Missouri Softball: Never Let Your Battleship Mouth Overload Your Rowboat Butts

My late father used to have saying and he would give me the same advice often. “Never let your battleship mouth overload your rowboat butt”. I cleaned that last part up a bit for the children. You just never throw something out there or make a threat, even a passing blow, if you can not back it up. I think one certain softball coach in Missouri could have used that bit of advice.

As you probably have seen or heard in the past weeks, Missouri softball head coach Ehren Earlywhine seemed to have a problem with the celebration, or the degree of celebration, that the Alabama softball team did in Columbia, MO when the Tide clinched the out right SEC Regular Season Title during the last series of the regular season. “It’s bush league,” Earleywine told the Columbia Daily Tribune. “Certainly they should be glad they won the conference, but they already had it won. Whether it’s co-champs or whatever, you’re still conference champs.” There is always something you can do in that situation if you don’t want to see celebrating on your field especially if you have a chance to claim a share of said title. Win. Missouri didn’t do that and our girls had every right to celebrate being crowned the out right winner of the SEC Championship. Like the buttons read that Alabama gymnastics coach Sarah Patterson tweeted out: Pure Joy is Never Bush League.

Not stopping there, Earleywhine took it just a bit step further.

That sounds like a little shot to me that is coming from a coach that said that he was “tired of going to Tuscaloosa”. I am guessing that Earleywhine was looking to come to The Capstone so that he could get a little revenge. One problem with that. Missouri could not take care of business but the “Bush Leaguers” sure did. Alabama ran through one of the toughest regions in the tournament, facing 2 teams with top 30 RPI, not losing a game and outscoring their opponents for the weekend 23-4. Missouri cruised through their bracket until their season ended with 2 losses to Nebraska on the final day. Sometimes it pays to keep your thoughts to yourself and to leave your trash talking statements that way as well, especially when you are talking about college athletes just celebrating a conference championship in a game that they love. More often times than not, it will come back to bite you and bite you squarely on the back side.  However as we know, it ended like it usually does. The team that concentrates on the job at hand and does their “trash talking” on the field lives to play another day while the other will be watching the game from the comforts of their couch with some snacks and their favorite beverage. If we have the desired outcome in the super regionals, I just have one question. Does anyone know if the Nebraska head coach has a problem with a dog pile for advancing to Oklahoma City?