Heckling TCU

PS. You haven't seen heckling until you've been to a Div 1 soccer game in Europe. I have been there. You never know when the heckling is going to turn into something far worse. But...people come up with the most creative insults.
 
You know, the TCU dugout was the most chattery bunch I have heard outside of a ladies softball game.
 
There's no doubt that heckling gets to some of the players and not others. Anyone not agreeing to this fact simply hasn't been to enough games (or perhaps around enough GOOD heckling)!

With that said, there's also no doubt that some folks aren't funny and/or go WAY over the line with things they say. It's never (IMO) acceptable to be profane or too personal.

I've sadly been to games where (generally students) uttered such things as "Hey Drew (Stubbs), I hope your mom dies of cancer!" and "Hey Drew, your mom shoudl have had an abortion." There's no excuse for things like that to ever be said.

But with that said, again in my opinion, there's nothing wrong with the old cliches' (i.e. 'swing") or other good lines related to the game, the players, coaches or umps. It's DEFINITELY part of the game and one of the things that makes baseball baseball. Sorry to those of you who don't approve of one person's poor humor or others' excellent humor.

I've seen players benched for letting a fan in head, seen players that botched play after play, and/or otherwise simply have fun with it all.

And again, in my opinion, good heckling can keep the fans charged up and into the game. Not trying to offend anyone with this post OR with my often relentless heckling and participation in section 110!!!
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KazooMan, good call on the tennis balls at the Regional. Weren't we playing OU that game? The tennis balls belonged to me and a Wild Bunch member (and two-time head UT cheerleader) many of you remember, Jose Pena. We were roommates in Dallas before I got hitched in the 70s, and we both played tennis and had buckets of old tennis balls. One evening we wrote messages on something like 50 old tennis balls and passed them out the next day to WB members. When, after the first foul ball, the PA announcer said "Please return all balls to the field", out went 50 yellow tennis balls all over the field. The game was stopped while all the balls were collected. Texas was at bat, so the Okie outfielders got a chance to catch up on some (tennis ball) reading, courtesy of the WB.
 
I agree with Skeeter.
REX, you are a bit too serious for my taste.
It's funny how heckling happens at every big high school game and at most professional games. Why wouldn't it be OK at college games? The Wild Bunch was one of the first group of hecklers in college baseball and it seems like fans at just about all of the other Big 12 teams do a lot more heckling than Texas fans do now. I think we are too nice now. Some good natured (and occasional not-so-good natured) heckling makes baseball a fun game to watch. That is unless it is vulgar or obscene.
 
I thought the most creative one this weekend was the attack on the pride stickers, especially the first base coach missing them and not being inside his designated box,

That is the kind of heckling i was hearing and it was solid

good to be back home
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Wade Townsend loved the Wild Bunch! As did the Tech Players and their girlfriends. Is the Wild Bunch still sitting on first base side? Would love to hear some more stories!
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I now work with a fellow attorney who played ball at KState during earlier this decade. He told me his teammates absolutely listened to the heckling, and Tech had the best hecklers in the Big XII. I miss the old WB and the kazoos.
 
Okay, Wild Bunch posters, another recollection from the old days.

Again, the details, specifics are a little rusty, but it was something like this (please correct me where I'm grossly wrong):

It was during the SWC days, when Texas and piggy were both really, really good teams.

Texas hosted a regional and piggy was put in Austin as well.

piggy's DH, their D-friggin'-H, had gone something like 0 fer 8 in their first two games and came to bat against the Texas pitching juggernaut --- I believe this was the Schiraldi/Swindell/Clemens staff --- and the Wild Bunch was ready. Don't recall his name, let's just say 'Murphy.'

Prior to the first pitch, a Wild Buncher stood up:

"Hey Murphy, you are uuuuuugly!"

Wild Bunch: "How ugly is he?"

"He's so ugly, his face could make a freight train take a dirt road."

Swing, and...

Ssttttttrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiikkkk!

The crowd gets into it, going quiet to listen.

"Hey Murphy, you are uuuuuuuuuuugly!"

