Other than being wowed by the women of Ole Miss, sucking at pitcher pong, drunkenly reiterating how he wants to transfer to Ole Miss, trying to freestyle rap and calling all the girls around us "broads," he was pretty tolerable.
He had plenty to say about the baseball team too.
First, he wanted to be clear how bad he thought Aaron Barrett was for a Friday night SEC starter. They were shocked how easy it was to hit off of him and how poor his stuff was. Those were his quotes, not mine. I still think AB can contribute and is simply trying to adjust from JUCO baseball.
The Catamounts didn't think too highly of our fans. Their back up catcher was told by their coach to go to the bullpen and his response was, "Coach, please don't make me go back out there." The students were hurling dip cans, dip spit, dip, beer cans and insults at whoever was in the Vermont pen. According to Vinny Vermont, when they were in the bullpen they sat as close to the backside of the wall as they could to avoid the projectiles. Good job, right field fans.
Despite the treatment of the student section, the Catamounts loved the ball park and Oxford. Although they had to stay "at the fucking stank ass Super 8 Motel."
Couple of notes about the Vermont team: The reason their short stop sucks so much is because they are using their back up third baseman at the position. The starter broke his wrist the series before their trip to Oxford.
They also do not mind traveling down to get waxed by SEC teams. They think it will do help the program as they prepare to go back to the MEAC "and play those fucking high school level teams."
They were very grateful to have not faced The Bittler too, because apparently when you go up against him "it's ovah."
I can also verify that not all people from Vermont enjoy chugging maple syrup.
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I'm not sure when the "hurling of dip cups/beer cans" occurred, but I smack dab in the middle of the right field "porch" behind the bull-pen for Saturday's game and I witnessed nothing of the sort. Were insults hurled? Yes. Were some of them classless? Of course.
However, I can say almost positively that nothing was thrown at the players during at least Saturday's game.
Good post though. It's pretty interesting to see the perspective of one of their players simply because their baseball program is so different from that of the program here at Ole Miss.
And also, the bullpen is a good 30 feet from the right field section. If you can spit dip 30 feet in the air (and into the wind, for that matter) then you need to stop attending Rebel baseball games and use your time to start practicing for the watermelon seed spitting contests that will surely occur at a county fair near you.
Fans sit along side the bullpen by those tennis courts. I wasn't in right field for this game, so I can't verify what he said. Just relaying what I was told.
Proofread your posts, Gonzo.
I think faster than I type. I'm also really dumb. Those are my excuses for my poor grammar.
While I wasn't there this weekend (f-ing premarial counseling and wedding showers), the section of the right field seats that is immediately behind the visitors bullpen has been closed off since construction began. It looks like they intend to open it back up eventually; but unless they did this past weekend, it is still closed.
I'm not exactly sure as to what y'all are referencing but again, the section behind the bull-pen (adjacent to the tennis courts) is a good 30 to 40 feet from the bull-pen. You can't get any closer to the pen than that because of that enormous drop-off and fencing that runs in front of the student section in right field. Also, there is a security guard standing directly in front of said bull-pen seating who stands with his back to the field and watches the people sitting on the terraced seating.
What is everybody getting so damned nitpicky over? TOTGA, who covers basketball for the Cup, got drunk with a Vermont Catamount over the weekend. He simply recounted to our audience what the visiting baseball player said. He wasn't accusing anyone of anything heinous nor was he saying that the baseball player was speaking the gospel truth. He was just saying "hey, listen to what this guy had to say."
Cool your jets, everybody. The weather's nice 'n' shit. Go play golf or something.
I'm glad that pitchers are treated poorly in right field. That's what baseball is about.
And you know, years later, those pitchers are glad too. I bet they look back on this stuff with a smile.
I don't think anybody is in a tizzy. They're just pointing out that it's unlikely that anyone not from Louisiana or Arkansas has the range to spit their dip that far. Just an observation.
DuNing, not that I care too much about it, but being from Mississippi might predispose one to salivary proficiency:
http://www.statemaster.com/graph/hea_smo_tob_use-health-smokeless-tobacco-users
Gotcha. I knew someone would be unable to NOT point that out. If you didn't care, you wouldn't bother looking up whatever link that is that I'm not going to click on that confirms that Mississippians do in fact love their dip just as much as the next coonass or arkansian.
Sorry, DuNing, didn't mean to make you choke on your Copenhagen.
What I don't care about is whether or not people dip, as long as they don't spit on my shoes. Cole Haans aren't cheap, you know.
Don't take it as an anti-Mississippi comment...hell, I love Mississippi. I play a lot of tennis, and do a lot of good eating and boozing there...including tonight.
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