During the Shane Victorino at-bat when he blasted his ninth home run of the year, the camera panned to the “Phlyin’ Hawaiians” fan group who pakced up their grass skirts and ukalailis and made the trek to D.C. (These guys were featured prominently on the Philly Comcast feed) This reminded a Nationals announcer of the now-defunct, “Padilla’s Flotillas.”
Propers, Nationals announcer-guy. (whoever you may be)
Now, I’ll be honest with you, up until about 10 minutes ago when I looked up ‘Flotilla’ in the dictionary, I thought it was floatilla (prounounced like tortilla) and insinuated that Vicente came to America by boat. Basically, I thought it was a racist fangroup. To my surprise, it’s pronounced totally different. So I guess they aren’t racist, either. Huh. Ya learn something new everyday.
Feel free to drop your favorite Phillie-fangroup in the comments (or make up your own)!
I’ll start: David Dellucci’s “Dellucc-bags”
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July 31st, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Sarge and in Charge?
July 31st, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Jamie’s Geriatrics?
July 31st, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Chamo, there’s already a “Moyer’s Lawyers” in existence who dress in suits and carry briefcases around.
July 31st, 2008 at 3:16 pm
What? Jesus. Let’s hope they issue themselves a “Cease and Desist” order pronto.
July 31st, 2008 at 3:38 pm
My favourite was still the Wolf Pack. I was hoping that he would come back so I could rejoin.
July 31st, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Back in the vet in like 2000 my buddies and I were geared up to debut our fan club, “The Coggin Toboggan” for the invincible relief pitcher extraordinaire David Coggin. We had a huge wooden toboggan someone was going to ride down the stares of the 700 level after each Coggin K, but unfortunately the bastard was relegated to the minor leagues before we could do it and he never surfaced in the bigs again.
July 31st, 2008 at 4:23 pm
I hope there’s an “Army of Juan” for Samuel’s Wall of Fame induction next week.
July 31st, 2008 at 4:26 pm
telemaco’s tacos
July 31st, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Millwood’s Dillweeds.
July 31st, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Come on! You couldn’t have forgotten “Millwood’s Militia” from a few years ago. The one ducd would rip his shirt off after every K. So, it was like twice a game.
July 31st, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Ricky Otero’s Sombreros
July 31st, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Kevin Stocker’s Stockers dressed as supermarket clerks. Hilarious!
July 31st, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Anyone else remember “Person’s People”, “Ogea’s Orangemen”, and the “Daal-House”?
July 31st, 2008 at 5:54 pm
God, hearing the Nats’ announcers just made me realize (once again) how crappy ours are. It’s been so long since I heard anyone say anything that actually pertains to the game being played on the field and make sense doing it. Please, someone, could we trade Wheels and Tmac for an announcer to be named later?!
July 31st, 2008 at 6:19 pm
The Nats’ announcers are terrible. T-errible. Maybe better when Don Sutton is the colorman (like last night) instead of Ray Knight. This is just one clip, I had to listen to them the whole game. Several comments about how they knew their lineup of career-.210 guys would “come alive.” Everytime Zimmerman made a play on a slow roller, they would say how Ryan play “All-star defense” (hey, assholes — GUZMAN beat him out for an all-star spot… he blows) day-in day-out. One Nats-Phils game I watched, Ray Knight went off about how he thinks Ryan Z is the best third baseman he’s ever seen… And, yes, he went on to say that he included Michael Jack in that assessment. Worse, they had Aaron Boone mic’d for the game, and about three times played a clip of his yelling “HOLLA! HOLLA!” at W. Harris after his leadoff homerun.
That got under my skin. Plus, I don’t think T-mac’s all that bad. Wheels, though…
Oh, yeah, a name… uh.. the Byrd Cage?
July 31st, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Phillies announcers > Nats announcers. Been watching the Nats feed while in VA and they are boring. Their feed does give a lots of rollings stat lines during the game which is better than the Phils though.
July 31st, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Aaron Boone was acting like K-Fed in last night’s game, not the one in which Ray Knight blasphemed against Schmidt. Sorry for the confusion.
Uhh… The Chooch Acabras?
July 31st, 2008 at 6:30 pm
No Nats announcer has ever done the chicken dance. Nuff said.
July 31st, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Who can forget Sal’s Pals?
July 31st, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Also wasn’t there the Duck Pond for Brandon Duckworth?
July 31st, 2008 at 11:06 pm
I’d vote for “Lace for Chase”, where the ladies wear lace under their Phillies jerseys, and break it out when Chase gets a base hit. I’d also like to see “Howard’s Ducks”, or maybe “Burrell’s Gurrlls”
August 1st, 2008 at 12:31 am
howards homers ftw.
August 1st, 2008 at 12:35 am
The best fan group I ever saw at CBP was back when David Delluche (sorry if the spelling sucks, I’m a little drunk) was with the team. I went to a double header against the Marlins the same day Abreu was traded and at the second game I saw a group in section 304 known as the Delluche-bags.
It was simply genius and I laughed quite a bit.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:07 am
How about that group Geary’s Query’s — Everyone sat there and asked themselves the infinite question “Why the fuck is Geoff Geary in again?”
August 1st, 2008 at 9:02 am
Some others that might have been:
The Fingermen for Alfonseca, The Rhodes Scholars and a very short-lived, ill-fated, confused Klanville section for Doug Glanville?
August 1st, 2008 at 9:29 am
I almost forgot the legendary Joe Roa and his popular comedy troupe, “Roa’s Boats.”
August 1st, 2008 at 12:22 pm
There were the Bowa-constrictors too, it was gay, but thats the only one I can think of right now.
August 1st, 2008 at 9:23 pm
What about those guys who used to do the “Schillometer” and counted Schilling’s K’s?
August 2nd, 2008 at 7:57 am
I saw Sal’s Pals at RFK a few years ago.
There’s also the Pratt Pack (they also dressed in suits), Burrell’s Squirrels, Burrell’s Girls, Utley’s Uglies, Thome’s Homies, and the Generic Fan Group. And didn’t some people trot out a Hamels’ Camels for a day?
August 2nd, 2008 at 12:47 pm
The Coste Guard
They wear red bathing suits, white t-shirts, sunglasses, and sunscreen on their nose
August 4th, 2008 at 10:21 am
if it isn’t hamel’s camels then there should be a hamel toes of glory coles
August 4th, 2008 at 11:49 am
A couple friends of mine were denied entry into CBP because they were dressed up as Africans with a huge sign that said “Hotel Rowanda” for Aaron Rowand.
Classy bunch of guys…
August 4th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Note: Flotilla *is* pronounced to rhyme with tortilla… in Spanish! Which, you know, Vicente speaks (I think) The Nats commentator was just showing off his Taco Bell side there. The correct way to say it is when flotilla rhymes with Padilla. Jeeze.