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| From | Gregory Sager <hochsalzburg@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: Hey Cubs fans |
| Date | Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:35:34 -0700 (PDT) |
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> 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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