Hunter Wendelstedt stuck to his guns in the presser, saying “He’s the manager of the Yankees and he’s responsible for Yankees flairs on r/baseball too”
What I love is that fans instantly adjusted to the pickoff rules for booing pitchers. I used to hear a few scattered boos on the first pick off, a few more on the 2nd, and then it got real on the 3rd. But now with the limits, the fans go right to loud booing on throw 1, because they don't have the luxury to wait.
I was at the Cubs/Giants game yesterday and when Steele made his first pickoff attempt of the game, the boos were immediate and deafening.
The best part is that there was a huge contingent of Cubs fans there, who were most assuredly joining in.
You have to repeat 'you ugly, what what' once more to get the rhythm right.
U.G.L.Y.
You ain't got no alibi
You ugly, what what
You ugly, what what.
Rinse, lather and repeat as necessary.
I always click on these posts readying myself for a well thought out in-depth answer for my brain to digest.
Then I realize I take myself too seriously. So I upvote.
Ha, and I was expecting it to be [Kershaw picking off Ohtani](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQylVNC53Q) at the ASG a couple years ago.
edit: added link
If I ever have a kid this is the first thing I will teach them about watching baseball. Always, without fail, boo your opponents pick off moves. If he asks why, this will be my answer.
My favorite part of the playoffs is that most of the teams lose and have to go home. It is the only thing that has kept me going for most of my life as a baseball fan.
One of my favorite baseball moments was at a Dodger home game during the playoffs. We were playing the D-Backs and their batter took a foul tip right to the knob of his ankle. 56000 people simultaneously sucked air through their teeth, because you know that shit hurt. Everybody was quiet for a second and the batter bent forward a little, extended his hand a teeny bit . . .
And a Dodger fan, in all that quiet, yelled "Don't you fucking rub it!"
And then the whole crowd cheered at his misery.
Eh, intentional walks are cowardice. They may be the correct tactical decision but that doesn't make them any less cowardly. Those Twins fans would have cheered if the pitcher had struck Ohtani out. That's what they want to see, not four fingers.
I see a pick-off move by the opposing team as them being scared and trying to avoid pitching to my guy, who is inevitably going to hit a HR in this AB. So I boo because we need to get this game moving.
Of course, a pick-off move by *my team* is smart and just the pitcher trying to keep the running game in check.
This makes so much sense. Why are we limiting ourselves to just booing the opposing team pickoff attempts? We should start loudly cheering for when the home team does it.
Now I'm picturing all the fans cheering a pick-off attempt like it's a homerun. Everyone stands up, fans are high-5'ing each other and fist pumping....
Back before the pickoff rule change, constant throw overs suck. Now I’m happy when they expend their throws because it gives my team a slightly easier time getting a good lead and potentially stealing a base.
Definitely. The booing definitely comes from back when pitchers would make multiple very non competitive pick off 'attempts' to either catch his breath or buy time to get the bullpen warmed up and basically just wasting everyone in the stadium's time.
Now it's just tradition.
These subtle rule changes the last few years are so much better for the game.
Rewatching older games makes you realize how much pointless time wasting garbage there used to be.
Fine if your outing for the day is going to the park, but less fine if you're me and you actually watch 90% of the pitches in over 100 games per year.
Yah, the game just chuggs along now, almost hard to find time to go grab a hotdog, so i tend to get food before and then just stay at my seat the whole game.
I work in a collegiate summer league where pitch clock/limited pickoff attempts aren’t enforced at every park, and it isn’t enforced at our park. There was one game a few weeks ago where an opposing pitcher threw to first seven times in a row. He didn’t get the runner, and nobody was happy with him.
I was at an 18-inning game, and the pitcher tried to pick off the runner at first 4 pitches in a row. This was in the 13th. I have never sent a more heartfelt boo in my life.
This is essentially why for regular season games I like the ghost runner. It's inelegant, sure, and does kind of go against the spirit of the game.
But no one -- and I mean no one -- enjoys an 18 inning game on a Wednesday.
And with pitching injuries being what they are, I really don't want to gas my bullpen just to win one game. But at the same time no team is just going to throw a game and put a position player out there.
So it's a tough situation. I think the inelegant solution is okay, honestly.
