I have a couple buddies who officiate. They tell me that taunting the officials doesn't help or hurt! Officials seem to block out the crowd, or mostly get amused with the crazies! The officials I know dont let the crowd affect their objectivity to the game. Besides, officials are really concentrating on the game action to hard to notice most of the time. There is so much happening so fast in a ball game letting anything distract them would be the problem. Focus, see the ball, be the ball!