Perry Costello

Y?all think he was safe at first last night on the final out?

Safe no question but as Tanner Allen says "it don't matter"

The problem with the college umpiring and refereeing circle is it?s so political. The way the selection works is who do you know, who?s ass have you kissed and how long have you kissed it.

What needs to be done is a grading system run by the coaches association. The grades would be made available online throughout the year to all coaches and at the start of the regionals you use the grades to select the umps for the regionals.

At the regionals the coaches grade the umps again but you also bring in three D2/D3 coaches/assistants and have them grade the umps strike zone as well. You take these grades and pick for the super regionals and repeat the process throughout until you make the championship series.

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Originally Posted by Tbonewannabe

The strike zone was all over the place. Vandy got more "outside" calls than we did but we still got some that was hitting the chalk on the other batters box. The hitter is screwed on those. Best case scenario is fouling it off.

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Yep! He sucked big time. But fortunately he sucked for both teams.

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Originally Posted by MSUMatt

Y?all think he was safe at first last night on the final out?

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He was safe by a MILE... I saw a screen shot on twitter where the runners foot was on the bag and you could still see the ball like 3 feet from the glove. But like i stated, there was no way they were gonna review that with us already dog piling on the field. Props to Corbin for not pushing the envelope on that either. He could have very well took our moment for a review...

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Originally Posted by shoeless joe

At least Eric Gregg was consistent. He gave a giant outside corner all game. Costello picked and chose when he would or would not call strikes.

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That's true about Gregg that's why Costello made him blush lol