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My Variance of Care About UT Baseball
R. Alex Whitlock
Since UH actually has a contending baseball team year in and year out, I don't make a habit of rooting for Texas Longhorn baseball as I do with football and (to a lesser extent) basketball. I rooted for Rice during the College World Series last year. I was indifferent.
But since Texas made it to the College World Series this year, I was hoping that they would pull it out and sorry that they
didn't. I was hopeful then disappointed.
Then I read about their poor sportsmanship by not taking the second place trophy, and some of my anti-UT feelings started to surface. I was not particularly pleased.
Then I read Kevin's classic
Shorthorn post on the matter, and my anti-anti-UT feelings came back up, leaving me indifferent all over again.
Right back where I started...
Update: Apparently I misread the tone of Kevin's post. Much to my amazement, he was actually going to be happy for UT if they won prior to the poor sportsmanship. My bad!
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Since UH wasn't there, I really was going to be happy -- it would have boosted Texas college baseball to have had Texas, then Rice, then Texas win, and boosting Texas college baseball is good for all of the programs in state.
Then again, I'm not all that upset that CSF won, since we play them OOC frequently. In fact, UH regularly plays quite a few of the teams that were in the CWS this year. I think eventually Rayner Noble's approach to scheduling will get UH there.
Football season is, of course, a different story when it comes to that putrid burnt orange. :)
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