7th Inning Stretch

[treebird]

i loved ten year old girls when i was ten and i don't see anyone clamoring to put them on the video board

 

 

 

(alley . . .)

[Banedon]

I don't have strong feelings about the stretch, but those aren't any of the adjectives I'd use to describe putting Harry on the video board for it. Not sure why that's considered so ghoulish.

mostly 'cause he's dead

 

 

the idea of these brain dead morons needing their patron saint to lead them through the stretch cause he somehow truly encapsulated what it was to be a cub fan and experience wrigley is just disgusting.

 

Cause he's dead it's ghoulish? Is it ghoulish to play We Will Rock You at a sporting event cuz Freddy Mercury is dead?

[jersey cubs fan]

I don't have strong feelings about the stretch, but those aren't any of the adjectives I'd use to describe putting Harry on the video board for it. Not sure why that's considered so ghoulish.

mostly 'cause he's dead

 

 

the idea of these brain dead morons needing their patron saint to lead them through the stretch cause he somehow truly encapsulated what it was to be a cub fan and experience wrigley is just disgusting.

 

Cause he's dead it's ghoulish? Is it ghoulish to play We Will Rock You at a sporting event cuz Freddy Mercury is dead?

 

Are they blowing Freddy up to 100 times his size on the jumbotron and genuflecting toward him?

[Careless]

Nearly 30 years later, "I'm a Cubs fan and a Bud man" is still stuck in my head.

[SouthSideRyan]

I don't have strong feelings about the stretch, but those aren't any of the adjectives I'd use to describe putting Harry on the video board for it. Not sure why that's considered so ghoulish.

mostly 'cause he's dead

 

 

the idea of these brain dead morons needing their patron saint to lead them through the stretch cause he somehow truly encapsulated what it was to be a cub fan and experience wrigley is just disgusting.

 

Cause he's dead it's ghoulish? Is it ghoulish to play We Will Rock You at a sporting event cuz Freddy Mercury is dead?

 

Are they blowing Freddy up to 100 times his size on the jumbotron and genuflecting toward him?

 

Yep, it's not quite on the level of a dead Bob Shepard announcing Jeter, but it's kinda weird.

[Sammy Sofa]

Nearly 30 years later, "I'm a Cubs fan and a Bud man" is still stuck in my head.

 

[sneakypower]

Tigers do video board stuff with Ernie Harwell and it's cool and people like it and nobody has an issue with it; you guys are just doing weirdly overly-imaginative projecting

[Sammy Sofa]

If they're going to play classic calls going back to Brickhouse and [expletive] nobody cares because that would be pretty cool.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I want a game-long loop of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQyUhiV_Fdw

[Sammy Sofa]

I want a game-long loop of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQyUhiV_Fdw

 

YES.

 

Old timey stuff is great.

[jersey cubs fan]

Tigers do video board stuff with Ernie Harwell and it's cool and people like it and nobody has an issue with it; you guys are just doing weirdly overly-imaginative projecting

doing a little video montage where you hear and see classic calls of plays is entirely normal and acceptable.

 

having a dead drunk guy lead the morons in the 7th inning stretch is morbid and sad.

[jersey cubs fan]

I want a game-long loop of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQyUhiV_Fdw

 

YES.

 

Old timey stuff is great.

Chris Rock would not approve.

[Sammy Sofa]

I'll happily genuflect to this instead:

 

[Sammy Sofa]

I want a game-long loop of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQyUhiV_Fdw

 

YES.

 

Old timey stuff is great.

Chris Rock would not approve.

 

Man, he had, like, one good point surrounded by a bunch of nonsense.

[jersey cubs fan]

I want a game-long loop of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQyUhiV_Fdw

 

YES.

 

Old timey stuff is great.

Chris Rock would not approve.

 

Man, he had, like, one good point surrounded by a bunch of nonsense.

And it has all been said before, yet, somehow, that was a groundbreaking and informative video clip.

[Sammy Sofa]

I want a game-long loop of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQyUhiV_Fdw

 

YES.

 

Old timey stuff is great.

Chris Rock would not approve.

 

Man, he had, like, one good point surrounded by a bunch of nonsense.

And it has all been said before, yet, somehow, that was a groundbreaking and informative video clip.

 

It's like every 10 years we hear about how baseball is dying and is doomed. That's probably been going on since about 1870. Baseball is printing money. Yeah, he's right that not many black kids care about baseball because of the lack of black stars these days, but it's not killing the game.

[jersey cubs fan]

I'll happily genuflect to this instead:

 

 

 

to that end. What could work is a video montage of several Cubs (mostly) legends leading the stretch edited together, and maybe one clip of Harry at the end with the let's get some runs part.

[Sammy Sofa]

I'll happily genuflect to this instead:

 

 

 

to that end. What could work is a video montage of several Cubs (mostly) legends leading the stretch edited together, and maybe one clip of Harry at the end with the let's get some runs part.

 

Yes, this. Fit in the various other Cubs announcers besides Harry who have done it, too.

[sneakypower]

I'll happily genuflect to this instead:

 

 

 

to that end. What could work is a video montage of several Cubs (mostly) legends leading the stretch edited together, and maybe one clip of Harry at the end with the let's get some runs part.

 

Yes, this. Fit in the various other Cubs announcers besides Harry who have done it, too.

• Harry: "alright, let me hear ya...a-one, a-two, a-three..."
   
  *other Cubs legends stretch montage*
   
  Harry: "1-2-3 strikes you're out at the old ball game, let's get some runs"

 

seems about perfect

[Banedon]

I'll happily genuflect to this instead:

 

 

 

to that end. What could work is a video montage of several Cubs (mostly) legends leading the stretch edited together, and maybe one clip of Harry at the end with the let's get some runs part.

 

Yes, this. Fit in the various other Cubs announcers besides Harry who have done it, too.

• Harry: "alright, let me hear ya...a-one, a-two, a-three..."
   
  *other Cubs legends stretch montage*
   
  Harry: "1-2-3 strikes you're out at the old ball game, let's get some runs"

 

seems about perfect

 

Somehow Jim Belushi would manage to get himself in that montage.

[sontensei]

So Harry Carey Going 2 Pac or Michael Jackson 3D concert? ---- not a fan.

[Sammy Sofa]

What.

[jersey cubs fan]

Somehow Jim Belushi would manage to get himself in that montage.

 

In my mind, I am thinking "Chicago legends" would be perfectly suitable to include. But in an effort to prevent ^^^ that ^^^ from happening, keep it to Cubs/Announcers only.

[Sammy Sofa]

I want Jim Belushi to be invited back to do it just for the chance he falls to his death.

[jersey cubs fan]

also, this would work for maybe 1/3 - 1/2 of the games, with real live guests handling the rest. That way you can eliminate the desperate need to fill spots with D list randos while maintaining the spot as a vehicle for promotion and exposure.