stop it.

the shit happened like 14 yrs ago. we ain't forgot but singing that damned song during playoff baseball games sure makes me wish the shit had never happened so i wouldn't have to hear that god-forsaken song in the middle of a baseball game.

at this point the singing of the song feels like so much jingoism. i just don't need it. of course, in the wake of the thing happening we all wore red white and blue and waved flags and got all rah-rah 'MURRICA and that was cute. and we'd dropped that shit w/in 6 months of the happening. we used that stuff when we needed it and we largely moved on. not that we forgot but damn - we couldn't sit shiva forever, you know? but then every October i'm confronted w/it all over again during the 7th inning of baseball games. i don't need it. i dig America as much or more than the next guy and i prefer to express my feelings about America in ways other than singing that awful, awful song. hell, just going to a baseball game is enough, isn't it? we do the fucking pledge of allegiance or whatever before the game where we all stand up and take off hats and all that jazz. whatever...that's more than enough.

stop it w/the god damned song.

fuck you.