Bringin' back the '80s!
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 20, 2008 12:35 PM PDT
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So last night, we’re just enthralled with the game. Couldn’t take our eyes off it. It was just a masterpiece of well-played baseball. During this instant classic, though, the painfully shy Goofus found his voice. He somehow gathered up enough courage to start a "Paaaaaaah! Blito!" chant. It went over pretty well in the section, so it was followed up with a less appropriate "Paaaaaaaah! Blow!" chant that went over even better. An attempt at "Ohhhhhhhhh! Choa!" was a failure, though nothing compared to the "Wuhh! In!" chant that died on the vine.
It’s been a couple of decades. We need a chant-friendly player to usher us through the bad times. Goofus’s Pablito/Pablo chant is almost perfect, but it has one glaring flaw: Goofus would get the credit. I only have one alternate contribution, though, and it’s for Travis Ishikawa’s at-bats:
"Ishi ishi ishi PITANG zoom bwiing"
Pro: Fun as all heck to do, and Monty Python references go a long ways.
Con: It would be pretty tough to synchronize, which was one of the genius qualities of the Uribe chant. Plus, we already have "The Enchanter" as a McC-approved Monty Python reference, and we also have the Billy Sadler Ministry of Silly Walks, which was unveiled about a half-sentence ago.
And can you imagine trying to explain that to someone sitting next to you? "IT’S A MONTY PYTHON REFERENCE AND ALL OF MY INTERNET FRIENDS DO IT TOO IT’S KIND OF OUR THING AND MY MOM SAYS I HAVE TO WEAR THE OVEN MITTS BECAUSE I KEEP CUTTING MY FINGERS AND…" You might as well crap out 12-sided dice if you’re going to be that nerdy.
So I’m opening the floor to suggestions for the next wildly popular Uribe-style chant. Current players, future players, recently signed draftees…have at it.
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I was once at a Giants-Rockies game where a single drunken, shirtless man tried to do the OOO! RIBE! chant for Juan Uribe. I hope that wasn’t you, Grant.
who wouldn’t?
BROCK BOND LIKES HIS MARTINIS PUNCHED IN THE FACE, NOT STIRRED.
by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Aug 20, 2008 4:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Vill-a-lon-a!
That has a pretty decent meter. I mean, it’s tough because it’s such a cliche beat… but it’s there, and convenient.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
I'm me.
and I approve of this message.
Angel Villalona: Rush Fan? Probably.
by AngelintheInfield on Aug 20, 2008 12:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Look-out-catch-ers
Angel Villalona: Rush Fan? Probably.
by AngelintheInfield on Aug 20, 2008 1:06 PM PDT up reply actions
ZI-TO
-SUCKS
Proud adopted parent of future big league slugger Thomas Neal
by nostocksjustbonds on Aug 20, 2008 12:49 PM PDT reply actions
At last night's game
A guy told me I made his night after I yelled out “DON’T SUCK, GIANTS!”
¿Julio is tourist in San Francisco? Harper's Bizarre!
Credit where credit's due
On a related note, the A’s had the one chant that was even better than U-ribe!
“Marco…Scutaro” in the style of “marco…polo” was brilliant.
Zooperstars, they quack me up!
Forget the claps
One side of stadium: PA-BLO!
Other side: SAN-DO-VAL!
¿Julio is tourist in San Francisco? Harper's Bizarre!
That and the drumming TEJADA! chant was pretty good.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 20, 2008 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ve always been fond of the A’s fans’ habit of cheering “Who?” after each umpire’s name is announced.
by David A. Arnott on Aug 20, 2008 8:29 PM PDT up reply actions
For when Steve Holm mysteriously re-appears on the 40-man roster:
“HOLE!”
“MMMM!”
No, my Crazy Crab bobblehead is not for sale.
This
Molina's gonna test his arm...
by Victorious Secret on Aug 20, 2008 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions
My suggestion...
though it would also be:
pretty tough to synchronize
Eh – You – Hen – E – O – (and sometimes Y)!
"Schier...holz!"
it has the added benefit of describing the primary features of crotchless panties.
Zooperstars, they quack me up!
DIE YOU GRAVY-SUCKING PIGS!!
(obscure Steve Martin reference)
Anagram of "Giants pitcher Matt Cain" = TRAGIC MAN, ISN'T PATHETIC
by Stuttering John Tamargo on Aug 20, 2008 1:22 PM PDT reply actions
“Just try to make a touchdown, you scumbags!!”
I can’t think of any reason that wouldn’t work at AT&T…
Like Barry Zito, I'm mildly half-OK.
Ah, college days
We used to do, “Hey , you’re SHORT, FAT, and UGLY!” back in our small college games. We tried it a few times at Dodgers, and we could tell the player heard, but coordinated abuse left a somewhat uneasy feeling.
"[Greg] Vaughn is in a funk so deep, George Clinton wearing a miner's helmet couldn't find him."
- Jim Baker, ESPN.com, May 2002
I was going to propose a side topic – matching current Giants with their 80s Giants equivalent. I couldn’t really think of any good parallels, though. About the best I could do was Fred Lewis = Chili Davis. We’d be very lucky if Lewis ends up having the home run power of Davis, though.
I hadn’t heard that!
Considering the way Benzinger bounced between so many organizations, though, I wouldn’t be surprised if he was at one time, though.
But seriously – shitty journeymen without any particular skills, bouncing from one organization to the next until pressed into a starting role way above their head by necessity and lack of foresight. Played miserably, were eventually released, and both complained about how they couldn’t understand why when it was perfectly obvious to anyone.
And the final indignity
Replaced by a rookie who proceeded to do even worse (J.R. Phillips/Rohlinger). D’OH!
