Sayings for antagonizing the other team

BRING THE HEAT,

Sorry and hope you take this the right way… Not sure I understand why this has any importance in baseball. Class is a very important ingredient.

Maybe I don’t completely understand your post! Is this something that goes on these days? I apologize if this seems kind of harsh and I know it’s important to have fun, but here’s a suggestion… Learn as much as you possibly can about the game rather than spending time trying to figure out funny things to say to antagonize the other team.

Do like your user name, though! Good luck and do keep asking questions!

PGStaff, i understand what you are saying about being classy, but you got to be able to have fun and lighten the mood. Joke around with other teamates, etc.

Rock44,

Yes, I agree, but the title of this thread is
Sayings for antagonizing the other team

that kind of stuff belongs to little kids and softball.

I'm with PG, why is there any need to antagonize an opposing team other than with your bats and gloves? My guess is that kids see too much of the trash talking that goes on in pro basketball and football, not to mention "professional" wrasslin. Sorry, I just don't feel that sort of thing belongs in baseball. Win with class, lose with class.

Teach'em to play this game with focus and class. Play as though the other team is just there standing in your way of victory, pay them no mind verbally. The team must go about its business. Trash talk, fun, remarks or bush league comments have no place in this game, even at the L.L. level, thats where we begin to teach them.
This isn't basketball.

Agree with PG. No need to antagonize the other team.

Texan son has been taught to do his talking from 60'6".

Start being funny like that and the Punch Line might come from your opponent.

According to the rules of baseball, this is technically illegal. It's also illegal according to the rules of many leagues.

4.06 (a) No manager, player, substitute, coach, trainer or batboy shall at any time, whether from the bench, the coach's box or on the playing field, or elsewhere...(2) Use language which will in any manner refer to or reflect upon opposing players, an umpire, or any spectator;

I have used this rule to keep other teams from doing the whole "Eh Batter Eh Batter Eh Batter Swing" garbage.

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I have used this rule to keep other teams from doing the whole "Eh Batter Eh Batter Eh Batter Swing" garbage.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Our umps won't invoke that rule for anything - baserunner clapping as the pitcher winds up, yelling at the pitcher when he starts his motion, nothing.

My Opinion:

Class never runs scared.
It is sure-footed and confident.
It can handle whatever comes along.

Class has a sense of humor.
It knows that a good laugh is the
best lubricant for oiling the
machinery of human relations.

Class never makes excuses.
It takes its lumps and
learns from past mistakes.

Class knows that good manners are
nothing more than a series of small
sacrifices and minor inconveniences.

Class bespeaks an aristocracy unrelated
To ancestors or money.
Some extremely wealthy people have no class.
Others who are struggling to make ends meet are
loaded with it.

Class is real.
You can’t fake it.
Class is comfortable in its own skin.
It never puts on airs.

Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down.
Class is already up and need not attempt to look better
by making others look worse.

Class can “walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk
with crowds and keep the common touch.”

Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class
because they are comfortable with themselves.

If you have class, you’ve got it made.
If you don’t have class, no matter what else you have,
it won’t make up for it.

Ann Landers

I will just put it bluntly if you dont mind. Shut up and play the game. There is no place in baseball for running your mouth to the opposing team coaches fans or umpires. You pull for your teamates thats it. If I hear any of our players make a comment other than good play etc to an opposing teams player they are toast. The same goes for the other coaches and umpires. Your focus should be on doing what you can to win the game on the field. Pulling for your teamates and studying the game itself. Making wise cracks etc is bush league stuff that has no place in the real game of baseball. When we play a team that does this it is a direct reflection on the coaches of that team and I have no respect for them or their team when it happens. Sorry if I offended anyone but thats just the way I see it and everyone else I know in the game that I respect. Usually the teams talking all the trash are not very good anyway. And the coaches are usually clowns that have no controll or respect of their players.

C'mon, Coach May. Tell us what you really think...

CoachB, I'm glad that you printed Ann Landers name, other wise I was gonna ask you to marry me .
Seriously good stuff.
Coach May, we're with ya all the way.

Way to go coaches! Trash talking is stupid and I never stood for it on my team that I coached. If you are worrying about coming up with a nice zinger for some guy on the other team, then you are not focused and where I need you to be as a player!

I will digress however and say that the funniest thing I ever heard was at a game I was watching. Was scouting an opponent for a later round game at the NABF World Series in '98. Kid struck out and threw his bat. Kid from the other side yelled "chase your bat". First time I had heard that one.

CoachB,
Thanks for sharing that with us! I just ran that off and we're going to go through that word for word tonight. We played a team with no class this past weekend and our kids responded well. I'm going to go through it more as a tribute to them for acting correctly in that situation.

Funny thing is, I wasn't even going to read this topic and I got a "gem" out of it!

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I have used this rule to keep other teams from doing the whole "Eh Batter Eh Batter Eh Batter Swing" garbage.

Somebody calling me??

NO.

Go back to Bed.

OK.

Oh YEA.

Have Respect for the Game. the EH

SHOW CLASS NOT YOUR A .... WELL I THINK YOU GET THE PICTURE BY NOW

NEWBIES

While I agree with what everyone is saying in reagrds to class I do have to share one story. I once pulled a pitcher and brought in a rather diminutive reliever, 5 foot 5. As I was leaving the mound a voice from the other dugout shouted " Hey coach, you left your hat on the mound." Aftr biting my lip and him getting out of the inning even he said that was funny.

Bring the heat - As everyone else has already said....BUSH LEAGUE!

I guess one of the nice things about coaching 18 & under baseball is that we don't have to put up with this stuff anymore. None of the players have anything to say to the other side, they're too busy playing the game. Most players outgrew it when they were about 12 or 13.

06catcherdad,

I'm with you. Baseball has a way of weaning out those who don't respect the game. Just yesterday, in a Fall Scout tournament my own son pitched a game against a "super-select" team from Western Washington. Just prior to the game, one of the players from the opposing dugout made the comment, "Hey, look at the little Asian kid warming up." (My son, who's half-asian and stands 5'9"). Well, that little Asian kid threw a complete game, 2-0 win and handed them their hat.

Bum, which team does you son play for? And, which team was it that you played yesterday? We played a few Washington teams in the Summer Series, and we're planning a road trip up to Oregon and Washington for next summer. We're planning on being on the road for about 9 days, and hope to play about 10 games in that stretch.

06catcherdad:

Baseball Northwest's Eastern Washington '08 Fall Scout Team. We played the Western Washington '08's(Timberjacks). By the way, I should make it clear, I don't think the player in the dugout meant anything racial, I just think he was alluding to my son's size. At this point, I find it amusing when opposing teams underestimate my son. He's 17-4 this year!

Who does your son play for?