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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts) Fri Mar 20, 2015, 06:44 AM Mar 2015

Will they have the mandatory "7th inning stretch" singing of "God Bless America" AGAIN this year?

Look, I understand how it got started(the congresscritters sang it after the plane hit the Pentagon) but 9/11 was fourteen years ago, we're out of Iraq and Osama is dead.

Will MLB ever stop beating this dead horse?

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Will they have the mandatory "7th inning stretch" singing of "God Bless America" AGAIN this year? (Original Post) Ken Burch Mar 2015 OP

I predict they will. bvf Mar 2015 #1

I want somebody to get up there for that and play some Rage Against The Machine instead Ken Burch Mar 2015 #2

That would be sweet. bvf Mar 2015 #5

My wife hates the voice of the woman singing it during Yankee games. Inkfreak Mar 2015 #3

It wouldn't be so bad if they could bring in Zombie Kate Smith to sing it Ken Burch Mar 2015 #4

It's a Thing now. If you're not a fan, you must hate Murica NightWatcher Mar 2015 #6

We sing Take Me Out to the Ballgame at Wrigley Drale Mar 2015 #7

I gotta say... CanSocDem Apr 2015 #8

"Will MLB ever stop beating this dead horse?" Novara Apr 2015 #9

bvf

(6,604 posts)

1. I predict they will.

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 07:15 AM

Mar 2015

Just another business decision.

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)

2. I want somebody to get up there for that and play some Rage Against The Machine instead

Reply to bvf (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 07:39 AM

Mar 2015

Or at least "Talking 'bout A Revolution" by Tracy Chapman.

bvf

(6,604 posts)

5. That would be sweet.

Reply to Ken Burch (Reply #2)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 08:25 AM

Mar 2015

The idea of a guerilla soundman/woman flipping to something like that is a great thing to consider.

Wonder what the reaction in the stands would be. Some exploding heads, for sure!

Inkfreak

(1,695 posts)

3. My wife hates the voice of the woman singing it during Yankee games.

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 07:41 AM

Mar 2015

I must admit, it's a bit irritating.

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)

4. It wouldn't be so bad if they could bring in Zombie Kate Smith to sing it

Reply to Inkfreak (Reply #3)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 07:44 AM

Mar 2015

(granted, she'd change most of the lyrics to "brains...brains...brains..." but still...)

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)

6. It's a Thing now. If you're not a fan, you must hate Murica

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 09:49 AM

Mar 2015

Drale

(7,932 posts)

7. We sing Take Me Out to the Ballgame at Wrigley

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 10:49 AM

Mar 2015

and that will never change

CanSocDem

(3,286 posts)

8. I gotta say...

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Fri Apr 3, 2015, 09:29 AM

Apr 2015

...that, in the last few games of spring, playing the recording of Kate Smith, with everybody trying to look their most patriotic, seems out of place.

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Novara

(5,842 posts)

9. "Will MLB ever stop beating this dead horse?"

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Fri Apr 10, 2015, 07:49 AM

Apr 2015

Nope, lest someone question their patriotism. Never mind that baseball, mom, and apple pie are stalwarts of good old American "patriotism" - we all have to be lockstep uber-christians to be patriotic, don'tchaknow.

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