Rebels stunned by USA in extra frames

by One Man To Beat on Feb 22, 2009 11:10 PM EST

Well, a huge waste of human sat behind us at today's baseball game between our Rebels and the South Alabama Jaguars.

This guy complained about EVERY SINGLE PITCH that went against his team. He accused Ole Miss of every travesty imaginable including buying the game away from his beloved Jags, cheating against Mercer(a game we lost) and the JFK assassination. I'm sure you have had a similar experience, possibly even at an Ole Miss game. Lives and dies with every call by an umpire.

He was one of the most miserable people I have ever had to sit near during a baseball game. Sitting by himself in a faded USA t-shirt, sporting grey sweatpants and velcro Rockport sneakers, I can only imagine his portly physique playing baseball at some level in his life.

His annoying personality drove everyone in his life away as he was sitting by himself but had no reservations about eavesdropping on our conversations. We spoke to those around us about Scott Bittle's great pitching ability, and he mocked us with our own words as USA drove a run across in the tenth to seal the Rebel loss.

He quickly waddled down the steps after the game's ending realizing he was in the same section as many Ole Miss player's parents who were giving him the stink eye throughout the afternoon. We luckily snapped a few photos of this brute and will be posting them as soon as possible.

The loss was embarrassing, because our pitching staff was really on point against the Jaguars while our bats were incredibly useless. We ground into three double plays while stranding over half a dozen. It was flat-out frustrating, and I hope this team does some soul searching before Texas Christian comes to town.

Mobile wasn't all bad. Most of the USA fans were reasonable, but we got the Christmas gift of sitting by Sweats McJaguar.

A few quick notes:

- Liberty ended up winning the Coca-Cola Classic with a 2-1 record with the loss coming to Ole Miss.

- Evan Button looked like he pulled or strained a hamstring running out a ground ball during the USA game. It was very tough to see as he was coming back from a season ending injury last year.

- Mike Snyder got his first action as a Rebel at 3B.

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Good updates over the weekend. Man, what a dissapointing start. Sounds like we didn't have one good game the whole weekend. I'm sure we were going up against each team's ace, but still. Lot's of ball left to be played, hope we can turn this around sooner than later.

by Charles on Feb 23, 2009 12:05 PM EST reply actions

I think we'll be fine. Of course I always think that. Even if we are not as good as we thought; I will blindly believe that we are awesome. Y'all should hop on the blind optimism train. There's lots of room and free beer & titties

by Rebel Chuck on Feb 23, 2009 12:18 PM EST reply actions

Reinstetle-Ball!

by warchief on Feb 23, 2009 1:00 PM EST reply actions

I hate being drunk and pissed off in right field, and it looks like that may happen a lot this season.

It is, however, better than being sober and pissed in right field.

by JimHalpert on Feb 23, 2009 1:06 PM EST reply actions

Haha, well either one is better than being drunk and pissed off 12 hours away from right field. Hopefully I'll make it down for a game or two this year. I'm still shocked that we just dropped two games like that and nearly a third, and we only got bumped to #13 nationally.

by Charles on Feb 23, 2009 3:38 PM EST reply actions

I'm a USA fan and was at the Ole Miss game. We do have our a couple of jerks who grace us with their presence; I'm sorry you had to put up with one.

I was impressed with your closer. I think he struck out the first 5 batters he faced. Possibly he got tired in his 3rd inning of work.

We had an up and down weekend. Our staff ace (no, you did not face him) pitched a superb game on Friday, going 7 2/3 innings, 0 R, 10 K, 2 BB. He was named tournament MVP.

We lost 2 games to Liberty on Saturday (one was not a tourney game). In the first game we made 4 errors and literally gave it away. We were within one strike of winning the 2nd game, but ended up losing 4-3 in 10 innings.

The pitcher you faced will probably be either our Saturday or Sunday starter. He can be very good or very bad. He has beaten other SEC teams and has also been lit up.

I'm always glad when Ole Miss comes to Mobile because we can count on a good fan turnout.

by cb960 on Feb 23, 2009 4:54 PM EST reply actions