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kind of a weird deal. Kennedale was every bit as good this year as last year, maybe better, and Stephenville beat them 3-1 for only their second loss of the season, with their other being a 3-1 loss to a 5A regional semi-finalist in their warmup game before playoffs. But then they play a (considering we're at state) pretty mediocre Athens team (I think HF and LCM could hold their own against them) and only win 2-0.

i know you can do the $9.95 thing on the uil website, but while I'm interested, I'm not $10 interested.

with 17 minutes left Stephenville leads 1-0 over Athens.

Athens got hot at the right time, but came out of a fairly weak region. Jasper beat them 9-1 earlier in the season.

First matchup is Athens (15-10-1) vs. Stephenville (23-4) at 11:00 Second matchup is Jasper (26-1) vs. Boerne (20-4-1)

I was in the process of editing my post. it explains my views.

I'm on both sides of the fence. it's incredibly easy to gain access to some form of identification that makes you eligible to vote, and the anger against the ID laws is way overblown. . That being said, there is certainly some intent in the law to make it more difficult for the poor to vote. When an amendment to the law was proposed that expanded the types of photo ID's that were accepted, allowed for the acceptance of expired photo IDs, and reduced the cost of purchasing new photo ID's, it was rejected. If the purpose of this law is to simply make sure someone is a legal voter, I see no justification for rejecting that amendment. I also find it strange that the new voter ID laws did not address mail-in ballots, which is the form of voting that is the most susceptible to fraud. This whole scenario reminds me of my school: We require photo ID to pick up students at my school, and the purpose is not to make it difficult for our parents to get their children, but to make sure they're who they say they are. You MAY NOT pick up a student without proof of identification, and it is very important that we verify the identity of everyone that comes in to pick a child up. That being said, any form of valid ID will do. If you can prove you're allowed to pick up a child, that's good enough, and the same should be true when it comes to voting. If you have an expired ID card, but I can use it to determine that you're eligible to vote, that should be good enough. The purpose is not to make it harder for you to vote, but to make sure you're eligible to.

I just want to hear your thoughts on the Texas Voter ID Laws, and on a federal judge determining that it was passed to discriminate against minorities?

8-5 LCM, last I heard. Not sure what inning

That's pretty funny. The left cares a lot more about refugees from other countries than they care about the destitute veterans in our own country.

We'll never know, but I would not be surprised if they did, because they could then blame the Dems and say "they gave us no choice", which is basically what they're doing now while also saying "the dems did it first"

The republicans have plenty of blame here, so to make it seem like only the left is at fault is not fair. Both sides are incredibly partisan, and neither is willing to work with the other. And anyone celebrating this now likely won't be in the future the next time the left is in the position to use this strategy. It was a shame that republicans worked so hard to thwart democratic nominees from Obama for lower courts to begin with, leading to the first use of the "nuclear option". And now the republicans are going to both A) blame the dems for not allowing this nominee to go through (even though they blocked a democratic nominee last year in similar fashion) and B ) blame the dems for first using the nuclear option, even though the republicans basically forced them to use it, and even though republicans have no problem using it when put in the same position. I'm not picking a side here. Both are culpable. But to get on here and celebrate us getting to this point as a good thing is asinine. This whole scenario does not at all represent the democratic process, and when our leaders start skirting/changing rules we're in trouble. You guys like it now because the right is in charge, but sooner or later that will change, and y'all may not be happy with what happens when it does. I know I won't be.

But with all you know about it it would seem you were watching his feet, since you know with certainty he did nothing wrong. It's really a moot point. HF lost a run to a bad call as well, and the winning margin was large enough that I don't think the play would've had much of an impact on the final outcome.

If WOS can touch sundgren for 3 or 4 runs they will have had a very productive night at the plate.

I was at the game. I wasn't watching his feet. If he was set up at the back of the plate his foot would not have to be on home plate to be completely out of the chalk. There's plenty of no-mans land back there.

You can't step across the inside line behind the plate? Or even at the back of the plate, where there's much more than 6 inches?

There's a whole lot of room back there to step completely out of the batters box without touching the plate.

unless you're standing in the back half of the batter's box. there's more than enough room to put a whole foot out of the box back there without touching home plate.

Better not be. Last night I received unofficial confirmation that the job is mine if I want it.

I don't buy into a lot of what I see in the political section these days (from either side), but I know about this situation, and it bothers me. there are several espn commentators who constantly have hot takes about police, racism, BLM, etc, and they are allowed to say whatever they way.

I keep hearing this, and it may be correct, but since nobody was actually watching his feet except for the umpire and the catcher, it's kinda hard for me to understand how you guys know exactly what he did or didn't do. either way, if nothing else, it balanced out the run that HF lost when their runner clearly beat out an infield single that would've scored a run, but instead was called out to end the 2nd.

some of the fans were griping about the catcher making the call, so I'm assuming that the HF catcher noticed it on his previous swing and alerted the umpire (which is great catching, IMO)

Channelview won 3-2

Dobie won 2-0

Atascocita won 1-0