Gunga Din
| Favorite team: | Oklahoma  |
| Location: | Oklahoma |
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| Number of Posts: | 3607 |
| Registered on: | 7/6/2020 |
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re: OMG, We won the Baseball National Title!!! What a season and ending!
Posted by Gunga Din on 6/23/26 at 7:41 am to BobLeeDagger
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I was at the UT series this year in Austin as a neutral fan. If you had told me then y’all would win it all, I would’ve called you crazy. I do recall all the shite talk some UT fans were giving this one OU fan for showing up on Sunday and then suffering the sweep on that dagger of a game. Thinking about that kid today. He got the last laugh.
That series did kind of start OU into its downward spiral. It took a lot out of them I think...
Then they kept having a lot of misfortune in games along with a lot of decisions simply backfiring.
Then all of the sudden in the second Citadel game... they just had a bunch of random good things happen to them. And after that... they just seemed destined for good fortune.
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re: Odd feeling
Posted by Gunga Din on 6/23/26 at 7:21 am to GentleJackJones
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OU and Nebraska rooting for one another??? They were bitter rivals in the Big 8 and Big 12.
It wasn't "bitter" but I don't really remember us necessarily "rooting for one another either"... But as far as hate goes...Nebraska was well below Texas and Oklahoma State on the Oklahoma side of things.
Nebraska hated OU more because until Colorado got good. They didn't have anyone else. And the entire time Nebraska fans hated Colorado fans way worse than OU fans. And OU fans hated Texas and OSU fans way more than than Nebraska fans.
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All hat no cattle
Some mighty fine heifers down there though.
re: After tomorrow the sports wasteland begins
Posted by Gunga Din on 6/22/26 at 7:56 am to SECSolomonGrundy
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Wimbeldon starts next week and the British Open is in mid-July. Also the World Cup is going on through July.
August is reserved for talking shite about the upcoming football season. As our beloved tradition, every football fanbase in America gets to feel like this might be their year, except the Browns.
I like to follow the Tour de France in July just because it takes 23 days to complete... So between the tennis matches and the Soccer and the Golf match... This July might not be too bad...
On MLB.. July is mid season. Not enough drama for me to sit down and watch games. Kind of like the TDF... just follow the standings and watch the highlights.
But don't forget that July is also Talkin' Season... where we get to hear all our favorite beat writers ask stupid questions to the coaches and players of the various teams of the different conferences in exotic and fun filled locations.
re: Chokelahoma History since 2000
Posted by Gunga Din on 6/22/26 at 7:49 am to Chingon Ag
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I think OU wins it tonight. Pitch around Hull with runners on and it’s not close, IMO.
As an OU fan... I'm just kind of nervous the clock struck midnight in the third during yesterday's game.
The OU team you saw from the third inning on was pretty much the OU team we saw during the regular season.
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Cord is from Oklahoma
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Rager family is from Maypearl, Tx pop 989. Just south of DFW.
You may need to elaborate on this... or run it by a geography teacher.
re: Get ready to get some
Posted by Gunga Din on 6/21/26 at 10:11 am to MrMojoRisin
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OP is has a 100% prediction rate. Most impressive.
You'd think the fact that eight out of nine ACC teams didn't get out of regionals... while five SEC teams made it to Omaha....
might have given him a clue.
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Because it’s college baseball, a niche sport.
I think baseball... more than any other college sport is one that fans will follow their own team... but tend to lose interest when their team isn't involved.... at least outside the SEC...
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I remember when we played OU in the natty in 2022. There were 25,000 fans at the game. And 24,000 were Ole Miss fans. They got absolutely mogged.
That was quite a showing for Ole Miss...
For OU's lack of fan support... it was probably a combination of things...Most obvious was the fact that OU softball was fresh off of a national championship run and all the energy was spent on that.
