CWS: Florida drops bombs on Arizona State

[vulturesrow]

Yes this is fanboy post, but I feel like gloating. ASU took an early lead of 3-0. Then after controversial call in the 4th, LeClerc hits a two run dinger. In the fifth, Cosaletti takes one downtown to put Florida up 5-3. Laporta followed with an absolute bomb to left field, incidentally being his 26th for the season, making him #1 in HRs for college baseball this season.

Recap (http://sports.espn.go.com/minorlbb/cws/recap?key=20050623CWSFLORIDAARIZONAST)

Box Score (http://sports.espn.go.com/minorlbb/cws/boxscore?date=20050623&key=20050623CWSFLORIDAARIZO NAST&gamenum=0)

Go Gators!!! They face a very strong Texas team in the finals.

[Russ McGinley]

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Yes this is fanboy post, but I feel like gloating. ASU took an early lead of 3-0. Then after controversial call in the 4th, LeClerc hits a two run dinger. In the fifth, Cosaletti takes one downtown to put Florida up 5-3. Laporta followed with an absolute bomb to left field, incidentally being his 26th for the season, making him #1 in HRs for college baseball this season.

Recap (http://sports.espn.go.com/minorlbb/cws/recap?key=20050623CWSFLORIDAARIZONAST)

Box Score (http://sports.espn.go.com/minorlbb/cws/boxscore?date=20050623&key=20050623CWSFLORIDAARIZO NAST&gamenum=0)

Go Gators!!! They face a very strong Texas team in the finals.

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LaPorta's home run is still travelling. Unreal. When I got home it was 3-0 and looking bleak, then all of the sudden 3 bombs. Losing Horne sure does suck though.

[Brainwalter]

That call was complete BS, I don't understand how that can be an out.

And Go Gators.

[vulturesrow]

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LaPorta's home run is still travelling. Unreal. When I got home it was 3-0 and looking bleak, then all of the sudden 3 bombs. Losing Horne sure does suck though.

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Yeah that Laporta shot was unreal. He slapped the cover off that ball. Im afraid losing Horne is really going to hurt in the finals.

[vulturesrow]

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That call was complete BS, I don't understand how that can be an out.

And Go Gators.

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That was a tough call, I honestly think it couldve gone either way. It didnt really upset me all that much. It appears to have gotten the team fired up when Coach McMahon blew his top. That was extremely amusing, esp. since he is usually so laid back.

[Russ McGinley]

I liked that we could hear him.

"That kid hustled his butt off! But you don't reward hustle!"

[Brainwalter]

Maybe I'm dumb, but can you or anyone explain how that guy can reach in and cause an out but Bartman reaches in and causes a home run? What is the difference I'm missing?

[Vince Young]

Bartman didn't cause a home run.

[Russ McGinley]

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Maybe I'm dumb, but can you or anyone explain how that guy can reach in and cause an out but Bartman reaches in and causes a home run? What is the difference I'm missing?

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Bartman didn't reach 3 feet out into the playing field. The popup was either right on the top of the wall or in the stands altogether. If Alou doesn't cry in his pants all over the field, nobody cares.

[Brainwalter]

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I'm dumb

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[Brainwalter]

But I still consider it kind of unlikely the catcher would have caught that ball.

[vulturesrow]

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But I still consider it kind of unlikely the catcher would have caught that ball.

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Unlikely but the fact that the jackass fan reaches into the field of play and interferes definitely removed any possibility of him making that play. I thought it was a fair call really, in spite my intense Gator partisanship. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[theredwave]

Yuck, I can't really cheer for either of these teams but I guess I'd rather see Florida win. Even if Texas is Big XII I despise them after a couple of conflicts with their fans and players at some of our home games when we(NU) played them.

[Vince Young]

What happened?

[theredwave]

In the first game of a three game series after we beat them they were giving their longhorn wave to the crowd and me and my buddy were a few feet away and pointed to the scoreboard and one of the players flipped us off. Then in the next game we ended up losing and while we were leaving we saw a few drunken Texas fans who were basically acting like jackasses and making fools of themselves by yelling and screaming obscenities as people walked by. Nothing much but enough to make me dislike them, our rivalry with them in football also makes it hard for me to cheer for them.

[Vince Young]

Come on Cox.