A LSU fan's perspective. I stole this from the rant. Some good statistics here.

[Commercecomet24]

I missed seeing this play, but was it a good call to send Larry home?

Playing A&M , we just need to play without errors, and run bases well, and we compete with anyone.

With Dakota coming up they probably wouldve walked him to pitch to Hines. I'm sure a lot of folks would've wanted us to hold him at thrid, but I coached third a lot of years and I would've sent him, it was a tough throw and a great play by the catcher. With one out I would've held him but with 2 outs, you only get so many opportunities to score late and it's hard to pass up that chance, IMO. If you're aggressive(not stupid) on the bases you're gonna create more runs than you lose

[Coach34]

With Dakota coming up they probably wouldve walked him to pitch to Hines. I'm sure a lot of folks would've wanted us to hold him at thrid, but I coached third a lot of years and I would've sent him, it was a tough throw and a great play by the catcher. With one out I would've held him but with 2 outs, you only get so many opportunities to score late and it's hard to pass up that chance, IMO. If you're aggressive(not stupid) on the bases you're gonna create more runs than you lose

I likely hold him there because of who we had coming up plus the throw was just at the front of the bullpen. It wasnt a hard throw from 125 feet. Butttt if he had scored then Cheese is a genius. Thats the way it works.

The big key was- and I knew this going in- you want to play LSU early. LSU in March and LSU in May are usually two different animals

[Commercecomet24]

I likely hold him there because of who we had coming up plus the throw was just at the front of the bullpen. It wasnt a hard throw from 125 feet. Butttt if he had scored then Cheese is a genius. Thats the way it works.

The big key was- and I knew this going in- you want to play LSU early. LSU in March and LSU in May are usually two different animals

If they guaranteed me Dakota would get to hit and not get ibb, I would think about holding him. I'm pretty sure they ibb Dakota and bring in a lefty to face Hines, and even though Hines is hitting better I'd still take my chances sending Larry. I can absolutely understand your thinking on holding Larry, though. Thats another thing that's so great about the game of baseball, you don't have to stick with just one philosphy to be successful. Send or hold him I don't think it's the wrong answer either way. You force lsu you to make a hurried play and they made it. The throw wasn't great but the catcher made a heckuva snag and dive to make that play.

[basedog]

If they guaranteed me Dakota would get to hit and not get ibb, I would think about holding him. I'm pretty sure they ibb Dakota and bring in a lefty to face Hines, and even though Hines is hitting better I'd still take my chances sending Larry. I can absolutely understand your thinking on holding Larry, though. Thats another thing that's so great about the game of baseball, you don't have to stick with just one philosphy to be successful. Send or hold him I don't think it's the wrong answer either way. You force lsu you to make a hurried play and they made it. The throw wasn't great but the catcher made a heckuva snag and dive to make that play.

24 my man, you know you can't think about sending or staying on third base, LOL. Cheese didn't think about it, when the play was over I thought why run with Jordan up? I was thinking but it was ahead of running him., LOL!

[Commercecomet24]

24 my man, you know you can't think about sending or staying on third base, LOL. Cheese didn't think about it, when the play was over I thought why run with Jordan up? I was thinking but it was ahead of running him., LOL!

Oh yeah i know you can't think you have to react or youre dead, however i always played scenarios out from pitch to pitch to already have a plan in mind, but Jordan wouldn't have hit anyways, lol.

Gotta be at least 2 steps ahead. Bobby Cox used to call that going deep.

[BrunswickDawg]

With Dakota coming up they probably wouldve walked him to pitch to Hines. I'm sure a lot of folks would've wanted us to hold him at thrid, but I coached third a lot of years and I would've sent him, it was a tough throw and a great play by the catcher. With one out I would've held him but with 2 outs, you only get so many opportunities to score late and it's hard to pass up that chance, IMO. If you're aggressive(not stupid) on the bases you're gonna create more runs than you lose

I agree. Worst case you have bang bang play for an out, then have your 3-4 hitters coming up the next inning. But, I only do that with 2 outs. Plays like that are when I wish you could still run over catchers LOL!

[R2Dawg]

With Dakota coming up they probably wouldve walked him to pitch to Hines. I'm sure a lot of folks would've wanted us to hold him at thrid, but I coached third a lot of years and I would've sent him, it was a tough throw and a great play by the catcher. With one out I would've held him but with 2 outs, you only get so many opportunities to score late and it's hard to pass up that chance, IMO. If you're aggressive(not stupid) on the bases you're gonna create more runs than you lose

We got real weapons with Jordan and Hines back to back. You gonna have to pitch to one of them. Hines had 3 HR on weekend. Just not good answer. Not many teams can line that up. We are talented all over the field. We flat looked like an Omaha team this weekend. We ain't there yet but I can at least see it now. We've sent worse teams to Omaha.