Matt Barrie's on-air mistake ahead of College World Series irritates Texas A&M faithful
Matt Barrie wrapped up SportsCenter on Friday afternoon ahead of the College World Series on ESPN, and one of his final comments unfortunately caught the ears of Texas A&M fans and they didn’t appreciate it.
“Coming up, top of the hour, man I love college baseball, the SEC has half the field in the College World Series, coming up in 6 minutes,” he said, “you’ve got Texas and Oklahoma coming up at the top of the hour.”
It doesn’t take an expert in the Aggies and Longhorns rivalry to know how that went over in Aggieland.
The Aggies (42-18) and Sooners (42-22) open the 8-team event on Friday afternoon before Texas (47-20) mets Notre Dame (40-15). Saturday openers match No. 2 Stanford (47-16) against Arkansas (43-19) and Ole Miss (37-22) against No. 14 Auburn (42-20).
My Boy who turned 13 today is seething mad at the disrespect and angling to write a sternly worded letter 😲😀: pic.twitter.com/ij7Ly5KLYb
— Brent Zwerneman 📰 (@BrentZwerneman) June 17, 2022
The Associated Press pointed out that home runs are on the rise. Texas, Stanford and Arkansas each enter the CWS with at least 100 home runs and Mississippi has 99. A total of 19 Division I teams hit at least 100 this season compared with 3 last year.
Of the 8 CWS teams, Oklahoma is the one that most resembles college teams of yesteryear. The Sooners have put down 32 sac bunts and stolen 142 bases, most among CWS teams, and have hit just 70 homers.
I doubt it irritated Aggie fans. A small handful of tweets means little.
I think the Aggie fans are more upset at the way the game is playing out so far.
It’s definitely not looking good lol
Yes, it is difficult to read twitter from the fetal position under your coffee table. Hope they come back.
Texas probably would be winning this game. Come on, Aggies, even LSU beat Oklahoma.
Um, OU whipped the horns in the Big 12 tournament. Nothing would be better than for the Sooners to eliminate them. Sooners are on a roll! Hottest team in the field. BOOMER!
OU beat UF in the tourney. They ain’t too bad.
Oklahoma has 4 of the top 8 prospects in the CWS. Very talented team.
BOOMER SOONER! OU 13, Aggies 8. Good luck the rest of the way, Aggies. BOOMER!
Oh wow! One fan posted something on social media and an entire “aritcle” is “written”. This about describes the world today.
Also OU and UT fans, you are still a part of the Big 12. Go to your own site. Stop acting like you are part of the SEC cause….you’re not.
Relax. You’re talking about OUr team here, so you’re fair game. I also understand OU and the evil burnt orange empire are joining the SEC. I’m sure we’ll have new rivalries in the next few years. That said, Texas UGA fan, get used to it. BOOMER!
Bless your heart.
If OU can come up with their buyout money with Big 12, till you pay your bill, you don’t belong!
Joining the SEC is great and all, but the Sooner Nation has been doing just fine for the past 100 years and will be just fine in the SEC. Hell, Auburn and Florida fans recently enjoyed some Sooner treatment in football and baseball! See y’all soon enough
OU will be coming to the SEC SOONER than you’d like. BOOMER!
That’s not a for sure thing. OU still has to come to agreement with the SEC on compensating the cost of fire extinguishers it takes to deflate the current OU 90’s dumpster fire.
Welp, those were some dark years (including my freshman year in John Blake’s last season), but sorry Aggie friend, y’all don’t get to talk down until you’ve actually achieved something
90s dumpster fire? That’s hilarious. OU won the CWS in 1994! That’s like so…90s! Oh, if you’re talking about Big 12 championships in football, OU has won 14 of the league’s championships since 1996. That’s over 1/2 of them! One of those was a 77-0 shellacking in 2003 of Texas A&M. OU pulled out their entire starting lineup in the 2nd quarter and took knees after the third quarter until the end of the game. Oh, BTW, you want to talk about NCs? Go away, Aggie, and come back when you have something REAL to talk about. BOOMER!
BTW, the Aggies didn’t leave the Big 12 because of the horns, they left because OU would continually beat their behinds on a regular basis. Get used to it. It will happen again in the SEC. BOOMER!
Okay you were fine until that last post. OU having literally anything to do with A&M leaving the Big12 has to be the funniest thing I’ve heard in awhile. A&M’s reasons were no different than the ones luring OU and Texas to the SEC. The only difference now is you can’t deny those reasons are valid anymore unless you want to claim OU has no reason to make the move.
Fair point. We’re coming for the competition of the SEC.
Didn’t bother me, but journalists like to stir the pot.
If it were up to me, I’d take OU and OSU in the SEC, instead of OU and tu. I get that it’s about money, but these other schools just don’t get how toxic the cows, their program and their fans can be.
I know a lot of good Sooner fans I enjoy kiddin’ around with, and I’m more than glad to welcome Boomer to the SEC. but those cows…