A moment I’ll never forget 🥹 holding my son and watching the Sooners get to the top of the mountain is such a surreal feeling! I wasn’t your superstar player when I was at OU but I can promise I love that program as much as anyone that’s played there! Proud to be a SOONER! 🏆
“I love the taste of blood man…we just accepted it and we just kept going. Now we’re here and I couldn’t be happier”
Our @Monty2740 asked Oklahoma’s Trey Gambill about how this team overcame adversity and what it felt like to have it all turn into a National Championship.
@TRowOU@OU_Baseball Thank you Toby for another incredible season on the call! Your ability to bring to life what’s happening in front of you is incredible! Congrats on the first National Championship call!!
Had the privilege of covering the entire Skip Johnson tenure at Texas. He arrived a down-to-earth baseball junkie and accomplished JUCO coach who was a pitching savant and an underrated talent evaluator for hitters, too. The guys who could come to Austin to throw bullpens... pretty incredible. I think Cliff Lee wore sandals for his. Anyway...
Over the years, he slowly started doing a little more media each year (if I remember right, Augie might've encouraged this) and you knew people believed so highly of him that they wanted him to start doing things assistant coaches needed to do to get head coach opportunities. And as great of a pitching coach and evaluator of overall talent he was, he was also a humble sponge that soaked up the winning wisdom from Augie Garrido.
But the more we had time around Skip on and off the record, the more you appreciated he was exactly the guy he is now. And that's why he is where he is now - a national champion.
In an industry that can sometimes encourage coaches of status to stray away from who they are and try to become something they're not, he's as authentic as they come. I have no doubt you could drop him into any baseball setting at any level and he'd excel and the way he brings the best out of and manages people is commendable. People use to marvel at how quickly he could have the other dugout's signs and how he could simply watch a guy run and move and know that player had upside on the mound. The stories are endless.
Congrats to one of the all-time best baseball minds and teachers of the game for winning the big one.
The Sooners take it all in Omaha! 🏆
Oklahoma stands alone on the Rosenblatt flag poles for the first time since 1994, lowering North Carolina’s flag in a 13-2 win.
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How ‘bout them #Sooners. First national title in one of the Big Three men’s sports (football, basketball and baseball) since 2000.
The drought is over. Skip freakin’ did it.
And yes, the final from Omaha is 13-2. Couldn’t write it any better.
Every year in the last 15 years, we've thanked @TRowOU for his amazing work on the call in football, basketball, and baseball at season's close. All of it without a national title. Until now. 🏆
Congrats, T-Row! Sooner Nation is so grateful for you. So well deserved 👏👏👏