MSU Bears in Baseball NIT

[moshock]

This is really funny to me because the Bear's fans and Sportstalk radio announcers say that WSU fans are rude and crude. I don't like the Bears at all but all teams including WSU have their fair share of obnoxious fans. They stick out like sore thumbs and make the rest of us look bad.

I was at the WSU/MSU Basketball game in Springfield two years ago and had a MSU jackass yelling "Overrated" directly in my ear. The other MSU fans could see that I was getting annoyed with it and called security. They hauled the guy out and the rest of the fans around me apologized. I thought that it was pretty classy.

It happens everywhere.

:wsu_posters:

[t7017s]

I can take, and have taken, the hoots and hollers of Arkansas fans, OSU fans, LSU fans, KU and K-State fans, OU fans, Nebraska fans but there is not a more annoying collection of "cheering" as that displayed by Bears fans.

Those 8th grade girlie screams slay me every time. Baseball, volleyball, basketball, you name it - girlie screams. It's almost as if they have it recorded like a sitcom laugh track and play it with an amp and speakers during every sporting event. I can see it now, the MSU athletic department has a girlie-scream library and someone checks out the tape or CD as they head out of town for the game.

They were high pitched and I wont deny or argue that.

[Shocker85]

I would guess that the vast majority of the MSU fans in attendance were parents, siblings (or other family), and girlfriends of the players. There is obviously a ritual "Conveying of the Shrill Scream" ceremony that takes place over in Springfield, because the SWMo and now MSU fans have demostrated it for years - and it has driven me crazy for years. It isn't rude or classless in any way, just annoying as hell.

I will say, though, that some of the behaviors displayed by the Shocker faithful are, umm, interesting. I frequently sit in a couple other sections at games other than my home section. Every locale has some fan oddities. There's the whistler, the "Help 'em Blue, help 'em" guy, the chair beater, etc. Don't get me wrong, it all adds character that other programs must covet.

--'85.

[ISASO]

I cannot believe that other schools fans haven't picked up the "Conveying of the Shrill Scream" cheering.

Imagine a fall afternoon at Kyle Field @ Texas A&M or at the Air Force Academy, the Big House in Michigan or at Nebraska. 70,000-100,000 fans screaming like 8th grade girls at at Hanna Montana show. Now that would be interesting.

[SHOCKvalue]

Damn can we cut the guys a break. They had their season ruined by us and you all want them to be quiet while cheering as "fans"??? You expect them to shower us with love after we tore their hearts out and stole their chance at an automatic bid??? :blink: :blink: Some of you are starting to sound like big conference snobs. I was impressed with their fans and their ability to get back up time after time as we retook the lead and kept beating them back with our sticks. Any MSU fans reading this... Please ignore the idiots who can only talk trash about our opponents. I thought you represented well and showed great "fanhood". Better than our fans are showing now with their classless trash talk and piling on.

Honest question:

Were you even at the champ game?

If you were, then surely you would not be defending the action of the offending fans of note referenced in this thread. By all means, if you think a mother and adolescent daughter combo standing at the gen ad handrail, bending over the edge, and screaming at a blood curdling level to those seated in the box seats is quality fanhood activity, then you have more class than I... and definitely more than said MSU fans.

[7hottamales]

the "Help 'em Blue, help 'em" guy
--'85.

This guy is simply amazing.

[SHOCKvalue]

Yes, we certainly have our share of less than classy fans.

Last year for the regional I was able to score some awesome blue box seats from a couple of New Orleans Univ. staff/really close friends/press members who were leaving for home after we ousted them. They gave me the reminder of their session tickets for 3 seats. It was great. Anyways... while I used these seats for our last few regional games I noticed a couple of WSU fans also seated in the blue boxes that stuck out to me as rather embarrassing representatives of our fanbase :

-Skinny, middle-aged bald dude with potentially more piercings than teeth, who banged on the empty seat in front of him, and rung his cowbell, at a very annoying rate.

-Rather large, older guy with glasses and long, dark hair who heavily berated the opposing team and officiating at every chance. I'm not talking spirited, sarcastic stuff, I mean really classless stuff.

These two seemed to know each other, for whatever that's worth.

I still see long hair at the games, but I haven't seen cowbell for a while.

[martymoose]

Doesn't sound like you guys have much fun sitting in the stands. Come join us on the hill, I can guarantee you'll have fun! Unless we're playing KU or KSU, the opposing fans know not to venture out to the hill.

