Okay, I'm watching the first game of the doubleheader, and there was somebody near a microphone in the third inning doing the "clap-clap-clap clap-clap-clap clap-clap-clap-clap-clap-clap-clap" cadence. You know, the one that's (duh) just clapping. I had never heard that one before we started doing it at Fire games. Fess up, which one of you is down in the Steel City? Later, COZ
I thought that was a pretty typical sports thing. We did it for Loyola Academy football and hockey games.
I heard it too... I think it was one of those automated clapping machines or just some pre-recorded clapping thingy. What pisses me off the most about this thread is that when first saw it, I wasn't really thinking and what went through my mind was: "Aw, cool! The Cubs must have made some effort to stop pirates in the Caribbean. I know that the New Zealand America's Cup captain was murdered by pirates at the mouth of the Amazon a year ago, and that ex-Bulls player was killed on board his yacht by his own brother, so maybe the Cubs are making a donation or taking measures to fight piracy." And then I imagined Sammy Sosa wearing a bandanna, wielding a cutlass, and hanging off the rigging of some 17th century sloop. anyway, it turned out that this thread was just about a baseball game ... kind of a let down.