Even Ole Miss baseball's semi-retired 'Michael Myers of Swayze' got a well-deserved Omaha moment

Talk of Champions

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4.9 • 657 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In this edition of Talk of Champions, Ben Garrett of the Ole Miss Spirit is joined by Matt Lowry, a die-hard Ole Miss baseball fan, whose years wearing a Michael Myers mask out in left field at Swayze finally paid off with an Omaha moment and the Rebels' first-ever national championship last June.

Hear the story of how the bit came to be and grew into a memorable slice of the two-decades-long Ole Miss baseball story that triumphantly (if oftentimes painfully) resulted in ultimate glory.

“I said all along I wouldn’t bring it out again unless it was a chance to go to Omaha,” Lowry said. “What better way to send it out than that?”

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0:00.0	You're listening to Talk of Champions at Ole Miss Spirit podcast with Ben Garrett.
0:06.7	It's up. It's that. It's up. It's not. It's up.
0:10.5	This is talking Talking Champions.
0:24.7	I'm Ben Garrett at Spirit.
0:25.7	Been on Twitter.
0:26.3	Check out my stuff at the OldhamSpirit.
0:27.4	Oh, I'm just Spirit.com.
0:28.9	And affiliate of On 3.
0:29.9	On with me now is my buddy left field mask.
0:33.5	Have you revealed your identity?
0:36.1	Yeah, I mean, pretty much. I mean, anybody that read the story, I guess, that your buddy Chase, identity? Yeah, I mean, pretty much.
0:38.0	I mean, anybody that read the story, I guess, that your buddy Chase wrote years ago had my name in it.
0:43.2	So I guess, you know, it was kind of early on when Chase wrote that story, and I guess maybe I should have had a little more anonymity.
0:50.5	But, you know, it kind of grew from there.
0:53.8	Did you just find, like, a Michael Myers mask in your closet one day?
0:57.4	No, it's actually, it's a funny story.
0:59.3	So it was before the season started 2011 when Mike was a freshman,
1:03.9	and I think it was Oxford Eagle put out, like, on their online edition back then,
1:09.9	they had the each player's walkout song you know all hitters all
1:15.3	position players all pitchers and I saw that we had this freshman named Mike Myers and obviously
1:20.3	he didn't spell it M-Y-E-R-S but when I saw that his song was it was the Halloween Halloween theme. So me and your boy, Patrick, we, we just
1:31.6	cracked up about it. We thought it's hilarious that this pitcher came running out of the,
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