Dear god its beyond brutal.
Time to mothball this shit before it becomes ensconced in "tradition" and can't be fixed.
Some thoughts of on preferable solutions...
The needles inserted into your eyeballs seventh inning stretch.
The message from your alderman seventh inning stretch.
Death.
Get interviewed by spada seventh inning stretch.

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I think it's a terrific tradition. It's nice to get local stars involved on a summer day, and sometimes it's just some high school team that won some championship, but it must be nice to get to do it. It's really not worth getting upset about. Do you need something that generates more revenue?

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I need something that generates less pain.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
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They're leading a fucking singalong for like a minute! It's really not worth getting worked up over.

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Not sure if serious.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

I am serious. I think it's good light-hearted fun to have people get up and make fools of themselves. I know that doesn't jibe with the tight-ass MONETIZE EVERYTHING SERIOUS BUSINESS Theo Cubs, but having Jeff Garlin or George Wendt or whoever get up and be a ham is just fine with me.

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Ok dude settle down.
This was a tongue in cheek thread after a badly sung stretch. It was just for shit and giggles. I didn't mean to upset you.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
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Its fine. It was bad for a while because they got a lot of A list types at first and after that they were getting E level celebs and it seemed....desperate


I like when its local little league teams etc


I also wouldn't mind if they played Harry doing it on the video board

Then you can monetize it. Sing along with the dead, sponsored by the law offices of David Spada.

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Now you're cooking with gas.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Actually before the video board it would've been cool to play it over the loud speakers

Just the "Alright let me hear ya...good and loud" and to do the 123 thing

Then the crowd takes over

Then at the end back to Harry saying Lets get some runs (when necessary)

I been saying for many years...harry on a good recording ..Steve trout sounded Mexican on my radio.

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Harry on the video board. Problem solved.

Lock this thread.

We're closing in on Harry having been gone longer than he was here if we haven't already. Let people sing.

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It's thinking like that that got the Red October spotted.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

It is in everyone's best interest that it no longer be televised...

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Not until Kevin James gets a shot at it!

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You know, I never really thought of it that way (fun-bad). I was just pretty pissed that they effectively replaced harry with that cuz man, growing up in the 80s/90s harry was basically everyone's drunk baseball grandpa ("there's a fly ball out to Andrew Jackson (Andre Dawson) in right") and i guess I felt like the whole thing took a part of my childhood away..

That said, man i'd be a pig in shit if they occasionally had vintage harry carry performances on the jumbotron like, say, every Sunday or sonething. Give the man his due for doing his part to help create the modern cub "thing"

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I actually thought, it was the plan do to that...and it still might be, as you can see they dont have the board database filled with much yet.

I would say that many of these 7th inning stretch meeting are Awkward

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“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

I dont mind it. After all, its all of what, 60 seconds? No biggie.

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Maybe like the first or last game of the year. I find the whole Singing From Beyond The Grave a little weird, personally. I don't like it when the Flyers do it with Kate Smith, either. Maybe Hologram Tupac can do it a few nights.

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I agree that the Kate Smith thing is creepy, but I think it is different for Harry as he wasnt a singer, so we arent really there to hear him sing, its that he was so bad, anyone could do it, thus everyone join in.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Maybe those poser hipsters should just sing "Sweet Caroline".

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

God, they would if they could, wouldn't they? Some other fanbases have stolen that garbage. Fuck them all.

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I find the "guest conductor" to be stupid, but I'm not a Cubs fan.

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When you have a guest conductor who doesn't know the name of the park (Wrigley Stadium), or one who doesn't have any idea what is going on (Ozzy Osbourne), it's time to shit can this tired bit.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

<º)))><

Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

"Wrigley Stadium" was embarrassing, but for Jeff Gordon, not me. And Ozzy was one of the best! Didn't he actually sing "I don't know what the words are" or something?

EDIT: it was "I don't remember what I have to sing" in lieu of "I don't care if I ever get back." Brilliant. That's great.

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HOLY SHIT, LOOK AT THIS. This is like Johnny Carson coming on Krusty's show to lift a 1987 Buick Skylark.

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No one finds inconsistencies in the insistence to continue take me out to the ball game and the blocking of the rooftops?

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.