem to fall in place for that guy.

There is no substitute for luck.

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Mingione is everything that is wrong in sports. I know Michael Earley and he is everything right.

Life sucks but Jesus is Lord!

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He might be what is "right" but he has not earned his privilege to coach at Texas A&M

It happens. I've seen it several times in my professional"career. The a-holes and narcissists get the attention and subsequent promotion because they draw attention to themselves. The "normal" person, does their job to the best of their ability, with their head down and keeps quiet.

Schloss is a self-promoter and a narcissist.
Great coach though.

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BraxtonW said:

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dermdoc said:

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dermdoc said:

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BraxtonW said:

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dermdoc said:

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trouble said:

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dermdoc said:

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trouble said:

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Nick just said the F word

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Your home plate blue buddy must love Mingione. Played him like a two dollar *****
The whole game

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I was STUNNED he didn't warn him early on. I've never seen him tolerate bull*****

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He should have tossed Mingione and Hage.

Umps basically bowed down to Mingione the last 2 games. And anyone who does not think it changes things can kiss my ass.

Kentucky came up in the first inning and would wipe out the chalk marks of the batter box by sweeping their cleats. And then sit on top of the plate with their arms and hands in the strike zone. So you could throw a strike and hit them. And neither ump the last two days did anything.

Total joke. League has to do something. They have been hbp 55 times in the last 17 games.

Not surprised with Ryan Broussard. Surprised today. Mingione played blue like a violin.

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He's a POS, but also our play is worse. Hard to put the loss blame on Kentucky when we are playing like a 13 u travel team

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Agree to an extent. When home plate blue lets the opposing team stand inside the batter's box and not give you the outside corner that strike window gets real small. Where they stood they could not move and get hit by a strike. Completely changed the weekend when Nroussard let them get away with it yesterday. It is almost impossible to pitch.

Blue has to do something there.

And it is one thing not to have the balls to do something (because they absolutely know what is going on) but then for home plate blue today to put up with Mingione's crap is piss poor.

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I can agree with you, but what if we decided to do it too? Wouldn't it have been smart? I just have a hard time blaming the series loss on anything else but ourselves

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I agree. But it is bs baseball. I hate it. Love winning but this is so chicken sheet.

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Oh yeah I think it's awful way to play. Hard to be proud about a win doing it.

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But I do not blame them for trying that. Blue needs to have balls and tell them to stop it. Everybody is so scared of making people mad.

And they are sad thing is, I have umoed. They know exactly what Mingione is doing. They are not stupid. Just scared.

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Our coach needs to recognize and say something about it then. Don't put it on the umps. The battle is between the 2 teams. Earley got dragged over by a much better coach who was much more prepared this weekend. And I can't stand Mingione either.

He did. After the first both days, Broussard threatened to toss him yesterday. I'm sure today he was reminded that he had been warned.

Get tossed. It's not going to hurt anything.

I was looking for the current rules and fines on SEC coaches get tossed the other day and got distracted. Maybe I'll look again tomorrow.

File official complaints with the league then and get tossed. I'm so tired of hearing excuses crying about umps. Earley got worked over again. That's the result of the weekend. It sucks but it's true.

I'm not saying he didn't. That tirade late today should have come yesterday. My ass would be tossed but I also have little control over my temper these days.

It is 6:33 and I just passed IAH

Buford T. Justice said:

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It happens. I've seen it several times in my professional"career. The a-holes and narcissists get the attention and subsequent promotion because they draw attention to themselves. The "normal" person, does their job to the best of their ability, with their head down and keeps quiet.

Schloss is a self-promoter and a narcissist.
Great coach though.

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Agreed.

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dermdoc said:

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BraxtonW said:

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dermdoc said:

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BraxtonW said:

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dermdoc said:

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BraxtonW said:

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dermdoc said:

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trouble said:

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dermdoc said:

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trouble said:

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Nick just said the F word

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Your home plate blue buddy must love Mingione. Played him like a two dollar *****
The whole game

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I was STUNNED he didn't warn him early on. I've never seen him tolerate bull*****

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He should have tossed Mingione and Hage.

Umps basically bowed down to Mingione the last 2 games. And anyone who does not think it changes things can kiss my ass.

Kentucky came up in the first inning and would wipe out the chalk marks of the batter box by sweeping their cleats. And then sit on top of the plate with their arms and hands in the strike zone. So you could throw a strike and hit them. And neither ump the last two days did anything.

