Heckles that you have known and loved

I was at a Dodger game recently when they were playing the Rockies when the fans in the entire left field bleachers and the seats along the left field line spontaneously began chanting "Sweeney sucks! Sweeney sucks!" to Rockies left fielder Mark Sweeney, which I thought was funny because it was MARK SWEENEY they were wasting their energy on.

This happened at a game I was at, but I didn't know it was going on at the time. I read about it later.

In Spring Training, Berkman had made some disparaging comments about Wrigley Field in an ESPN interview and when the Astros came to Chicago, the Bleacher Bums in left field were giving him hell for it. Several fans were tossing Twinkies out to him, making fun of the fact that he's a kinda bulky guy. Berkman picked up a couple of the Twinkies, ate one right there in the field and the put the other in his back pocket. The next half-inning, he came to bat and hit a home run. When he ran back out to his position, the fans were giving him the bowing, "We're not worthy" treatment.

'Hey! Hor! Hey! Hor!' - For Jorge Posada

Of course, if I was sleeping with Haile Berry at the time, why the hell would I care about some drunks in the crowd announcing it.

I can only imagine what Brady Anderson got from the Yankee creatures... "Brady is a lady" was the printable one.

sox lost anyway.

He smiled at us, stepped back to half-court, and drained a jumper. Everyone in the crowd loved him after that.

One of the harshest heckles I can remember was Scott Skiles was playing at Michigan St. and got busted for cocaine possession, everywhere he went in the Big 10 when he would line up to shoot free throws there would be a bunch of people shaking plasting baggies of powdered sugar.

Oh, but the best was at a Giants / Yankees game (the one where Barry Bonds went DEEEEP to right field his 1st AB?) - there was some fellow behind me & my buds yelling at Tsuyoshi (sic) Shinjo - "SHINJOE! YOU SUCK!" and variations therein, including a heckle about going back to Flushing because his career was circling the drain or something, which was clunky and would've been better served w/ a dookie reference or 2. But, yeah, just some guy in the center field bleachers yelling, "SHINJOE! YOU SUCK, SHINJOE!" throughout the entire game was beautiful on so many levels.

These two guys would set up a really loud fake dialogue: "Hey, goalie, you're a sieve!" "No, you're not a sieve, you're a funnel!" "Wait, you're not a funnel, you're a vacuum!" "Hold on, you're not a vacuum, you're a black hole!" "No, you're not a black hole..." and then the entire stadium would scream "YOU JUST SUCK!"

to cement the end
of a three-game series sweep,
I might still have mine

i saw a t-shirt at a resale shop in cambridge about 10 or 12 years ago that obviously belonged to a yankees fan in the late 70's, it read "Fisk Eats Rice".

classic.

shouting the name of your AAA team--PAW-TUCK-ET! TA-CO-MA!--at your own crappy players still makes me laugh

The hockey taunts above remind me of one I let fly this past IHL season at a Houston Aeros game. We were sitting behind the Aeros net in the first period when I noticed the Aeros' goalie's last name was Harding. Of course, I couldn't help myself and after he let in the first goal of the game I yelled, "Hey, you're playing more like TANYA Harding."

I got some laughs, but I knew I didn't deserve them.

Something similar to the Berkman story took place when the Georgia Tech basketball team visited my school for a game in 1990--everyone was giving Dennis Scott shit in the warmups, particularly about his up-and-down weight.

He smiled at us, stepped back to half-court, and drained a jumper. Everyone in the crowd loved him after that.

-- mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, May 10, 2004 5:55 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

haha this is fucking awesome

The heckling itself wasn't creative, but last week I went to an Indians-Red Sox game, and when Ramirez came out to lead off the second inning, he was met by the loudest chorus of boos I have EVER heard at Jacobs Field. He proceeded to jack the very first pitch for the third-longest HR in Jacobs Field history.

i remember as a kid in the bleachers at The Stadium with Jose Canseco in RF. the post or the daily news or both had him on the cover that day stepping out a limo with Madonna. he was serenaded with many of her songs that afternoon.

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/329504/heckleduration.PNG

pretty accurate

We should compile a list of outfielders who have a penchant of talking shit back to hecklers. A regular I usually see at Dodger Stadium is Carlos Lee.