Charleston Shoe Thieves/Fan Culture

COMMUNITY REPORTS
The remainder of this article contains lore created collaboratively by the Blaseball community.

This page details the fan culture surrounding the Charleston Shoe Thieves.

Nickname

Charleston Shoe Thieves fans are also known as "Accomplices", which reflects how the fanbase is an extension of the Shoe Thieves themselves. They also seem to respond to any mention of shoes.

Honor Among Thieves

The fans, much like their beloved team, are in it for the love of the game. Shoes can be stolen from both winners and losers, after all.

Bigotry of any kind is against the Thieves' code.

Chants

General Chants

The most popular chant is a call and response, often after a victory:

• "Whose Kicks? / Our Kicks!"

After a particularly tense or dramatic victory, some fans will taunt the opposition by chanting "Our shoes now!" or "Give me your shoes!"

Two Out Rally

Fans have observed that a majority of the Shoe Thieves' runs occur after two batters are out, and have dubbed this the "Two Out Rally". As such, whenever two Shoe Thieves are out, fans will chant "Two Out Rally!" in hopes of encouraging their team to score.

Player-Specific

• "blood" (always in bold; for when Blood Hamburger is at bat)
• "Pine! Is! Fine!" (whenever Sebastian Woodman is up to bat)
• "its😔ok" (whenever Gunther O'Brian is pitching)
• "502!" (for Morrow Doyle, coined after The Grand Unslam caused a 502 Bad Gateway.)
• "She Run Ren!" (often shouted after Ren Hunter scores)

Incinerated Players

• "TEETH" (for Blankenship Fischer)

Retired Chants

• "Gloom and Doom!" (for either Workman Gloom and Beasley Gloom)
• "Gloom Gang!" (for when both Glooms are playing)

Superstitions

Due to the mystery of what causes a Rogue Ump to commit such an act, much superstition has grown around incineration. When talking about it, many accomplices use the euphemism "delacing". This is in part to avoid jinxing the team, either through simply invoking the word or by drawing unwanted attention from the Umps.

This seemed to work until partway through Season 3, when two players were delaced within days of each other, followed by the tragic losses of Matteo Prestige and Blankenship Fischer. The superstition has stuck, and fans hope that those four delacings were bad luck.

Rivalries

There are rarely dull moments with these fans, either due to the drama of Shoe Thieves games (see:the Grand Unslam), shoe-related antics, or the ever-shifting rivalries. Anyone with shoes is a target, yet some teams have earned particular recognition by the Accomplices.

• In Season 2, a rivalry with the Boston Flowers was mutually agreed, only for the teams to not play a single game together in Season 3. This was rectified in Season 4, including several back to back series and a Feedback event.
• After a narrow victory against the Dallas Steaks during the Season 2 playoffs, followed by both teams making playoffs again in Season 3, the accomplices declared the Steaks their rivals, much to the apparent bemusement of the Grillers.

Friendships

After Morrow Doyle was swapped to the Boston Flowers due to Feedback amid a string of weather events for the Flowers, fans realized they had a lot more in common with their rivals than previously thought. The accomplices could empathize with the pain of losing so many beloved players in quick succession, and have bonded more with Flowers fans. The rivalry still remains - only the Shoe Thieves are allowed to beat the Flowers.

The Shoe Thieves' █████████ with the Houston Spies is ████████. Any ██████████████████████ blaseball ████████████████████████ is purely coincidental.