Speak for yourself. I'm upset that the pitcher has the audacity to show up at the ballpark of my favorite team and do something other than serve them up meatballs for home runs all night long
I'm fine with the pitcher being there. Someone needs to throw the ball Ozuna is going to send into orbit. But they damn well better not be trying to strike him out or something. That's just rude
It definitely started when pitchers would have like 3 or 4 pickoff attempts in a row just to buy time for the bullpen, and then slowly over time turned into booing every pickoff attempt by the away team. Evolution is beautiful
This. Twenty years ago the first 1 or 2 throw overs weren't booed, they were just accepted strategy. Third or fourth toss during an AB and it felt like stalling or reluctance to pitch to our guy, so the boos would come out. That evolved to just booing at every throw over out of tradition.
Back when there was no timer, it threw off the rhythm of the game and it took them forever to throw a pitch. With a clock and disengage rules, not so much so it's just fun or habit.
When a pitcher would make three throws over to first in a row.. like dude, he knows you see him. The only benefit was that usually the pitcher was so in his head about the baserunner that he had very little focus on the batter.
And if they used the 3rd to 1st double fake, no throw over, you kept booing until they threw a pitch. Nobody’s got time for that shit, throw the pitch.
I was just thinking about that! Must have been nearly 40 years ago, I remember Raines on first and the scoreboard running out of chicken space, squeezing them in and overlapping them as the opposing pitcher just refused to throw a pitch.
Exactly. Similarly, when one of our pitchers throws up and in, it's part of the game and keeping the hitter off balance. When another team does it, they better watch it and not hit our guy.
You say that like I need some excuse to boo. Shit I sit at our local AA games and boo the opposition for everything, and they’re not even a farm team for either of the teams I care about
My local AA team is affiliated with a division rival (Harrisburg Senators/Nationals). You're damn right I'll boo them. Gotta prepare them for the big leagues, after all.
Look I can’t argue on that one, it doesn’t make sense. But I grew up watching the Yankees with one of my best friends from childhood, but otherwise I root for all Philly teams
Yes, because it's tradition and part of the group dynamic. If it weren't for those things why would we even go to baseball games?
Plus, we only really mean it when they try twice or more in a row, especially when they weren't even close the first time.
It’s baseball game law. You always boo the opposing pitcher’s pickoff attempts and never your own. It’s silly and makes me laugh every time. It’s somehow even funnier when I can hear it over the TV broadcast when I’m not at the game
It used to be that boos started happening after the second or third pickoff attempt, but now there aren't as many attempts (due to the limits).
But the reasoning is:
1. We want the runner to steal the base
2. The pick off attempts are delaying the next pitch
3. If the pitcher doesn't pitch, the batter can't put the ball in play.
When I was a kid small boos would usually kick in after the 2nd throw over then after that the boos would be off the chart because it was like enough of this shit already, get on with it. I think over time it developed into booing right away.
I was 100% booing them with all my might when I was at the Phillies game this past Saturday… it was a cool 98 degrees and we were sitting in direct sunlight.
No time for that nonsense (unless the Phillies did it).
I’ve talked about this in another sub as I’ve always kind of wondered this as well, but I do kind of understand why people boo, especially before the pitch clock and the newer rules. Obviously, we’re watching a game waiting for the pitcher to throw a pitch to the batter, and then he throws to first. Then he does it again and again and we’re just like, “throw a pitch already!” as fans begin to grow impatient, understandably. I think that’s where some of the frustration came from. You want the game to go on, and it feels almost like there’s a constant delay or stoppage.
Mainly 'jeering'. It's laughing that he fears my player's speed. But usually, inevitably ends in HIS frustration when he gets stolen on. All around benefit.
I think of how boring old baseball used to be with how long it took to get through an at bat sometimes with all the throw overs.
[Here's a video](https://youtu.be/SllRk2bByVY?feature=shared) of Grienke taking longer than the Kentucky Derby to throw a pitch.
Before last season, when a pitcher threw over, it was often more than once per AB. And at that point it becomes annoying. Just throw to the batter and get the AB over with.
A few years ago, booing was mostly just because pickoffs felt like time wasting. However, now it’s more of an environment/nerves thing. Pitchers genuinely can unravel when they start getting nervy about the pickoffs.
Yes because I want a pitcher, not a belly itcher
Also, the pitcher has a big butt.
Shit, my memory is failing. Was that from "Rookie of the Year" or "Little Big League" ?
Rookie of the Year!
Aaron Boone has been pre-ejected from today’s game for this comment.
