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Sweet Caroline How Effing Cheesy Can It Get?
MLB should be required to hand out barf bags at the gate before games. Bad enough we have to listen to 4 hours of gushing admiration of a bunch of millionaire morons by jock sniffing announcers during a telecast.
Neil Diamond.
Evidently since the game is so lame they have to grasp at straws to "entertain" the lemmings. How pathetic the game of baseball has become since expansion. Very sad.
Last edited by Isaiah; 07-16-13 at 10:25 PM.
I enjoyed it. Haters gonna hate. It's all in fun for the fans etc. Just like take me out to the ball game.
Everything was cool until he started doing the daddy dancing.
Glad I'm not a red Sox fan and have to sit through that every game.
How the hell did it become a tradition in the first place?
PS. Should've had Metallica perform live instead.
[QUOTE=bigtymer56;19174454]Glad I'm not a red Sox fan and have to sit through that every game.
How the hell did it become a tradition in the first place?
Good question. Anyone know? By the by, not all Red Sox fans are thrilled with it either.
What is really disturbing is that the brain dead marketing departments of other teams are copying the lame arse gimmick.
Even the College World Series ladled up the slop to its captive audience this year. Takes sappiness to a new level.
What's next? "I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony...lah lah lah....ALL TOGETHER NOW!!!
Followed in the ninth by "What the world needs now is love sweet love.....that's the only thing that there not enough of..."
I remember when baseball was run by old school baseball guys not educated idiots with MBA's. Bring back the good old days when games lasted 2 hours (not exaggerating) and MAJOR LEAGUE was what it says and not over hyped Triple AAA ball (thanks to expansion).
dont u have any sympathy for the victims of the boston masacre?Originally Posted by Isaiah
MLB should be required to hand out barf bags at the gate before games. Bad enough we have to listen to 4 hours of gushing admiration of a bunch of millionaire morons by jock sniffing announcers during a telecast.
Neil Diamond.
Evidently since the game is so lame they have to grasp at straws to "entertain" the lemmings. How pathetic the game of baseball has become since expansion. Very sad.
Thats why this song was chosen, to pay tribute. chillax dude
The late Beano Cook when it was announced that the returning hostages from Iran in 1980 would be given life time season tickets to mlb games:
"Haven't these poor people suffered enough?"
Great line.
RIP Beano.
http://news.msn.com/pop-culture/sweet-caroline-why-is-it-a-boston-red-sox-song
Well ill be... people just like singing it.
"In 2007, Diamond revealed that the inspiration for the song had in fact come from President John F. Kennedy's then nine-year-old daughter, Caroline, after he saw a magazine photograph of her standing next to her pony."
Wtf?
well said bigtyme,,,Boston fans should protest it,,thats enough,and as far as the comment on the Boston marathon..PLEASE,,,, stop dwelling on it move on,were Americans that's how we operate in this country We all feel bad for what happened there,BUT, there is always a time to move onand this is it......
a) Fans dig Sweet Caroline, ball clubs know fans dig it, so they play it for the people that shell out big bucks for the affair.
Neil Diamond.
I got no problem with it, and it is a catchy tune.
b) Pop quiz hot shot, behind Elton Johbn, and Barabara Streisand, Neil Diamond is third all time greatest adult contemporary seller. His net worth is estimated around 175 million. That's net worth
Neil wants to know how you doing?
Jewish Elvis has sold 125 million records, this is what Neil Diamond does when he goes to the bank.
Dude has so many awards for motion picture scores, orignal songs, Golden Globes, Grammy's he needs to buy a new mantle for all that hardware.
The guy is an all time great arranger, singer, writer, his songs have been covered by 100's of all time greats.
He's like 70 years old and probably gets more 25 year old 'cuda in a week then the OP does in a lifetime.
[QUOTE=Isaiah;19174640]Hey, I am old school as it gets, I was in diapers but I love reading and watching footage from the 60's, but come on dude, those Dodger 'symphony' bands were just as cheesy. There was plenty of cheese to be spread in the decade of the 40's too.
Baseball has been full of gimmicks since the get go.
Neil Diamond and the Boston Red Sox are two American institutions with a very loyal following. And since the late ‘90s these two pop culture icons have been linked together through one of the more odd traditions at Fenway Park.
At every Red Sox home game, Diamond’s classic Sweet Caroline is played on the ballpark’s speakers before the bottom of the 8th inning. The sing-along song has become such a Fenway staple that it was even included in the 2005 movie Fever Pitch.
Most Sox fans, and moviegoers, are aware that Sweet Caroline is played as often at Fenway Park as The Star-Spangled Banner. But very few people know the reason why."I'm not sure how it started, but we're very pleased that it happened," Diamond's press agent, Sherrie Levy, said.
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The song itself was born out of humble beginnings, written in less than an hour by Diamond in a Memphis hotel room the day before a recording session. It debuted as a single on June 28, 1969.
Sweet Caroline eventually reached #4 on the Billboard chart and over two million copies of the song were sold. But how did it become the 8th inning anthem at Fenway Park, where annual attendance easily tops two million folks?
Legend has it that former Red Sox public address announcer Ed Brickley requested the song to be played as a tribute to the appropriately named newborn daughter of Billy Fitzpatrick, who worked in the Fenway Park control room for 20 years.
In reality, the song got its start at Fenway Park thanks to Amy Tobey, who was the ballpark’s music director from 1998 to 2004. She was responsible for choosing the music to be played between innings and picked Sweet Caroline simply because she had heard it played at other sporting events.
At first, Tobey played the song at random games sometime between the seventh and ninth innings, and only if the Red Sox were ahead. Tobey considered the song a good luck charm and it soon became something the fans anticipated.
But it wasn’t until 2002, when John Henry’s group bought the Red Sox, that Sweet Caroline become an official Fenway tradition. That’s when the new ownership requested that Tobey play the song during the eighth inning of every game.
Today Megan Kaiser is the person who chooses the between innings songs at Fenway Park, with the 8th inning exception.
Kaiser did add a slightly new touch to the playback of Diamond’s tune, as she turns off the sound during the most popular parts of the song. Red Sox fans know the words by heart now so they don’t need much help with the lyrics, and the song has become an important part of the ballpark atmosphere.
“Singing Sweet Caroline. That's cool,” said Red Sox third basemen Mike Lowell when asked about the vibe at Fenway Park.
How the song became so popular in the first place is another story, and no less than the songwriter himself is mystified at the success of Sweet Caroline. “No way to explain it. That's one of the mysteries of songwriting,” says Diamond, who has written and recorded 38 Top 40 hits in his career.
As hard as it is to explain, Neil Diamond’s catchy song has found a place as part of Red Sox Nation lore, and by mixing Sweet Caroline with the Fenway faithful good times have never seemed so good.
RATHER HERD OZZY SING IT
No love for Billy Joe Armstrong?RATHER HERD OZZY SING IT
I think most Americans would agree with you. It is largely media driven drama which translates into ratings which translates into advertising revenue. The corporate media in this country are parasites profiting off the tragedies of innocent victims. They'll manipulate the emotions of the public until there are no more tears to be shed and then blithely move on to the next tragedy. They have it down to a science.
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