Arizona's crowd sucks

[Thunder Dan]

seriously is anyone watching this game? It's one thing to not sell out the NLCS, but atleast act like you want to be there. This crowd looks like a crowd that would be at a game in late April. They are all just sitting there hardly cheering for their team.

I'm switching my pick to the Rockies for this very reason. If the Indians win the ALCS, I don't want them traveling across the country to play in front of a shitty crowd like Arizona. The Marlins' crowd wasn't even this bad!

Go Rockies!

[ducks]

the crowd is late arrving
due to people still getting off work

[JMarkJohns]

seriously is anyone watching this game? It's one thing to not sell out the NLCS, but atleast act like you want to be there. This crowd looks like a crowd that would be at a game in late April. They are all just sitting there hardly cheering for their team.

I'm switching my pick to the Rockies for this very reason. If the Indians win the ALCS, I don't want them traveling across the country to play in front of a shitty crowd like Arizona. The Marlins' crowd wasn't even this bad!

Go Rockies!

Yeah, the game started at 5:30 p.m. Arizona time. With as spread out as the Phoenix area is, it's going to take a while to drive hom from work, change, then drive to the game. It could literally take an hour.

[Thunder Dan]

alright I didn't take into account the traffic

[Slinkyman]

fuck, how often are the dbacks in the playoffs? If i had tix i'd at least skip out of work early.

[DOMINATOR]

classless fans right now

[NuGGeTs-FaN]

douchebags. Their team is getting OWNED and they start throwing stuff , classy fans. Are these the same ones at the Suns games?

[Thunder Dan]

douchebags. Their team is getting OWNED and they start throwing stuff , classy fans. Are these the same ones at the Suns games?

As a Cleveland fan I have no right to comment on that. I remember going to an Indians game the first time Albert Belle came back after leaving for more money. Someone in left field dumped 2 trashbags full of paper money all over the field (Belle played left). They had to delay the game while they picked it up.

Plus that Browns game in 2001 that was called because everyone was throwing stuff.

Plus Cleveland was home to nickel beer night at an Indians game. They called the game because someone jumped on the field and stole the Ranger's right fielders glove, and then 2 people, on 2 different occasions jumped the fence and slid into 2nd base like they were stealing a base. LOL that was it for 5 cent beer night.

But I was speaking of the lack of noise for a playoff game. I mean they were all sitting for the first pitch!

[ducks]

NLCS opener interrupted when fans throw objects on field

By ANDY BAGNATO, AP Sports Writer
October 12, 2007

PHOENIX (AP) -- Angry fans threw water bottles and other debris onto the field following a disputed call, prompting crew chief Tim McClelland to clear the field during Thursday night's NL championship series opener.

The game was delayed for about eight minutes in the bottom of the seventh inning.

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Rockies manager Clint Hurdle waved his players into the dugout, but McClelland made the decision to clear the field, umpire supervisor Richie Garcia said.

"He felt the fans couldn't hear the announcements," Garcia said of McClelland. "I believe there were three or four announcements, and they couldn't hear them. So he took the players off the field."

Colorado was ahead 5-1 when the Arizona Diamondbacks put two runners on base with no outs. Augie Ojeda hit a grounder to third baseman Garrett Atkins, who threw to second baseman Kaz Matsui.

Justin Upton, running from first, slid over second base and then rolled his right shoulder into Matsui's left leg, knocking the infielder to the ground. Second base umpire Larry Vanover immediately called Upton out for interference, resulting in a double play.

"You had obvious intent on the part of the runner to break up the double play, and when it turns into intentional, that's when he's out for interference, and then the batter-runner is also out for the action of his teammate," Vanover said. "Once he got to the base, I thought he threw his hip up into the guy, and his intent at that point is not to get to the base. His intent is to crash the pivot man, so you've got obvious intent there. To get real simple with it, is his intent to go to the base and get on the base, or is his intent to crash the pivot man?"

A few fans threw bottles onto the field from the upper deck, and then more followed far down the foul lines. Some of them landed near Rockies players, and Hurdle gestured in pulling his team off the field.

"There comes a point in time when you need to make a point. Enough's enough," Hurdle said.

Rockies right fielder Brad Hawpe didn't make too much of it.

"It was just fans being upset. It's too bad," he said. "A few like that label a lot of people, but sounds like the other fans took care of it and were pulling the people out who were throwing stuff at us."

Diamondbacks president Derrick Hall said he did not know how many fans had been ejected or whether any arrests had been made. The team cut off alcohol sales immediately.

"Obviously we don't condone that," Arizona manager Bob Melvin said of the rowdy fans. "You don't want stuff being thrown on the field."

No replays of the disputed call were shown on the video board, Hall said.

"It's too bad it became about the umpires," Hall said. "But I think that showed we don't have such an apathetic crowd, clearly. The crowd was obviously showing that they thought the umpires overreacted. and once it began to get out of hand, we did all we could do to slow that down and to bring it to a stop."

[ducks]

do not see it on you tube yet

pretty lame call though

[BeerIsGood!]

It wasn't that bad. It was just a few isolated people throwing plastic water or beer bottles, mainly from the outfield. It wasn't as bad as the Suns fans throwing things at the Spurs with the old lady flipping off Brent Barry during the playoffs. :lol

[tlongII]

Didn't the Spurs fail to sell out WCF home games?

[Reggie Miller]

The call was legitimate. Upton actually got airborne on the play. You'd see that call made the majority of the time in the regular season. That said, I have seen harder take-outs in the playoffs that were not called.

In general, it reflects poorly on the fans to throw stuff on the field, and it can be dangerous. On the other hand, I bet every team has had this happen before. I have seen it happen either personally or on television at Turner Field, Wrigley Field, U.S. Cellular, Chase, Jacobs Field, Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park, and Busch Stadium (old and new). "Everybody does it" doesn't make it a good idea, but I wouldn't stigmatize an entire fan base over it, either.

Also, I am only talking about a large scale protest. I think I have seen one or two people throw or accidentally drop something on the field at almost every major or minor league game I have ever attended. When a home run lands in the first few rows of many parks, you often see cups and trash fall onto the field when everyone leaps to their feet.

P.S. I guess I am on the Rockies bandwagon after seeing last night's game. That was NL baseball at its finest.

[SAtown]

Didn't the Spurs fail to sell out WCF home games?

They sold out, but people probably didn't buy the tix from the scumbag scalpers.

[IceColdBrewski]

Didn't the Spurs fail to sell out WCF home games?

Game one of the Spurs-Jazz series?! Not even remotely compareable. The real NBA Championship series (Spurs v Suns) had already been played out at that point. After that, whipping the Jazz and whoever came out of the East was just a formality.

It's a Championship complacency thing. You Blazer fans wouldn't understand.