Gunga Din
| Favorite team: | Oklahoma  |
| Location: | Oklahoma |
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| Registered on: | 7/6/2020 |
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re: SEC players for the Eagles w/ TDS yesterday.
Posted by Gunga Din on 4/29/25 at 9:34 pm
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Hurts fired his agent awhile back for liking a pro-Trump post, that’s how TDS he is.
Hurts must be one of those "soy boys" I'm always hearing about...
Too bad he can't be a bad arse alpha male like all us Ranters.
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re: Just eliminate the check swing please
Posted by Gunga Din on 4/29/25 at 9:23 pm
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A guy that’s two feet away is incapable of making the call
But a guy 90 feet away gets it right all of the time
Yea that makes sense
The base umpire obviously can see the angle of the body to the bat as well as the plate.
To be honest... the worst thing about baseball anymore is that batters have turned fouling off two strike pitches into an art form.
I always laugh at the "payoff" pitch... because 90% of the time it is foul ball after foul ball.
re: What is the most annoying fan base here?
Posted by Gunga Din on 4/29/25 at 11:45 am
As they say in the south...
All Y'all are too big fer yer dern britches.
All Y'all are too big fer yer dern britches.
re: Portal Moser with 4th big “get”. Bama, tell me about Derrion Reid
Posted by Gunga Din on 4/29/25 at 10:02 am
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I defer to your knowledge on this, but when I saw him play, I saw teams daring him to shoot from outside.
A 45-26-58 shooting split is not great, but he is athletic and strong.
OU already has a bunch of untested wing/three players and a pretty solid ND transfer there.
They desperately need somebody who can play the four and be physical.
The only other guy on the roster who is a proven inside player is former Bama player Mo Wague... and he is just okay. OU needs big time help inside.
re: How is letting men compete in women’s sports good for women?
Posted by Gunga Din on 4/29/25 at 5:44 am
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It happened to Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines at the NCAA championships.
Riley has gotten a lot of attention concerning that guy robbing her of a clean fourth place in that race...
But the good news is that three women kicked his arse in that same race.
Which is going to happen to most guys who try to pull this shite at the higher levels...
They are going to get their arse kicked by the really good women in that event. At the elite level.. you better be a darn good male athlete if you plan on transitioning and winning the Olympics as a woman.
Where I feel bad is at lower levels.... where an average male athlete can usually beat the girls.
My feeling is that if you haven't had the surgery... you shouldn't be able to compete as the other gender. If you are crazy enough to get your tallywacker extracted... just to beat women in a race... that means you are pretty crazy... So maybe we should go ahead and let you race them as a matter of public safety.
re: Trophies are nice ...
Posted by Gunga Din on 4/29/25 at 5:27 am
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frick that, I desperately need Texas to win a title, so that insurance salesmen on the internet can no longer disparage our athletic department :(
Texas "resources" are showing up in the NIL era. In football there are several other schools that can hang with them as far as doling out cash...
In Men's basketball... there are maybe a few other sports that can shell out even a little more.
In any other sport... nobody else can touch them. Texas has deep enough pockets they can even NIL women's rowing team members.
re: Outside of football, what is your favorite SEC sport to follow?
Posted by Gunga Din on 4/28/25 at 4:14 pm
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Sand Volleyball
Even more than horse jumping?
re: Can we stop calling baseball a sport?
Posted by Gunga Din on 4/28/25 at 4:06 pm
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Hardest thing to do in sports is hit a baseball.
The guy who first made that claim was Ted Williams.... Pretty damn self serving.
I can even explain why it is stupid.
You can take a guy off the street. Lob a baseball to him and he will hit it.
But he isn't going to hit off of a Cy Young award winner.
Just like you can take a guy off the street and have him jump off a three meter springboard. But he is not going to be able to do a reverse three and a half in the pike position.
What Ted Williams did was basically like if Greg Louganis said "diving off of a three meter springboard is the hardest thing to do in sports"..
Now Greg Louganis never said that...but I promise you that Greg Louganis would hit a baseball before any major league baseball player could do a high difficulty dive.
Any elite athlete could make this same claim.
That is because EVERY elite performance in athletics is otherwordly. Including people who are great at hitting a baseball.
re: SEC Softball standings with 1 weekend left
Posted by Gunga Din on 4/28/25 at 3:51 pm
Looks like OU is in a situation where Tennessee or A&M could actually pass them for the regular season title but only one or the other.
re: Red River Softball
Posted by Gunga Din on 4/25/25 at 8:10 pm
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That would require giving a damn and I simply do not
That is kind of a shame. Texas has a chance to win the national championship in softball... The women's teams in every sport are really good in Austin.
re: One less Vol fan in Baton Rouge this weekend
Posted by Gunga Din on 4/25/25 at 1:53 pm
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Our numerous wacko lunatic liberal posters would vote to keep him and run free as long as he voted for a yellow dog democrat
Just a slight correction concerning your anachronism...
Yellow dog democrats were the voters.... Who would vote for a "yellow dog"... as long as the dog was a democrat.
re: RIP Steve Kiner
Posted by Gunga Din on 4/25/25 at 8:33 am
The first OU game I remember vividly watching was the 1968 Orange Bowl between Oklahoma and Tennessee.
Kiner and "Hacksaw" Reynolds were two of the linebackers for Tennessee. They were sophomores that year I believe.
Turned into a pretty formidable duo.
Kiner and "Hacksaw" Reynolds were two of the linebackers for Tennessee. They were sophomores that year I believe.
Turned into a pretty formidable duo.
re: Mizzou vs kansas
Posted by Gunga Din on 4/24/25 at 2:01 pm
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Why are you so obsessed with Mount Sunflower? You’ve talked about it numerous times.
