Tell that to Richie Garcia!
I only ever heard that as a cheer. Now the throwing small change at him, that was some unique heckling.
I concur! This is the best idea I have ever heard on these boards. We can start with baseball, expand to other sports, and eventually into all public venues.
Congress needs to stop dicking around with small-potatoes crap and take the initiative on this idea, something that would be of true service to their constituents.
You must not have spent much time in the Fenway bleachers (which used to be, in effect, that park’s Designated Asshole Section, back when the average college boy could afford it).
And so was yelling “Just say No!” at Jose Canseco. He’d habitually respond by flexing a bicep.
I could tell him, but you know you can’t tell him much.
I’ve always been angered by the attempts at Yankee stadium. It just doesn’t belong in the North East. I feel its a feeble west coast thing like the stoopid Rally monkey crap.
I hate the people it late inning rally situations who go:
“If you sit down, we all could see”.
It should be legal to give them atomic wedgies.
I also hate any idiot that runs onto the field. The only saving grace here is at least in both NY stadiums & Philly, they are going to spend a horrible night in an inner city holding cell.
Great reference!
While I totally agree with you on the roughing up of other fans for a freakin’ baseball, I have to say that I caught a foul ball clean one time at a game (B.J. Surhoff hit it foul into the 3rd base stands during the 6th inning of a game verses the Red Sox- :p) and it was actually pretty damn cool. I always thought if Rex Barney hadn’t died earlier that year, I might have gotten a contract. It was a pretty good catch.
The Capitol IS a Designated Asshole section…
I see that car commercial saying it is on the crookedest street in America, and I always thought that was in Washington…
…and as for Philly fans booing the ballboy, they booed Mike Schmidt, they booed Santa Claus, and they even had to put the jail IN the Vet. They make the Yankee fans look like High Tea. They deserve the team with the worst championship record in baseball (among non-expansion teams. Several expansions teams, though not all, have won more too - Mets, Blue Jays, Twins, etc.) Yes, even the Cubs have won more.
I miss Rex. We were at a game once when some unfortunate fan got beaned by a foul ball (nothing serious). My friend, without missing a beat, yelled “Give that fan a compress” (we were no where near the injured party). For some reason I thought that was the funniest thing I ever heard.
Now when I go to a game a look around for some young fan to give the ball to if I should happen to catch one. Hopefully a child with a hot, single mom (hey, I’m not that altruistic 
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For some strange reason, when I go to an Angles game now and yell “O’s” during the national anthem, I get strange looks.
The wave actually started in the South East as I recall. It was one of the Florida Universities. No matter where it started, I hate it and always have. That’s some stupid fucking shit.
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HEY! Anaheim is not the West Coast. I think I’ve seen the wave once in San Francisco. If I want to pay for a baseball ticket and not pay attention to the game, I can just BART over to Oakland with a duffel bag of beach balls and airhorns.
I remember one game I wa at… bottom ninth, tying run on first. Bonds was on-deck, I think. I, being someone who has seen a baseball game before, was standing, and someone yelled “down in front!” I’m very non-confrontational, but I could not prevent my face from contorting into a comically exaggerated WTF look as I turned around.
On the day Mike Schmidt got his 3,000th hit, they stopped the game to honor him. He later hit into a double-play, and got booed. Classy.
For the OP, here’s a new one that I’ve heard at Giants and A’s games and I really, REALLY hope doesn’t catch on:
When an opposing pitcher is warming up, the fans near the bullpen will pretend to be a slide whistle: when pitched: “boooooooo-IPP!” when thrown back to the pitcher: “beeeeeeeeee-OOP!!” It’s not funny, it’s not cute, and it makes the entire section look like a bunch of losers.
I could really do without the super loud obnoxious foul-mouthed fans too. One time I went to a game and we found these great seats in a section that was oddly clear. After two minutes we realized that it was clear because no one wanted to sit near the complete asshole with a voice that could punch out your eardrums that wouldn’t shut up and was cussing the entire time. NICE. Even his friends were embarrased. One of them kind of shrugged an apology as we were leaving to find new seats.
My preferred response is to turn around and yell “Up in back!”
Right field bleachers, Yankee Stadium?
I kid, sort of. I had tickets there twice. Both times, while the inhabitants were obnoxious, that’s NYC for you. Besides, the Yankees were walking the walk at that time. It was fun hearing them get the chant going “Paul O’–Neill!..Ber–nie Williams!..Ti----No!” until said player acknowledged them.
I have been in other sections from where I’ had seen people arrested (removed, anyway) for starting drunken fights. Two more words about the right field bleachers… Jeffrey Maier.
For lots of people, the whole point is to be able to say you had really great seats. It’s a status thing.
A few years back at a game I attended at Fenway there was a group of computer geeks sitting right behind the Sox dogout. They spent virtually the entire time (I think they left about the 6th inning) taking snapshots of each other, talking incessantly on their cellphones and consuming snacks. They took in maybe 1/10 of the action on the field.
I know nothing at all about baseball, but this thread certainly makes me think I won’t bother going to a match, should I ever get the chance. You’re making it sound more like a church than a sport. And this is from somebody who follows a team known for their relatively-sedate fans.
Mike Schmidt finished his career with 2,234 hits.
Heh. Bud Light really nailed it with this gem: http://www.budlight.com/index.html?section=3 (Age entry required)
Whatever. Then it was “Mike Schmidt Day” or his last home game.
That reminds me, I’m thinking of another type of annoying baseball fan…