[Shirley Schmidt]

I still see long hair at the games, but I haven't seen cowbell for a while.

He was thrown out of the stadium by Shocker staff early in the year.

[SHOCKvalue]

I still see long hair at the games, but I haven't seen cowbell for a while.

He was thrown out of the stadium by Shocker staff early in the year.

I heard someone yell "Cheeseburger" when Paul Evans went out to the mound on Saturday. I immediately thought of you Shirley. :D

[Born2Shock]

I certainly did.

[ISASO]

It was so loud, one of the workers from the concession stand came up to make the delivery.

[t7017s]

Yes, we certainly have our share of less than classy fans.

Last year for the regional I was able to score some awesome blue box seats from a couple of New Orleans Univ. staff/really close friends/press members who were leaving for home after we ousted them. They gave me the reminder of their session tickets for 3 seats. It was great. Anyways... while I used these seats for our last few regional games I noticed a couple of WSU fans also seated in the blue boxes that stuck out to me as rather embarrassing representatives of our fanbase :

-Skinny, middle-aged bald dude with potentially more piercings than teeth, who banged on the empty seat in front of him, and rung his cowbell, at a very annoying rate.

-Rather large, older guy with glasses and long, dark hair who heavily berated the opposing team and officiating at every chance. I'm not talking spirited, sarcastic stuff, I mean really classless stuff.

These two seemed to know each other, for whatever that's worth.

I still see long hair at the games, but I haven't seen cowbell for a while.

I use a cowbell although not very often. Only great plays or after the game. I try hard not to overdo it as cowbells can be to much for a lot of peaople with very little use although not as extreme as those air hrns you see fairly often at a lot of parks. I also pound on the seats with regularity. It kind of brings back the stomp effect that we use to get with the aluminum bleachers (that doesnt work so well on concrete), So the seat is the next best option. Now I dont do it every single play or anything but rallies or great plays and such I will. i dont care if i annoy anyone or not. If people come to the park to relax and read a book then they are coming to the wrong place. I was at the championship game though and I did not witness the mother daughter combo you spoke of earlier yelling at fans in the reserved seats so I cant speak to that. But like I said the MSU fans I did witness all seemed to me to be good fans and "in line".

[SHOCKvalue]

Yes, we certainly have our share of less than classy fans.

Last year for the regional I was able to score some awesome blue box seats from a couple of New Orleans Univ. staff/really close friends/press members who were leaving for home after we ousted them. They gave me the reminder of their session tickets for 3 seats. It was great. Anyways... while I used these seats for our last few regional games I noticed a couple of WSU fans also seated in the blue boxes that stuck out to me as rather embarrassing representatives of our fanbase :

-Skinny, middle-aged bald dude with potentially more piercings than teeth, who banged on the empty seat in front of him, and rung his cowbell, at a very annoying rate.

-Rather large, older guy with glasses and long, dark hair who heavily berated the opposing team and officiating at every chance. I'm not talking spirited, sarcastic stuff, I mean really classless stuff.

These two seemed to know each other, for whatever that's worth.

I still see long hair at the games, but I haven't seen cowbell for a while.

I use a cowbell although not very often. Only great plays or after the game. I try hard not to overdo it as cowbells can be to much for a lot of peaople with very little use although not as extreme as those air hrns you see fairly often at a lot of parks. I also pound on the seats with regularity. It kind of brings back the stomp effect that we use to get with the aluminum bleachers (that doesnt work so well on concrete), So the seat is the next best option. Now I dont do it every single play or anything but rallies or great plays and such I will. i dont care if i annoy anyone or not. If people come to the park to relax and read a book then they are coming to the wrong place. I was at the championship game though and I did not witness the mother daughter combo you spoke of earlier yelling at fans in the reserved seats so I cant speak to that. But like I said the MSU fans I did witness all seemed to me to be good fans and "in line".

You're the skinny, bald, cowbell guy, or just have some similar game activities? :shock:

[shox8498]

I've always gotten a kick out of seeing a bunch of MSU fans out smoking during the MSU-WSU ballgames. Maybe not so much nowadays, but in the past I used to see a bunch of 'em congregating and getting ready to light up..........as if they know that the worst is coming, but they just aren't sure when the wheels will fall off of their wagon.

On VT (rest in peace), they always come out and mock our fan base for being so insecure, but they are undoubtedly the league leaders when it comes to nervous, anxious, obsessive smoking fans with a complex.

:whistle: <--- "MSU fan", insert cigarette and start worrying.