Horning: Coaches need to tell NCAA what’s acceptable and threaten not showing up
Unfortunately, nothing, yet this is not even about that. Not exactly. It’s about what the PA announcer said after a third out and before a new half frame was to begin. He invited all the fans in attendance to not wait to buy their tickets to the 2022 Women’s College World Series, taking place June 2-8 of next year.
By Clay Hornin
The inning escapes. But the house was nearly full, so let’s call it 11,000 inside Oklahoma City’s Hall of Fame Stadium on a Thursday afternoon.
Yes, the game was supposed to be played in prime time, but weather had pushed everything back a day, and ESPN had Game 3 between the Nets and the Bucks going, and ESPN2 the first day of the NCAA outdoor track and field meet and ABC a bunch of programming built around justice warrior Erin Brockovich — seriously — so, of course, the most important and final game of the college softball season was taking place in the middle of the afternoon.
Nobody’d want a ball to be in lost in the sun or anything — though one was, causing a run-scoring infield double — so what are a bunch of networks and channels owned by Disney to do?
Unfortunately, nothing, yet this is not even about that. Not exactly.
It’s about what the PA announcer said after a third out and before a new half frame was to begin.
He invited all the fans in attendance to not wait to buy their tickets to the 2022 Women’s College World Series, taking place June 2-8 of next year.