You kids made MLB.com. don't think that vests your pension, but be proud (and keep the chant on time! Slow down, get it right!)

https://www.mlb.com/news/what-is-the-texas-am-ball-5-chant

And while we are at it, how about getting the DJ to lay off the high energy music during the ball call. You have what is considered to be the best homefield advantage in all of baseball and the stadium music operator tries to drown it out. Makes no sense but at least they are required by rule to shut up when the pitch clock starts.

Will Johnson '01 doesn't know when it started?

Class of 2000 here and we were always doing this during games in the 1996-2000 time frame.

Thanks for telling us you weren't a baseball fan back then, Will.

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FTAG 2000 said:

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Will Johnson '01 doesn't know when it started?

Class of 2000 here and we were always doing this during games in the 1996-2000 time frame.

Thanks for telling us you weren't a baseball fan back then, Will.

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Parents were season ticket holders through the 80's and 90's while I was a kid. Spent most Saturday's and Sunday's at Olsen. It's been going on since my earliest memory of games. It's legendary so who knows when it started lol.

I remember a guy named Marc R was saying it back in 1981. Of course, there were barely 1000 fans for many of those games, but we sat right on top of the visiting dugout and he was non stop verbally abusing the other players. We even had Ricebird Buddies shirts made honoring Clint Heard who was injured and was allowed to coach 1st base some innings.

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VAXMaster said:

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And while we are at it, how about getting the DJ to lay off the high energy music during the ball call. You have what is considered to be the best homefield advantage in all of baseball and the stadium music operator tries to drown it out. Makes no sense but at least they are required by rule to shut up when the pitch clock starts.

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DJ talk has infiltrated the Baseball pages! Don't let the Zoo know.

And for what it's worth, I agree. Let the chant shine on its own!

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FTAG 2000 said:

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Will Johnson '01 doesn't know when it started?

Class of 2000 here and we were always doing this during games in the 1996-2000 time frame.

Thanks for telling us you weren't a baseball fan back then, Will.

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So you're saying they were already doing it when he arrived on campus and therefore the start date is unclear? I don't see how that's a knock on Will lol

In reply to VAXMaster We all wish Ashley would get a clue about this

It started (en masse) at Olsen about '97 or '98. Was around forever before that, it was just done by small groups.

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PaulsBunions said:

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FTAG 2000 said:

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Will Johnson '01 doesn't know when it started?

Class of 2000 here and we were always doing this during games in the 1996-2000 time frame.

Thanks for telling us you weren't a baseball fan back then, Will.

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So you're saying they were already doing it when he arrived on campus and therefore the start date is unclear? I don't see how that's a knock on Will lol

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Did you read the article?

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"I hear different things about when it started," Will Johnson, an '01 A&M alum and current broadcaster, told me over the phone. "I would say the first time I really saw it fully was in the mid-2000's, maybe '05 or '06?

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If Will didn't see it until 2005-2006, he sure wasn't going to games when he was a student.

I love the last line in that article: "when you make 7,000 feel like 50,000, you know you're doing something right."

In reply to VAXMaster It took 1 post to complain on a thread about something being great.

In reply to TheBonifaceOption Most of the SWC schools had a ball four chant. We started ours at five to be different. When I got to Olsen (1991) it would be small groups doing it.