I do think that demonstration by Ole Miss fans showed OU fans that the SEC baseball... culturally... was a different animal than what we were used to in the Big XII.
re: Checking in on the mood in Austin right now
Posted by Gunga Din on 6/21/26 at 8:23 am to BebeLudwig7
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Is it miserable seeing your bitter rival one game away from a natty while you still have no (mens) trophies 6 years into an era where it’s legal to buy players??
Seems like the pressure on Sark just keeps on mounting the closer the season gets
They WILL be able to say that they swept the national champions if OU wins it.
What is most amazing about the OU run... besides the fact that it is happening at all... Is the fact that OU baseball is a stepchild in our own athletic department. There is one big donor who cares about baseball... and that is basically it.
Softball has outdrawn them since softball got the new stadium. Even Gymnastics crowds dwarf baseball's March turnout. Which might get into the 3-4K range in April.
OU's Baseball stadium is a joke for SEC standards and even with the coming upgrades it will still be pretty modest and probably not in the top ten of the SEC (although the player development part will be state of the art).
re: Has anyone here ever attended a tie football game?
Posted by Gunga Din on 6/19/26 at 6:29 pm to Sooner a Reb
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1984 OU-Texas, a 15-15 tie that was highway robbery. Texas got two gift calls, one on a fumble and then an OBVIOUS INT in the end zone, both of which would have ended the game.
I mentioned this. Earlier in the thread.... But I also mentioned that many OU fans didn't know that we had intercepted the ball on the end zone play. I didn't know about it until about five minutes after the game... when we were walking down the ramp and a couple of friends who had brought a radio told us.
Live from the other end of the stadium it looked like Andre Johnson (OU DB) had broken the pass up... We didn't see Stanberry (OU Safety) come in and catch the ball before it hit the ground). I do remember wondering why we didn't see the ball bounce around on the ground after Johnson knocked it down. Nobody in our section had any idea the ball was actually intercepted.
re: Easiest Schedule and Hardest Schedule?
Posted by Gunga Din on 6/19/26 at 8:01 am to Wishbone85
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OU has the one of the toughest if not the toughest schedule theirs first 3 years here.
I don't know why you are getting downvoted here.
But I think that pre season what you posted is for sure true...
And in season one it ended up being true.
However, last year South Carolina, Auburn, LSU and Missouri were all teams on OU's schedule that didn't live up to their billing... So I think OU's schedule didn't end up being as hard as was expected.
This year it looks pretty tough... but who knows how it will turn out.
re: Has anyone here ever attended a tie football game?
Posted by Gunga Din on 6/19/26 at 7:47 am to giveemhell
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I was at the 1995 Texas-Oklahoma game, which ended in a 24-24 tie. The Cotton Bowl stadium crowd was of corse half burnt orange and half crimson, and it was like nobody knew how to react at the end. None of the typical trash-talking in Fair Park afterwards, everyone just quietly left the stadium to go to the beer stands to contemplate what had just happened. It was weird.
OU missed a field goal at the end of that one.
Contrast that to the 1984 OU-Texas game... where OU got an INT in the end zone that wasn't allowed and Texas kicked a field goal to tie.
At the end of that game... OU fans were livid and Texas fans were acting like they had won. And the funny part is that many OU fans that were at the game didn't even realize that OU had intercepted in the end zone because it happened on the Texas end. We were still pissed off about the fumble recovery we didn't get a few plays before that. LOL.
re: If this happens College Baseball will blow up
Posted by Gunga Din on 6/19/26 at 7:42 am to The Winner
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Man the MLB really is financially in trouble to be cutting back that bad. Sounds like the minor league system is too big for them.
In this day and age... I don't see the upside for minor leagues in terms of funding them for MLB.
There are too many other entertainment options to really make money for the actual minor league teams.
OKC has always had a Triple A team. When I was younger... people went to watch them because there wasn't that much else to do.
We still have one... but in OKC there is now enough to do that sitting through a minor league game isn't near as appealing as it once was.
