Ideas Wanted for Positive and Inclusive Chants at the Dome

Tuesday, May 04 2004 @ 11:42 AM EDT

With the contraction spectre coming back in a couple years, Jays fans need to find a way to make the Skydome experience fun and entertaining for other fans, so they'll come back more often, and so MLB gets rid of some other team instead of our Blue Birds.

One way to create noise in the Skydome is with those blue horns. But those have been maligned as being annoying and "non inclusive". So let's come up with things which are inclusive, such as the "Moooookie" chants from the 1980's. Named For Hank's crew came up with an idea yesterday:

If you go in expecting a blowout and sit on your hands and shut your mouth, you'll get what you expected. Give them some support, something they can see and hear, give them some love and show them that we believe in them.

To that end, we were wracking our brains last night for things to do that could hopefully catch on. The best one was the O-Dog call -- when O-Dog comes up to bat, after he's been announced and the music dies down and the Dome reverts to Library-during-exams sound level, shout OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH until you run out of breath. Get your section doing it. When he gets on base, do it again. When he makes a great play in the field, do it again. We had our section doing it, especially in the ninth, and it was a blast. It's fun, it's easy, it's inclusive.

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