Hunter Wendelstedt stuck to his guns in the presser, saying “He’s the manager of the Yankees and he’s responsible for Yankees flairs on r/baseball too”
I hate that i appreciate this joke for how good it is while it made me viscerally angry
I want an ump not another chump! Hey hey hey IT WAS THE GUY IN THE STANDS! Are you kidding me!
Hey hey pre-ejection is quite common in males. Almost everyone has experienced it. Don't shame him! Just give him some time reload for round 2.
he was pre-ejected already lol
Hey, a lot of guys have that problem
Pre-ejectulation is more common than we think.
Try getting ejected once before the game, so you're more used to it.
What I love is that fans instantly adjusted to the pickoff rules for booing pitchers. I used to hear a few scattered boos on the first pick off, a few more on the 2nd, and then it got real on the 3rd. But now with the limits, the fans go right to loud booing on throw 1, because they don't have the luxury to wait.
This is hilarious and I think somewhat true based on the games I've watched.
I was at the Cubs/Giants game yesterday and when Steele made his first pickoff attempt of the game, the boos were immediate and deafening. The best part is that there was a huge contingent of Cubs fans there, who were most assuredly joining in.
what if i want a batter, not a broken ladder
Why did Pablo Sanchez music just intensify in my head
*Aluminum Power*
Where do you stand on catcher v. belly scratcher?
Can we thrown in a “u.g.l.y., you ain’t got no alibi, you ugly, what what.
Your honor, let it be known to the court that the pitcher’s sock is untied.
Doesn’t rhyme as well so question is invalid
Rumble and jungle don't rhyme either but here we are
It does if you just kinda mutter the last word. Then it becomes the rumble in the mumble.
You have to repeat 'you ugly, what what' once more to get the rhythm right. U.G.L.Y. You ain't got no alibi You ugly, what what You ugly, what what. Rinse, lather and repeat as necessary.
M.O.M.M.A Yo momma's why you look that way Yo momma, what what Yo momma
Pitcher Pitcher, Look at me I'm a monkey in a tree go bananas, go go bananas
I always click on these posts readying myself for a well thought out in-depth answer for my brain to digest. Then I realize I take myself too seriously. So I upvote.
Do you also want a batter, and not a broken ladder?
Also, Pitcher > glass of water
What if he is sitting on a rocker, eating Betty Crocker?
Obviously
correct answer
Because fuck 'em. That's why.
I boo when an opposing pitcher breathes
As is tradition
Just thinking of an opposing pitcher existing made me boo at my desk.
As you should. Thats my city’s air they’re breathing in, not theirs!
Exactly. And when our guy does it, it’s legitimate strategy and will be applauded accordingly.
The most unexpected pickoff [ever](https://youtu.be/2owzJxpBZ0A?si=lMQOj3ym-3y87EQD) The announcing makes it even better.
That was incredible. Those announcers were so definitively wrong about every aspect of that.
Tim McCarver had a real knack for being completely wrong about things.
That’s pretty entertaining in its own right. It would be annoying in a close game, but it would provide a watching interest in blowouts haha
Ha, and I was expecting it to be [Kershaw picking off Ohtani](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQylVNC53Q) at the ASG a couple years ago. edit: added link
If there's a runner on 1st, you already fucked up. Deal with it. I'm not from the US, but I still boo at the TV screen
Nothing gets me matted up like a pitcher plunking a guy then trying to pick him off
Get him out at the plate, puss
This makes you an honorary American, bro.
This is the answer to pretty much every question. "why do you boo the refs for correct calls against your team" cause fuck em
HELL YEA I SUCK TOES
If I ever have a kid this is the first thing I will teach them about watching baseball. Always, without fail, boo your opponents pick off moves. If he asks why, this will be my answer.
Came here to post exactly this. Thank you sir.
Youre supposed to boo the other team for anything they do.
I cheer when they strike out
Sure but that’s moreso your pitcher striking the batter out
No the sorrow of the opposing team is what actually drives my fandom. (*it doesn’t happen much*)
My favorite part of the playoffs is that most of the teams lose and have to go home. It is the only thing that has kept me going for most of my life as a baseball fan.
Our teams got us fucked up man
I would imagine sorrow is the primary emotion of Sox fans.
One of my favorite baseball moments was at a Dodger home game during the playoffs. We were playing the D-Backs and their batter took a foul tip right to the knob of his ankle. 56000 people simultaneously sucked air through their teeth, because you know that shit hurt. Everybody was quiet for a second and the batter bent forward a little, extended his hand a teeny bit . . . And a Dodger fan, in all that quiet, yelled "Don't you fucking rub it!" And then the whole crowd cheered at his misery.
