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Originally Posted by UmpireErnie
Had a JV game where the fan's from one team were saying "swing!" when other team was batting. Other than that they were simply cheering on their DDs who were losing badly.
Coach for the team who's batter were being told "swing!" by the fans wanted me to tell them they had to stop. She was kinda surprised when I told her no. Then she wanted to know if she could tell them. Told her I could not stop her but I doubted that her talking to them would be a good idea.
Sorry but if you can't play while there is noise going on you have bigger challenges than the noise!
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While I agree with you, there's something to be said about fans who do that, especially at a JV game. Frankly, if I were the coach of the team whose fans were being this obnoxious, I would have gone into the stands and told them to knock off the childish crap.
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