" The Indians honored their loyal fans by retiring the number 455 with the name 455 The Fans.

Fans have created the open source server emulator EQEmu, allowing users to run their own servers with custom rules.

Fans finding themselves writing the same letter to several correspondents sought to save themselves a lot of typing by duplicating their letters.

Fans typically are interested in even minor details of the object ( s ) of their fandom and spend a significant portion of their time and energy involved with their interest, often as a part of a social network with particular practices ( a fandom ); this is what differentiates " fannish " ( fandom-affiliated ) fans from those with only a casual interest.

Fans of professional wrestling have their own subculture, comparable to those of science fiction, video games, or comic books.

While the story has nothing to do with fandom, many science fiction fans felt very close to the protagonists, feeling their experience as bright people in a mundane world mirrored that of the mutants ; hence, the rallying cry, " Fans Are Slans!

Fans kept their distance from the Senators while the Baltimore Orioles, to the northeast, won four American League pennants and two World Series from the 1966 season through the 1971 season.

The band was close to a major label contract, but often alienated label representatives by intentionally performing badly in concert ; their 1985 live album, The Shit Hits the Fans, was an example of their concert performances at the time.

Fans consider it inappropriate for bids to compete on the basis of their chosen guests ( so as to avoid having someone chosen by a losing bid feeling that fandom had voted against them personally ), so bids do not reveal who their guests are until after the vote, and losing bids generally never reveal who they invited.

On November 8, 2007, Prince Fans United received a song named " PFUnk ", providing a kind of " unofficial answer " to their movement.

Fans responded to the new stars in the league ; by the end of the 2011 regular season, nine of the twelve teams in the league had increased attendance over their 2010 averages.

* Boo-birds: Fans who boo their own team when they play badly.

Fans of the twist praise the fact that their favorite players get a second chance and it adds a new layer of strategy to the game.

Fans lined up to buy Sonny and Cher tickets for their first tour, the Wondrous World Tour.

Fans of cowpunk base their look on Southern United States poor boys: vintage western wear-like checked shirts, Perfecto motorcycle jackets, wifebeaters, overalls, trucker hats, work boots, acid wash jeans, and cowboy boots.

Fans usually have a strong enough interest that some changes in their lifestyles are made to accommodate devotion to the focal object.

Fans have a desire for external involvement – they are motivated to demonstrate their involvement with the area of interest through certain behaviors ( attending conventions, posting online, displaying team banners outside their homes, etc .).

Fans often have a " wish to acquire " material objects related to the area of interest, such as a baseball hit by a famous slugger or a used guitar pick from their musical hero.

Fans could purchase fansubs at a modest cost or could contact clubs who would record the material on their own blank video cassettes.

Fans also had a generally mixed reaction, although their reaction was more favorable than critics.

The Crimson Giants ' membership in the NFL, meant that the Fans ' Association team could not play league teams.

Fans of heavy metal music have created their own subculture which encompasses more than just appreciation of the style of music.

Fans expect that the metal “… vocation performers includes total devotion to the music and deep loyalty to the youth subculture that grew up around it …” ; a metal performer must be an “ idealized representative of the subculture ”.

Fans of the steampunk genre or subculture also frequently wear steampunk-styled goggles, particularly when performing in a live action role-playing game.

Fans may become involved in a subculture of fandom, either via conventions, online communities, or through activities such as writing series-related fiction, costume creation, replica prop and model building, or creating their own audio or video productions based around the formats and characters.

Fans, who are associated with this music scene, call themselves Rivetheads.

After Fans waited through multiple opening acts, it was announced that the vocalist had fled the scene.

Fans sometimes make up explanations for such errors that may or may not be integrated into canon ; this has come to be colloquially known as fanwanking ( a term originally coined by the author Craig Hinton to describe excessive use of continuity ).

Fans began honoring Earnhardt by holding three fingers aloft on the third lap of every NASCAR Cup race, and the television coverage of NASCAR on Fox and NASCAR on NBC went silent for each third lap from Rockingham to the following year's race there in honor of Earnhardt For the first three weeks after Earnhardt's death, on-track incidents brought out the caution flag on lap three.

Fans around the world knew Ackerman by three letters " 4sj " or even two: " 4e " for " Forry.

Fans were encouraged to send messages of farewell by mail.

* 2002 Motorheadbangers Diary Of The Fans Volume 1 – Author: Alan Burridge, published by e-booksonline ( uk ) ltd, ISBN 1-903949-14-9

Supporters are represented by two independent bodies ; the Independent Manchester United Supporters Association ( IMUSA ), which maintains close links to the club through the MUFC Fans Forum, and the Manchester United Supporters ' Trust ( MUST ).

Fans were outraged by his firing and the character's death, which resulted in a ratings spike in early 2010.

Victorino is widely hated by Giants fans, as Sanchez is by Phillie Fans.

Fans in the West have adopted a wide range of Japanese anime and manga terminology, however the strong stylistic and thematic similarities between a sector of shōjo works has led to regarding them as a genre or style, sometimes with an attempt to assign it by degrees.

* How Bill James Changed Our View of Baseball: by Colleagues, Critics, Competitors and Just Plain Fans ( 2007 )

In a PFA Fans ' Favourites survey published by the Professional Footballers ' Association in December 2007, Chris Grimshaw was listed as the all-time favourite player amongst Accrington Stanley fans.

Fans can interact by e-mail and phone with the radio personalities during and after the game.

Fans responded as unfavourably as the critics, with many of the old fans being disappointed or simply confused by the new sound.

Fans reacted by ranking it as Cartman's " greatest moment " in a 2005 poll on Comedy Central's website.

Fans of real person slash state that the personas presented by the common figures of RPS such as boy bands, celebrities, athletes and pro wrestlers are " largely manufactured " for the pleasure of female fans, " so why not just run with them?

Fans responded by hurling obscenities and improvised missiles.

Fans successfully folded the minimal of 1000 cranes by the end of the 2005 convention season, however at this time, there is still no sign that a second season of the anime series will be forthcoming.

Fans from the Middle East were brought back by Crusaders.