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AT New Haven Raven's baseball games when a visiting relief pitcher is comming in we piont at him and chan "he's not ready! he's not ready!"
Well this is how it goes. I was up to bat and i fouled one up into the fence. Unfortinatly the ball got stuck. So the ump takes my bat throw it up and tries to get the ball down. And ya think thats bad it was a 200$ bat. well it turns out the bat went over the fence and almost hit a couple. This ump was crazy.
Just checked out your Bullpen Heckle page. As someone who has many close friends in the Mets Organization and several of those, pitchers and bullpen catchers, I have to say that some of those comments really hit home.. But they are still hilarious. Gives me great ideas for some of the cities we visit... GRIN...
One of the funniest baseball stories I know comes from a few years ago, when the All Star Game was here in Atlanta. My niece is a HUGE Red Sox fan and loves Nomar in particular. She was five at the time and my sister took her to the game. From what I understand, they were standing at the wall during batting practice and Derek Jeter was standing a few feet away ignoring the crowd. Cherokee (my niece) kept hollering for him to turn around and he refused to turn around or acknowledge anyone. Finally, she tired of this game and hollered out, "Thats ok, Jeter, Nomar's better anyway." Upon hearing this, Derek turned around and saw this little blonde girl glowering at him. He proceeded to go get Nomar and bring him to the wall. Cherokee got Nomar's autograph, but refused Derek's telling him she didn't want his autograph because the Yankee's sucked. To me, this is the epitomy of baseball loyalty. I love that little girl.
It was the day I had been waiting for, July 24 2002. I had scored front row tickets for me and my bro to the Astro's game out in right field, oh yeah right field. Our target .... Alex Ochoa then of the Milwalkee Brewers. We heckled him for three innings never letting up with yelling "OOOO-CHHOA!"....... "YOU SUCK!!!" Just then Orando Merced comes to the plate and hits a shot to right field and into the glove of none other than yours truly. Ochoa going for the ball is now almost face to face with me, and not wanting to miss this opportunity I yell "OOOO-CHHOA" and it seemed everyone in Section 152 yelled with me "YOU SUCK!!!!!" It was a tender Moment.
I attended Robert Morris College, a tiny Division 1 school from the Northeast Conference. RMC's Basketball Coach was named Jim Boone. There was a group of us that used to dress up in crazy outfits and stand right along the sideline opposite from the RMC Bench. We called ourselves "Boone's Goons". We used to do our Homework and knew the opposing players. Before the games, they thought it was cool that we were there, but once the game started and the dirt came out, we were no longer liked by the opposing team. The NEC was full of players who were in trouble with the law and lost scholarships from bigger schools. Coach Boone loved us and so did the rest of the coaching staff and team. We were a big hit and everyone loved the Goons.
When Mariner Mark McLemore came to the plate:"Mac.....Attack!.....Mac Attack!"
At a Red Sox Tigers game last year a fan in the RF box seats would not leave Trot Nixon alone. the guy yelled at the top of his lungs in the beggining of the 7th inning, after 3 innings of harrasaing him, Nixon looked over, the man gave Trot thumbs up, Trot gave him thumbs up but quickly turned it into thumbs down much to the delight of the fans in the RF box seats
I would like to tell you about the Hall Of Fame Game at Cooperstown,NY. The game is part of the HOF induction weekend. The game is good, but they usually have the minor league players in the game. The best part of the game is sitting in section 313 or Right Field, where Right Field Rules.
A group of fans have been going to the HOF game for the last 11 years and always sit in the Right Field Bleachers. We stand up in unison and yell, "Does left rule, Nooooooo,Does Center Field rule,Nooooooo, what field rules,Right Field Rules!!!!!
Who ever is playing right field that day becomes an offical member of Right Field Rules,it's not the player we come to root for,but the postion. Greg Zuan catcher for the KC Royals was our HOF hero. He very much got into the swing of things, by bringing a Lg. bag of sunflower seeds to us and we in turn gave him a cold can of Coke, but the best was when he got up to bat and we were chanting, "Call your shot,call your shot!!" He step out of the batters box and pointed to Right Field with his baseball bat, stepped back in the box and proceeded to hit a homerun right over our heads in Right Field. So I ask you, What Field Rules? Well that day it was Right Field and all the fans that witness that game.
CF Bleachers at Candlestick Park, Brian McCrae was still playing. He liked to wear his stirrups high almost to his knees, showing alot of dark sock..... As he drifted back for to catch a long fly-out with perfectly audible clarity I shouted: "HEY MCCRAE...NICE PANTY HOSE!" McCrae heard this crack and he also heard the whole section of bleachers respond in laughter at him. This was apparent as he raised the middle finger in salute to us...which was captured on SportCenter that evening.
