Head on down to the ooooo-asis.

Apr 9, 2008 at 12:40 PM
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First of all...

ROCK CHALK JAYHAWK, BABY.

I believe that's all that needs to be said. Monday night, DEFINITELY among the best nights of my entire life. I can't overstate that. WOO!

But anyway. Let's talk baseball. Sara and I have talked a little about the smoov jazz numbers her team and the Dodgers chose for the national anthem on their respective home opening days, and I was wondering what my Royals would do yesterday for their opener against the Yankees. Well, I don't know who sang the anthem, but I DO know now that Garth Brooks will be leading a round of "Friends In Low Places" at every home game this season. According to the Kansas City Star, Garth took a few hours recently and recorded several different openings to the song, just to be played during Royals home games. The Star says he did 20-25 different openings. So Royals fans will be singing along to that song this season in the 6th inning or whatever. Sure, seems like a semi-ripoff of the Boston "Sweet Caroline" thing, but pfft, what do I care? Ha. I kinda like it. I'm all for Garth hanging with the Royals. Why not?

But still, who sang the anthem? Hmmmm. I may never know. Couldn't you kick in just a little early on opening day, Extra Innings?

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Sara wrote:
Apr 9, 2008

You don't know if Tobymac did the national anthem for the Royals or not? DARNIT. But Garth! That's cool. And dude, you know that whole Mets Rickroll thing I told you about? It worked! MLB is being lame and taking down videos people put up from the TV broadcast, but you can hear it in some of the home videos on YouTube. Haaaaa. I'm disappointed that they're going to play the other songs this week though and judge the crowd reaction, instead of just sticking with Rick Astley. That's no fun. Ha.

Andrew wrote:
Apr 10, 2008

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Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuude. I LOVE THAT. If the Mets do drop it, I want one of our teams to pick it up! I love it! I'm both amused that the Met fans booed the song, and sad that that booing will likely do it in for future games. Booooo, Met fans. I think it's cool, ha.

Really, when you hear it at a game like that, it really kinda works, doesn't it? It's such a happy, upbeat song! Very cool. I need to go listen to it now, hee.

Sara wrote:
Apr 10, 2008

I think it would be the perfect eighth inning song, because yeah, it's happy and upbeat! And it kind of makes you want to dance like Rick Astley did in the video. I would rock out to it. Speaking of rocking out, at the game I went to last night between innings they played some metal, hair band music and put the camera on different people while they (and Lou Seal) rocked out with an air guitar and head banged. It was pretty awesome, especially since they found one dude with super long hair who you could tell rocks out with his air guitar all the time. Haaaa.

I found that Mets video through a Mets blog, and yeah, even some of those Mets bloggers seem disgusted (as they should) with most of the other song choices. They pretty much figure the crowd will go for "Sweet Caroline," which is lame and a total Red Sox rip off.

I need to go listen to some Rick Astley now, too. Hee.