Small Baseball Rivalries

[steveringo]

Just need to give props to all the teams (including NY) that played "Sweet Caroline" during last night's games.

It is a song that Boston has played after every 7th inning of every home game (to the annoyance of every fan) for about 15 years. Most of us hate the song, but it was very nice to see other teams playing it in honor of the families affected by the Marathon attack.

There are many rivalries, but we are all baseball fans. Beyond that, we are all human. It is good to see some teams understand.

 

[bone3421]

 

[fordman84]

 

[HammerDown]

Call me a hater but I thought it was over the top and unnecessary.

 

[Swangin]

Call me a hater but I thought it was over the top and unnecessary.

Not really sure how playing a song is over the top? pretty simple with a nice message

 

[HammerDown]

Everyone in the free world outside of Boston hates that song. I fail to see how playing it in everyone else's stadium shows respect to individual victims of random violence. All playing that dumb song did was make it about Boston and the Red Sox. It's not about them.

 

[Swangin]

Everyone in the free world outside of Boston hates that song. I fail to see how playing it in everyone else's stadium shows respect to individual victims of random violence. All playing that dumb song did was make it about Boston and the Red Sox. It's not about them.

I'm sure most did a moment of silence for everyone as well. But it was just something they thought could connect on the baseball side too.

 

[steveringo]

Everyone in the free world outside of Boston hates that song. I fail to see how playing it in everyone else's stadium shows respect to individual victims of random violence. All playing that dumb song did was make it about Boston and the Red Sox. It's not about them.

I can guarantee most people inside Boston hate that song more that the people outside Boston... My props were for the teams that just wanted to do something... Most people feel sad for those affected and want to try to make them feel some love. I suspect the executive conversations went something like this:

"What can we do, besides a moment of silence, to show that we are thinking about them?"

"What do they do at Fenway that no one else does?"

"We'll they play that shitty Neil Diamond song at every home game."

"God I hate that song!"

"Me too. Maybe we can play it tonight to show we care."


It is the thought that counts.

 

[HammerDown]

It is the thought that counts.

I won't argue with that. I guess I'm just a little weary of all the melodramatic collectivism on Facebook and Twitter. This is not about the "courage of Boston" and other such silly bullshit. :rollseyes: