Poor Oklahoma. Just when you thought they might accomplish something historic, bang, the wheels fell off.
The mighty #1 ranked lady Sooners softball team just got kicked to the curb in the College World Series by UCLA. A two-game mini-sweep at that.
This, after going an eye-popping 48-2 during the regular season. And playing in the CWS Finals in their own home town to boot.
Sports haven't been kind to the Oklahoma faithful in recent years.
Their boys football team hasn't been the perennial powerhouse it was a few decades ago.
The entire state only has one professional team. No presence in the NHL. No Major League Baseball. No NFL team. Only the Oklahoma City Thunder of the NBA. And they're snake-bit a couple ways.
They always seem to make an early exit from the playoffs.
And trash-talking Russell Westbrook aside, the Thunder can't seem to hang on to super-star players when they have them.
They lost James Harden to the Houston Rockets a few years back.
And then Kevin Durant to the Golden State Warriors. Paul George is OK, but not in the same category as those two.
So with apologies to the late Ernest Lawrence Thayer (author of Casey At The Bat), once again, there will be no joy in Norman(ville). The mighty Sooners just got made into the See-ya-laters by the UCLA Bruins.
48-2, #1 on everybody's list, and then thud, when it counted the most?
That's gotta be a tough pill to swallow.
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