In my weekly dose of Traber (part of the penance for my sins is twenty minutes of the non-cardboard Jim variety), I realized that some Oklahoma State people are psychotic. That said, I heard two people in five minutes suggest that the Pokes are going to win a national championship.
Um… no.
This drastic difference between reality and expectations led me to do some self-reflection. (Pretty remarkable for the Sports Animal.) Where are my expectations for things around the metro, and where should they be?
Oklahoma City Blazers, Yarddawgz, Redhawks
My expectation: League championship at least once a year
Reality: Our trio of minor league sports, we have two championships — in my lifetime — both by the Blazers. Lest we forget, that we have some of the nicest minor pro facilities in the nation, are one of the largest markets, and are consistantly near the top in attendance figures for the CHL, PCL and af2. Instead of our rightful place at the top of the league, we’re thankful when we score a home win against Tulsa.
Oklahoma legislature
My expectation: A group of people with no sense of reality whatsoever.
Reality: A group of self-obsessed @$$holes with no sense of reality whatsoever. At least I’m close.
University of Oklahoma Football
My expectation: Frequent BCS appearances with an occasional win.
Reality: A snippy Bob Stoops press conference after losses in New Orleans, Miami, Tempe and Tempe. At least God’s children will only face a road game against Florida…. Now if only Tebow will get hurt.
Drive to Oklahoma City from Edmond
My expectation: A 30-45 minute drive.
Reality: Calculating how hard it would be to ramp my car over the fuel-efficient matchbox car onto the concrete median like I do on Grand Theft Auto IV. Three hours later, I was all the way to 122nd Street.
National Media
My expectation: Relatively unbiased journalism.
Reality: Puppy Love with B.H.Obama.
Where else am I off?
The answer is clear. Barack Obama must be recruited to quarterback the sooners.
Was this after he walked home from Europe?
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Yes, Kelvin. Uphill, both ways. In the snow.
expectation; people speaking the language of their host country.
reality; yesh, right.
is it right for marquees at schools to be in spanish? how does buffy know about the prom?
expectation; dialing a number, speaking with a human being.
reality; see above.
but hey my call is important, just not important enough to actually talk to me
“The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University, where researchers have tracked network news content for two decades, found that ABC, NBC and CBS were tougher on Obama than on Republican John McCain during the first six weeks of the general-election campaign.” Full story: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-onthemedia27-2008jul27,0,6802141.story
Trent,
Usted puede besar mi asno.
Respetos,
Senior Tico
Wow! I agree with Steve Hunt. What have I been smokin’?
Barack Obama?
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I meant on the water . . .
I can understand the Obama bashing. I was bashing Ronald Reagan, while the media and the public were in a love fest with him. We survived (barely) Reagan….you guys can survive Obama.
I could survive him – just can’t afford him.
It’s all well and good for McCain to complain that the media is ignoring him because they all went to Europe and Iraq with Obama (a trip that McCain dared Obama to take). But if he wants to argue that it shows bias because all the major networks followed Obama while only one followed him, it would be nice if he offered the full disclosure that his campaign gave CBS exclusive coverage of the McCain trip.
Also, unless you’re like 15, the 89ers have won a championship in your lifetime. It was in the early 90’s when Monty Farris and Steve Balboni played for the team and the PCL didn’t exist, but it happened in your lifetime.
Clark, the Pacific Coast League (PCL) was founded in 1903. There was baseball before aluminum bats.
As far as I’m concerned it didn’t exist until Oklahoma City joined it.
By that logic there was no United States until 1907.
And the NBA went out of existence for a year after existing for two years.
The media isn’t biased towards Obama. People are biased towards Obama because McCain belongs to the same party as the current president, who has FUBAR’d the country for eight years.
Stop blaming the messenger. If McCain wants to look better in the media, he needs to get a better message.
The almost incoherent ramblings of grandpa as he explained the Surge at Anbar. Put a fork in McSame, grandpa is done.
Good point. Tough break for the NBA and USA.
Biased much? I don’t know of any OSU fan who expects to win a national title in football or basketball any time soon. Wrestling, Golf, even Baseball, maybe, but thats about it.
I don’t know of any OSU fan.
If you’re old enough to remember Reagan, than you’re old enough to remeber the Misery Index. Before you jump on the Obama bandwagon, check out Jimmy Carter.
Eventually, I’m going to get a clue.
The Misery Index is an ongoing statistic that is created by adding the employment rate to the inflation rate. Marvin is correct in suggesting that Jimmy Carter has the distinction of having the highest average Misery Index at 16.27 followed closely by Gerald Ford at 15.93 and Ronald (awake at the crack of noon) Reagan at 12.19. George the first averaged 10.68. Bill Clinton brought the average down to 7.80 and George the second currently has brought the average back up to 8.01.
To conclude Democrats are more likely to raise this one indicator of economic health is as irresponsible as giving 100% of the blame for the current recession to George Bush.
This discussion started as a reference to a media bias. The media and the Republican Party have sucessfully tagged the Democratic Party as the party of tax and spend, the party of loose morals and have made the word “liberal” something to be ashamed of. When was the last political ad that featured a candidate that said he was a proud liberal?
As we know the Republicans know how to spend also (they just use deficit spending). We now have a record national debt. We also know that Republicans don’t like to tax, they just take away exemptions and deductions to acheive the same effect. And we know that Republican morality is the same as Democratic morality except that they preach family values in public and then have extremely “wide stances” in public bathrooms. They support legislation against others who have different lifestyles, but have secret lives themselves; see Condoleezza Rice and Lindsay Graham.
Go vote today and try to get past the conservative media bias!
I remember Jimmy Carter. If we had listened to him about energy conservation and reducing dependence on oil, we would be a lot better off today.
Patrick (not that Patrick) said, “The media and the Republican Party have sucessfully (sic) tagged the Democratic Party…” I suppose that’s one way of saying it if you’re completely delusional. The Democratic party is tagged because the leaders of the party ARE liberal, so you can drop the attempt at a post hoc fallacy argument. Nancy “I’m trying to save the planet” Pelosi is a perfect example. If the Democrats continue to let liberals run their party, they are correctly tagged as either liberal or enablers of a liberal agenda.
Man…this is some boring stuff.