What ball yard is it where they play 'Sweet Caroline' on the PA

[Oeditpus Rex]

and kill the sound after Diamond sings "Sweet Caroline" and the fans go "BA BA BAAAA"?

Is it Fenway? :shrug:



The song was just on XM's '60s channel and I found myself sort of mindlessly doing the "BA BA BAAAA" bit when it occurred to me, "Hey, that's from a ball game!"

[SallyMander]

1. Fenway!!!

It's a Sox thing... although apparently no one really knows why :shrug:

:hi:


Edit... SO GOOD! SO GOOD! SO GOOD!

[MissMillie]

2. Actually, we do know why

http://www.redsoxconnection.com/sweetcaroline.html

Enjoy!

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Sweet!

I love stuff like this, man. :D

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. Thanks!

I was thinking it was a Sox game where I heard it, but I'm old 'n' stuff.

That's almost as cool as "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" at Wrigley. :D



:hi:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. Reason #831 why Baseball is the only sport that matters!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

6. FENWAY!!!!

They also repeat "So good....so good....so good" after the line "Good times never seemed so good."

West Coaster. :P

:hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Can't help it

This is where they put me. :P



I've always wanted to catch games at Fenway and Wrigley. Guess I'd better hurry up if I'm gonna do the former. :(

[WritingIsMyReligion]

8. Hell, I live 2 hours' drive from Fenway and have never been to a game there.

Not yet, anyway. :)

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. I'm that far from San Francisco

— a bit less, actually — and I still haven't been to PacBell/SBC/AT&T Park. x(

Don't even have to drive because there's a CalTrain station a block from the yard (though I have to drive about 40 miles to catch a Gameday Special).

Oh — the Giants have a cool tradition, too: Around the third inning, they let a little kid announce the hitters on the PA. It's so cute. :D

They've also had a female PA announcer since 2000, Renel Brooks-Moon.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/03/31/HOG8TOT5D61.DTL

[GOPisEvil]

10. Actually, in addition to Fenway, I think the Nats play it as well.

I went to a game in 2005 in RFK and it was played. The Nats probably stole the idea though. I think it's an east coast phenomenon.

[LoveMyCali]

12. So do the Mets

I think pretty much every one does now.

[leftofthedial]

11. the Fens

worst fans in baseball, next to Tampa and Anaheim