I went to a Giants-Dodgers game back in the mid-1990s. I am a Giants fan but I went with my buddy who was a Dodgers fan. This is right after the Giants dumped Will Clark, a fan favorite, for that overrated loser J.R. Phillips who never did anything but whiff. Anyway, my buddy keeps calling him "Hey Will," throughout the game. Phillips gets so pissed he starts staring us down between pitches (we were in the front row) and got caught flat-footed on an infield grounder because he was staring at us and couldn't make it to first in time to cover the bag. Then I let him have it as the Giants fan. I kept saying "Will would never have done that. Boy, they sure were wrong about you." He wouldn't even look our way again. We actually caught Giants pitcher Mark Gardner laughing at Phillips while we were letting him have it. I miss Candlestick.

While attending LSU in the mid eighties the scene at Alex Box Stadium was pretty wild. The serious hecklers and students sat above the 3rd base dugout where the visiting team sat. Hours of tailgating preceeded the game and the crowd was always in top form. I think the best one involved an opposing coach, ole Miss Coach Jake Gibbs would get a certain chant whenever he went to the mound during a game. The backstory is he was the punter on the ole Miss Football team in 1959 when Billy Cannon ran back a punt for a TD on Halloween night for a LSU 7-3 victory. The most famous play in LSU history. Jake was the last guy with a chance to tackle Cannon and he missed. So whenever Jake would go to the mound the crowd would chant, "PUNT JAKE, PUNT". This was almost 30 years after the fact!

Free agency had just happened. Reggie Jackson is at his first game at old Arlington Stadium with a new contract, new team (Baltimore?). Fans in outfield had been riding him the whole game about his salary, mother, sister. I got his attention and yelled "Hey, Reggie, loan me $5." Reggie laughed, looked at me, and said "That was pretty good." For the rest of the game, everyone was yelling reasons why he should loan them some money, preceded by "I love you, Reggie..."

I went to a preseason baseball game in Milwaukee against the White Sox. Being a Cub fan, I could of cared less about the two teams and the fact that it was preseason. The great thing about Milwaukee is the tailgating before the game. By the time we got into the game, I was already half in the bag. In around the 7th inning, the Brewers put world renowned DH, Lenny Harris in at first base. We were only a few rows up from first base. Lenny Harris made an error to begin the inning and I started to get on him since I had nothing else to do. it was so quiet in the stadium the fans in the upper tank could hear me so I knew Lenny did also. Then in the same inning, he had line drive bounce right off of his glove for the second error of the inning. Lenny starts to stare at the glove like there was something wrong. I told him that it wasn't the glove and that he should stick to DH'ing. With all the stuff I had been giving him, the first base coach for the Sox, Gary Pettit, was cracking up. No kidding, Lenny Harris lets a ball go through his legs for his third error of the inning. Lenny starts to check his shoes. Now I am yelling, "It is not the glove, it is not the shoes, it is you". I finally yell, "Lenny, what in the hell is wrong with you." He turned around and shrugged his shoulders like "I don't know". Everyone was busting up in the crowd. The kicker was, when the third out of the inning came, he turned with the ball and started looking up in the stands for exactly who was heckling him. I stood up and started yelling "Right here buddy". He pointed at me and tossed me a game ball. Ever since then, my buddies and I have said Lenny Harris is our favorite baseball player. Very class act!!!!!

Being an avid Cub fan, I have heard and participated in some great heckling in the past. One particular Cubs vs. Diamondback game stands out as a great heckle. The Cubs were up a couple of runs in the 7th when the D-backs made a call to the pen to get Willie Banks up to throw. I was sitting about 4 rows up from the bullpen. Needless to say, I had a few pops in me as did everyone else around me. As Willie starts to warm up, I started in with the usual one liners. The guy behind me yells the following...."Hey Willie, good to see expansion is keeping your Triple A ass in the league". Willie hearing all of this, turns to us and grabs his crotch. Willie is like school on Sunday, NO CLASS!!!!

In '95, when Baltimore was playing the Yankees, we were sitting just above Billy Ripkin. This was back when he had the 90210 side-burns. My friend yelled, "What's with the sideburns Elvis, you know you won't have a hit." Billy then proceeded to scratch the back of his head with his middle finger. Every time he came to bat, Ripkin popped up and the Elvis comments continued.

after watching a college catcher go 0 for 4 at the plate, commit 3 passed balls and 2 throwing errors, we heard a guy yell: "you can't catch, you can't throw, and you can't hit, YOU'RE A COMPLETE PLAYER!" hilarious

Though I wasn't there to here it, I remember hearing this watching it on TV. The Angels were about to finish off the Yankees in the 2002 ALDS (on the way to becoming World Champs) in Anehiem. The cheer that started going up throughout the stadium was a take off of the famous "Lets go Yankees" cheer. It went "Go home, Yankees." When I realized what was being chanted, I was laughing hysterically.

My senior year of high school, me and a couple of buddies did some scouting on a future opponent for our school's basketball team. We discovered that the opponent's head coach beared a striking resemblence to Newman from "Seinfeld." So the night before the game, we photocoped a few dozen pictures of Newman (the character) to pass out amongst the student section before the game. As the coach was introduced, we all revealed the photocopies and yelled out "Hello, Newman." Later in the game there was a questionable foul called, and as "Newman" started to argue with the ref, we started chanting "Sit down Newman" (clap, clap, clap-clap-clap). This got him so upset that he would not shake hands with our coach after we won.

We're at Spring Training in Arizona, hot afternoon, lots of sun, lots of suds to cool us down, some struggling young player trying to make a good impression comes up with guys in scoring position and gets called out on strikes for his third K of the game. Of course, at Spring Training, you're real close to the field. My buddy hollers loudly as the guy trudges head down to the dugout:

"Hey, Smith, do you know how to spell Double-A.....???"

The crowd busts up big time.