At what point does chanting go from annoying to un sportsmanlike?

[Lobster Birch]

Chanting didn’t stop the Bruins from winning an NCAA championship in 2019. They are always chanting.


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So are the Washington Huskies. They are required to.

 

[daave266]

I have one DD playing 16U and one playing 12U. They stop the chants pretty much right after 12U. At 14's they talk to their hitters and their own pitcher. Not allot of "She stole on you" chants. At 12U and 10U Most of the time they're stealing every pitch so it's definitely not a one way street since it comes from both dugouts most of the time.

I've coached my oldest and my youngest and I've never had a player or a parent for that matter complain about the other girls cheering or chanting. My biggest complaint is I'll have it stuck in my head for the next 4 hours after the last game. If they overstep correct. Otherwise let them play.

 

[JumboJack]

I have one DD playing 16U and one playing 12U. They stop the chants pretty much right after 12U..

Yeah that most definitely is not the case in Southern California at all levels. (And college for that matter).


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[Bullseye]

Everyone knows the difference between cocky garbage and actual cheering.
Wear the label.

 

[Rick M]

DD’s team played the #1 ranked B team in the state last fall as first-year 14s. DD pitched and got crushed, final was 15-1. The whole game, from her first pitch to her last, the other team screamed at her during her delivery. Like that voice-cracking type of scream. On every pitch. With a double-digit lead. She’s get a called strike and they’d start bellowing ‘We love it when you throw it in the dirt!’

I felt so awful for her, I expected her to come off the field and quit. It’s one thing to get hammered, it’s another to have a dozen girls yelling at you for 90 minutes while you’re struggling.

I wanted to give her the dad-hug and make her feel better on the walk back to the car. I said how obnoxious the other team was and she just said, “Oh, I didn’t even hear them.”


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[Chris8]

My biggest complaint is I'll have it stuck in my head for the next 4 hours after the last game.

3-2 what do you do?

ha ha ha ha ...can't get this one out of my head 6 years later...

 

[Coachkat]

3-2 what do you do?

ha ha ha ha ...can't get this one out of my head 6 years later...

Walk her, Walk her

Gah all I had to see was the 3-2 and started in my head

 

[625ender]

We chanted in baseball all the time leaning on the rail. Mostly about your mother, girlfriend, father, your looks.....

 

[MNDad]

DD’s team played the #1 ranked B team in the state last fall as first-year 14s. DD pitched and got crushed, final was 15-1. The whole game, from her first pitch to her last, the other team screamed at her during her delivery. Like that voice-cracking type of scream. On every pitch. With a double-digit lead. She’s get a called strike and they’d start bellowing ‘We love it when you throw it in the dirt!’

I felt so awful for her, I expected her to come off the field and quit. It’s one thing to get hammered, it’s another to have a dozen girls yelling at you for 90 minutes while you’re struggling.

I wanted to give her the dad-hug and make her feel better on the walk back to the car. I said how obnoxious the other team was and she just said, “Oh, I didn’t even hear them.”


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Next time the #1 B team starts chanting remind them they’re really the 567th ranked A team.

 

[BradyC87]

Cheer for your team, not against the other. Any team allowed to use negative chants directed at opposing players tells me all I need to know about their coach's character.