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May 31, 2005
Should Jeff Gordon Apologize to Cubs Fans?
Last week the big controversy was Jeff Gordon's horrible rendition of "Take Me Out To The Ball Game." So the writer above feels that Jeff Gordon owes Cubs fans an apology. Why? Because to this writer Gordon's awful singing was as insulting as if Gordon had made fun of someone's religious beliefs. I think that's taking things just a bit too far. No doubt there are traditions related to the game of baseball that people take very seriously but baseball is just a game. I don't think there is much of a comparision between one's religious beliefs which are often what guides their entire lives morally and what happens on a baseball field. I also wonder if the writer was equally as offended by Ozzy Osbourne when he "sang" TMOTBG and was almost as bad as Gordon, though he at least knew all the words.
Was Gordon a poor choice to sing TMOTBG? Yes, he definitely isn't the right person to sing anything. But I'm failing to see how bad singing and not knowing the words to a song is the equilalent of making fun of someone's religious beliefs. Maybe I need to be a Cub fan to get it. The implication is also that Gordon deliberately wanted to mock the Cubs tradition of singing TMOTBG. And I don't think that was the case. He simply didn't do a good job singing the song. He ended up embarassing himself and looking foolish but I don't think he purposefully sang that bad - he simply can't sing at all.
Posted by silverdsl at May 31, 2005 08:41 PM