Charge Thru Challenge: Ole Miss Baseball with Friends

This past weekend was the opening weekend of Ole Miss baseball. Now, not sure how it is where you are from but Ole Miss baseball is a huge deal! You have several options when choosing where to sit and watch the game. If you are lucky enough to have tickets, there is a “Diamond Club,” which is basically like skyboxes that look out over the field. If not, you can opt for the regular seats in the stadium where all the action is, or you can even head out to the outfield where my friends and myself usually like to enjoy an afternoon of baseball. In the right field you have all of the current students that tend to be loud and sometimes a little more obnoxious. You bring your own chairs and set up hours before the game actually starts. The students usually walk in dragging coolers full of cold beverages and hot dogs to cook on the charcoal grills that Ole Miss provides. To give you an idea of their rowdiness, if Ole Miss gets a home run, each student takes whatever drink they have in their hand and throws it high up in the air. I know what you are thinking and you are exactly right, everyone gets SOAKED! Now this is a fairly new tradition. When I was in college we didn’t do this, but it was a tradition I got a taste of it when I sat over there during Saturday’s game. Here is a video all about right field and HUGE Ole Miss baseball really is...

Now heading over to left field, things are a little different. You will find all of the young alumni that still live in and around the Oxford can get rowdy at times but are still under control. The population over here ranges from young married couples to those with young kids that tend to want to play in the dirt throughout the game instead of actually watching the game. This is where we usually sit. One of my good friends Leah and her husband Matt chipped in with several couples to buy an “outdoor box” for this season. It is a designated area where they can cook and put chairs up without having to get there super early to save seats. Brilliant idea if you ask me!! Anyway, my friend Elizabeth and I got to sit with Leah and enjoy a BEAUTIFUL oxford Sunday during the baseball game this weekend.

Ole Miss swept the weekend with three wins so it was an EXCELLENT way to start the season!

It is a tradition for each section of the outfield to sing "Hotty Toddy," our signature chant for sporting events when we win a baseball game. Each time, the team raises their hats in appreciation. These are the words to the chant...

Hotty Toddy, Gosh Almighty

Who the hell are we?

Hey!

Flim Flam Bim Bam

Ole Miss

By Damn!!

Sky above the stadium

This is the sunset after the baseball game this past Sunday!

Okay, I promise there is a point to telling you all of this hullabaloo. While I was enjoying the game this past Sunday with some girls, I was thinking about how important it was to have fellowship with the ones close to you. Friends can be there for you when you are down and to celebrate when things are great. Just like any other relationship, you must put in effort for the friendship to work. I know we all get busy in our own lives but it so important to make time for your friends!! Whether it is a dinner with the girls or a phone call with someone who lives halfway across the US, you have to make the time and actually do it! If you are always making excuses why you can’t go visit or why you can’t talk on the phone, your friends will slowly drift away and before you know it they will no longer be there. Now I know that sounds a bit harsh, but it’s the truth. I know that I don’t want to look up in 10 years and realize I have lost touch with the ones that mean so much to me right now. When you are struggling to find the time, remember how much fun you have with your friends and how you don’t want that to end. Just wanted to share that with everyone because I have been struggling with this lately.

These are some pictures of times that I have spent with my good friends...