Azeew said:

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Was the DJ at Olsen the same jackass at Kyle Field?

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You must not have been at the Bama game this year. He was awesome

Today was better. Not right but better. First the volume was lower which helped a ton. Didn't have to shout to talk to someone. There were some "baseball" sounds and songs though still not Olsen. No dancers. It was better than Friday. I won't be there tomorrow. Be interesting to see what my son thinks tomorrow. He's been there for 100's of times so he's got a good sense of what Olsen should be.

ColoradoMooseHerd said:

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ensign_beedrill said:

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Bullpen Chias said:

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I enjoyed the horses, dance team and commercial strength bubble machines. Music was not mid-season form, but that should be easy to fix.

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What commercial strength bubble machines? I'm intrigued.

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To be honest this was one of the most alarming things to me. The bubbles started organically and grew with the people. The people made it happen. If the fans don't do it then it doesn't rain bubbles.

If we just bring in larger and larger bubble machines it is not the same thing to me.

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By organic, you mean copying the Dodgers?

And before anyone takes this the wrong way...i don't care that the team ripped it, and obviously the fans turned it into a new era tradition...But that's how it started

Bunk Moreland said:

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ColoradoMooseHerd said:

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ensign_beedrill said:

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Bullpen Chias said:

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I enjoyed the horses, dance team and commercial strength bubble machines. Music was not mid-season form, but that should be easy to fix.

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What commercial strength bubble machines? I'm intrigued.

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To be honest this was one of the most alarming things to me. The bubbles started organically and grew with the people. The people made it happen. If the fans don't do it then it doesn't rain bubbles.

If we just bring in larger and larger bubble machines it is not the same thing to me.

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By organic, you mean copying the Dodgers?

And before anyone takes this the wrong way...i don't care that the team ripped it, and obviously the fans turned it into a new era tradition...But that's how it started

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I think what they're trying to say is that it started I think by the players or player, then fans picked up on it and grew from there. It wasn't a marketing gimmick saying we're Bubble City then tell the fans this is the new thing we're doing

I understand but it wasn't exactly organic. I'm guessing 95+% of fans have no idea it began with the Dodgers. That was my point.

And sort of the point to the larger conversation about what people want to be featured or not featured. At the end of the day it's all a bunch of novelties. Win and things feel good. Lose and they don't.

Today was my first time back at Olsen in a couple of years. It did seem more subdued. Generic. Even the ball 5 chants seemed a little less enthusiastic. A little disappointing but at least we got the W.

I miss the old school Raggies

The ball 5 chant is being drowned out by the stupid music. It keeps the fans from coordinating the yell and many just give up.

It was the 2nd game of the year.

The older guys in 203 leading the ball 5 chant Friday we're going WAY too fast also.

It's first series gitters. Happens to all of us.

Since everyone is in the whine about things that don't matter mode, the chant has been too fast for 3-4 years now.

Closer to 10 years

12Power said:

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Yeah, it seems someone is trying too hard. First at Kyle and I guess now at Blue Bell.
The AD must have hired a person from pro sporting events. They are completely degrading the natural organic reactions and traditions the student body has created historically. The dj at Kyle is definitely interfering with traditions. MEMO TO AD: AGGIES DO NOT NEED HELP CREATING A NATURAL FUN AND EXCITING SPORTS EVENT ATMOSPHERE! YOU ARE RUINING EVERYTHING!

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The changes at Olsen are coming from schloss not the AD.

I was trying to be delicate because 10 years is a few generations of students who always thought they were doing it right when they weren't.

I'm old now and have no more ****s to give

on the ball 5… that next hitter has to give up his walkup song.. agree, trying to do ball 5 while a walkup song is playing doesn't work. I'd think if asked, every hitter would gladly say don't play the song in that situation.

That's ridiculous. We've done it over walk ups forever.

You don't need to hear to sync up. Just watch their arms.

12Power said:

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Yeah, it seems someone is trying too hard. First at Kyle and I guess now at Blue Bell.
The AD must have hired a person from pro sporting events. They are completely degrading the natural organic reactions and traditions the student body has created historically. The dj at Kyle is definitely interfering with traditions. MEMO TO AD: AGGIES DO NOT NEED HELP CREATING A NATURAL FUN AND EXCITING SPORTS EVENT ATMOSPHERE! YOU ARE RUINING EVERYTHING!

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The AD did hire someone who requested all these changes. His name is Jim Schlossnagle

I think something is being confused here. We wanted to win! That is the change we need. Do that, and more people want to come and be engaged. No need to turn this into every other ballpark in the country and start trying to jump the shark.

