Sunday, August 21, 2005

un-American (?) baseball fan

Pretty quiet weekend around T-town....had to open at the bookstore friday and saturday...which I hate
went out with Cheryl, Jen and Emily to the Maumee Street Fair on Friday night...won an inflatable baseball bat (which I must have left at Cheryl's) for throwing a blazing 46mph fastball...
Saturday: went to the new Irish pub at the mall which was very cool...though I was crashing too much to really enjoy it...it was supposed to be a big crowd but almost everyone bailed but Jen, Chief and Kristin (Krystin)
today I have done absolutely nothing except watch the Cubs get killed..I HATE sundays


now a random rant: when Brandon and I went to our second straight Mud Hens game on Thursday night there was some weird Elvis impersonator who insisted on singing "God Bless America" in place of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the 7th inning stretch....
I fucking hate this new trend to baseball....first off...its the goddamn 7th inning stretch!!!! Sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame"!!!! it's tradition...not a fake tradition like this is turning into!! if you want to sing both fine....but "God Bless America" should never REPLACE it.....
plus its not that great a song. Its really not...sure some of the words are pretty, but overall it's simply not that great. I've never learned the words to it like other "American" songs...not sure how anyone knows them actually
It's also just a song...it has no more overall meaning to this country than Lee Greenwood's obnoxious "God Bless the USA". It IS NOT the national anthem. I don't feel compelled to stand for it, even less to remove my hat (which I didn't). We get one national anthem...and that ain't it. (though it might be more musical than our national anthem...based on an English drinking song)
Does this make me un-American? Are the right-wing patriotism cops about to bust my door open and haul me off for having musical taste? I know this got started because of 9/11 at the Yankees games to help heal the country..and that's fine...I do have a soul (contrary to popular belief) but now it's simply turned into another bad thing the fucking Yankees have brought onto all of baseball....
don't even get me started on the whole God concept in the song (which I chose to ignore this time)
well off to save a spotted owl, plot the overthrow of the straight white male and read my Karl Marx!

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Even I agree with Adam on this point. Don't forget that you and I did sing "Take me out to the ballgame" after that and got the great applause from that old lady in front of us. LOL
Brandon

3:05 PM  

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