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| From | "Michael Adelsheim" <madelsheim@adelsheimvineyard.com> |
| Subject | Re: Hey Cubs fans |
| Date | Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:56:05 -0700 |
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To jump in to your discussion, I certainly like this song a whole lot more than Steam's "baseball" song.
My favorite baseball song is Tom Paxton's "My Favorite Spring". He recorded it a couple times...maybe only on live records. It's about a guy who has to/gets to live out his baseball dreams through his son. It's a bit sentimental, but when he sings, "My fastball gives them the shakes, my curveball snaps and breaks, my changeup makes 'em look bad, they coudn't hit a thing I had," shivers do their thing on my spine.
Adelsheim
----- Original Message -----
From: audities-owner@smoe.org <audities-owner@smoe.org>
To: audities@smoe.org <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Wed Apr 29 15:37:58 2009
Subject: Re: Hey Cubs fans
Let me try one more time.
* Goodman sings a heartfelt song about the Cubs never winning
* Cub and music fans find the silver lining in that cloud because it's a
great song by a great performer about a shared passion
* Even that good will (finding solace in misery) won't create enough karma
to overcome the Cub destiny, which is failure.
Trust me, I understand the song. I have not linked the *message* of the song
to *Cubs Win! Cubs Win!*...that is you misreading my post, not me inferring
a different message to the song.
b
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Sager" <hochsalzburg@yahoo.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: Hey Cubs fans
>
>> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:26:08 -0400
>> From: "Holmes Online" <bholmes_fm@msn.com>
>> To: <audities@smoe.org>
>> Subject: Re: Hey Cubs fans
>> Message-ID: <BLU132-DAV7069F1DA4C92A0261C8E3E3710@phx.gbl>
>>
>> Of course I've heard the song, Greg - why would I comment
>> otherwise? Sheesh,
>> can't I get a little baseball smack in here w/o someone
>> taking it so
>> literally? Did I (ahem) "get your goat"? :)
>>
>> I'm a Steve Goodman fan so I know the lore, I was just
>> saying that even the
>> pity you might feel for that fan (and Goodman's honest
>> sympathy) won't help
>> change things in a karmatic way...*all* Cubs fans are going
>> to go to their
>> grave w/o seeing the team with the series.
>
>
> I don't mind smack talk. It's part of baseball. I just like it to make
> sense. "Change things in a karmatic way"? Since when was that the purpose
> of the song? Where in the song is even the slightest hint of hope
> expressed for the Cubs? In fact, you've inferred a meaning from the song
> that is the exact opposite of its intent.
>
>
> Gregory Sager
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