how come baseball fans don't stand up?

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Horn69

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It's such a student tradition at football and basketball...and bitching when "old" fans don't stand. How come students no standy at baseball, and ESPECIALLY with 2 outs and 2 strikes.

Go Horns!

Hook'em!!!
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It just has never been a baseball thing.


Although you'll see some this inning as we get close to ending it.

I hope...
 
Every time I stood up in the 9th with 2 outs the batter got a hit. I sit because I want the batter to get out. Trust me, you don't want me standing up......we'd still be playing
 
I did everytime I could get away with it. You have to take into consideration how eager the people behind you are for you to stand up.

I stood up the entire 9th inning against Army though (because the people behind me had all given up on the Horns and gone home)
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Like HausFrau, I've been burned by premature standing too many times. My *** is firmly planted in a seat until the last out is registered.
 
Like HausFrau and LonghornGirlie said, it's a superstitious thing. I stand up for every good play, go to every game, clap and cheer for the whole game.

I have not stood up with 2 strikes and 2 outs in the 9th all season and I wasn't going to start last night. I would say though I only saw about 5 other people sitting around me and they were doing the same reasons I was.
 
Same reason there are no cheerleaders, bands, pom girls, Bevo or Smokey. Different game.

I agree with LHG.
 
Man cheerleaders at a Baseball game would be the lamest thing ever.

'Throw a strike! Throw a strike!'
 
Like HausFrau, I've been burned by premature standing too many times. My *** is firmly planted in a seat until the last out is registered.
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I agree totally. To me it's bad juju.
 
Count me in the HausFrau crowd. Standing for the final out is almost a guarantee that the batter is going to get a hit.

Baseball is more laden with superstition than any other sport. I am proud to honor my superstitions.
 
I don't have a problem standing for the final out, or even on a big play. Baseball's just a different animal. It's supposed to be laid back, that's one of the main hallmarks of the experience. So IMO the fewer "stand up" moments you have, the better they are.
 
Stand up and yell when the spirit moves you, you really think the players want to see a bunch of sitting fans after a great play, or in a tense moment?

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Well it could help if we had a student baseball field.

There once was one over by the Law School, where I used to go to the games and had a great time. Younger folks won't remember UT once had a real baseball fan-friendly field to play on. Cut class, sit on the bench like bleachers and watch a UT-aggie game in the afternoon, and it was like a picnic at house park on Lake Austin.

Now it's just another cathedral of an athletic facility that is geared to sittin' on your *** and watching a dog & pony show. Same for DKR-Memorial. And don't get me started on the insanity of Ewrin Ctr.

We've taken the romance and spark out of going to sports events. But hell, it's the same at the God-awful movie theaters as well. Classless, boring, plastic, hollow event venues for experiences that are fast becoming more and more like their venues....

Thank the Good Lord we still have Fri Nite Football where you can smell the dampness of real grass, and either dust or pine needles on autumn nights, and the coffee and hot dogs and concession stands, and kids milling around while the game is going on, and old timers sittin' on car fenders or hanging out, and fans in the stands actually going nuts during the game.

We get what we bargain for at UT. Only way out is to provide for real student sections, and lots of student seating, and encourage those areas to stand and be loud. Erwin Ctr is totally screwed up for that. Some of DKR. Don't know fully what is the problem at the baseball park. But leave it to UT to cater to arm-chair crowds.
 
Maybe if they put a cliff out in the outfield, where balls could land and still be in play, and the fielders had to run around to the side to climb the cliff to retrieve the ball, we would stand up more. Yeah, that would do it.
 
The way I see standing at games is much the way I look at going to 5th grade graduations. Call me when you do something worth cheering and I'll cheer. There is something really magical about a great play followed by the crowd getting into it and the team feeding off of that energy, but that doesn't happen when you stand up and cheer your standard 3 and out and then don't get your punt blocked. It just cheapens the cheers when they make a really good play.
 
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