re: Do we finally see the end of cowbells at Miss. St this year?

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They made each of their respected schools look like a bunch of uneducated hicks. Yes, they are very much alike.

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So what was this Albert Belle incident?

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Yea, Albert Belle really enjoyed his visit to DN Field.

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LFL hecklers dont discriminate they yell at and harrass all types of people, tall, short, fat, skinny, black, white, hispanic, even redheads which they usually call Opie.

Im sure no names have EVER been called to opposing outfielders at Ole Miss games.

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So what was this Albert Belle incident?

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09/17/1999
By John Helsley
Staff Writer



STILLWATER -- Oklahoma State has never played a football game at Mississippi State. And yet, as the Cowboys head for Starkville and their first road game of the season Saturday, memories of the Mississippi town are unavoidable.



In May of 1997, OSU's baseball team spent five demanding days in Starkville, where they were playing in an NCAA Regional Tournament. And for five games, Cowboy players were ripped with racial and ethnic slurs from local fans seated and standing beyond the outfield fence.



Anthony Blackmon, OSU's center fielder and leadoff hitter, became etched in the program's history that year. Unfortunately, it was not for his play.



With no fixed seating beyond the fences at that time, the MSU athletic department rented out sizable plots of land. And fans brought their own seating, in the form of lawn chairs, blocks of theater seats, even couches in what made for an odd sight. The area was affectionately known in Starkville as the Left Field Lounge and rowdies consumed burgers and beer and spewed profanities.



The week before the regional, during the Southeastern Conference Tournament, LSU outfielder Joey Belle charged after fans who had called him "Buckwheat." Belle now goes by the name of Albert and plays for the Baltimore Orioles.



Then during the regional, OSU became a favorite target, with its outfield of Blackmon, an African American; left fielder Ray Ortiz, who hailed from Mexico; and right fielder Bennie Castillo, a Dominican.



Fed up after five days of fielding barbs, Blackmon, after the Cowboys clinched the regional title with the final out against Texas A&M, dropped his pants in "mooning" fashion toward his insulters. He was wearing sliding shorts beneath his uniform, but the gesture was obvious.



Blackmon was suspended for OSU's first two games of the College World Series, Mississippi State was investigated for its conduct as a host institution and the NAACP showed up in Omaha.



"It was horrible," said OSU coach Tom Holliday, an assistant under Gary Ward at the time. "They called him n_gger. And they called him other things. The real oddity was when we walked in the ballpark the first time, we had to sit in the stands and wait for our game. This old lady turned around and told us to get the (expletive) out of the box seats. It was an old lady.



"She turned around a few minutes later and made a comment about all our Spaniards and blacks and Dominicans. From that moment on, it was absolutely rude. It was almost like being in a battle zone. Nobody there liked us. The minute we walked in the park, they just tore us apart. But it became a rally point."



And how the Cowboys responded, other than Blackmon's gesture, is why Holliday actually recounts that trip as one of his favorites.

"That trip to Starkville was one of the best memories that I have in all my years of college baseball," Holliday said. "The incident with Anthony was not my memory. The whole thing for me was they knew we were the favored team and they made it as difficult on us as they could. The camaraderie, that's what I remember.

"I thought it was a great trip. Our players, when we left, said 'Can you believe we won in this environment.' Today, when I run into players on that team, they have great memories of that trip."

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Long live the Left Field lounge.

Not reading 15 pages of this thread. Could someone just tell me if more cowbell is needed?

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Wow, inelishaitrust has way way way too much time on his hands. The guy has never made a valid point that I have agreed with. By far the worst OM poster on this board. Without the balance sorantable offers to the rest of the board, you OM fans as a whole look like dumbasses by trying to convince everybody that your university and everything it stands for is better than everybody else's and the lone reason is inelisha's ignorance. That tool is a fricking moron.

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The guy has never made a valid point that I have agreed with.

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wow....an MSU fan not agreeing with an Ole Miss fan.





Call the presses.

You guys are ridiculous sometimes. Look somehing up about how many times we've welcomed the other team into the outfield for dinner.

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You guys are ridiculous sometimes

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cowbells are ridiculous.....all the time