On May 12, 2012, I was sitting in the rain in the Right Field student section, bitching about Ole Miss baseball (which was losing, 4-2, in the ninth inning to a bad Tennessee team) and Sikes Orvis (a no-name, pinch-hitting freshman). Just about the time I was guaranteeing to a buddy that Sikes was gonna strike out again, he blasted a pitch over the fence in right to send an eventual Rebel win into extra innings.
613 at-bats, 173 starts and 33 dingers later, Sikes has played his last home game in Oxford. And, of course, every time he left the yard at Swayze (18 of his career 34 homers have come in the friendly confines), this happened:
Because we have way too much time on our hands, RF Hater and I set out to calculate, as accurately as possibly, exactly how much beer Sikes has sent skyward during his four-year career.