I was at a game where someone new the umps last name. He said, "Hey Johnson, you're a plumber!!"
In the 2001 ALDS Yankees vs. Athletics pregame warm-ups were in full swing. Jim Mecir (pitcher) was warming up in the outfield when many people noticed his strange way of walking around. My brother on a tip from a MLB sports agent friend of ours, insisted to all of the fans in left field that his strange gait was because he had a wooden leg. A wooden leg chant was started that had Mecir extremely unnerved. It got to the point that other players on the team starting giving strange looks and scowls towards us. Great way to get at the Oakland A's next time their in your town!!
Early season Cards/Cubs game at Wrigley, things are tight in the late innings. The Cards bring Pedro Guerrero out to pinch hit, it was near the end of his career but he still had the reputation of a feared hitter. The crowd falls totally silent as Guerrero warms up and steps up to the plate. The first pitch is a good offspeed pitch, Guerrero commits too early, tries to slow down and time the pitch, ends up taking a horrible swing with all of his weight on his front foot and no bat speed. He basically swings like a rusty gate. With the crowd still totally quiet, a drunk behind home plate stands up and yells out, "HEY PEEDRO, NICE SWING!! YOU SUCK!!!!" It is heard by the entire crowd and everybody cracks up. Guerrero strikes out swinging.
On May 14th, me, my fiancee, mom and sister all decided to catch the Brewers/Cubs game at Miller Park. As seems to be the luck in my family, we being Brewers fans were surrounded by the Cubbie faithful. No biggie, they were nice. Anyhoo, Cubs batters kept hitting pop ups, and I kept yelling at them, "Remember, it's DISTANCE, NOT HEIGHT that counts!!!!!!"
One night in Bakersfield the pitcher threw to first about seven times in a row. Finally someone yelled "hey blue, why don't you go down to first instead . . . and take the batter with you
One time the Expos were playing the Phillies and we asked Pete Incaviglia if he saw John Kruk's Ball? He gave us the stare of death on that one. But a lot of people cracked up. Needless to say Pete was staring us down all game long. You had to be there.
One time at the big O. The Expos had their lineup on the big screen with a picture of the player and his signature. Moises Alou looked like it was written Dennis Alou. So we yelled out at "dennis" Alou all game long. Some people picked up and pretty soon we had new names for every player in the lineup. You had to be there. Go Dennis!!!!
In 1999, the Red Sox where playing the Yankees at Fenway PArk. Roger Clemens was facing of with Brian Rose. Clemens was doing pretty well up to the 9th, giving up only 2 runs and a whole buncha strike outs. After a base hit to drive in a run in the 8th, Roger wasn't looking as good as he did in the previous 7. Roger through the ball WWWWAAAAAYYYYY over the catchers head. The boston base runners advanced to 2nd and 3rd on Rogers wild pitch. My Dad and i started chanting "RAAAAAUUUUGGGERRRRRRR! RAAAAAAUUUUUGGGGGERRRRRR!", mocking the Daryl Strawberry chant. On the VERY NEXT PITCH, the Red Sox hit a 2 run double to tie it. In the bottom of the 9th, the Sox won it. SLAM!!!!
During a Spring Training game circa 1970, I "cut my teeth" as a heckling baseball fan as the great Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants trotted in from the outfield after making a very out of character error in center field. At that time there was a very infameous TV commercial promoting a certain breakfast cereal that gave me my inspiration, so I yelled to Mr. Mays as others merely hooted about his poor fielding, "You forgot your Wheaties!" You wouldn't believe the stares of surprise that turned to laughter in our section as a mere 10 year-old boy one-upped everyone, including the shocked ball players in earshot. Fantastic!
I was at a Milwaukee Brewers, Texas Rangers game some time ago, and I was always fascinated by the power hitting of Texas. The brewers were barely hanging on to victory when Ivan Rodriguez get up to bat. He had already hurt the brewers earlier. I don't know how it happened but when he had two strikes I uncontrollably yelled at the top of my lungs "You suck Rodriguez!" as the pitch was being delivered. After Rodriguez STRUCK out he glanced up towards the first base side where my mouth lost control. He looked pretty pissed and walked back to his bench angrily. I got some pats on the back from spectators around me. Was it worth it?... well, the Brewers won the game by a point, who knows?
After so many years of the Dodgers beating the Padres like a drum, the tables finally turned in the early 80's. One of the Dodgers, it may have been Dusty Baker or possibly Mark Belanger commented about how Padre fans thought they just won a world series game because they swept the Dodgers. One of the Padre announcers, Ted Leitner, doing his best to aggitate the Doodgers, called them "crybabies" and the term stuck. I remember going to Thursday afternoon games at the Murph and every time a Dodger would question a strike call or a close play, the whole stadium (all 20, 00 of us) would start "Crybaby....Crybaby" It really did bother them though the Dodgers were so bad then it was hard to tell if the chant was working or they were just that bad!
