The Wave and Beach Balls
by Mr. Clutch on Jul 5, 2008 9:13 PM PDT
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I don't know where the wave originated, I recall watching a piece on the origins of the wave on Sportscenter a few years back, but I guess it wasn't that important to me at the time or didn't grind my gears (to quote Peter Griffin). Yet, during the Cubs series, I saw various moron fans beginning the wave in the view reserve section of the ballpark, all the while, Lincecum is absolutely dealing to a dangerous Cubs offense (might I add with Aramis Ramirez fresh off the disabled list). It makes me think to myself "why did you even come to the ballgame if you're not even going to watch what you paid for, the actual reason and one of the only sources of entertainment on the Giants?" I've always been extremely proud for the most part of Giants fans at AT&T park because the wave is either shut down immediately by surrounding fans or if the wave does get going, it is extremely staggered and sporadic and the moron fans that even begin the bullshit, get tired and give up. It's just a distraction to the fans who are at the game to watch the game and bought the ticket to watch the franchise k 8 cubbies and improve to 10-1 on the year (how glad I am that we don't have Alex Rios =). I know that it's been around forever and it's a way to extract energy from the crowd, but please if you're going to do the wave, stick to Dodger Stadium.
Now, to the beach balls. It's plain and simple. If you're at the ballgame and a beach ball lands in your lap, pop that shit. 4 back baby!
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Every time the wave breaks out at AT&T, it makes me want to vomit.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
by jponry on Jul 5, 2008 9:17 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Believe it or not, The Wave originated at University of Washington’s Husky Stadium
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by Chulk on Jul 5, 2008 9:33 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
and for a year or two, it was probably great
but braindead fans everywhere adopted it, and…OMG
by Moggeee on Jul 5, 2008 9:38 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The worst part is that they always seem to choose to do it during a tense part of the game.
ALWAYS.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
by jponry on Jul 5, 2008 9:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That is correct
it did begin at UW, and as a University of Oregon student AND Giants fan, that gives me even more reason to hate the Wave and UW.
Riddle:
I wear blue and white, I arrive to baseball games in the 4th inning, I leave in the 7th inning, my team's home stadium plays movie trailers between innings, I read magazines during the game, I play with beach balls, and I love the wave.
Who am I?
by 25 on Jul 5, 2008 10:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Lately the View Reserve is a empty place so you know it’s the casual fans up there. I was at the game and the rest of the crowd got a bit vocal about the ongoings up there.
You can’t hate UW completely, Timmy is a Husky.
by timmeh on Jul 5, 2008 11:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
FWIW….it’s not the Huskies that are the problem typically…it’s their shit-headed fans.
Adoptive papa to Omar...so basically I'm screwed.
by PacBellBoozer on Jul 5, 2008 11:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yup
Riddle:
I wear blue and white, I arrive to baseball games in the 4th inning, I leave in the 7th inning, my team's home stadium plays movie trailers between innings, I read magazines during the game, I play with beach balls, and I love the wave.
Who am I?
by 25 on Jul 6, 2008 12:13 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
+1000000000 for being a student at U of O....good choice that you made there.
Adoptive papa to Omar...so basically I'm screwed.
by PacBellBoozer on Jul 5, 2008 11:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Haha
Fo Sho, go Ducks!
Riddle:
I wear blue and white, I arrive to baseball games in the 4th inning, I leave in the 7th inning, my team's home stadium plays movie trailers between innings, I read magazines during the game, I play with beach balls, and I love the wave.
Who am I?
by 25 on Jul 6, 2008 12:13 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
And specifically, by Rob Weller when he was a cheer que-- um, cheerleader
Rob Weller was a Husky cheer, um, leader. Then he went on to anchor ‘Entertainment Tonight,’ which is where you all became familiar with him (except maybe jponry, who might have been in utero when Weller’s tv career evaporated). We Husky alumni are so, so proud.
(I got my law degree from U of Oregon, so I am really more like a Dusky.)
I'm adopting a true Giant and an awe-inspring gamer: tk. "Atta babe."
by Mayor of 311 on Jul 5, 2008 10:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That's some blasphemy right there....
Akin to being a proud Giant AND Dodger…it just ain’t possible, is it?
Adoptive papa to Omar...so basically I'm screwed.
by PacBellBoozer on Jul 5, 2008 11:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hey, I’m definitely not the youngest person here. :(
Of course, you’re right, I’m not familiar with him.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
by jponry on Jul 6, 2008 1:46 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
True, but you ARE the youngest person on here that the bulk of us respect and like and care about and welcome as a peer!
I'm adopting a true Giant and an awe-inspring gamer: tk. "Atta babe."
by Mayor of 311 on Jul 6, 2008 9:45 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
BURN on SloIsLonelyForTheOrange
Trent Kline: Decentish. Also, my website is called ChatterBalks Dot Com and on it I make jokes about things.
by groug on Jul 6, 2008 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
There’s also a competing claim that it was invented by notable obnoxious A’s fan Krazy George:
http://www.krazygeorge.com/wave.html
The wave is especially stupid at Phone Company Ballpark, because the configuration doesn’t suit it, what with there being not many seats in left and center field and almost none in right field.
by jcb9 on Jul 5, 2008 10:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Brilliant design of PacBell, endorsed by Magowan
The Wave-Stuffer
by Moggeee on Jul 5, 2008 11:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The wave is tacky…like something your grandma gives you when it’s not your birthday and it’s not a check for $XX.00. Usually it’s the “Rah-Rah” people when I’m at the game or some personality/athletically-challenged teenager(s) whose knowledge of the game is limited to Babe Ruth, Cracker Jacks and knowing the origin of the Latin roots for all Hispanic and Latino players and sharing that knowledge with the people around them.
