[BluesDuke]

As a longtime Braves fan, I'll have to second the nomination of the chop. Well past it's prime, time to move on....PLEASE....

The Tomahawk Chop may be beginning its terminal phase. You can kind of tell about those things when fans in the enemy ballpark start mimicking your fans' chant or gestures to taunt you. When the Braves played the Mets in New York recently, and the Mets jumped the Braves for a big inning, the Shea Stadium fans started chanting the Tomahawk Chop chant at the Braves. I've seen it happen in a couple of other National League parks, too.

Most fun chant in the majors: Aside from the pleasant revival, seemingly, of Let's go, Mets!, you have to be a real sourpuss not to love it when Mariner fans in Safeco Field, when a certain right fielder comes up to hit, let loose with a relentless EE-chee-RO! EEE-chee-RO! that starts when he's about three steps from the batter's box and doesn't end until the at-bat is over and he's either heading back to the dugout or, more often, reaching base. When it looks like he's got a triple in the making (something he's especially good at hitting), the EE-chee-RO! follows him around the bases until he's safe at third.

It's an affection I understand and share. One of the real pleasures of my baseball watching these days is any chance of getting a Mariners' game on one of my cable channels (I live in southern California), so I can watch Ichiro Suzuki play ball.