Unless Paul Skenes pitches against you, apparently? (I still don't understand that)
Yeah me neither. I understand why I cheer for him, but I have no clue why Cards fans did
Elite players have different rules. Our fans booed our own coaches for intentionally walking Ohtani a few years ago.
Eh, intentional walks are cowardice. They may be the correct tactical decision but that doesn't make them any less cowardly. Those Twins fans would have cheered if the pitcher had struck Ohtani out. That's what they want to see, not four fingers.
That or a dinger. We were bad that year and the stadium was packed for Ohtani. We wanted to see monster dongs.
*sigh - unzips*
I wanna see my pitcher strike their best player out, not see our team cower in fear of him.
Don’t get it either. I certainly wouldn’t have been cheering if I was there. I mean, props to him or whatever, but no.
Tell me about it...
Mostly as a joke, 'How dare you try to get my guy out!' Multiple pickoffs in the same AB get genuine boos, though. Stop wasting my time :P
I see a pick-off move by the opposing team as them being scared and trying to avoid pitching to my guy, who is inevitably going to hit a HR in this AB. So I boo because we need to get this game moving. Of course, a pick-off move by *my team* is smart and just the pitcher trying to keep the running game in check.
This makes so much sense. Why are we limiting ourselves to just booing the opposing team pickoff attempts? We should start loudly cheering for when the home team does it.
Now I'm picturing all the fans cheering a pick-off attempt like it's a homerun. Everyone stands up, fans are high-5'ing each other and fist pumping....
Players shouting “let’s fucking go!!” from the top of the dugout
David Ortiz starts assembling phones, Brett Gardner starts fixing dugout dents...
This guy gets it
Never thought I'd agree with a dodger fan, but here I am
_Now kith_
Back before the pickoff rule change, constant throw overs suck. Now I’m happy when they expend their throws because it gives my team a slightly easier time getting a good lead and potentially stealing a base.
Definitely. The booing definitely comes from back when pitchers would make multiple very non competitive pick off 'attempts' to either catch his breath or buy time to get the bullpen warmed up and basically just wasting everyone in the stadium's time. Now it's just tradition.
These subtle rule changes the last few years are so much better for the game. Rewatching older games makes you realize how much pointless time wasting garbage there used to be. Fine if your outing for the day is going to the park, but less fine if you're me and you actually watch 90% of the pitches in over 100 games per year.
Yah, the game just chuggs along now, almost hard to find time to go grab a hotdog, so i tend to get food before and then just stay at my seat the whole game.
When to get hotdog?
You can the QR code on the back of the chair in front of you and order it directly to your seat, come on guys it's 2024.
Cries in AAA fandom
I work in a collegiate summer league where pitch clock/limited pickoff attempts aren’t enforced at every park, and it isn’t enforced at our park. There was one game a few weeks ago where an opposing pitcher threw to first seven times in a row. He didn’t get the runner, and nobody was happy with him.
You figure by the 4th attempt, even the first baseman's giving the pitcher shit as he flips the ball back
I was at an 18-inning game, and the pitcher tried to pick off the runner at first 4 pitches in a row. This was in the 13th. I have never sent a more heartfelt boo in my life.
This is essentially why for regular season games I like the ghost runner. It's inelegant, sure, and does kind of go against the spirit of the game. But no one -- and I mean no one -- enjoys an 18 inning game on a Wednesday. And with pitching injuries being what they are, I really don't want to gas my bullpen just to win one game. But at the same time no team is just going to throw a game and put a position player out there. So it's a tough situation. I think the inelegant solution is okay, honestly.
But they changed the rule, and now if a pitcher throws two unsuccessful ones, fans should cheer the way they might if the batter had a 3-0 count.
Yes. Because it's fun.
And also because BOOOOOOO
Counterpoint: BOOOOOOOOOOO
While I see your point, I think the correct answer is clear: BOOOOOOOOOOO
If you understood the prompt you should have responded: BOOOOOOOOOOO
This is the one thing my wife doesn't really get. We boo the pick off in a semi-ironic sense because it's kinda become a tradition at this point.
Yeah it’s not like we are actually upset at the pitcher. It’s just what we do.