If someone has a beach ball, I knock it up and away from the action. It can be fun in a slaughter…when you’re the slaughterer. The wave…there should be a “three strikes” policy with that. After the third strike, the fans have the right to give the “wave-ies” atomic wedgies and make them eat hot dogs until the puke. If they refuse, it’s off to the restroom with them for all the swirlies they can take without it being considered torture.
it's always noonan somewhere
by sectionop92 on Jul 5, 2008 10:26 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Atomic wedgies?!? Swirlies?!? Are you new ‘round these parts?
Because we’re more partial to a good ol’ fashioned shanking.
Adoptive papa to Omar...so basically I'm screwed.
by PacBellBoozer on Jul 5, 2008 11:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
My belief is...
Making some of these people relive some good, old fashioned bullying would make them think thrice about starting waves. But if you want to do your shanking, you’ll never stop the problem. They’ll just go down a few sections and try to restart it there.
People who start waves can inspire copy cats in other areas of the park. These people are a pandemic and we need more Lecter-ian solutions than letting these baseball/sport rejects partake in the “John 3:16” of idiot fandom.
it's always noonan somewhere
by sectionop92 on Jul 6, 2008 1:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was sitting in the View Reserve section for that Cubs/Giants game and it pissed me off when people started doing the wave. Fortunately most of the people around me knew the deal and didn’t do it either.
by Natto on Jul 5, 2008 11:55 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
The Wave
On the one hand, I am pretty much against the idea of “the true fan.” It annoys the heck out of me. Who cares if you are “more” of a fan than someone else. For that reason, I usually don’t mind when some people leave early or what have you. I feel that people can do what they want and it’s not my job to be the fan police.
However, the wave is just stupid. It makes everybody in the ballpark look stupid. It makes me feel stupid just for being in the stands while it is going on. There’s a freakin’ ballgame going on and the people all around said ballgame are making the event about themselves. It’s…it’s….just stupid.
Only 885 games until the end of Zito's contract
by thehavenot on Jul 6, 2008 1:28 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I agree about the “true fan” thing, EXCEPT when idiots leave their seat or come back to their seat in the middle of an AB…or worse yet, look for some friend while on their cell phone standing up waiving. Is there a stupider thing? “OK, yes, we’ve established we’re both here and see each other from across the park. Isn’t it wonderful?”
2008 Giants: Scrappy! Scrappy! Joy! Joy!
by Goofus on Jul 6, 2008 10:41 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah
But things like that is just people being stupid, in general. The stupidity just so happens to be taking place at a sporting event.
Only 885 games until the end of Zito's contract
by thehavenot on Jul 6, 2008 12:38 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Chase Field (D-Blankland)
You are held up from returning to your seat by an usher until the end of the AB.
But you can pop up any ol’ time from said seat…
A few good Taserings/beatdowns/lynchings/dismemberings/disembowelments would get the word out that that behavior ain’t cool…
NL West TempestTeapot - An ENTIRE DIVISION under .500!
by victor frankenstein on Jul 6, 2008 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The ballpark is atrocious and the fans are sub-par at best, but on a trip to Phoenix I’ve had some great conversations about baseball with the ushers there. Most seem to be elderly, and originally from some mid-west state, but have been fans their whole life.
Seniors from the mid-west living in Arizona? SHOCKING.
Without killing anyone
We've won it 3 times
by ChrisHero on Jul 6, 2008 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
In some sections of the park they hold up until after the AB
Most of the field sections are that way (121 is). Or in some cases they just like to check your ticket, everytime you leave the area.
by timmeh on Jul 6, 2008 4:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Wave
Whenever I sit in the bleachers and people try to start the wave, I always stand up and start yelling at them. It usually works as others join in and then the retard (usually wearing some alternatively styled baseball hat) sits his stupid ass down.
I’ve actually gotten the ushers to help out a few times.
Goddamn idiots.
Eugeniooooooo!!!!
by FairweatherFan on Jul 6, 2008 9:04 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
A few years back we were in the upper reserve all the way in the left field corner for Until There’s a Cure Day. This is also the section where the majority of the people on field to create the ribbon, ended up sitting. Clearly most were not baseball fans, and clearly most at the end of the day knew you don’t do the fucking wave in this stadium. There’s an unfilled ballpark across the bay where you can do that shit.
Without killing anyone
We've won it 3 times
by ChrisHero on Jul 6, 2008 11:49 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Yeah the A's like that crap
I went to the Saturday and Sunday game. Saturday, we had a large group that went and the locals got rather upset when our section didn’t participate. We became the angsty teenager section because we refused to be a teamplayer.
Now Sunday, they had that wave going around the entire stadium at least three times, from the field level to the uppermost regions. Again I got chastised for not participating, I was the only one in my row not to get up, there was some serious disappointed folks around me. (I was the snooty giant fan who refused to play along).
by timmeh on Jul 6, 2008 4:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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