You can't be loud. Sure you can be super loud in between rallies, but once the score is called everyone that plays the game knows that it's time to shut up.

And I think this is fine for normal amateur play, and tennis, and golf, and other wussy non-televised sports. But I start to think about how in Basketball when the opposing team is shooting a freethrow, people behind the glass backboard are screaming their asses of and waving crap around trying their hardest to get the player to screw up and miss the shot.  In Baseball, I got a huge kick out of sitting behind homeplate and yelling out "Hey batta batta, HEY batta BATTA, SWIIING!"

No one ever looked at me like I was crazy.  It was part of the game, and shoot, other people we're yelling things too.  I can tell you that by participating in this way, I felt more in touch with the game.  Even at my kid's soccer game I got pretty amped yelling out "come on kick it...there ya go...Hoooly moly, keep going, get it in, come onnnnn.  GOOOOOOOO!  GOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAL."  I was excited and it was during play and omg if other parents weren't causing a ruckus for their kids as well.

How can I tell that we've all be trained not to say anything during the rally, other than the "Quiet please" from the IRT refs?  My uncle, who had never in his life either played racquetball or seen it before came to watch me play one time.  What did he do?  He screamed out mid rally "Com'on Willie!!  Kick some butt!"  I looked up at him and was like, wtf are you doing man?

Then I think of the Pro game, and am like, why not?  Why can't people scream out, "skip the ball you skippy skipperton" before someone hits a shot?  Who's to say that if someone hits a lousy shot we can't rag on them.  Sure it'd be a big change from the current status quo, but I'm telling you as I'm watching the current event live on ESPN360, I'm screaming at the television!

Why on earth am I more into the game at home sitting on my ass than actually being there?

Sure there should be limits, just like in other sports.  Like no going up and banging on the glass or throwing crap into the court.  But please stop quieting the crowds down because I think you're killing your audience participation and making it less exciting for the people that are on the outside of the shiny glass cube.