Chili side
Chili Davis had a lot of pressure to be the next Willie Mays though; pressure that thankfully Lewis has never had to endure.
"[Greg] Vaughn is in a funk so deep, George Clinton wearing a miner's helmet couldn't find him."
- Jim Baker, ESPN.com, May 2002
Yeah, it’s not like he’s having to replace a memorable left fielder or anything.
Like Barry Zito, I'm mildly half-OK.
Are you being sarcastic? If so please through me a rope.
By the time Chili came along the Fan base had endured like a decade of terrible teams. Between 72 and 81 the Giants only finished over 500 twice. An 88 & 89 win season. The heroes 60’s had been moved along in a way Pirate fans endured in the early 90’s.
You got to watch players in their prime that should have carried the torch play other teams. Bonds Sr, Mathews Sr, Maddux and Speier. Even the Red machine use a Giants farm hand ( Foster). While this team kept the likes of LeMaster, and Herndon. The only position player of note the team produced in that period was Jack "The Ripper " Clark. Think of the current desperation for an effective first baseman with thunder in his bat. Then multiply it by like 7 position on the diamond. So yes a big part of the fan base was desperate, clingy and demanding.
Ivan Ochoa - Heir to the legacy of Rob Andrews & Rikkert Faneyte!
Original OO-REE-BAY
I remember the Ooo-reebay chant originally started as three syllables: Oo-ree-bay, but crowds didn’t really know how to partition into thirds spontaneously.
Some friends of mine used to go “Whose Mando? Our mando!” for Armando Rios. Of course when he got traded and came back as a visitor, it changed to “Whose Mando? Their mando!”
"[Greg] Vaughn is in a funk so deep, George Clinton wearing a miner's helmet couldn't find him."
- Jim Baker, ESPN.com, May 2002
i can think of a stadium wide
fall down with “ring around the rosies, pocket full of posey” type deal.
BROCK BOND LIKES HIS MARTINIS PUNCHED IN THE FACE, NOT STIRRED.
by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Aug 20, 2008 4:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I've wondered...
if he’s gonna get shouted at like Chipper in opposing parks: Lar-rie, Lar-rie.
Ger-ald, Ger-ald…
Pooh-Ceh-Tass!
Adoptive parental unit of Kevin "Most Spectacular Pitcher" Pucetas.
"I'm a Giant now... I like watching the ball get up there" - Wendell Fairley
"I'm really proud to be on this team." - Nate Schierholtz
by obsessivegiantscompulsive on Aug 20, 2008 2:21 PM PDT reply actions
What's you sig going to be
when MadBum wins the most spectacular pitcher award this year?
Hector Sanchez: really getting tired of playing baseball in foreign countries...
For Matt Cain starts
Ala the Miller Light “Tastes-Great-Less-Filling” argument:
Score Runs!
Kitty Dies!
Hector Sanchez: really getting tired of playing baseball in foreign countries...
Seinfeld voice
Hello, Noonan.
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Still can’t believe they haven’t taken to yelling “TIMMEH!!” after every Lincecum strikeout. It just seems so obvious.
Maybe that’s why they’re not doing it.
Anagram of "Giants pitcher Matt Cain" = TRAGIC MAN, ISN'T PATHETIC
by Stuttering John Tamargo on Aug 20, 2008 3:09 PM PDT reply actions
how about " Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom" after a Gaints pitcher get a k?
Think of it 1000’s of fans giving the Strike Out Monster a vioce!
Ivan Ochoa - Heir to the legacy of Rob Andrews & Rikkert Faneyte!
NERD!
BROCK BOND LIKES HIS MARTINIS PUNCHED IN THE FACE, NOT STIRRED.
by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Aug 20, 2008 4:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Po-sey
Ring around the rosie
Pocket full of Posey
While you dance on the dugout and “all fall down!”
C'mon Grant....
Real nerds know better. If you are gonna crap out some polyhedron dice, you should crap out twenty-sided dice instead. I mean, first, they’re rounder, so there are fewer sharp corners to worry about during…well, you know. And seriously, the twelve-sider hardly ever gets used unless you play a barbarian, and in 4th edition they took hit dice out completely! So you’d be crapping out useless crap.
Crap twenty-siders. That’s my campaign slogan, and I approve this message.
No, really, I have updated my blog this year: http://skaldheim.livejournal.com/tag/baseball
When I watched Crawford player here at Cal Poly
me and my friends would chant “CRAAAAWWWWFFOORRRRDDD.” We could do that again when he makes it to the big club.
proud father of the newly acquired Brandon Crawford..
OOO Genio
At spring training this year (when there was actually some hype about Eugenio Velez) a group of like 10 of my friends and I started a OOO-Genio chant that sort of caught on. Well it didn’t really catch on at all but we were loud enough to make people think it was catching on, enough so that it got written up in sfgiants.com and the Chronicle. We still do it, but nobody cares because he’s not very good and his head is too skinny and he looks like a goblin.
Meanwhile, the legend of rookie Eugenio Velez continued to grow. Despite going 0-for-3 while starting at second base, Velez drew two walks and clearly made the Rangers nervous when he was aboard. Velez also has begun drawing chants of “Ooo-genio” during his plate appearances, reminiscent of the “Ooo-ribe” salute that fans showered upon Jose Uribe, the late Giants shortstop.
by wade blasingame on Aug 21, 2008 11:17 AM PDT reply actions
What about adapting "Get Off My Cloud" for Velez?
Ey! (Ey!) You! (You!) A-Hay-A-Knee-Oh!
Need to stretch it out over a couple extra syllables, but that’s a time honored tradition among lyricists.
Like Barry Zito, I'm mildly half-OK.
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