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Yes? I'm here.........

'Stangs by 21+

Its been a while! Excited to be here again, amongst some old friends and fake foes! lol

Just keep the kids healthy and play the assignments. I always cringe at games like this, and how they can become trap central.

Exactly, when we dropped(03, I believe) we were preseason #1. We lose our first game to #2 Jasper, make a good run after that, then get bounced in the first round against Huffman Hargrave. Just goes to show that dropping down doesn't guarantee you success.

Oh, didn't realize they were so close to 4A. What was their last enrollment? Is Woodville growing because of the Lumberton area growth?

Woodville is 3A or 2A now?

Anything on Robinson/China Spring?

I don't believe they were that good when they bounced us, they had that good running back(can't remeber his name) but seemed we strolled in there looking ahead. Same with the (03 I think) loss to Hargrave in the dome first round.

As do y'all.

How many do y'all have now, Dogs12345? 6 or 7? We have 4 with 7 appearances. We have a while to catch up to y'all.

Coming from a Carthage fan, that speaks a lot! Thanks for the respect, just like we respect y'all. Both of our programs are always on a different level along with the Gilmers and such. Look at y'all last year, everyone pretty much wrote y'all off, then what do y'all do?? Brought another trophy back!

Guys, that's not what Cardinalbacker is saying for the love of all thing Holy. He is pointing out that these guys, the ups, already take enough crap. Their whole existence is judgement calls. Last I checked there is no instant replay in HS baseball, hell, any baseball. He is saying that riding the up all game will NOT help in the decision making of his said calls. And it might actually be detrimental to the team that is doing it. Not in spite from the ump, but just the ump getting fed up in general. Now, with that said, we all saw the pitch and all of us can agree it was a strike, probably CS people also. But that is baseball, it doesn't always go your way. CB is trying to say that riding an ump all day won't help the cause period, even if he shakes it off!!

It's hard to see if the pitch was a little outside or a little in. But the heighth was spot on. Man, looked like a perfect, "down the pike" strike. Sad...like I said earlier we used to call that a "blank high" fastball. That's the one you want to hit. The "blank" is another word for a rooster. Don't want to say the real thing on here, family site and all. Lol. Let's just say when they fight roosters, they call them "blank" fights. Fill in the blank. Lol

My "bucket list" of teams I've always wanted WOS to play has been fulfilled the past few years(Cuero, Sinton, Celina and Sweet Water) Now to find some others. Stephenville and Brownwood maybe?

Good lawd!! WOS vs. an El Paso team? Even if they met half way, WOS could play a team in Georgia and El Paso could play a game in California and it would be a closer trip! Lol!!! Orange to El Paso. 857 miles.......

These are kids. Most of them young. Emotions happen, especially at their age. The ending of last nights game, though not condoning actions whatsoever, put the teenagers emotions in overdrive. Let's all look back when we were 14-18 years old, did we make the best decisions at the spur of a momment?? I know I didn't. Maturity comes with age. Thanks to the quick actions of the coaches and some fans that helped get the situation under control, because it could have been way worse. And to speak about some parents getting upset, etc. I don't believe in cussing, etc at the umps what so ever but if that was my my child that was robbed, I would be a little upset also. Unless any of us "bystanders" are in that situation, we wouldn't know how we would react. Speculation and assumptions only cause more damage and misunderstanding. Remeber, once again, these are kids....kids that aren't playing for money or fame, rather, the love of the game. Putting everything on the line with their hearts and soul.

Congrats to all the players and Coach on the list. Pretty tough to pick in our district.

That Brookshire loss still hurts

Rake, check your PM's

And as someone mentioned earlier, it's hard to argue balls and strikes. It's a subjective call. I wasn't there but was listening, however someone posted the whole last at bat on Facebook. I'm sorry, but it sure looked like that was a pitch right down the gut. Now I couldn't tell left or right but it was, as we used to say, a (another name for a rooster) high fastball.

I was typing fast, what I meant is what you said, CS started a fight with their celebration. Now intentional or not, I have no clue. I also heard, like you, Gary say something about CS players bumping into BC players.

Loaded with freshmen and sophomores this season correct?

If that would be true, I really wonder how they would do that. It would probably be WOS since they went 4-0 against BC and Silsbee.