Fans from different baseball game franchises have dissimilar ways of rooting for their team . For illustration , in Boston and New York they put their hands together and do something phone clapping when they ’re activated about something going on down on the ball field . unusual , I bang , in this day and age , but the sport is still regard pretty sanctified in some parts of the body politic .
Over here in California , where I hate living during baseball time of year , we ’ve mother thunder stick ( in reality forge in South Korea and used there for age before being imported to the U.S. ) , and/or rally monkeys , thanks to the Angels . And we have the wave and negative intone in Dodgers arena .
There are many theories on the origin of the wave , with some saying it was started by college football team , and others enounce it comes from hockey . disregardless , it benefit popularity in the 80s in Mexico during the FIFA Football World Cup at the Estadio Universitario in Monterrey . Whether it belongs in baseball game or not , one thing I know does n’t belong to is the electronegative chant ; specifically , " [ insert name of other team ] sucks!“
Yesterday , I was at the Dodgers / Phillies secret plan and was once again amazed at how often Dodgers fans resort to the " Phillies Suck!“ chant . I matter 37 instance , vis - Ã -vis 14 instances of " Let ’s go Dodgers!“
Is this really what we desire to be teach all the young , guiltless boys and girls being introduce to the game ? Watching a seven - year - old ’s face , I could see that he did n’t lie with whether to join in or refrain each clock time the crew set up into another refrain .
And if you ’re root your squad on , why put the other squad down ? If the other squad did n’t exist , you would n’t have a game to go to in the first place , right ? Why not some respect , then ? And , hey , if they really did suck , would they be in the NLCS ? And not to let Boston and New York off the hook completely , we also fuck they ’re guilty of their share of negative chant , although to a much lesser degree than what we ’re subject to out here in LA , where it ’s as omnipresent as late - comers to a playoff secret plan . assist me out here citizenry : what can we do about it , at least for the sake of our kid ?
