It's official, I am a sports bigamist. If adopting the Diamondbacks as an emergency NL backup team to the Orioles wasn't bad enough*, I have now accepted Red's generous offer to be an official BearBacker. My torturous journey to Baylor fan is detailed over at the most famous Baylor blog in the world, BearMeat.
In order to make myself feel better, I also go on a long-winded rant over at Pittman's LSU blog in defense of rooting for a loser. I'm already infected with Baylor sports fever. But I hear with a series of antibiotics, it should clear right up in a few weeks.
BearMeat is the only thing, other than bourbon, which makes rooting for Baylor bearable. Oh, God. No pun intended.
*First place in the NL West after taking two of three from the Orioles! And yes, I was rooting for Arizona.
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For fear that you might miss this, I will post here what I posted on BearMeat:
Great post Poseur. I particularly like the footnote. But now as a Texas Ex, I can admit that the long since forgotten UT-ATM "rivalry" may now reform into a real rivalry again seeing how maybe ATM is finally recovering to “decent” status...that or last year was a major anomaly. I am of the opinion that last year was an anomaly, but I will be willing to admit my fallacy if they can have a decent year this coming season. And I won’t conceded a decent season based on winning patsy games…i.e., Montana State, Fresno State, La-Monroe, a very down Miami (the “U”), or the Maroon (or White?) in their intrasquad scrimmage (seriously, they put a “W” in the win column for this game, but there is no corresponding “L”. Check it out http://www.aggieathletics.com/index.php?SID=MFB. WTF?) I’ll hold off on judgment until the last six games of their season.
At least Texas had six years in a row where Texas beat ATM. This past year was the first time THIS DECADE that ATM beat UT. No wonder no one at UT thought of ATM as a rival. At least the B had beaten ATM this decade before the last season. So going into last season, the B was more justified in thinking of ATM as a rival in this decade than ATM as a rival to UT. And no matter how good ATM ever is, OU will always be UT’s #1 rival…sorry Aggies. UT leads OU 57-39-5 compared to UT leading ATM 73-35-5 [0.646 winning %]. Also note ATM leads B 64-30-9 [0.621]. So really, who is the closer rivalry?
Also, let’s not forget that ATM has only had truly successful programs during the mid to late 1980’s to the early to mid 1990’s when they were marred by cheating.
I just have to rub this in to all my Aggie friends.
Let the flaming commence!
Poseur,
Your cross-blogging rivals that of The Razor. One thousand thank-yous for your work on our humble blog.
We wish you well in your endeavors. Wait for our next communique, which will instruct you on the next step you need to take. (If I were you, I would sell all of your real estate, liquidate your investments, and stock up on firearms and whiskey. The revolution is nigh.)
If its a Baylor revolution, I'm sure it will prominently involve a trust fund.
Thanks for the invite, Red. It's like stepping into a time machine and rooting for LSU back when Curly Hallman was our coach. And I'm already compiling an Enemies List. #1 on that list is Tom Dienhart of TSN. When the revolution comes, he's mine.
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