There was a field microphone and a baseball coach. Texas had just won its regional in Austin in 1989 and had made it to another Men's College World Series, but the legendary coach had another team in his mind.
The top ranked Texas A&M was upset by LSU. The man grabbed the mic and let loose.
Where are the A&M's now?
There was a crowd at the field.
Bill Little, long-time Texas sports information director/historian, said that if you knew the man, it was completely out of place. I couldn't believe you said that.
You can call it whatever you want to call it. It's called spirit because that's what it is.
Big John Byington hit a couple of walk-off homers in the spring to give A&M a win over Texas and the Southwest Conference title. The rivalry between Texas and Texas A&M was strong until 2012 when the A&M joined the SEC.
Some say it didn't end.
The two old rivals will play each other for the first time at the Men's College World Series. The app is available on the Disney/ESPN website. The loser of the game will have to live with the fact that it lost. The only major sport in which the two teams play each other every year is baseball, and that will change when Texas joins the SEC in 25 years.
They downplayed the significance of the rivalry. They said it's not really a big deal. It's not much of a surprise that a team would be fired up to beat the other team.
Stevens said that not many teams like us.
It will be a big game for both fans.
We can't get caught up in the game against Texas A&M. They're good, we have to keep it about us. They are good at swinging the bats. The team is a good one. If it was A&M, it wouldn't matter. Our baseball lives for this year because it's just a game we're playing for our lives.
The men will be ready to go. They should not be playing tight. I would like them to relax and see what happens.
In late March, Texas A&M traveled to Austin and defeated the University of Texas in front of a crowd of over 8,000. Jack Moss hit for the cycle five times that day.
It was one of the most intense baseball games Will Johnson has ever seen.
He said that something rode on each pitch. Guys played all over the place. There were a lot of guys elevating their game because they didn't want to lose to the rival. It was absolutely amazing. Two teams said they were not losing to the other team.
They're trying to end each other's seasons and it's hard to believe that intensity is getting more intense. But here you go, right? Now, you have it.
A group of college friends from the University of Texas sat at DJ's Dugout, Texas A&M's unofficially designated bar in Omaha, and contemplated the Texas-Texas A&M rivalry.
It wasn't a big deal to Texas. Two men in the group graduated with engineering degrees from UT last month, and the 14-hour drive to Omaha is their last trip together before they begin their careers. The four of them are members of the Texas Iron Spikes baseball spirit group and they tailgate and root for the Longhorns.
Oklahoma got an earful when it came to Austin because the group of fans did a lot of social media research to find the best material for heckling opposing players. Is A&M included? It's not as big of a rival.
"A&M's whole identity is based on their dislike of us," Joseph said. There is no personality outside of that.
The fight song of A&M is about Texas, according to Gallagher. The second verse says it.
So long to the orange and white.
This is the opening to Texas' fight song.
It's the end of A&M.
There is a lot of text messages on the phone. They're having a conversation.
The rivals can't agree on what happened in the past. According to Texas A&M, the series began in 1904 and the Longhorns say the first game was in 1903.
Mark Johnson, who resurrected Texas A&M's baseball program back in the 1980s, said the rivalry had its share of fights in the early days, but that deep down, it was friendly because many of the players were from Texas.
He said that people thought this was a football state. This is a baseball state as well as a football state. Not more.
Good players are available throughout the state. You want them to come to your place? If Texas got them, we'd get them.
Big John and future MLB player Chuck Knoblauch were on Johnson's first roster. Johnson didn't remember that remark from 1989. He doesn't know if he heard it.
Johnson said it was the same as before. There will be an advantage with Texas and Texas A&M.
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