Had a conversation today, trying to figure out if it was baseball that got that going or if it was actually a thing before it caught on during the national pastime.
Anyone recall it happening en masse BEFORE it became a thing in MLB parks?
Maybe bars? But ... if that, then baseball surely offered a boost.
worst thing about Fenway other than the shitty seats.
yes, I associate it with the Rangers, not with baseball.
After that it's unfortunately played at many sporting events. Kind of like the Gary Glitter song before he became a child molester or the White Stripes song.
I had the displeasure of being at Fenway when they were filming the movie Fever Pitch and they played the song what seemed like 50 times and the crowd sang all 50 times and they recorded the crowd each time. By the end I was like the mental patients in Strange Brew. I just wanted to hit something. I can't hear that song anymore without having a reaction.
worst thing about Fenway other than the shitty seats.
Bahahahahahaha.
My pleasure.
Its basically a tradition to me...weddings Ill hear it on occasion...the so good so good is always repeated, usually by a vocal minority.
And I've heard it at each subsequent Sox game I've been to, probably 10 plus. I've never heard it anywhere else.
It sucks. But the YMCA chant is a million times worse.
They didn't want to lose the mojo
They didn't want to lose the mojo
Have you been to a Patriots game? The Outfield "Your Love" is sort of the official Patriots crowd theme, Boston is weird. Scott Zolak helped with this one, but still weird.
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No way. He loves it. He played at Fenway, opening day 2010 and at the "So good" part he throws the mic toward the crowd.
He also sang it after the Boston Marathon - and it was like a karaoke performance. Not sure he's still healthy.
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Sweet Caroline (BOSTON SUCKS) Good times never seemed so good (THEY SUCK, THEY SUCK, THEY SUCK)
Love Neil Diamond tho.
After that it's unfortunately played at many sporting events. Kind of like the Gary Glitter song before he became a child molester or the White Stripes song.
I had the displeasure of being at Fenway when they were filming the movie Fever Pitch and they played the song what seemed like 50 times and the crowd sang all 50 times and they recorded the crowd each time. By the end I was like the mental patients in Strange Brew. I just wanted to hit something. I can't hear that song anymore without having a reaction.
One of the worst movies ever made, and as you know I'm not even a Yankees fan. What a poorly acted, terrible plot piece of trash that was.
Part of their set was 'Sweet Caroline', at the time a real oddity, nobody was playing that stale old Neil Diamond song, and people loved it - they had the crowd participating EXACTLY the way they do it at weddings and ballgames today, BAHM-BAHM-BAHM! - and it spread - within a few years, I caught other cover bands playing it in the same format.
Great memories, brings a smile every time I hear it.
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credits the Carolina Panthers with the first sports team to make it a tradition in 1996, then the Red Sox in 1997.
After that it's unfortunately played at many sporting events. Kind of like the Gary Glitter song before he became a child molester or the White Stripes song.
I had the displeasure of being at Fenway when they were filming the movie Fever Pitch and they played the song what seemed like 50 times and the crowd sang all 50 times and they recorded the crowd each time. By the end I was like the mental patients in Strange Brew. I just wanted to hit something. I can't hear that song anymore without having a reaction.
One of the worst movies ever made, and as you know I'm not even a Yankees fan. What a poorly acted, terrible plot piece of trash that was.
I never even saw the movie, I refused on principle but I'm sure it was awful.
After that it's unfortunately played at many sporting events. Kind of like the Gary Glitter song before he became a child molester or the White Stripes song.
I had the displeasure of being at Fenway when they were filming the movie Fever Pitch and they played the song what seemed like 50 times and the crowd sang all 50 times and they recorded the crowd each time. By the end I was like the mental patients in Strange Brew. I just wanted to hit something. I can't hear that song anymore without having a reaction.
LMFAO. WOW. That's sounds fucking brutal.
Me First and the Gimme Gimme's (the world's best cover band) released Sweet Caroline on an album in 1983.
Of course they are a punk cover band, and their version isn't the stadium style, but nonetheless they were trend setters.
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Was? Was??? The Nerds still exist!
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