🏈 Taking the joy out of winning: Do we corner the market?

[TerryP]

"Rickett's on steroids." That's just one of many comments I've seen just surfing around a few Bama sites this morning.

I swear, with each passing year I'm becoming more disenchanted with our own fan base. With a win like the one we just experienced in softball, and those in the three other sports, you'd think fans would have learned to be gracious in victory.

It certainly seems like a trait that will soon be forgotten. Hell, I'm embarrassed with some of the crap I've seen this morning.

 

[LBS]

I have seen what you speak of, categorically, but I don't think it is anything specific to Alabama. Our society, enabled by the internet and its namele posting (this coming from someone who does not himself post under his own name), allows people to have diarrea of the mouth when we use to have time to engage our God-given common sense filter.

As a Tide fan, an I realize that there is virtually no chance that this would be read for whom it is intended, I would like to tell the Sooners and Ms. Rickets congratulations on a fantastic season and one they should be proud of. They have every reason to be proud, if a bit disappointed, but no reason to feel ashamed. They worried this Bama fan for sure.

 

[TerryP]

I made no bones about thinking OU was the hottest team in the nation; and the best. I knew OU was going to be tough; even more so with this series in their own backyard.

 

[Lordofwrath88]

Never heard much too out of line (did here some "Gasso looks like a man" "how can we 'Colt McCoy' someone in softball?" and "whiney babies won't play int he rain" but that was about the worst of it.) Of course I was lurking around some OU threads and I found "Bama's white trash" "Bama payed the refs" "Traina is Shamu" "Murph is a Iowa inbred"...... ie, the usual.

Internet anonymity gives you the ability to be anyone you want... its a shame most choose to be idiots.

 

[tidentrue]

Didn't the OU coach say they would play in the snow right before her pitcher started throwing like "wild thing" without his glasses?

 

[bamafan4ever]

You know better than that as far as us cornering the market, Terry. Our fan base, like others, has seemed to devolve to the levels of Gridscape from about 12 years ago though, no doubt.

 

[doemasters]

i am gracious but some of them just bring out the worst in me :icon_thumright:

 

[TerryP]

You know better than that as far as us cornering the market, Terry. Our fan base, like others, has seemed to devolve to the levels of Gridscape from about 12 years ago though, no doubt.

You're right Greg, that is an overstatement that came from being caught up in the moment.

As long as you've known me you probably can recall my mentioning there are a few words I can't stand to see on the Internet. Words that have been used so often, so haphazardly, that they've lost all significance. Class is one, sources another.

I do know one thing. What I've seen is a portion of a fan base that didn't handle a victory with dignity.

 

[UAgrad93]

Being classy is a lost art Terry. I get embarrassed after squeaking out a tight win and you hear others wearing the Crimson and White screaming " We just kicked yall's ass!" I guess that you are simply "old-school" Terry. I too am a dying breed!!

 

[TerryP]

Didn't the OU coach say they would play in the snow right before her pitcher started throwing like "wild thing" without his glasses?

She made the comment before the game.

However, if the situation were reversed and Traina put as much spin on the ball as Rickett's does, I feel comfortable saying Coach Murphy would have made the same decision.

My only issue with what happened last night with the delay didn't come from the rain. It came from a observation those covering the WCWS made several times before the games OU played.

They mentioned her strengths and they mentioned her weaknesses. The weakness they pointed to with Rickett was she loses control of her pitches when she loses control of her body. If you watch her throwing motion it wasn't inline with the plate. She was leaning/sliding to her left with every pitch. That was as much as a fault in her wild pitches as the rain; perhaps even more so considering she was doing the same thing the night before last when she hit five batters.

 

[TerryP]

i am gracious but some of them just bring out the worst in me :icon_thumright:

I've never seen anything from you I would consider mean spirited Lance. The worst thing you can probably claim is a fark here and there. That's meant in good fun.

 

[UAgrad93]

Simply put, mechanics was the bigger issue, more so than the weather. I used to hate to pitch in the cold. I always felt that I couldn't feel the ball. It was more that my mechanics went to pot than the weather having that effect. Same as a QB throwing a deep ball. He over strides and loses momentum and the ball looks like a duck, while he can throw a frozen rope on a 20 yd square in route.