see i dont think that anyone can sit there and say that the bad call didnt have an effect on the outcome of the game. we just dont know and never will. i think LSU has proven that they have what it takes to come back from being down, with thier backs against the wall. Ask UCI, ask South Carolina. We just do not know because we were robbed out of the opportunity. Yes, we should not have put ourselves in a situation where a piss poor call would have an effect on the outcome, but we were playing bad enough without the blue having to add to it. Truth is we have the firepower to come back from those deficits, and we could have. Was it going to happen, i dont know. Same thing in the UCI game. Mommentum is a powerful thing, and i dont think you can underestimate it.
Yes momentum is a powerful thing. Racking up 17 hits against us, more than any other team this year is pretty powerful too. If it comforts you to believe that we lost this game because of one blown call, then good luck with that.
only the walk by verdugo was a mistake. you are particularly crazy about the clark and mitchell plays.
I'll give the Clark play, but Mitchell? He turned his back to a fly ball and lost it. All those plays were ones that they made during the win streak. It is stuff like that which turns a bubble team into a national seed. Make big plays. Against great teams it is necessary.
im not saying we lost because of a blown call, im saying it didnt help, and i believe that this team could have come back. if the right call is made, its 8-5 with runners on the corners and who knows what happens. we played like ****, i dont deny that. our defense was horrible, shimpf (sp?) and mitchell made critical errors that cost us runs, and our pitching was lackluster. Matt Clark blew a golden opportunity at the plate with the bases juiced and no outs. But you cant sit there and tell me that this team dosent have the ability to come back from a deficit of 4 runs, and 3 if the right call is made.
I have never said that. Obviously the Tigers can and have come back from deficits like that but it is hardly the point. You keep pointing to what we did not accomplish, or the blown call. Those are valid points, but you fail to point out the excellence of NC's play. That is the reason we got beaten, and the rest is just smoke-filled coffee house crap.
That play was incredibly close, and as far as I could tell an absolute tie. I watched that play several times, in HD on a 100" screen and needed every inch. Going frame by frame, the frame before the runner's foot hit the bag, the ball was partially visible outside the 1B's glove. Next frame, ball is gone and foot is on the bag. Ties go to the runner, so that call was correct.
Rice played pretty excellent until the last two outs. Anything could have happened. What if the short top doesn't bobble that ball for Rice and the first base ump makes this same kind of call on Mitchell again? Dean never sniffs the plate to tie the game up.
Defensively NC is a much more solid team than Rice. They do not bear comparisons. Some of you keep holding out as if one play would have allowed us to rally and win and discounts all the plays before that. It's just amazing to me that some people cannot admit that we simply got beaten by a better team that day, and not by an umpire. If you think we lost because of one blown call, then I disagree with you.
