Jim Schlossnagle kicks out fans of the Texas A&M baseball team: “Don’t come back”

Editor’s note: This story has been updated with the reported reason for the altercation in the Florida box.

A baseball game between Texas A&M and Florida in the 2024 College World Series, which was scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. CT on Saturday, ended at about 1:15 a.m. the next morning due to a four-hour weather-related delay. That allowed Aggies coach Jim Schlossnagle to open his postgame press conference with Father’s Day wishes – and rightly so.

After this warm welcome, Schlossnagle wanted to address something else.

The Aggies’ 3-2 win over the Gators in the CWS opener had its share of memorable moments — namely when Jace LaViolette stopped a home run early in the ninth inning that would have given Florida the lead — but the strangest stretch of the long night came at the end of the second inning, when a Texas A&M fan got into a verbal altercation with the Florida dugout before being escorted away from the scene by stadium security. A second fan was also ejected from the game.