One question before we get going: What the heck are we calling the 2000's? The Aughts? The 00's? The Thousands? Someone needs to make a ruling on this soon. I vote Aughts.
And speaking of, I think I need to jump on the bandwagon and do some sort of end-of-the-decade listy sort of thing. I started to compile a huge list of important things that happened in Oklahoma over the last 10 years. But then I realized that would be far too much work and that I'm far too lazy for it.
But while everyone is focused on retrospectives and looking back on things like Barbaro and Steve Bartman, I'm going to look to the future. What will the NEXT 10 years look like for Oklahomans? Here's 10 things I could see happening at some point in the next decade:
1. A professional lacrosse team or something for Edmond
Oklahoma City has the NBA, Tulsa has the WNBA, so the natural progression for the city that wants to catch up to the big boys is something like lacrosse right? Or is that actually better than the WNBA? I honestly don't know.
2. No more Oklahoman
This isn't bold and it's basically happening right now. If you didn't know already, now you know: Newspapers are dying. I don't know really what their plan is, but I'd imagine it'll have something to do with NewsOK (and their annoying freaking autoplaying videos) and the new "digital" Oklahoman.