Let's be honest, nobody is talkin trash about college baseball. All of the rivalry centers around football.
Ok, go find me a couple of examples of Ducks fans talking trash about OSU losing to the Gophers. This is a duck thread and you came here to take a shot at the Ducks "looking average" after a blow-out win. You Beaver fans have such little brother syndrome.
I love baseball and seriously hate football, trash talk or not..OSU has a legendary baseball program that is respected all around the country....lot of national championships..more than the Ducks...if you don't follow baseball I understand but the Beavs have been elite...had players go pro with great success. Trash talk is overrated...championships are not
http://www.sportstwo.com/posts/3968347/ I don't know if Nate bishop is a duck's fan, or just a bandwagon fan, but he trash tasks that whole thread too.
Trash talking your in-state rival, or any rival, is for fun. Record has nothing to do with it. You look for any and every reason to throw shade on your rival. It's part of fandom. To criticize it seems pointless to me. I hated the Huskies when they were good and the Beavers and Ducks were bad, and I hate the Huskies when they are bad and the Beavers and Ducks are good. Huck the Fuskies for eternity. I grew up rooting for both the Beavers and the Ducks, so I don't trash talk either. (The new breed of Ducks fans though...fuck those schmucks.) When they play each other, I pick a team based on the situation. Push comes to shove, I'm a Beaver first, having grown up 10 miles from campus. When I was a kid, the Ducks and Beavers had the two worst Division I football programs in the country. I still went to games of both teams and suffered through it. When the Ducks were rising from the ashes and had to beat the Beavers to get into a bowl game, I may not have 'rooted' for them against the Beavers, but I hoped they won. That kind of success is good for all Oregon schools, and the state. So, trash talk away. It's what fans do.
Ain't that the truth. Two of my friends are those types. Never went to the school which is fine, but jesus christ you'd think they'd been there 4+years. I'd love to see their true colors when/if the Ducks start losing. Me? Beaver fan for life, irregardless of record, and as you said BBert, I'll throw shade on the rival all day everyday! all in good fun though. oh and fuck the Huskies.
Duck fans need to read this post...especially the "fun" part of trash talking because they have fucking meltdowns when they're up 60-3 with 2 minutes left over an offsides call.....some of the most blindly aggressive football fans I've ever lived around. To some that's fun, to me, it's made me less of a Duck fan than I might have been. I pretty much started becoming a Beaver fan when my son went there. Duck basketball fans are way more civil. Being a Blazer fan I've gotten used to cheering for the underdog over the years and what Pat Casey has accomplished in Corvalis is going to make a great sports movie someday...folks forget Corvalis has about 80 thousand people, most of whom are students. Tiny college town but I love the place