We already have one of the top 5 environments in college baseball at Olsen. I don't recall anyone ever saying how awesome of an experience they had going to a TCU game. So Schloss and the AD need to focus on winning baseball on the field, and leave the fan stuff alone!

Note to AD - We got this! Been doing it for quite a while now.

TAMU1990 said:

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Note to AD - We got this! Been doing it for quite a while now.

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It's not the AD making the changes

Aggieangler93 said:

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I think something is being confused here. We wanted to win! That is the change we need. Do that, and more people want to come and be engaged. No need to turn this into every other ballpark in the country and start trying to jump the shark.

We already have one of the top 5 environments in college baseball at Olsen. I don't recall anyone ever saying how awesome of an experience they had going to a TCU game. So Schloss and the AD need to focus on winning baseball on the field, and leave the fan stuff alone!

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Dilly Dilly

I got a Nelda hug. I can handle all the changes now.

BQ_90 said:

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TAMU1990 said:

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Note to AD - We got this! Been doing it for quite a while now.

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It's not the AD making the changes

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The AD oversees the guy making changes. Every organization is different and I'm lucky that my bosses give me a fair amount of freedom to do my job but if I ever do something that they think is bad for the brand, they have no problems stepping in and telling me to knock it off.

AggieBaseball06 said:

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BQ_90 said:

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TAMU1990 said:

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Note to AD - We got this! Been doing it for quite a while now.

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It's not the AD making the changes

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The AD oversees the guy making changes. Every organization is different and I'm lucky that my bosses give me a fair amount of freedom to do my job but if I ever do something that they think is bad for the brand, they have no problems stepping in and telling me to knock it off.

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The head coach is the one making these changes. I'm sure it was part of the deal when he was hired. Buzz got a bunch of concessions when he was hired

BQ_90 said:

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AggieBaseball06 said:

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BQ_90 said:

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TAMU1990 said:

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Note to AD - We got this! Been doing it for quite a while now.

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It's not the AD making the changes

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The AD oversees the guy making changes. Every organization is different and I'm lucky that my bosses give me a fair amount of freedom to do my job but if I ever do something that they think is bad for the brand, they have no problems stepping in and telling me to knock it off.

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The head coach is the one making these changes. I'm sure it was part of the deal when he was hired. Buzz got a bunch of concessions when he was hired

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I have no doubt that there was something in the negotiations about giving Schloss some power to make changes. But I doubt he gets to do whatever he wants.

Edit: Poor choice of hyperbole.

AggieBaseball06 said:

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BQ_90 said:

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AggieBaseball06 said:

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BQ_90 said:

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TAMU1990 said:

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Note to AD - We got this! Been doing it for quite a while now.

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It's not the AD making the changes

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The AD oversees the guy making changes. Every organization is different and I'm lucky that my bosses give me a fair amount of freedom to do my job but if I ever do something that they think is bad for the brand, they have no problems stepping in and telling me to knock it off.

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The head coach is the one making these changes. I'm sure it was part of the deal when he was hired. Buzz got a bunch of concessions when he was hired

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I have no doubt that there was something in the negotiations about giving Schloss some power to make changes. But I doubt he gets to do whatever he wants.

Or maybe Bjork was so desperate that Schloss gets to spend 1 night/month at the Stella hotel with Bjork's wife. But I don't think that's how it works.

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Schloss said himself he was making the changes. Why you're dragging Bjork wife into this discussion is behind me

Arrived late today but Dragging the line was played. Hopefully Long Cool Woman will be played too. Step in the right direction. Thank you.

If they put me in charge of "dancers on the dugout," I'd go out to the beer tree before games and try to find 6 fat guys willing to do it. I don't know the answer to bringing the Aggie Baseball experience back to what it once was, but I don't think that doing the same stuff that everyone else does is it. Just my two cents.

Since they've apparently done away with all of the AC/DC, I *do* know what song I'd play over the PA when the Ags take the field!!
(you can safely skip the first 20 seconds of this)

They played it pregame

dabo man said:

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Since they've apparently done away with all of the AC/DC, I *do* know what song I'd play over the PA when the Ags take the field!!
(you can safely skip the first 20 seconds of this)

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Damn you! You have sent me down a rabbit hole......these guys are awesome !

Thanks for that.

Schloss needs to quit Purple Bayloring the Aggies.

Walk offs like that create quite an atmosphere.

The fans did their part in the 9th for sure.

I can actually understand the lyrics in this version!!

Other than missing a few Rick things, it really wasn't that bad. Parts of 202/203 had become stagnant and just following along in the last few seasons. It was nice to hear people actively working together to make noise/influence the game

So what actually has "changed" that was a tradition?

I'm going this weekend so I only got to watch on TV. I've been seeing some people say it didn't feel much different and some acting like the world is ending.