The Unlikely Fanatic is back!

So I know that it's been a very long time since I actually bothered to post anything on here. Sometimes, college is frustrating like that.

The Year of the Bear. That's what everyone is calling this crazy time here at Baylor University. If you had pulled me aside as a freshman and told me that when I was a junior, I not only would still be in marching band, but Baylor Football would be 10-3, have won the Alamo Bowl and that RG3 would have a Heisman, I would have laughed in your face. If you had told me that the men's baseketball team would have made the Elite Eight and started their season 17-0, I wouldn't have laughed quite as hard but I might have wondered what drugs you were on. The only team I might have believed you about would have been the Lady Bears, and that was just because I knew that Kim Mulkey rocked.

Of course, it didn't help that my freshman year I didn't really care. I only got in to the Lady Bears when they were in the NCAA tourney, and I could have cared less about any other sport (except Texas Rangers baseball, but more on that later).

I would go on about how I became a sports fan, but that's an op/ed column for another time. What I am here to say is that we are at 80 wins in major sports, Baylor Baseball is tearing it up, and this blog is no longer just about Baylor.

I'm an unlikely fan of many things, but I am a totally likely fan of baseball. I've been watching Rangers baseball since I was 4, and listening since before even then. I figured it was time for me to actually stretch my sportswriting legs and talk a bit about some baseball. Expect gameday wrap-ups (except for days where, because of life, I miss the game entirely), player[s] of the game, and the inexpert analysis of someone who's been watching her whole life.

I'll also still be posting about Baylor sports, so don't worry. Come fall, there will still be far too long diatribes on various football games, and I'll be able to bring you my "courtside" view of basketball games all season long.

Sic 'Em, and Let's Go!
Kate

Robert Griffin III: Baylor's Greatest Player or Baylor's Greatest Player?

It's about 10 minutes from the time that we learned that Baylor University had its first Heisman trophy winner. I keep trying to start this post, but for once, I'm having difficulty finding words. What this means to us is simply indescribable. This legitimates a program that has known its own potential for 2 years. This proves to the world that Baylor is more than a cult from years ago and the perennial favourite for other school's Homecomings. It's something that means more than I can articulate-I can only describe the shaking nerves that filled me right before the announcement, and the screams of joy that erupted from the tiny front room of this collegiate apartment and all over campus. The tower of Pat Neff will be green tonight and Robert Griffin the Third, Heisman Winner, will come back to a hero's welcome.

While we here are all shaking with joy, there is also the slightest undercurrent of sadness. RG3 won, so he's unlikely to come back and play as a Baylor Bear again. One does get the terribly sad feeling that this might have been a once in a lifetime thing, something that we lucky few (the undergraduate classes of 2012-2015) will tell our grandchildren in wistful voices of when "Baylor was good and Robert Griffin was the Heisman winner." Maybe it won't be. Maybe this is that pessimism that comes as second nature to us members of this no-longer second rate school.

I'm sure that tomorrow I'll be able to wrap all this up in a much more concise and appropriate way, but right now, the only thing I can think of is:

RG3 is Superman.