Wild Bunch: "How ugly is he?"


"He's so ugly, the doctors slapped his MOTHER when he was born."

SWING!

Striiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiickk two!

By this time, even the Arkansas players were listening to the Wild Bunch.


"Hey Murphy, you are uuuuuuuuuuuugly!"

Wild Bunch: "How ugly is he?"


"He's so ugly, he's a 2-bagger. When he goes out on a date, she takes two bags, one for his face, and one to cover hers in case his blows off"


SWING!!!

Striiiiiiiiiiickkk THREE!

DFF went wild and even the piggys were chuckling a bit as they watched their batter trot back to the dugout.
 
Slipped it in, as you say, b/c of the comments about all of the attorneys on the board. Kinda in the spirit of the this thread. Sorry to offend you...
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For the record, It was Gene Snow of U Tulsa who threw hard at the WB...not Ward. Tulsa dropped baseball not long after.
T Holliday( former UT PC ) and Incaviglia were the OSU guys who challenged the WB with bat in hand to "come on down. "
 
No problem. Certainly no chest thumping here, and I agree pretty lame outside the context of all the attorneys posting on fans forums instead of billing hours. Oh wait, I did bill for my posting time. Just kidding client X.
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Sua you are correct.

My memory has really faded. Some of those OSU players came into the stands after one of those games to kick some *** too. It was crazy.

I was a Wild Bunch member for a long time. Lots of laughs over the years.

I will never forget a day against TCU back in the old SWC days when you played one game on Friday and then a double header on Saturday as your three game series. TCU had an all-conference 3rd baseman (I cannot for the life of remember his name but someone will - Phil something I believe)...anyway we were all over him and he ended up making 7 errors during the DH. We were wooshing him all day at the plate and even in the on deck circle when he was warming up. He started trying to fake us out toward the end of the day while he was on deck. He would start to swing and then stop abruptly to throw us off. He was laughing about it too.

Good times.
Man I am old.
 
Just for the record: it was the Tulsa coach who threw the baseball into the stands at the Wild Bunch, but his name was Gene Shell; the TCU third baseman mentioned earlier was Gene Burton; and while the original Wild Bunch was made up some law students, it also had several Longhorn Band members. (the Band Hall was actually closer to Clark Field than the law school.)
 
For years afterwards, when a player had a bad day in the field, the chant of "Gene Burton lives" could be heard at Disch Falk Field.
 
Hey Rex, I guess your comment about the guy's mom is not heckling? Lame and easy to do when sitting behind a pc screen...how weak!

I loved getting to sit with the WB at DFF and my best buddy José while I was a student! I usually only sat there when he was at the game and one of his seats was open.

Speaking of keeping people out of jail, I watched the TCU Sunday game on the internet and think I saw Scott Wilson standing at one point, was he the culprit? Scott helped save my butt from TCU campus police and a very large football player at the series in Ft. Worth in May 1990. A rock seemed to slip out of my hand in a drunken state after a waterballoon had hit my friends truck. The balloon made a dent and I broke a window in the TCU athletics dorm. I was then banned from coming back to TCU's campus. Everytime I make it back to UT someone always reminds me about "TCU". The irony is that I also went to TCU before I graduated from UT, and my dad has a PHD from TCU.

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Wild Bunch / Getting in players heads
The Wild Bunch definately got into the other players heads and under their skin. I remember a game in 74 or 75 against SMU that my buddy and I attended. We always sat behind the Wild Bunch as they were as entertaining as the game. We could vocally participate in hipping the opposing coaches steps to and from the pitchers mound and other fun group vocals. Anyway, the weather was cold and rainy and the WB had picked out a guy named David Bostick(sp) who was a football linebacker playing on the baseball team. The WB got in his head that night, they were funny as hell. Bostick had a performnce meltdown and got pissed.
After the game, we were exiting the stadium and Bostick comes running up to the exit wanting to fight. It seems like he swung at one of the fans, then a couple of other SMU players also came up and eventually walked him away from
the crowd. I seem to remember several quips pertaining to his posterior as he was ushered away.
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