Okay look, I get being excited about home runs and such, but throwing beer isn’t our thing. We’re Mississippi State baseball fans, not Ole Miss baseball fans. Let them have their thing.
Last night, the 128th season of Mississippi State baseball officially began. The Mississippi State Bulldogs are undefeated at home in the New Dudy Noble Field thanks to a thrilling eighth inning during which MSU scored 11 runs. But during that eighth inning, there were some things that happened that didn’t quite feel like Mississippi State baseball.
That would be the beer showers.
During the eighth inning of last night’s game against Youngstown State, MSU fans out in the Left Field Lounge took to throwing their drinks up in the air. It’s something that certainly grabs people’s attention and makes home run celebrations more interesting.
But beer showers aren’t a Mississippi State baseball thing. In fact, beer showers are very much an Ole Miss baseball thing:
Ole Miss hit a dinger, which means BEER SHOWER TIME http://t.co/EBMzGUe0wt https://t.co/V5Z2uVzANb
— SB Nation (@SBNation) June 1, 2014
They’re something that Ole Miss baseball fans are certainly known for:
The first beer shower of the year! Golsan launches one to left to give the rebels the lead. 2-1 Ole Miss pic.twitter.com/CvYxuhHscD
— Cameron Brooks (@cambrooksphoto) February 17, 2017
And they’re something that Mississippi State baseball fans have used as a joke for years:
Heard some Ole Miss fans did their whole beer shower thing in Left Field Lounge after Orvis' HR in T10. that's the joke
— cristilmethod (@cristilmethod) April 13, 2014
Ole Miss beer showers or a damn left field loft. can i get a lolololol combined with a bigger lololol
— elfutbol professior (@NotJoeLeeDunn) August 12, 2014
MSU fans have even used it as part of jokes about how Ole Miss has a difficult time making it to the College World Series:
@trobinson492 no beer showers in Omaha... But I guess ole miss fans wouldn't know that... 42 years has been a while...
— Michael Evans (@MSUBills63) June 10, 2014
And now Mississippi State baseball fans are copying this? From the looks of the video, it appears that most of the fans throwing the beer are current students (or people that look young enough to be current students, I guess).
But that still looks like a very large group of people copying the Ole Miss tradition:
Return of the Mac (@Elijahm_2)
— Tom Eble (@Tom_Eble) February 16, 2019
Three-run homer kickstarted the 11-run 8th inning bombardment.
Also, will someone feed JT Ginn? The man is hungry pic.twitter.com/hqVyTOiyTX
As the Mississippi State baseball team goes to claim the series today, my simple request is that you please don’t take someone else’s tradition.
This should especially be emphasized when it comes to a tradition from Ole Miss. The beer showers are something that MSU fans have mocked, derided, and looked down upon for a long time. Don’t start copying them now.