When a batter has 2 strike-outs, on his third at bat, everyone takes off their hats and shakes them. If he stikes out for the third time, we throw the hats out off the dugout and yell "Hat Trick"
Todd Lawler -NIU BASEBALL.
My son was at a college game (JU vs. FSU) and the UMP was making calls he didn't like. So everything's quiet and he stands up and shouts "TAKE A SEAT BLUE! I'LL CALL IT FROM HERE!". The entire stadium busts out laughing. Not too original, but you know it's time to go home when you're the ump and you're getting heckled by a 7 YEAR OLD!
In San Diego, during the series with the Diamondbacks this year (2002) Luis Gonzalez was batting a mere .125. For a couple of inning straight every time he came out to LF we would chant one-twenty-five,one-twenty-five. Finally he got a hit. When he came back out to LF after his hit, we started chanting one-twenty-six,one-twenty-six. Very funny stuff, even Gonzo looked up at us, smiled, laughed and shook his head.
I recently attended 3 out of four of the a's first home series with texas. which i don't need to tell you is a pretty target rich team. well the second game during practice i accused Texas reliver rich rodriguez of being a-rod's errand boy. he turned around yelled at me, i yelled back and he tried to throw his gum at me. later in that game he was brought in while he was warming up me and a friend went down to the bullpen to taunt him, he went in the game gave up like 5 runs or somthing and then later that week went on the DL with shoulder trouble. The next day was the grand prize JOHN ROCKER he was playing catch with a teammate and was mid way through his wind up when my friend yelled WHITE TRASH!!! at the top of his lungs. rocker heard this the ball sailed over the teammates head and he stormed off out to centerfield to shag some balls with some of his team mates. as he's on his way out there we're all laughing and i am yalling at him about him being trailor t! rash. he yells back at me " YOU DON'T COUNT, YOU DON'T MATTER" i yell back come up here and say that redneck, I MATTER, YOU SUCK. it was hilarious my friends and i were laughing at him so hard. that guy is real thin skinned
As a 9 year baseball ump for FED and PONY, I got a goodun laid on me by a coach. Working the dish for a 14U tourney game, we had lots of balls getting fouled out of play. Coach yells out "hey Blue, how many balls ya got." I grab my ball bags and reply, "just one." He then throws a new game ball to me and sez, "Now you're a man." Good thing coach and I are both able to take a joke! He got me good:o)
I have a tape of a 1990 gamevs. LSU and it is a classic as far as heckling goes. Tookie Johnson comesto the plate and the fans mock his every move. For example, "step, step,step, step, shoulder, shoulder, hat, glove, streeeeechhhh, One Tookie, TwoTookie." The difference is that all 3,000 fans were yelling this as hetook a step or whatever.
When the opposing catcher begins allowing a lot of balls by, someone will yell, "What's the difference between (catcher's name) and O.J. Simpson? O.J. knows how to use a glove."
M's had a man (Amaral, if memory serves) on first with nobody out. When the pitcher (forget who, some kid, though) my co-worker and I started screaming "HE'S GOING!! HE'S GOING!!" This poor pitcher must've thought LaRussa himself was yelling, because he immediately wheels and fires the ball into shallow left.
In the glory days of the Seattle Mariners, when Toronto fans from up northwould flood the dome and outyell us Mariner Faithful, I was sitting in LFwith a friend. A guy a few rows down from us was heckling Joe Carter through the whole game. In about the 8th inning, Carter blasted a huge game-winning two-run homerun. When Carter took the field in the bottom of the 8th the guy near me started to heckle Carter again. Carter took the ball he was tossing around the field and tossed it to the guy heckling himand yelled, "Here's another one for ya!" The M's lost that game. I'msure that British Columbia was partying that night.
