Take me out to the ball game!

"Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack,
I don't care if I never get back,
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don't win it's a shame.
For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out,
At the old ball game."

I am a BIS professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and I heard this classic baseball song everywhere around campus last week: in the library, in the hallways, and in classrooms. The whole campus, students and faculty alike, was buzzing about Austin's new baseball team, the Austin Armadillos! We had all been waiting and hoping for a baseball team to be formed in Austin, and our dream had finally come true.

Although the students at UT are from all over the world, they are all proud Austin residents, and they were thrilled to know that they could now add anothr item on their list of things to brag about: Austin's baseball team!

The excitment only intensified after thier AMAZING first win. I even found myself off topic while teaching my class--one minute I was explaining CRM and ERP strategies, and the next minute I was initiating a debate on who the best player on the Armadillos is. (We couldn't reach a consensus--they are all so good!)

The Austin Armadillos have the support of the UT campus, and we can't wait to see what this season holds for the newest addition to Major League Baseball!