I guess because he is in on the joke?
re: They blinked...Rose Bowl will kick off an hour earlier in 2026
Posted by Gunga Din on 4/24/25 at 1:53 pm
Its funny before everybody started griping about everything California... the one thing I didn't like about it is that it got dark at 4:30 PM in the dead of winter.
I imagine a place like Auburn gets dark early in winter like that being on the front edge of a time zone.
I imagine a place like Auburn gets dark early in winter like that being on the front edge of a time zone.
re: Check in if you consider Arkansas a Rival
Posted by Gunga Din on 4/24/25 at 1:48 pm
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100% agree. Baffles me we haven't played each other hardly at all. Has the makings of one of those mutually cordial rivalries written all over it.
Looking at the history... The regular season games basically stopped when Arkansas joined the SWC and Oklahoma left the Mo Valley and joined what was then the Big 6.
I know there was some Mo Valley rule that did not allow Oklahoma to play Texas in the 1920s. OU played Arkansas in 1926 and that was the last game. Arkansas was new in the SWC and Oklahoma was in their second to last year in the Valley.
I know that in the 50's through the '80s one reason Arkansas never played OU is because they were already playing Oklahoma State and Tulsa pretty much every year. Tulsa in particular was a natural rival based on proximity despite the fact that they were outclassed. I also know that Arkansas got both of those teams to play in Arkansas probably 80% of the time.
Obviously OU would have only been willing to do home and home.
re: South Carolina fans, who has more overall fans in the state, Clemson or you guys?
Posted by Gunga Din on 4/24/25 at 8:16 am
Thanks for the info.
I've always wondered about that.
One thing for sure... South Carolina and Alabama are the two "smaller" states that support college football the best. Nobody else is even close as far as states that have basically two bigtime D1 programs.
However, Alabama has got everybody beat when you consider Bama, Auburn and all the other D1 programs. I honestly don't know how there are any fans left over to attend games at UAB, Jacksonville, Troy and South Alabama. I guess South Carolina has Coastal... and a guess Furman draws well for FCS... and of course the Citadel...
And both states support a couple of HBCUs or more.
I've always wondered about that.
One thing for sure... South Carolina and Alabama are the two "smaller" states that support college football the best. Nobody else is even close as far as states that have basically two bigtime D1 programs.
However, Alabama has got everybody beat when you consider Bama, Auburn and all the other D1 programs. I honestly don't know how there are any fans left over to attend games at UAB, Jacksonville, Troy and South Alabama. I guess South Carolina has Coastal... and a guess Furman draws well for FCS... and of course the Citadel...
And both states support a couple of HBCUs or more.
re: Ole Miss: knock off the racism!
Posted by Gunga Din on 4/24/25 at 7:58 am
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although I will say that if the civil war ,in part,was fought because black people in the south wanted to continue to own white slaves , I don't think I would be too happy to see their battle flag on the campus of the school i went to. if you think about it like that,and the roles were reversed, I think you will feel differently about it if you're honest with yourself.
It is tough... Ole Miss basically lost their entire student body at the Battle of Gettysburg. That is the "heritage"... the "hate" was James Meredith's enrollment in 1962... The "healing" was the Chuckie Mullins tragedy in the early 1990s.
I think Ole Miss has had a tough job balancing all this stuff... and it was necessary. But as we see... we have an ex player who is not satisfied that it was enough... and we have white alums and fans who think it was too much.
And again, as an OU fan ... we are not immune to these types issues because of our history with the Tribes and the original White settlement of Oklahoma. OU has had to compromise as well. The difference is that there aren't a lot of Native American recruits or ex players to where that part is an issue.
re: RIP Mongo
Posted by Gunga Din on 4/24/25 at 7:49 am
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little arse Freer texas had 2 nfl DT's on their team
It is hard to believe that a crappy little town in the middle of nowhere scrub country could produce two guys like that.
Ironically, they were the same era as OU's Selmon Brothers... Three DT brothers from a slightly larger, slightly less isolated.... nowhere town in Oklahoma.
re: Mizzou vs kansas
Posted by Gunga Din on 4/23/25 at 5:07 pm
Easily the greatest rivalry in the country in terms of its actual historical significance.
An irony to the rivalry though is that while Lawrence was known as a Union town full of northeastern Yankees (thus Quantrill burning it down)...
Columbia was also a Union town... with the Missouri Tigers protecting it from the marauding Bushwhackers...
Even Quantrill and Bloody Bill refused to attack Columbia.. Despite the fact that the counties around Columbia were some of the biggest Confederate supporting counties in the state.
An irony to the rivalry though is that while Lawrence was known as a Union town full of northeastern Yankees (thus Quantrill burning it down)...
Columbia was also a Union town... with the Missouri Tigers protecting it from the marauding Bushwhackers...
Even Quantrill and Bloody Bill refused to attack Columbia.. Despite the fact that the counties around Columbia were some of the biggest Confederate supporting counties in the state.
re: Check in if you consider Arkansas a Rival
Posted by Gunga Din on 4/23/25 at 5:01 pm
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Not as much as gooner or aggy, but definitely a rival
As an OU fan...I think getting Texas vs. Arkansas back is my favorite non OU thing about OU and Texas joining the SEC.
In the 1960s... Texas beat OU nine out of ten times... with OU's former QB being the head coach...
So Arkansas was our proxy team. We rooted hard for Arkansas against Texas since Texas beat us the week before.
Then the '69 game at the end of the year. Epic... even though the Texas won the game.
I wish OU and Arkansas had gotten to play each other. It is a rivalry that should have happened and just never did. .
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