The Official #4 Tennessee vs Alabama (SEC Tourney Game Thread) 2PM

#878
#878
Y9 Vol said:
You guys and gals are not being truthful. The second baseman is fully off the bag to the right field side. It the slide stayed within the width of the base, how was any contact made?
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You put your body to the width of a base sliding into it and by God we'll know you're in pre-school.

Good lord.
 
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#879
#879
Y9 Vol said:
You guys and gals are not being truthful. The second baseman is fully off the bag to the right field side. It the slide stayed within the width of the base, how was any contact made?
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Dude! I was taking up for you! If I behave, will you buy us a new stadium?
 
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#880
AthensVol2007 said:
As if being an umpire actually means they know what they’re doing. Two years ago I watched Jeff Head behind home plate in Hoover have to go to the replay monitor because he couldn’t keep track of balls and strikes. We walked on 4 balls, whoever was batting, took off to first and he called him back and said it was 3. Every fan in the stadium knew the count. He turned and looked at the press box to the official scorer, had a huddle with the 3 others and still ended up on the phone with B’ham. It was damn near a 10 minute delay to figure it out for a total of like 6 pitches thrown during the at bat. The SEC continues to trot these pathetic excuses for officials out there, protects them on replays confirming their incompetence and concealing the egg on the leagues face and then fines a coach for calling them out for sucking.
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I have made many horrific calls that I have had to apologize to the coaches for. I happens, this was not one of them. BY THE STRICT INTERPRETATION OF THE RULE.
 
#881
#881
Y9 Vol said:
The ignorance of the current rules of the game is familiar.
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I played as well and have coached for many years, that call is rarely made and players run into second standing up or slide to either side of the bag trying to disrupt throws all the time. Trying to argue otherwise is silly and makes you look foolish
 
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#884
Watching it in slow motion, it does appear Max intentionally interfered. I want to win every game, but not like that.

I was mad as hell in the moment, but
I’m surprised, rewatching it, that anyone can say it was a legal play. Hopefully they get their act together...
 
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landscapingvol said:
I played as well and have coached for many years, that call is rarely made and players run into second standing up or slide to either side of the bag trying to disrupt throws all the time. Trying to argue otherwise is silly and makes you look foolish
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But, by rule was it correct?
Answer truthfully please.
 
#887
#887
He did not break a rule. It was a normal slide directly into second base. His arms went out as anyone sliding into base normally does. His right arm may have inadvertently grazed the fielder which is quite normal for double play action at second, but it in no way affected the fielder's throw. Nothing affected his throw adversely. He threw high and pulled the first baseman off the bag. It happens all the time. But because it was Alabama in Hoover and it benefitted them to call interference and take the winning run off the scoreboard, the umpires decided to make an incredible reversal of the normal call in order to please their home crowd.

None of us should be surprised. They do this all the time in all the spectator sports to all of Bama's opponents on each and every occasion it is needed to give the cheating Bammer teams the requisite boost. I think most of the other SEC teams would agree that this has become standard operating procedure for the SEC headquarters in Birmingham.

Y92K Vol knows very well that if Alabama had been scoring the winning run in the bottom of the 9th when this identical play occurred, it would have been ruled as a routine double play attempt with the high throw pulling the first basemen off the bag. There would have been no review or a cause for review in their eyes or the Bammer partisans.
 
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#890
Y9 Vol said:
But, by rule was it correct?
Answer truthfully please.
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The reality is the call could have been made and was. The reality also is most of the time that call is not made. If you were an umpire as you say you were you know this to be fact. Right? Answer truthfully please.
 
#891
#891
Y9 Vol said:
Left arm, I typed it wrong. The contact was made, purposely, outside the width of second base.
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Happens all the time and you know it just like middle infielders will throw at the head of the approaching runner if they feel they are coming in too high to disrupt their throws
 
#893
#893
southgatevol said:
The reality is the call could have been made and was. The reality also is most of the time that call is not made. If you were an umpire as you say you were you know this to be fact. Right? Answer truthfully please.
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I answered you.
Unfortunately, many umpires make the game about themselves. Make calls that bring them attention.
But, the call was correct by rule.
 
#894
#894
Y9 Vol said:
You guys and gals are not being truthful. The second baseman is fully off the bag to the right field side. It the slide stayed within the width of the base, how was any contact made?
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You think a grown human body is only 15 inches wide? So if you slide into a base no part of your body should ever end up outside that 15 inches of airspace? I’d love to see how you’d umpire Cael Baker of Ole Miss tonight when his 6’0, 250 ass comes sliding into 2nd base. Sorry big boy, your ass (literally) is more than 15 inches wide so you’re out of your designated sliding area.
 
#895
#895
landscapingvol said:
Happens all the time and you know it just like middle infielders will throw at the head of the approaching runner if they feel they are coming in too high to disrupt their throws
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Irrelevant to the call made. But, yes, runners need to slide properly and in complete control by letter of the rule.
 
#898
#898
AthensVol2007 said:
You think a grown human body is only 15 inches wide? So if you slide into a base no part of your body should ever end up outside that 15 inches of airspace? I’d love to see how you’d umpire Cael Baker of Ole Miss tonight when his 6’0, 250 ass comes sliding into 2nd base. Sorry big boy, your ass (literally) is more than 15 inches wide so you’re out of your designated sliding area.
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The rule illustration from the rule book was posted. You tell me what it says.
 
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