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The plate ump was fired? Was he the one that overruled the ejection?

He did not give an ejection signal, he only pointed. I would have seen the ejection signal.

West took all three public boys basketball titles and three of the four total in both baseball and boys basketball. Middle and east are better at football, but we absolutely own basketball, and we've been better overall at baseball lately too, Farragut aside.

I went back and timed that exchange on our broadcast archive...16 minutes and 25 seconds between pitches. My opinion is that if it was anything but a title game, they wouldn't have rescinded the ejection. And I think the only reason they could rescind it is because the ump never signaled an ejection, he only pointed at Packer.

We didn't have enough hotel rooms? I never heard any complaints this year. I even heard somebody went to one of the hotels right in the middle of the venues on Thursday afternoon and was able to get a room.

I wish AutoZone Park could have been used, but I'm not sure the TSSAA or the Redbirds really wanted to use it for prelims, and I know they didn't like how the title games went last year. All four HS fields used this week ARE in excellent condition -- the only problem with any of them is maybe the fence at Bartlett being a little cozy, but that's not as big a deal for A, IMO...the outfielders aren't as fast in A, and playing someplace like USA would lead to a completely ridiculous amount of triples. Even with AAA outfielders, I think the triple records were all broken. My guess on CBHS and Briarcrest playing at home is that it was done because they were still responsible for maintaining the fields. I agree, I really don't think they should have put D-II at those two, though I do think they should have been used. Personally, I would have only used Field 2 at USA for the first session, then played 10-12:45-4-6:45 all on the stadium field on Wednesday and Thursday. But that's just me.

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The west continued the domination of this year.

I don't know why those didn't get on the website, I e-mailed them in... E-mail me and I can send you the HTML files.

Heh...sorry, I didn't see this before I went on the air, and we didn't have time for me to run off between D-II and AAA -- we never went off the air (the controversy in the third actually helped us, because we only had to babble randomly for about 20 minutes between the D-II postgame and the AAA pregame.

Also, if you know anyone who is at USA Stadium, we're broadcasting a low-power broadcast on 105.1 FM. By low power, I mean you'll have trouble hearing it at the concession stand, but it should be strong enough for anybody in the main grandstand behind the plate to hear it.

Bumping again. D-II pregame will be at about 3:50.

Nope. It's over. AA is at 1, D-II at 4, and AAA at 7.

Bump. AA game starts at 1, our pregame will probably be about 12:50.

Bump...getting ready to head to Millington. Pregame show should be about 5 to 10 minutes before the first pitch. Closer to 10 for the first two games, probably closer to five after that -- and you'll see why.

All four state championship games tomorrow will be carried live on kptr.com by the Bartlett Skybox Crew. I'll be the loudmouth that keeps yapping all day. thumb Here's the link. Feedback would be appreciated.

Wow, you beat me to it.

Well, they weren't back to back...there's a batter between them in the lineup. Either way, they became the fourth and fifth players, respectively, to hit two homers in a state tournament game (nobody's ever hit three), and USJ's four in the game tied the tournament record for single-game team homers.

We're broadcasting the finals on www.kptr.com.

...and Fulmer has kicked out how many of the players currently facing The Man about criminal issues?

Only one class A site (me) was keeping score on the computer to be able to generate the HTML boxes, and apparently AA wasn't either. The computer program is pretty simple, but it scares off some scorers and I know we were a little shorthanded this year in terms of scorers.

It was a heck of a lot more than just one or two. I wouldn't have been able to hear it if it was.

Spurrier runs a tighter ship than Fulmer ever has. But nobody on here will admit it.

Small budget?! LaRussa is a Californian in pretty much every way, and he's still an outsider to St. Louis. He's still accepted by a decent majority. He's done less of the stupid quirks in recent years (using worthless excuses for pitchers like Pedro Borbon and Jeff Fasserblow in critical situations because "they've gotta pitch" hasn't happened last year or this year), which has allowed his strengths -- the long-haul managing of the team, mainly in personnel matters -- to flourish.

The umpire can tell the coach that he'll be tossed if fans don't knock it off. I've seen it before, in pretty much all high school sports.