Dainty Ears? Stay Home
I am a loud fan.
I am not a drunk fan. I am not an angry fan. I am not a belligerent fan. I am not a cursing, foul-mouthed fan.
But when I go to an Angels game in the postseason, and the ushers hand me thunderstick noisemakers, and the scoreboard says GET LOUD! — I know what to do.
When I hear John Lackey after the game, thanking the fans for being so loud and for the ovation — I know I did right.
So why do the fans sitting in front of me think it was OK to give me the stink eye all night long?
I started cheering when they announced the players, and the women in front looked back and gave each other a “hoo-boy” eye rolling look. We pulled out our Guerrero clackers (again, a noisemaking device given to us by Angels management a few years ago) for Vlady’s at-bats. CLICKITY CLICKITY GO VLADY GO!
One of the woman’s husband actually put his hands over her ears to protect her from the racket. Then he asked if I would kindly not clack the thing in her ears. But I wasn’t. I was waving it in the air.
Playoff games are loud. I am not in church, or a cinema, or even on the beach on a sunny day, yelling my head off and making noise.
What do you think — is it possible to cheer too loud for Torii Hunter?
Filed under: Amy The Ranter/Amy The Raver
MAHALO. SINCE I AM NOT ABLE TO ATTEND ANY OF THE POST-SEASON GAMES, HAVE OVER 3,000 MILES OF OCEAN BETWEEN US, GIVE A BIG LOUD “LETS GO HALOS” FOR ME THE NEXT GAME YOU GET TO BE AT.
As long as you are not making the noise right in their ears – which I’m sure you are not, I wouldn’t worry about it.
I’m going tonight and if people don’t like me making noise they can go home. This is a sporting event – the playoffs – they need to just get over it and stand up and cheer for crying out loud.
If anyone has a problem, they need to bring ear plugs next time. This is the PLAYOFFS and our team needs our energy. And FOR ONCE, the Angel fans were louder than the Red Sox fans. NICE! I loved it. Too bad I have very little voice left for tonight!
Those people are clowns! I was at Game 7 in ‘02, and it was so friggin’ loud that my ears rang for two days after! And, ya know what? It was 100% worth it!
It’s the playoffs people! Make some noise, get crazy, and GO HALOS!
I think you should keep on making noise and if anybody objects, call an usher over and make a complaint that the people (whomever they are) that are giving you the evil eye and dirty looks and such are not making enough noise and that you’re sure you saw them sneak down into those seats and that they don’t have the proper tickets — the usher will ask to see their tickets, they will be even more pissed off, but in the end you will send them a message — don’t mess with me, Im an Angel fan, I paid my money to cheer my team on .. so shut the %%$#@ up and cheer just get sit in your seat and don’t ruin my experience at the game.
On a side note — they’re probably Red Sox fans in secret, next time let’m have it as loud as you can!
GO ANGELS!
PS .. Can you get me a new pair of those blowup noise makers, my kid used them so much since last year the no longer hold air!
AMY,
BE AS LOUD AS YOU CAN BE!!!
NEXT YEARS MARKETING SLOGAN SHOULD BE
“WE ARE FAN LOUD”
Now if you really really really want to go out of your way buy grandma and grandpa some ear plugs. I get really excited and stand up which gets on A LOT of people’s nerves. People look at me funny and yell at me to sit down, but i cant help it, im not doing it on purpose, im not trying to cheat them out of watching the game. So i just look for areas where most of the fans are standing and i sit (stand) there. Plus, people in those areas are just as loud as i am, and the environment is way better, may not be the best seats in the house but we’re all watching the same game so whats the difference.