No. Started going to games in spring of 88, and don't remember that.

It used to be much slower, and needs slow again.

Can't say for sure that some Raggies did not do something similar but it certainly was not done on mass by everyone in the park.

Class of '91, and I definitely did this '89-90-ish …

Yes

I remember it in the late '80s.

It certainly FEELS like something George would have done, but I attended almost every home game between 86-89, and I can't remember this. A lot of the stuff then was NOT very PC, "one taco, two tacos, three tacos" for the UH catcher who led the SWC in hitting I think one year...and of course counting 'Horn Kieschnick's swings followed by wiggle wiggle wiggle. I'm sure there were some much worse.

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AlwaysNextYear89 said:

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It certainly FEELS like something George would have done, but I attended almost every home game between 86-89, and I can't remember this. A lot of the stuff then was NOT very PC, "one taco, two tacos, three tacos" for the UH catcher who led the SWC in hitting I think one year...and of course counting 'Horn Kieschnick's swings followed by wiggle wiggle wiggle. I'm sure there were some much worse.

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Yeah, they did something similar to one of the tu batters of Hispanic origin. When taking cuts in the on-deck circle, the chant was "Uno! Dos!", etc.

Yes we did. We even tried starting earlier in the count. That didn't take. George was the best heckler by far, great voice for heckling and always with great material.

The heckling was much more focused then. The entire crowd doing anything together didn't start until the 90s. But I absolutely recognized the ball 5 chant when I heard it on the radio in the mid 90s so I say yes. At least somebody did it.

Aggie alley was next level

In reply to HECUBUS This is terrific! It's starting to sound like "Ball 5" (or earlier in the count) was something done by individuals in the late '80s but then became a crowd-wide chant in the early '90s -- would y'all agree? That would cover a lot of what people are saying here, at least!

And is George somebody I might be able to talk with? (my email is sowen94 at aggienetwork dot com if y'all know his full name, etc)

I do remember some of the very inventive and non-PC heckling. There was one poor guy in a Mary Hardin Baylor uniform (purple) who got Barney the Dinosaur's "I love you, you love me" chanted at him through a whole game...

Not gonna have that email for much longer

In reply to 10Aggie10 She probably will because she actually works for the Association.

Rest of us are out of luck lol.

Pre-'89, we definitely didn't do "Ball 5" the way it's done nowadays. Crowds were small back then, so if only a few people, or even one person with a voice that carried, said something, it could be heard. I seem to recall George heckling guys who threw 5 straight balls (not predicting ball 5, but marking it when it had happened), but he would not continue this ad infinitum. After a guy threw six or seven in a row, he'd pick some outrageous number (something like, "Ball 8,511") and just fall out laughing. It wasn't a regimented thing. or done en mass.

I rermember chanting "Take him out! Leave him in!" alternating b/w sections of the crowd back in the mid 80's when an opposing coach made a pitching change.

I also remember the DD's would come to get the foul balls in exchange for a piece of bubble gum. We would hassle them a bit, sometimes asking for more than the gum.....

I believe we used to play the Hawa'ii 5-0 theme song when we brought in Beje Mahoe for relief, although my memory could be playing tricks.

I attended games from 1986-1989 and I seem to recall the "Ball 5" but not in the same form it is used today. I definitely recall "touch his butt ... teeeeaasse" and of course the "ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch" if a batter took a fouled ball to the foot and it would be resurrected every time that guy came to bat for the rest of the game.

Yes, it was done in the 80's.

1989. It was an individual in 203. Dont think he was a student as he was older. He did it reeeaaallll sllooooow as if to say the pitcher is boring everybody. It was awesome.

Graduated in 1986. I remember it. I do not remember touch his butt. I do remember stupid stupid stupid chant. I don't think we were the Raggies yet.

I do remember bringing empty pizza boxes and twinky's and ding dongs to the game. When the heaviest guy on the other team would get up to bat we would wave the pizza boxes and twinky's in the air and ask him if he was hungry. Probably wouldn't fly in today's world.

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I do miss the "Leave Him In - Take Him Out",

The Rib and I went to several games last year and were the only ones yelling it.

I also miss the "Stay in the Box! - "Get Out of My Box!" directed at the 1st Base Coach.

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For the benefit of the younger crowd, the "Leave him in!" "Take him out!" was a take off on the 1987 Miller Lite beer commercial.

George was the best Aggie heckler ever. Always tried to sit near him just to laugh at his harassment!