LSU fans setting southern progress back 100 years a couple of weeks
For the SEC and the rest of college baseball, there is nothing more terrifying than seeing the sleeping hecatoncheirical(its a word Im sure) beast that is LSU baseball, there wielding bats and mustard laced corndogs as it maims and destroys all college baseball foes in its path to Omaha. No one wants to see this, no one. The LSU program had fallen on hard times (man we miss Smoke Laval)since its dominating run in the 90′s under Skip Bertman. This year has seen a resurgence of the Tigers onto the national scene, a run that included an inconceivable 23 game winning streak. The pummelling of UC-Irvine last night signalled to the rest of the college baseball that the beast is back and its bringing its moderately racist sign making caravan of coonasses with it. You have all been warned.
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1 just sayin // Jun 10, 2008 at 6:04 pm
It’s in response to the UC-I coach saying that “LSU fans don’t know that the civil war ended.” So its likely not as racist/dumb as implied.
just sayin…
2 LSU Fans are Classy « mr*crowder // Jun 10, 2008 at 9:58 pm
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3 Michael Medallion // Jun 11, 2008 at 8:34 am
Here’s what the UC Irvine Coach said:
Gillespie said the LSU fans will be different from those UCI encountered at Nebraska.
“That was pretty electric,” Gillespie said of Saturday night’s crowd of 8,646 at Haymarket Park that witnessed UCI’s 3-2 win over the host Cornhuskers. “It was a sea of red, but they’re not a hostile group,” Gillespie said of the Nebraska faithful.
“They’re not on you, and they’re not rude and they’re not vicious and they know the Civil War is over and they know how to act,” Gillespie said, before backtracking somewhat. “Now, I don’t mean to suggest [that is the case at LSU] I really don’t.”
http://www.dailypilot.com/articles/2008/06/04/sports/uci/dpt-spucinotebook060408.txt
4 Samantha // Jun 11, 2008 at 4:44 pm
I don’t for a second believe Gillespie didn’t mean to suggest that about LSU. Why else would he have said it? And not that it excuses any bad behavior by LSU fans, and there was some, he set the tone for the Super Regional when he made those ridiculous remarks.
5 biggwill // Jun 11, 2008 at 6:59 pm
“A NOTE TO ALL TIGER FAITHFUL”
Those of you at the game may recall that the UC Irvine fans were sitting in the same position from where that photo was taken. The sign was obviously an attempt to piss them off. It apparently worked well enough for one of them to post the photo on this blog with the suggestion that all Southerners are racists.
Good for the Aardvarks of California. Now they can feel as if they won something.
Unfortunately, the all important battle of public opinion will not get them to Omaha.
The residents of Baton Rouge and South Louisiana have recently elected an African American Mayor, an Indian American Governor, and an African-American Presidential Nominee for the US. That is not bad for a bunch of racists!
Geaux Tigers!
6 billyoceanseleven // Jun 11, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Well if we are a bunch of racists, let me share my bias against liberal granola-eating tree hugging environmentalist wacko Californians who think they are so much better than everyone else.
Yes, LSU Baseball is back. Everyone else in Omaha should be afraid – very afraid! GEAUX TIGERS!!!
7 Bunkie Perkins // Jun 11, 2008 at 9:50 pm
OK….reading comprehension time for all of you TOPS scholars. Never did FOTP call LSU or its fans racist. The only time the word was even thrown out there was when it was used to describe an inanimate object (ie. the sign). Was the sign, in context, directed at the comments of UCI’s coach?…yes. Would that sign still be offensive on some level regardless the context?…yes. Was it a dumb sign to cart out in public?…yes. Regardless, theres one thing Im sure we can reach common ground on…we all hate eskimos.
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10 The Mighty Favog // Jun 12, 2008 at 5:23 pm
biggwill writes:
“Those of you at the game may recall that the UC Irvine fans were sitting in the same position from where that photo was taken. The sign was obviously an attempt to piss them off. It apparently worked well enough for one of them to post the photo on this blog with the suggestion that all Southerners are racists. ”
WELL . . . if all Southerners aren’t racists, and if all LSU fans aren’t stupid — which they aren’t, on both counts — then you’d better be doing something about the iunordinately large minority of mouth-breathers who are.
No matter who it was meant to “piss off,” there was no cause for that sign . . . which was only minimally clever but majorly stupid and offensive. And — guess what? — it turned out to be a PR disaster for a state that specializes in making itself look bad to the rest of the world.
Frankly, that sign was as good a reason to be pissed off as any — and only minimally for reasons surrounding the game and UCI fans. It’s just a reminder of why I left Louisiana myself, and am glad I did.
I’ve lived in Omaha for 20 years now — remember Omaha? — and LSU fans had better not be bringing that bush-league “Fergit, hell!” crap up here:
http://revolution-21.blogspot.com/2008/06/keep-that-trash-down-on-bayou_12.html
11 The Mighty Favog // Jun 12, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Make that “inordinately” and not that word with the stray “U” stuck in there.
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