The best chant in baseball belongs to Texas A&M, and it’s not even close – CBSSports.com

One of the great differences in college sports vs. professional sports is the fan atmosphere. This isn’t to say professionals sports fans are bad in any shape or form. It’s just that there aren’t taunting chants like you’ll see below in any pro sports setting.

Texas A&M, hosting the Super Regional against TCU for the right to go to the College World Series, let’s the world in on their taunt when opposing pitchers issue a four-pitch walk. They immediately start chanting slowly “ball five.” If the next pitch is a ball, it’s “ball six” and so on, until the pitcher finally throws a strike.

Stick with this. It’s rather impressive:

Ruthless!

I love how the TCU pitcher throws over to first base twice. We can’t prove this, but I’d be shocked if it wasn’t an attempt to disrupt the crowd. How about the errant pitch toward the head, too? He was rattled. Not that I blame him. That’s a helluva thing to know if you don’t throw a strike, it’s just going to keep building.

Let’s hope some other fan bases don’t try to emulate this. It’s Texas A&M’s thing. Leave it that way, but every fan base should be encouraged to come up with its own taunting method. That’s what fandom is all about, especially in college.

A&M would win that game to even the best-of-three series, 1-1, but TCU then won Sunday, 4-1, to advance to the College World Series in Omaha. So I guess TCU had the last laugh.

Still, if the NCAA baseball tournament was based upon crowd taunts, the Aggies would win it all.