Take Me Out To The Ball Game.

Baseball at the Box. Something a lot of Tiger fans have been looking forward to, since football season is a ways away & the basketball team is having a down year. With the season opener that can mean only one thing for me, LIVE SHOT. Man I was hoping to avoid this but so it goes. Alex Box Stadium, or the Box as the faithful call it, has been around for 70 years and now it's to to upgrade. A more fan friendly facility is in the works but the memories from this place will stand through the hall of time. One memory for me didn't happen at the Box but it close to it. It was the year 2000, LSU was back in Omaha for the College World Series playing Stanford for the Championship. The game was on our station, a sports crew was sent there, and Post Game Special was in the works. Naturally, we needed a live shot from some watering hole of fans watching the game. Guess who got that assignment. So a reporter by the name of Bob Waters gets us in a bar near campus where a lot of students are watching the game. We head over there find the owner and he's thrilled we're there, free ad time no doubt. Start setting up the truck for the shots coming our way. In between stringing cable and flirting with the Budweiser Girls gotta get the students watching the game. Tigers are getting spanked down 5 to 2. This going to be a boring shot. Everyone's sad. Gonna be hard finding people to talk. So Bob and I head to the truck and start putting the story together. Bottom of the 8th, LSU batting. Ball meets Bat. Sound of a "Ping" over the TV leads to the bar erupting. The rally is on Tigers score 4 unanswered runs to win their fifth National Championship. The place is going wild. They come to us for the shot and Bob gets swallowed be elated faithful. Beer is flowing from the heavens thank goodness the camera was spared. What a day that was.
I hope they send the old Box out in style. I also hope we get a fiber line to the new place so I can stop lugging the portable gear around.