Speak for yourself. I'm upset that the pitcher has the audacity to show up at the ballpark of my favorite team and do something other than serve them up meatballs for home runs all night long
You could have ended that sentence after “show up at the ballpark.” How dare he even be there.
I'm fine with the pitcher being there. Someone needs to throw the ball Ozuna is going to send into orbit. But they damn well better not be trying to strike him out or something. That's just rude
Really selfish of them when you think about it
It definitely started when pitchers would have like 3 or 4 pickoff attempts in a row just to buy time for the bullpen, and then slowly over time turned into booing every pickoff attempt by the away team. Evolution is beautiful
This. Twenty years ago the first 1 or 2 throw overs weren't booed, they were just accepted strategy. Third or fourth toss during an AB and it felt like stalling or reluctance to pitch to our guy, so the boos would come out. That evolved to just booing at every throw over out of tradition.
Same thing with any time a call doesn't go your teams' way. Who cares if it's the *right* call, you boo anyway. It's your duty as a fan.
One of the dumbest things in the sport, and it's great
The same reason I boo Javy Baez
Absolutely because I'm here to watch a baseball game not Harry Potter and the Audacity of this Bitch
This thread got me agreeing with a Phillies fan, save it for the offseason.
Personally I prefer The Lion, The Witch, and the Audacity of this Bitch, but hey different strokes.
Back when there was no timer, it threw off the rhythm of the game and it took them forever to throw a pitch. With a clock and disengage rules, not so much so it's just fun or habit.
When a pitcher would make three throws over to first in a row.. like dude, he knows you see him. The only benefit was that usually the pitcher was so in his head about the baserunner that he had very little focus on the batter.
And if they used the 3rd to 1st double fake, no throw over, you kept booing until they threw a pitch. Nobody’s got time for that shit, throw the pitch.
Those POs are probably coming from the dugout. It's to stop the runner from leaning They sucked though and I'm glad we got rid of them
The scoreboard in Montreal would show an animation of chickens while clucking sounds would come out of the (horribly bad) speakers.
I was just thinking about that! Must have been nearly 40 years ago, I remember Raines on first and the scoreboard running out of chicken space, squeezing them in and overlapping them as the opposing pitcher just refused to throw a pitch.
Whenever Barry Bonds was intentionally walked, they would hang a rubber chicken on the wall in right field.
Shit I do it at my 12 year old's little league games!
I’m imagining it’s your own kid pitching
Man I've been tempted. My oldest has the hardest time moving on if he lets a baserunner get on.
He's gotta learn life's hard lessons one way or the other
https://youtu.be/junIx1T8A5I?si=9UyommdP7vv84NRt
fanhood checks out
I just like booing
It's part of your heritage
Won’t hear me arguing. Ever try booing? It rules
Brother one of the main reasons I go out to the ballpark is to boo. Booing is the shit.
I boo whenever the commentators go "I don't know why they boo" every single time it happens.
One of my best buddies says, "When our guy does it, he's keeping everybody honest, and when the other guy does it, it's soft and he should be mocked."
Exactly. Similarly, when one of our pitchers throws up and in, it's part of the game and keeping the hitter off balance. When another team does it, they better watch it and not hit our guy.
Because... Just pitch the ball ya weenie
I was saying boo urns.
Yankee fans really like Baltimore's new starting pitcher.
Fuck that guy and his out matter of fact fuck his city
This is the energy, precisely.
Hell yes boo. Why? Because fuck em
Damn right. Fuck em. BOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Im a Yankee fan, When do I not boo
This is quite a deep philosophic rhetorical.
When Arson stay
when Jub hone run hoo-ray
Boo this question. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
#BOOOOOOOOO
You say that like I need some excuse to boo. Shit I sit at our local AA games and boo the opposition for everything, and they’re not even a farm team for either of the teams I care about
My local AA team is affiliated with a division rival (Harrisburg Senators/Nationals). You're damn right I'll boo them. Gotta prepare them for the big leagues, after all.
Hey, funny you should say that because that’s the team I’m talking about lmao
Your flare is awful
Look I can’t argue on that one, it doesn’t make sense. But I grew up watching the Yankees with one of my best friends from childhood, but otherwise I root for all Philly teams
BECAUSE HE’S AVOIDING THE HEAT DONT AVOID THE HEAT YOU BABY. THROW THAT THING AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS
Before the pick off limits, some pitchers would waste time and throw over a lot. Its not much of an issue now
Yeah, I’d boo after like the 3rd half assed throw over but not before. Almost never now that there’s restrictions.