I'll usually chat with the opposing leftfielder and centerfielder as they come into the dugout after every inning. It's usually those positions that return to the dugout right by me seats. The level of conversation is dictated by the player's attitude. The nicest player who chatted with me between innings is Pirates outfielder Al Martin. I was at all 5 games of the series at Shea between the Mets and Pirates from July 29 - August 1, 1996. One game went 12 innings, another went 10. That's almost 50 times that Al returned to the dugout. He chatted with me just about every time. One time he just looked at me and said "Do you have season tickets or something?"I love heckling the opposing third base coaches with one-liners like "Get back in the box jerk!", "Stop touching yourself, there are kids here", etc. My favorite to heckle was the dimunitive Wendell Kim, the former Giants' 3rd base coach. My friends and I got the whole section to shout, "Stand up, Kim. The circus is in town. You can't go on rides in Disneyland," etc. Frustrated, Kim looked back a number of times.Former Marlins' 3rd base coach and current Mets 3rd base coach Cookie Rojas was another favorite of mine to heckle, obviously because of his first name. Needless to say, now that he's one of us, I don't bother him anymore. - Metsonline.net
In San Diego when the pitcher is pulled during an inning a custom has been started by the crazies in Section 8. We will chant" NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA HEY HEY HEY GOOD BYE< NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA HEY HEY HEY YOU SUCK! It gets tremendous laughs around us, is very uplifting to the spirits and is growing like wildfire. Take caution though, we went to SF on a road trip and did the chant when th SF pitchers were pulled. Not pretty, had people throwing stuff at us, but still very fun.
As most New Englanders know, the "Yankees Suck" chant is heard at Fenway every day, no matter who's in town. And Sox fans' hatred of the Yankees is legendary. I'm in the bleachers at Fenway for a Sox-A's game when the loud "Yankees Suck" chant starts. The guy sitting behind me turns to his girlfriend and says, "Why are they saying Yankees suck? They're playing Oakland." Some people just don't get it.
"Stop the presses, Hundley got a hit!" or "Stop the presses, Hundley threw out a runner!" - often said by Cubs fans when Todd Hundley actually does something right!
I was at the vet in 2001 when the phillies where playing the marlins in a late season crucial division deciding game. I was sitting up in the $5 nosebleed seats next to a bunch of extremly loud obnoxious philly fans.It was the 9th inning, two outs, and Antonio Alfonseca was trying to close it up when all of a sudden Travis Lee hit his second homerun of the game and put into extras. This one women and kids where about to leave when their father yelled, "Get back here! i paid 15 dollars for these seats! Sit down! Ah hahahahahaha!" Then he shouted as hard as he can to Alfonseaca who walked off the mond, "Get back up there u sissy! You damn sissy! Ah hahahahaha!" Later on the phillies ended up winning in the 11th when Johnny Estrada hit a game winning home-run. But the Braves also came behind to beat the Mets so the Phillies stayed in second place and didn't go to the playoffs.
At game 5 of this years ALCS, the Yankees were beating the hell out of the Mariners. We (me and the fans surrounding) started the chant "SIE-A-NORA" when Ichiro Suzuki came to bat.
I went to Georgia Tech for school and in the Christmas break we went to see a Winter League game in Puerto Rico. Jason Varitek, former Jacket was palying on that game. A bunch of us Tech students met at the game and wanted to get in early to talk to Varitek and get an autograph. Well, we went in and we called for him and yelled we went to Tech, showed off our Yellow Jacket hats, but Varitek, shrugged us off. We were pissed. We took our seats and started yelling to him. There were 200 people at the game and one of my friends can really yell. "Varitek, you suck!!!" It was the only yell in English in the whole stadium. I'm sure he heard it and he hasn't played in the league since.
At Texas A&M, there used to be (and still may) a group of die-hards sitting behind the opponents dugout, known as the Raggies. I remember the game that UT of San Antonio came to play. The 1st baseman was hefty, so he was known as Shamu. The pitcher was listed at 6'5" & 190, but he was more like 160. We kept yelling at the pitcher, asking him if UTSA had a meal plan, if Shamu stole his lunch money, if his Mom was a lousy cook. Shamu hit the ball hard that day, but the pitcher gave up 8 runs. TAMU won, of course.
Poster seen at the Arizona- New York world series game 2, in which there was much discussion about whether Randy Johnson would be pulled or if he would pitch the whole game: "You Can't Yank R. Johnson"
Through a post on Giants WebsiteComments = (Used on young female "fans" who congregate in aisles blocking view of game:You're not at the mall, ladies!
During a pitching change, often times the three outfielders gather for a brief conversation during the reliver's warmup...To all three;"Which one of you is Moe?"
I'm sure it is on here somewhere, but the best i've ever heard is that the president is sending chuck knoblauch to cuba to overthrow castro.
We were at the NCAA Baseball Regionalsand one of the Rice fans would yell"good eye, good eye" at EVERY ball thata Rice player did not swing at. Well bythe 8th inning this was getting reallyreally annoying. Then the Cougarspitcher had a wild pitch that hit theRice batter. The annoying Rice fansyells "hey, don't do that!" and one ofthe Cougars fans turns around and yells"well if your guy would open his goodeye he could have seen the ball andgotten out of the way!" The wholesection erupts in laughter and applause.I often wonder what the players thoughtwe were so happy about.
If the pitcher bounces a ball, yell out "what is this cricket?" or "I didn't know we were playin cricket."
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