OMAHA, Neb. — The chicken finger tycoon was insistent: He wanted $15,000 worth of Jell-O shots. There was a record that needed breaking.
Pat McEvoy, the longtime bar manager at Rocco’s Pizza and Cantina in Omaha, Nebraska, was skeptical. He was quite used to this type of bombastic behavior in mid-June. The mayhem of the Men’s College World Series attracts a certain type of hollow heavy-hitter with a big mouth and zero follow-through.
As McEvoy explained it: “Everybody says they’re somebody this time of year.”
That’s particularly true at Rocco’s, which sits caddy-corner to Charles Schwab Field, less than 100 yards from the right-field gate.