Then, the lights dim. The crowd roars. The starting lineup is announced. This is the moment your heart rate spikes. You yell “Geaux Tigers!” and realize you just whispered the entire national anthem because you were emotional. You don’t sob during the anthem at work, but at a baseball game? Absolutely. It’s a tradition.
The game itself is a rollercoaster of high-fives and groans. A strikeout? High-five your neighbor, even if they’re a stranger. A home run? You scream so loud your voice cracks. A routine ground ball? You still clap because energy is the unofficial sixth man. Or seventh man. Baseball has a lot of men.
The Inevitable Delay
If the game is “at 7,” it’s probably actually at 7:15 because of a pre-game ceremony or because the umpire decided to clean the plate for the 18th time. That’s when you learn the secret answer: LSU baseball games start whenever they feel like it, but the good stuff starts when the dirt is kicked and the crawdads start chirping. (Do crawdads chirp? They do at Alex Box.)
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By the seventh-inning stretch, you’ve eaten a second hot dog and your shirt is a Jackson Pollock painting of mustard and spilled soda. You haven’t checked your phone in three hours. You don’t care about the score as much as you care about the vibe. The vibe is: “I am exactly where I’m supposed to be, and it’s 82 degrees with a slight breeze, and my only problem is the guy in front of me keeps standing up.”
