I’m not about to say I’m the perfect fan, but at least I’m honest with myself. I know that I don’t make it to every baseball or softball game. And I didn’t go to every home meet for Gymnastics or Swimming.
But some of you delusional people walking the streets of campus shock and amaze me.
You claim to be Beaver believers and yet you haven’t made it to a game outside of Reser Stadium except for beer-pong at Sigma Chi. The next time someone tells me Beaver fans are good fans will be the first.
I came to this revelation after watch the PAC-10 Championship track meet at Hayward Field. The stadium was nearly packed with people watching a track meet. I know you are all psychotic for football, like Rosanne Barr for a doughnut, but for the other eight months out of the year you might want to find something else to cheer for other than basketball in late February.
Baseball, Gymnastics, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Track, Volleyball, and Wrestling. In the last four months, three of those teams have been in the top ten nationally. Can you name which team? Have you watched them? Or are you too busy sitting at home watching Family Guy re-runs and reminiscing about how blitzed you were at the last football home game.
That’s what I thought.
The majority of you are happy with just watching the Frosty the turnover man, Matt Moore, throw interceptions and fumble his way to seven turnovers in a game.
That’s killer bro’.
Oregon State has more to offer than a mediocre football season and an over-hyped basketball team.
The Oregon State Baseball team are currently ranked 5th in the country. Cole Gillespie has this team on the right track. The men will be back in Omaha because of his batting and a great pitching staff.
This last season the Beavers an unbelievable 21-3 at home.
Have you seen a game yet? Considering Goss Stadium had one sell-out this season – I’ll guess no.
That tells me that most students are too lazy to support a winning team. Far be it from me to call you front-runners. We should all change our names to Josh Towers and become major league pitchers because apparently the student body has a phobia of affiliating itself with winning. Unlike Dallas Buck, who had ripped off nine straight wins, and was undefeated until earlier this month. Too bad you missed it.
The crowds at the Softball games make me want to lie on a bed of nails. Face down. Our girls have been winning continuously this season. After losing their first few games the team sacked up and ripped off a seven-game winning streak, which was respectable.
Then they did it 4 times in a row.
That’s 28 games won in a row!
Brianne McGowan has been the premier pitcher, dealing the ball in 38 games this season, completing 22 of those. Not to mention Cambria Miranda who has scored one-fifth of the teams runs but is also one of the few girls in the history of the school to have a two homerun game. And the only player with a two-homerun at-bat.
See what you missed?
The team that gets no respect and tops my list as the most under-rated sport at OSU is the most exciting. The Gymnastics team. The team dominated nearly every opponent it faced last season. Chrissy Lamun and Co-Freshman of the Year Jami Lanz worked the competition like a 16-year old pushing carts for Wal-Mart.
The team even beat out both Arizona schools in the PAC-10s to make it to the regional competition. Then they beat out Stanford at the Regional finals making Randy Johnson exploding that bird look highly probable. Much like the probability that no one but me knew that statistic. The Gymnastics team was the most exciting team to watch at OSU this year. Where were you?
Three shining examples of why you pitiful fans with your head locked in on football need to expand your horizons like Paris Hilton with night vision. Dare to dream people. I have watched Oregon State Sports for three years now and it has taught me that although I love football, it is the least exciting sport here at OSU.
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