September 2003

GIVE ME MY COUNTRY BACK!

Damn you, GW Bush. I'm totally pissed off about this whole 'God Bless America' thing. What is it, two years after 9/11/01? I'm still having to go to ballgames and having to hear that horrible G-d (what is it with the hyphen anyway? Can any Judaic scholars help me out here?) damned song during the seventh inning stretch. At a minor-league baseball game, no less! No, seriously, I'm totally cheesed off here.

Disclaimer: Justy is totally almost drunk right now. Therefore, Justy is totally responsible for all of this nonsense. Bee-yotches.

I've ranted about this crap for years. Lee Greenwood (see the archives for my treatise on Lee Greenwood), bad America tunes, the mullet, Hollywood, the music industry…the chain of crap extends too far for me to work with. But after the stupid ValleyCats game with the Key Bank singers warbling an off-key rendition of 'God Bless the god-damned America' I am just done. The idiocy has taken over and there is no apparent resolution. I can't even hear 'Take Me Out to the Ballgame' anymore at my local Single A affiliate, let alone at a Mets game.

I thought that I was still living in a society here, peoples. Don't we have to have standards, even in the 21st century? Doesn't living in the modern world

Wait, I gotta refill my pint.

Does mean that we have to observe and uphold the traditions of those that came before us? I don't mean the stupid traditions, like no meat on Fridays, but the good ones. Things like bonin' on prom night, the word 'porked', and keeping baseball songs in their place. National anthem at the beginning, 'Take Me Out to the Ballgame' during the 7th inning stretch, and nothing more. I can even take a little 'Lazy Mary (Luna Mezza Mare)' at Shea, which they play AFTER 'Take Me Out', but the god blessing of America has got to take a backseat to tradition at some point. Especially cause we're at our suckiest point since the Reagan years.

'WHAT IS THIS, "BLOOM COUNTY"?!' - Huey Freeman.

Anyway, I'm a little cheesed off here. And I'm rambling, and now I'm actually kinda drunk. But seriously, I blame Bush for ruining baseball. I can understand the national anthem, but not the abortion of a song called 'God Bless America'. I hope that we can all find some sanity somewhere in this stupid world someday, and work on getting things back to normal.