Dos and Don'ts of Omaha - SEC Baseball Twitter

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For those fortunate enough to see your squad make it to Omaha I cannot encourage going enough. It’s such an awesome experience and feels very unique compared to other sporting events.

I was able to go in 2021 and have a few personal Dos and Don’ts!

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DON’T waste time on those awful Jell-O shots.

They’re mass packaged and terrible, and most people don’t even drink them. They buy them to add to a teams tally then give (or throw) them away. This is by far the worst trend at the CWS.

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DO stay downtown if you can

I admittedly stayed with a friend who was already there which was about the only was I was swinging it, but it made it so much fun. Bonus points if you can stay at your team hotel. They typically have events & you can greet the team before/after games

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DO go to Lefty’s and The Blatt.

I sadly didn’t get to spend much time outside of the hotel lobby working during the day or the park at night, so no great food/drink recs. But those are two of the many fun bars around the park to visit before/during/after games. It was a blast.

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DON’T tell anybody I told you, but on multiple occasions I bought the cheapest OF seat, and sat in the infield. Ticketmaster wouldn’t let them sell after first pitch, so if a seat was for sale 1 min before the game started then nobody was going to show up and boot us out.

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DO go on Ticket master ASAP after games end and new ticket sessions open. If you get them direct the prices aren’t bad. If you don’t, the resell market gets steep the further you make it.

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DO go to The Drover.

Sadly I didn’t make it myself, but I’ve only heard good things and you should go if you can.

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DO go to the Zoo (especially if you have kids) heard so many families say this.

DO walk around Old Market. No specific recs, but it was nice to get a change of pace & check it out between working in hotels lobby’s and pounding Miller lites at sports bars.

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DO go to the old Rosenblatt & visit the sports memorabilia shop across the street.

DON’T walk from downtown to do so.

“It’ll be a good way to work off a hangover” you think. It’s not. I promise it’s not.

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And finally, DON’T let your phone die at a bar before game 2 of the National Championship series because the entire city will be booking flights out after and you’ll wake up hungover, with horrible one way flight prices, and have an 8 hour layover in Minneapolis.

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