re: Good luck Tigers

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The Oregon State University baseball team acquitted itself to a very high degree. THIS OSU team is good enough to get to Omaha THIS year. The only thing that stopped them was the luck of the draw that sent them to Baton Rouge for this regional.

I don't agree with the OSU coach's tactics to slow the game down, however, the Umpire's job is to enforce the rules. Because no Umpire compelled OSU to speed up the pace of the game, it is logical to conclude that OSU did nothing in violation of the rules. It would be illogical to conclude that the Umpire's allowed OSU to violate the rules. Props to the OSU coach for artfully exploiting the rules of the game to what he perceived to be his advantage.

My firm belief is that OSU is good enough to have won a handful of the Regionals that have occurred and are concluding this evening.

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Yes, there was some grumbling with OSU ranked where they were having to play at LSU. But, they had a couple poor losses in the season that hurt them.

As far as slowing down the game, Casey is a very tactical manager so will use a variety of options if needed. Don't like too much slowing of the game but at least this one went quicker than previous. Child was working too slow for me as well!

As for your last sentence, I totally agree. Hopefully next year they don't make it close and get back to hosting!