Good natured heckling is fine, and fun. Mocking a hometown kid, in front of his family/friends, and suggesting he is making a joke of himself and his area, and that he will never succeed in the bigs, in an exhibition game, crosses several lines of good taste and decency.

He’s not out to make himself famous. He was getting on Josh Hamilton when the Rangers were in town in May. When he wasn’t heckling Marlon Byrd, he would throw in a few jabs at Hamilton’s problems with addiction and alchohol, but at the same time telling everyone that he was happy for Hamilton and what a great story it was. He doesn’t use profanity and he deals with the REAL douchebag fans very well. The only reason why he’s getting all this attention is because people want to find him out. He doesn’t go out looking for these news appearances and stuff. I know the cowbell is annoying to some Rays fans, but I would like to think it’s even more annoying to visiting fans who will think twice about sitting in that area ever again…

When I was at the first Red Sox game last Monday, I sat in Section 304 for the first 2 innings. I brought my own cowbell and my stadium horn. Even after handing out a few sets of earplugs like I do, I didn’t feel like I was going to get the whole section behind me, so I moved all the way down to Section 144 with the CK and some other people who were there to make noise. I mean, would you rather have all the Sawcks fans going crazy for a lazy fly ball to Center, chanting “Let’s go Red Sawcks” every opportunity they got?

He asked me to record that video and put it up on youtube. I’m the one going around posting it where I can, because less than 24 hours after it being up it was making its rounds through a few Pink Hat Nation blogs, and I hadn’t even attempted to put it out there before that.

If anyone’s out to make himself famous, that would be me despite not appearing in the video. However, I’m not the Cowbell Kid despite my new membership here and first post being this video. What Cowbell has done is what I like to list under “Ideas I wish I came up with, because I would definitely do that.”