LoHud's People to Avoid at the Park

by jscape2000 on Mar 19, 2008 10:24 AM EDT in News

This might be Pete A's best post ever. Some highlights:

People trying to start The Wave. The Wave is a plague on sports. It's 50,000 people saying, "Look at us, we're all mindless and we don't care about the game."

When the Wave broke out during a game I was at last season with Ed I shouted "Stop, you're better than that." Apparently, I was wrong.

There are two categories of cell-phone users who need savage beatings. First is the guy who has a friend in the crowd eight sections over and calls him so they can wave at each other. Your friend knows what you look like, bozo.
Then there are the people who sit in box seats and call their friends watching at home and wave every time the camera catches them in the background. Teams should employ snipers to wound these people.

I've never sat in the box seats to be around the people waving for the camera, so I'm more sympathetic. But I have had my view of the baseball game obstructed by an idiot standing and waving his arms shouting "Do you see me?" The stadium is round. Just walk over to him and stop bothering me.

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I have

never been at a Yankee game in the Bronx when the wave was started. THANKFULLY. I've actually never seen the wave in the Bronx though I've seen it in countless other idiotic stadiums though not Fenway. If the Yanks and Sux have anything in common it's that northeastern/old school gritty animosity toward things like mascots and beach balls and the wave and all things stupid.

I was sitting in the box seats a few years ago and these guys called their friends up in the upper tier THE ENTIRE GAME. I wanted to ram the phone down their throats.

I am pretty much an anti cell phone person. I have one but I don't like to use it. When other people break them out, I just want to kill them esp at a ballgame.

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." -Casey Stengel

by bxgrl1 on Mar 19, 2008 12:35 PM EDT 0 recs

The Wave

I went to one game where some people (non-New Yorkers, no doubt) tried to start the wave a bunch of times. Most people were unenthused by it, and the Bleachers boycotted it and kept yelling at the people who were trying to start it.

I am definately glad there are no beach balls or mascots (although, if I were going to have a Mascot, Mr. Met is the best one.)

"It's great to be young and a Yankee"

by stillmonster on Mar 19, 2008 2:45 PM EDT up 0 recs

I was thinking about the Creatures after I read

this.

What sort of chant would they start? "Wavers suck!" "Wavers suck!"

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." -Casey Stengel

by bxgrl1 on Mar 19, 2008 2:57 PM EDT up 0 recs

Wave at Fenway

I live in NE and have gone to a lot of Sox games at Fenway. You are right that Sox fans USED TO have that old school mentality that the wave, mascots, and beach balls are stupid. Well, the new breed of Sox fan (since they won in 2004) isn't like that at all. They do the wave and throw beach balls around all the time and they do have a stupid mascot ... Wally. The old school fans are still there, but idiot nation has taken over.

You play the game to win the game, and not to worry about what's on the back of the baseball card at the end of the year. - Paul O'Neill

by potroast on Mar 20, 2008 8:49 AM EDT up 0 recs

that's because they're bandwagoners

not true fans. The true fans live and die with the team and when I used to frequent Fenway A LOT in the mid 90s, there were die hard RS fans there but not so much around the rest of Massachusetts. Now everyone has the Red Sox stuff on.

I don't know that I experienced that so much with the Yankees in the late 90s because everyone I know is a fan and has always been but I definitely saw that with the Giants in the playoffs.

If they're doing the wave and beachballs at Fenway I actually feel for all those die hard old fashioned Sox fans. Seriously. I would hate that. I always enjoyed going to Fenway after work with a few friends (I lived right outside Boston). They rooted for the Sox and I rooted for whoever was playing the Sox. ;) But I never saw the wave or a beachball once any time I was there.

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." -Casey Stengel

by bxgrl1 on Mar 20, 2008 7:10 PM EDT up 0 recs