Loss in championship series shouldn’t diminish the remarkable run Oklahoma Baseball had
To the Oklahoma Sooners Baseball Team,
On April 3, I wrote about OU Baseball for the very first time. The article was a recap of a 12-8 loss to the Longhorns, and that game was one of the first times I had actually sat down and watched an OU Baseball game. Later that month, I went to my first OU Baseball game at L. Dale Mitchell Park.
Not once in April or May did I think to myself, “this team could make it to the national championship.”
But you did.
Out of nowhere, the pitching came together and the bats got hot. You won series after series after series and did something OU Baseball hadn’t done in over a decade.
You made it to Omaha.
Oklahoma is more than just a football school and you’ve done more than your part to help prove that. There’s no doubt in my mind that this program will not only survive but thrive in the big, bad land of SEC Baseball.
Go win the Big 12 again next year. Host NCAA Regionals next year. Make it back to Omaha next year.
Win it all.
And to the Ole Miss Rebels, congratulations.
What a story. Last ones in the tournament to national champions. Enjoy the feeling. See you in the SEC.
And Skip Johnson, you were the captain of this ship that nearly made it all the way to the promised land. You are no doubt the man to bring the national championship back to Norman.
L. Dale Mitchell Park will be getting a massive renovation and the program will be getting more resources as it prepares for the move to the SEC.
It won’t take another 10 years for the Sooners to get back to Omaha.
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