I don't even pay attention to our minor league team... much less go to their games. The only time I even hear about them is if I'm watching local sports on TV. You don't even hear about them on local sports radio unless something unusual happens.
re: Best non conference stadium you have visited non bowl games
Posted by Gunga Din on 6/19/26 at 7:35 am to State Bird
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UNC
I'm not really one to go ga ga over stadiums... and there are some nice backdrops to stadiums in different areas.
But one thing I liked about UNC is that on a couple of the approaches to the stadium... you were in a pine forest all the way up to the gates.
It wasn't that way all the way around the stadium... but part of it was that way.
It is the only place I've been that was like that.
Just wanted to remind the Ranters that OU was at the UNC regional last year and took them to a game seven.
So this is a bit of a revenge series for the Sooners.
So this is a bit of a revenge series for the Sooners.
re: Awesome brother moment between OU and UGA
Posted by Gunga Din on 6/18/26 at 9:30 am to BebeLudwig7
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I could care less if it was my grandmother on the other side. We’re playing for an opportunity at a national championship and you’re the opponent. I want to bury you. It is a cool moment for the family but I thought the celebration while the game was going on was a bit much.
If that had been MY brother I would have punched him as he ran by...
And then told the ump.... (and my mom) .... that he hit me first.
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To be honest, as much BS as there is with the Egg Bowl, LSU is our biggest rival. There's been far fewer sell-out games for the Egg Bowl as compared to the Magnolia Bowl. Over my life, the LSU game is always a much bigger game to us. State is our rival simply because we share a state with them but LSU is the team that our fanbase wants to beat more.
I've never understand why people can't understand why in state rivalries and border rivalries cannot be compared directly in terms of who is "the biggest" rival... if a team has both.
re: Where does OU rank as the worst team to make a CWS final?
Posted by Gunga Din on 6/17/26 at 10:56 pm to VagueMessage
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I knew there were actual differences, but not being an OU fan, I'm not aware of all the minutia. I just remember that 2022 OU team being unranked and not very impressive, and then overcoming every obstacle in the tournament, just like this year. At a glance, 2022 Oklahoma was 45–22 and undefeated in Omaha going into the CWS finals. 2026 is 41–22 and undefeated. '22 was 15–9 in the Big 12, '26 was 14–16 in the SEC. The only real difference seems to be the '22 squad won their conference tournament and this year got bounced on the first game.
I think that the trajectory of the seasons were similar... Except in 2022 OU's slump was earlier in the season and they got hot before the end of the regular season...So they went to regionals with momentum after the last couple of weeks of the season and then the conference tourney
Like this year's team... they had to go on the road to regionals and Supers,.
This year's team looked like crap for the last month and a half of the season. Even in the regional... they didn't look all that great until game three... an elimination game against the Citadel. So this team you are seeing now has played eight games looking like this.
re: The College World Series - Wednesday
Posted by Gunga Din on 6/17/26 at 10:39 pm to Henry Jones Jr
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Eh. I know they’re brothers but not sure how I feel about celebrating another player hitting a HR on your pitcher
I imagine the fact that you are kicking your brother's team's arse and about 99.9% sure you are going to win the game.... makes it a little bit easier to root for your brother in a situation like that...
That Coaches pre season ranking is pretty funny.
Four of the five teams that made it to the CWS were in the bottom half of their rankings.
Four of the five teams that made it to the CWS were in the bottom half of their rankings.
re: Oklahoma fans
Posted by Gunga Din on 6/17/26 at 3:37 pm to Tua_2_Smitty
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Some of the best sports conversations I've ever had, were with OU and UK fans.
I don't know why... but OU fans seem to like Bama pretty well based on past games and interactions.
Probably the only thing OU fans have ever had an issue about was the '14 Sugar Bowl game when some Bama (and SEC fans) went from "Bama's gonna be hot mad after the Kick Six and they are going to kick OU's arse" to "Bama didn't want to be there"...
But it was all good after Bama provided our fans with the Flying MILF during the game. :lol:
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