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I was watching Mississippi State destroy Oklahoma in the Tallahassee Regional today when someone down the bar asked, “where are the cowbells?”
The patron was referring to the twist of SEC rule niche carving that allows Starkville homers to drown out the calls of opposing teams with artificial noisemakers while leaving the rest of the conference to make do with their god-given and god-restricted voices. They do it in football as we all know. Not in baseball regionals, where clearer heads have prevailed. [Ed. Note: A vote during the SEC Spring Meetings last week reaffirmed this Clanga Carveout by implication.