It's no secret Baylor sports stink. In fact, there's a blog devoted to pretty much that exact concept. And I'm hardly a big Baylor fan, but I do go to the occasional sporting event here and cheer on the Bears as an alternative to cheering for LSU.
So I'd like to give a shout out to the Baylor women's softball team, which is in the Women's College World Series (after winning the Big 12 title as well). It's pretty rare for a Baylor team to do so well, and even more rare to be able to catch the games on ESPN. At 8 PM, the Bears play Arizona in their opening game of the series. You can even watch it in HD.
Go Bears.
Oh yeah, and thank God for Title IX, eh? The Baylor men really aren't pulling their weight.
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So, the men's tennis team winning the nation championship...the men's track team turning out world and Olympic record holders isn't bloody and contact-sports enough for you?? I forgot...our football isn't up to LSU's speed. We do graduate some football players...does that count for anything?
And define Baylor sports! A national basketball championship isn't valid 'cause it's the GIRLS?
Love,
Kat in the CSO
Yep, actually this year Baylor is in the top 3 in the Big 12 for total sports championships. I love idiots...I will add you to my list.
Baylor is always good at the sports that don't matter... Aren't all softball players lesbians?
noone is impressed by baylor's women's four-square national championship. Baylor's athletic department is laughable. let's not talk about the murder of players and drug cover-up by coaches.
All-time NCAA Titles, according to the NCAA website, which does not count football titles:
LSU - 40
Baylor - 2
And I'm an idiot? Baylor didn't win its first national title in any sport until 2004. I'm not exactly going out on a limb when I point out Baylor is not a sports powerhouse.
I did forget about men's tennis. I apologize for the oversight. But there is a lot of venom in these comments. Touched a nerve, did I?
And, no Kat. I did not even hint that the girls championships don't count. I was saying the boys need to catch up to the girls, because the Baylor women actually win things. Though they did lose tonight, 2-1 in extras to Arizona, the defending national champ.
There are a LOT of things about my boy Baker that you can talk about....
..the gimpy leg
..the rampant nerdiness
..the ability to turn women into needy scary obsessives just by divorcing them
One thing Baker will NEVER be classified as is an "idiot".
And...anonymous 11:44...why do you keep a list of idiots?
That's weird.
Stokes
Wow...this is kinda fun! I am always excited to see ANY winning team from Baylor. History and records do not matter to me...I have been a Baylor fan for too long. I especially enjoy that the beautiful Baylor women can kick more booty than the men in sports! Awesome!!
Always the not-so-sports-fan,
Leigh
Yikes, I did sound a little strident. My apologies Mr. Baker! I didn't mean it like it came across.
I'm with Leigh. Hey, I grew up with the Baylor football team going 0-11. My family lived and breathed Baylor. Ouch!
My analogy is David and Goliath. Anytime Baylor wins ANYTHING, it's a blow for the little guy.
The UT-Baylor game was always the big game. We always lost...well, until I was 12 years old and at the game with my folks on a cold day and Baylor came from behind to win and go on to win the Southwest Conference. That was livin' large.
Then of all things, I ended up at UT for undergraduate. (Playboy came to town, girls who posed were expelled...and then several journalism majors and a journalism prof were kicked out...as a wanna-be journalist, I couldn't do the Baylor thing.) ANYWAY, I got to UT and realized that when Baylor came to Austin to play, all the UT students went home. Who cared? It was just Baylor.
I started thinking. Hummm. UT has 48,000 students. Baylor (at the time) had less than 10,000. UT is a public state school (tuition was $4 a semester hour, no joke, when I started...then double to a whopping $8) I thought. Dadgum, UT OUGHT to have a kick butt team in everything.
So here I am years and years and years later. And I still root for Baylor, and I still die a slow death with each close loss (Lady Bears softball Thurs. night; men's baseball this afternoon on a full count in the top of the ninth, bases loaded, 2 outs...and the TCU pitcher stikes him out.)
And I think anonymous 11:44 was calling ME an idiot. Hey, call me what you want, I love my Bears.
Peace & love,
Kat
Kat,
You really dated yourself...bad form. Well, to me anyways; maybe not to everyone else.
Adam
I know Adam. But when you're old you're old! (And I do love my UT experience. Best thing that ever happened to me...well, I better put it behind meeting my handsome squeezy husband, but definitely a close second!)
And unless the Lady Bears score at least 7 runs in the bottom of the 7th...well, another slow death.
They didn't.
I enjoyed the games, and I think its for the reason Kat was alluding to. With Baylor, any good thing is a cuase for celebration. There's no pressure. LSU games cause my blood pressure to go up, watching Baylor was just fun.
Also, I like how the Baylor women not only wear makeup, but the second baseman wears her pearls. How perfectly Baylor.
BTW - the NCAA needs to raise the mound and push back the fences. It would reduce strikeouts and home runs while increasing base hits. The game would be more fun and less of a pitcher/hitter confrontation. Because right now a great pitcher can just dominate.
There's some serious fur flying in this comment page.
Baker: You're probably the only one that will see this late comment. But Featherson is with you. At present, it's a pitcher's game. Fix it!
Peace, Kat
Given my performance in T&E, this is probably the only time Featherston has ever thought I was right about something.
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