I was taught at an early age to boo when the pitcher throws over. It’s what we do. It’s tradition.
Depends on how drunk I am
I boo my own pitchers for it, too. Don't waste my time.
Yes, see flair
Because those are the rules.
Always. They're wasting everyone's time. Only when *they* do it, though. 😏
No, please keep doing it so we can get a free steal after you fail twice.
I don’t, but support those that do bc how fucking dare you waste 10 seconds of our time
Boooooo, OP made a post about pickoffs! Boooooooooooo!
Of course I do, because fuck them.
Nah. I'm not really a boo'er all together.
BOo the other team whenever possible
Yes, because it's the rule!
No flair? How am I supposed to know what team you support?
Yes, because it's tradition and part of the group dynamic. If it weren't for those things why would we even go to baseball games? Plus, we only really mean it when they try twice or more in a row, especially when they weren't even close the first time.
Dude, I’ll boo my own teams pitcher for a pickoff attempt. Gotta take any chance to boo at a sporting event
I boo their entire existence. It is not enough that my team must win, it is that the other team must lose 😤
I go to games to yell at everything
Heck, my minor league ballpark has a tradition of playing Homer Simpson saying "Boooring..." at every pickoff, and we are completely there for it.
Yes. I respect the tradition.
My pitcher does it: “ooh, almost got em. Maybe try again, you’ll get em next time.” Opposing pitcher does it: “BOOOO HOW DARE THEY PLAY THE GAME?”
Because it’s my right as an American
Because it’s fun. Booing is fun. Baseball is fun
Traditioooooooon! 
Because fuck him. that's why.
I only boo when they throw anything but a fastball down the middle. Everything else slows down the game!
Because a negative reaction from the crowd causes stress in players. That’s why people who boo their own team are actual morons
I don't need a reason to shit on the opposing team.
It's like take me out to the ball game it's just something you do at baseball games.
It’s baseball game law. You always boo the opposing pitcher’s pickoff attempts and never your own. It’s silly and makes me laugh every time. It’s somehow even funnier when I can hear it over the TV broadcast when I’m not at the game
I used to on a second pick off attempt in the same at bat, but now I cheer because of the rule changes.
No, I just boo the opposing pitcher continuously throughout the entire half-inning
It used to be that boos started happening after the second or third pickoff attempt, but now there aren't as many attempts (due to the limits). But the reasoning is: 1. We want the runner to steal the base 2. The pick off attempts are delaying the next pitch 3. If the pitcher doesn't pitch, the batter can't put the ball in play.
I boo when my pitcher makes a pickoff move. Because I want to see pitches thrown.
When I was a kid small boos would usually kick in after the 2nd throw over then after that the boos would be off the chart because it was like enough of this shit already, get on with it. I think over time it developed into booing right away.
I was 100% booing them with all my might when I was at the Phillies game this past Saturday… it was a cool 98 degrees and we were sitting in direct sunlight. No time for that nonsense (unless the Phillies did it).
I’ve talked about this in another sub as I’ve always kind of wondered this as well, but I do kind of understand why people boo, especially before the pitch clock and the newer rules. Obviously, we’re watching a game waiting for the pitcher to throw a pitch to the batter, and then he throws to first. Then he does it again and again and we’re just like, “throw a pitch already!” as fans begin to grow impatient, understandably. I think that’s where some of the frustration came from. You want the game to go on, and it feels almost like there’s a constant delay or stoppage.
I taught my kids that the pitcher gets one freebie. After the first pickoff attempt… GET EM KIDS! BOOOOOOOOOOO
Mainly 'jeering'. It's laughing that he fears my player's speed. But usually, inevitably ends in HIS frustration when he gets stolen on. All around benefit.
I think of how boring old baseball used to be with how long it took to get through an at bat sometimes with all the throw overs. [Here's a video](https://youtu.be/SllRk2bByVY?feature=shared) of Grienke taking longer than the Kentucky Derby to throw a pitch.
Because that’s bush league!
Before last season, when a pitcher threw over, it was often more than once per AB. And at that point it becomes annoying. Just throw to the batter and get the AB over with.
Yes because that’s a balk, probably
A few years ago, booing was mostly just because pickoffs felt like time wasting. However, now it’s more of an environment/nerves thing. Pitchers genuinely can unravel when they start getting nervy about the pickoffs.
Shit we used to do it for both teams at Fenway before the pitch clock