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Dospeloteros posted:

Curious if this is kind of an area by area thing. We play in San Diego and most every team chirps. Mostly in good fun, but occasionally it gets heated. Kids get pretty creative and it provides entertainment. Baseball can be very slow and boring, probably why the kids enjoy doing it so much. 

The dugouts in GA can be loud and obnoxious...and the student sections can be brutal but I haven't seen players chirp back and forth a lot. When they do, the umps will usually step in before it gets out of hand. 

Hothead striking out in a key situation + wise crack from opposing player = blows being thrown. 

hshuler posted:
Dospeloteros posted:

Curious if this is kind of an area by area thing. We play in San Diego and most every team chirps. Mostly in good fun, but occasionally it gets heated. Kids get pretty creative and it provides entertainment. Baseball can be very slow and boring, probably why the kids enjoy doing it so much. 

The dugouts in GA can be loud and obnoxious...and the student sections can be brutal but I haven't seen players chirp back and forth a lot. When they do, the umps will usually step in before it gets out of hand. 

Hothead striking out in a key situation + wise crack from opposing player = blows being thrown. 

If the dugouts are loud and obnoxious wouldn't that mean chirping is going on. 

Dospeloteros posted:
hshuler posted:
Dospeloteros posted:

Curious if this is kind of an area by area thing. We play in San Diego and most every team chirps. Mostly in good fun, but occasionally it gets heated. Kids get pretty creative and it provides entertainment. Baseball can be very slow and boring, probably why the kids enjoy doing it so much. 

The dugouts in GA can be loud and obnoxious...and the student sections can be brutal but I haven't seen players chirp back and forth a lot. When they do, the umps will usually step in before it gets out of hand. 

Hothead striking out in a key situation + wise crack from opposing player = blows being thrown. 

If the dugouts are loud and obnoxious wouldn't that mean chirping is going on. 

It's chatter mostly encouraging teammates that's not directed at the others team's player. I'm talking about players trash talking directly to one another. 

Like a few others have said, I didn't really care what the other team did. I didn't allow my kids to do it. 

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I know, I know, it's college and the players are "men," but man it can get entertaining.  I am sure this stuff happens often at other games but I love the ribbing from the fans at a college game.

Some favorites  

Crowd chants LEFT< RIGHT<LEFT<RIGHT- SIT DOWN MEAT as the batter marches back to the dugout after a K.  

Mound visit

Crowd chants LEAVE HIM IN< TAKE HIM OUT< LEAVE HIM IN< TAKE HIM OUT < PULL HIS SCHOLARSHIP < UUGGHHH

We have had the same LOUD "red neck" fan that has been at just about every local college game I have over 20 years.  Constant barking from the stands.  He is a character for sure and leads many chants throughout a game.  Constantly badgering players and coaches.  

 One of our HS players during his HS game started yelling the left right chant from center field to the opposing player that just K'd.  It was hilarious.  Coach was not very happy!  

I'll add a different perspective to this, that of a player. Granted maybe not the norm for millenniums though.

One of my kids first coaches was his travel basketball coach 3rd through 6th grade. He was very demanding. Mistakes were punished by either pushups or running. Some tears shed during practices. He wasn't much better during games. That said they won a lot of games/tournaments over those years. At almost every one they weren't the tallest, or strongest, or most athletic. But they were the most discipline and mentally tough. People would comment on how they had never seen a group of kids that young play with such maturity.

My son took those lessons to hart and still ascribes to them. If the team is playing like crap, or the ref is homering them, and the coach just sits there, he sees that as not caring. He feels that coach isn't committed to the team and in the case of the refs doesn't have their back. So the kid would have been out there running and listening to the coach scream thinking they deserved it.

Someone posted that maybe kids don't hold themselves accountable because the adults around them don't hold themselves accountable. IDK, maybe as adults we make to many excuses for our kids. Maybe adversity shouldn't be a dirty word.

hshuler posted:

Speaking of chirping, lots of banter back and forth between Florida and LSU tonight. I could be wrong but would be very surprised if the weekend passes without some type of 'incident.' Stay tuned!

Not unusual for big programs to go at each other.  I remember those days..lol.

TPM posted:
hshuler posted:

Speaking of chirping, lots of banter back and forth between Florida and LSU tonight. I could be wrong but would be very surprised if the weekend passes without some type of 'incident.' Stay tuned!

Not unusual for big programs to go at each other.  I remember those days..lol.

Agreed!

High stakes. Heated rivalries. Testosterone. Egos. Highly entertaining!

 

hshuler posted:
TPM posted:
hshuler posted:

Speaking of chirping, lots of banter back and forth between Florida and LSU tonight. I could be wrong but would be very surprised if the weekend passes without some type of 'incident.' Stay tuned!

Not unusual for big programs to go at each other.  I remember those days..lol.

Agreed!

High stakes. Heated rivalries. Testosterone. Egos. Highly entertaining!

 

I love it!

Yes. Was at the game tonight and got quite dicey a couple times. When Schwarz hit the sac fly to score the only run, he said something to Lange as he jogged past him on way back to dugout. Lange went back at him and JJ turned and jawed something back. HP ump went over to UF dugout and said something to Sully. I'm sure the exchange between players wasn't PG. After the game, there were a few "looks" exchanged and one of UFs assistant coaches was out on field keeping players in check. Was pretty funny. It was a very well played game, just not the result we were hoping for. 

younggun posted:

Yes. Was at the game tonight and got quite dicey a couple times. When Schwarz hit the sac fly to score the only run, he said something to Lange as he jogged past him on way back to dugout. Lange went back at him and JJ turned and jawed something back. HP ump went over to UF dugout and said something to Sully. I'm sure the exchange between players wasn't PG. After the game, there were a few "looks" exchanged and one of UFs assistant coaches was out on field keeping players in check. Was pretty funny. It was a very well played game, just not the result we were hoping for. 

...and the closer yelled something at the LSU dugout after the final out. Tomorrow should be interesting. 

Getting back on topic, coaching has specific skills, not everyone has the same skills. Most coaches are highly competitive, are A type personalities, so at times anything is possible. That would include being kind of pissed off when the team doesn't perform to expectations.

A great skill, not always possessed by every coach, is the ability to figure out how to fix things.

I really wasn't there to see the game, what really occurred, sometimes you just don't know unless you are in the dugout.  I can tell you that at one game this year sons team quit in the 3rd inning of one game when score was up 8-0. I guess they forgot that the game has 27 outs. Or that there is no I in team.

They were punished, no running, nothing physical,  lost privileges.  

They haven't lost a game since that day.

On the chirping.  I don't really have a huge problem with it, but if it got to the point of classlessness, such as what happened at the end of the game mentioned earlier, I wouldn't like it.  It's understandable for rivals to want to beat each other, especially when the stakes are high, but you can respect your rival.  Rubbing in the victory and being classless is simply not necessary, and I wouldn't allow my team to act like that.  I wouldn't suspend my guys on this offense, but they would definitely know that our program doesn't act like that.

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