Total joke. League has to do something. They have been hbp 55 times in the last 17 games.

Not surprised with Ryan Broussard. Surprised today. Mingione played blue like a violin.

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He's a POS, but also our play is worse. Hard to put the loss blame on Kentucky when we are playing like a 13 u travel team

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Agree to an extent. When home plate blue lets the opposing team stand inside the batter's box and not give you the outside corner that strike window gets real small. Where they stood they could not move and get hit by a strike. Completely changed the weekend when Nroussard let them get away with it yesterday. It is almost impossible to pitch.

Blue has to do something there.

And it is one thing not to have the balls to do something (because they absolutely know what is going on) but then for home plate blue today to put up with Mingione's crap is piss poor.

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I can agree with you, but what if we decided to do it too? Wouldn't it have been smart? I just have a hard time blaming the series loss on anything else but ourselves

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I agree. But it is bs baseball. I hate it. Love winning but this is so chicken sheet.

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Oh yeah I think it's awful way to play. Hard to be proud about a win doing it.

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But I do not blame them for trying that. Blue needs to have balls and tell them to stop it. Everybody is so scared of making people mad.

And they are sad thing is, I have umoed. They know exactly what Mingione is doing. They are not stupid. Just scared.

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Our coach needs to recognize and say something about it then. Don't put it on the umps. The battle is between the 2 teams. Earley got dragged over by a much better coach who was much more prepared this weekend. And I can't stand Mingione either.

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Totally disagree. Umps play a huge role and the last two days the umps let Kentucky control, the game.

Who determines balls and strikes? It is not the coaches or players. And that is the biggest determining thing in baseball.

And they know that.

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I'm not saying he didn't. That tirade late today should have come yesterday. My ass would be tossed but I also have little control over my temper these days.

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With all due respect, today to me was worse because I expected better.

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Bunk Moreland said:

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dermdoc said:

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BraxtonW said:

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dermdoc said:

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BraxtonW said:

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dermdoc said:

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BraxtonW said:

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dermdoc said:

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trouble said:

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dermdoc said:

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trouble said:

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Nick just said the F word

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Your home plate blue buddy must love Mingione. Played him like a two dollar *****
The whole game

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I was STUNNED he didn't warn him early on. I've never seen him tolerate bull*****

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He should have tossed Mingione and Hage.

Umps basically bowed down to Mingione the last 2 games. And anyone who does not think it changes things can kiss my ass.

Kentucky came up in the first inning and would wipe out the chalk marks of the batter box by sweeping their cleats. And then sit on top of the plate with their arms and hands in the strike zone. So you could throw a strike and hit them. And neither ump the last two days did anything.

Total joke. League has to do something. They have been hbp 55 times in the last 17 games.

Not surprised with Ryan Broussard. Surprised today. Mingione played blue like a violin.

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He's a POS, but also our play is worse. Hard to put the loss blame on Kentucky when we are playing like a 13 u travel team

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Agree to an extent. When home plate blue lets the opposing team stand inside the batter's box and not give you the outside corner that strike window gets real small. Where they stood they could not move and get hit by a strike. Completely changed the weekend when Nroussard let them get away with it yesterday. It is almost impossible to pitch.

Blue has to do something there.

And it is one thing not to have the balls to do something (because they absolutely know what is going on) but then for home plate blue today to put up with Mingione's crap is piss poor.

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I can agree with you, but what if we decided to do it too? Wouldn't it have been smart? I just have a hard time blaming the series loss on anything else but ourselves

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I agree. But it is bs baseball. I hate it. Love winning but this is so chicken sheet.

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Oh yeah I think it's awful way to play. Hard to be proud about a win doing it.

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But I do not blame them for trying that. Blue needs to have balls and tell them to stop it. Everybody is so scared of making people mad.

And they are sad thing is, I have umoed. They know exactly what Mingione is doing. They are not stupid. Just scared.

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Our coach needs to recognize and say something about it then. Don't put it on the umps. The battle is between the 2 teams. Earley got dragged over by a much better coach who was much more prepared this weekend. And I can't stand Mingione either.

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Totally disagree. Umps play a huge role and the last two days the umps let Kentucky control, the game.

Who determines balls and strikes? It is not the coaches or players. And that is the biggest determining thing in baseball.

And they know that.

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It's up to the coaches to do something about it and address the umpires as well as have their teams adjust to the calls on any given day.

Guess we're just that unlucky.