UL Game Played Clean . . . Umpires

[CajunZ1]

I just do not understand the ignorance with perceptions of their greatness. _

Are you talking about UL or LSU when it comes to perceived greatness? We haven't accomplished much recently.

Playing Tulane and LSU is very important for us as far as recruiting goes (from what Tony says). Prospective players want to play Rice/LSU/Tulane etc. These are perrenial baseball powers and they're close to us location wise. I agree it should be home and home, but for some reason we don't have much bargaining power.

I see us winning a game or two in the sun belt tourney. But to go further would take us playing beyond ourselves.

[anhil8tor]

Is there anything worse than ending a game with the bat on your shoulders? I hate that on any level.

[CajunKahouna]

_ It doesn't matter if Harst caused the ball to come back into play. It is where the ball is when it is touched that matters. If the ball is first touched in foul territory, it is a foul ball. Regardless whether the ball rolls or deflects back into play. _

What I saw was Harst, in fair territory, touching the ball (in the air) in foul territory. Doesn't that make it a fair ball?

Also, I thought the umps were a little biased, but all-in-all, called a decent game.

[DeadRed]

_ Are you talking about UL or LSU when it comes to perceived greatness? We haven't accomplished much recently.

Playing Tulane and LSU is very important for us as far as recruiting goes (from what Tony says). Prospective players want to play Rice/LSU/Tulane etc. These are perrenial baseball powers and they're close to us location wise. I agree it should be home and home, but for some reason we don't have much bargaining power.

I have no visions of our greatness. The perceptions I speak of are the perceptions of the greatness of the tiggers. They're average and seats are empty. Fact is, the seats are sold - but no one is going to the games. Last night was one the bigger actual attendance games for them. Empty seats don't buy cokes or shirts.

Tony says alot of stuff depending on the flavor of the day. I wonder if someone could name one recruit who said "No I'm not going to UL cause they haven't played the tiggers in 6 years."

Fact is we get a return from Rice and Nebraska next year yet we ride our bikes to get the play with the big kids in BR and NO.

Maybe we ought to have a little backbone.

[jdebaillon]

My seats were possibly the worst angle on the field to see the play at first, but I am going to have to believe it was a foul ball based on Tony's reaction to the call. Good call or bad call, two errors following that play lost the game for us. Blaming the ump for the loss is like blaming Bartman for the Cubs losing in '03. The tiggers had no errors and no walks allowed. That wins baseball games.

I still find it hard to believe that our hitting philosophy is "aggressive" when we take first pitch fastballs ALL NIGHT.

[CajunCanaille]

_ The game was fairly called! I was there with a bunch of friends and we had a great time except for the final score. We didnt do what was needed. Walks and errors killed us. Lsu had 0 walks and 0 errors. Don't blame the umpires. _

I couldn't agree w/ you more. The umpires didn't beat us this game, we did. Errors were part of the cause of that bad inning. We have no one to blame but ourselves!

[BStock]

Fact is we get a return from Rice and Nebraska next year yet we ride our bikes to get the play with the big kids in BR and NO.

Maybe we ought to have a little backbone.

i may be the only one thinking this, but i don't care where we play anyone. as long as we play good teams. if we want to be a good team, we need to beat good teams anywhere. so what if we have to go to BR, we need to go and win.

the umps didn't lose that game last night for us, we did. the umps seemed like they did a good job last night.

the thing that aggravates the crap out of me is that before the season, people on this website were talking about Omaha, and beating LSU at the Box. now we will be lucky to make it out of conference. same thing happened in basketball. in december, everyone was saying we are the best in louisiana, maybe so, but we don't need to brag about it to everyone. next up, we may end up at a regional in BR for softball, do we want to feel good and talk ____ now, or wait and see if we win first?

[DeadRed]

_ i may be the only one thinking this, but i don't care where we play anyone. as long as we play good teams. if we want to be a good team, we need to beat good teams anywhere. so what if we have to go to BR, we need to go and win.

I know you have heard of homefield advantage. It's what everyone in every sport plays for. I don't care about who we play or where. All I want is equal treatment and for the program to be more than a rent a win at any place including BR or NO or Lincoln. The mentality of we have to be on the road to play anyone of value is inferior. This is not football we don't have to go get a whippin for the $. We perceive ourselves as inferior, we accept that we are inferior, and we ride our bikes like we are inferior.

Last night the call at first - foul or not - who knows? Last year we got almost the same call at Tulane. Anyone remember that? The Road is not friendly. We got the regional in 2000 because we beat the greenies and their ace here. Jones won't ever come back.

Get off the kool-aid.

[Just1More]

_ What I saw was Harst, in fair territory, touching the ball (in the air) in foul territory. Doesn't that make it a fair ball?

Also, I thought the umps were a little biased, but all-in-all, called a decent game. _

Basically, if the ball, from the perspective of the umpire is heading on a line over the bag (fair territory) as a possibility, prior to reaching said bag, and the player ever so much as grazes the ball, it is a fair ball. The question is, was it clearly a foul or fair ball, and did the player touch it. I did not think he touched it. I thought it was a foul ball. However, if it was touched, it could have been a valid call.

[cajunhawk]

We couldnt see if it was a fair ball or not, because CST showed one replay and was prolly told to stop showing it because it clearly without a doubt showed the ball was fould by more than 3 quarters of a foot. If first base ump missed it, home plate ump should have had his back. Apparently they had LSU's back. You guys keep saying we didnt do what it took to win. Take back that foul oh wait my bad double and its no outs and a man on first. And that can really shake a team to their foundation when you get hosed like that. Imagine trying to stay composed when something that blatant just happened and you know what the deal is. But thats all ok with me. Cause right now LSU knows that they are not heads and shoulders better than us. This prolly means we wont play them again for another 8 years. But hey, they fear us. We cant say they fear us in that many sports, but in baseball and softball they make it a point not to come to Lafayette and not play us for that matter. Its a chink in their armor. And thats ok. BTW Solich did a good job battling the refs last night, way to hang tough. And the hitting was ok until the umps turned the game in LSU's favor. Like I said guys you keep saying we didnt do what it took to win. On the contrary, the umps did what it took to win. LSU sure didnt. I digress, I feel bad for Jordan Porier. The guy has a sub 200 average, and man did he come close to giving us the lead in the 8th. I knew he wanted that one big time. And how about Matt Goulas and his incredible horizontal catching skills. Yep he is a freshman folks. Anyways, LSU knows were their bread is buttered. See them again in 8 years. No hair off my back. Bye bye purple menace. Hope Kentucky skull drags that team into oblivion. FLSU! Down with the evil empire! Viva La UL Revolucion!