A travesty on hockey's good name

[Wings_Fan_In_Exile 3]

I will most certainly be annoyed if they follow through with this, and will be guaranteed to switch over to a bowl game during this. Like previously mentioned, this is not baseball... thank god.

[stlwing14 0]

With each passing day of NHL news, I slowly increase my hatred for mankind and the 21st century.

[T-Ruff 47]

Yeah nothing really too wrong about it technically.... But I would be very annoyed if they followed through.... Considering Baseball isn't anywhere near Hockey's league (pun intended).... I hope that most hockey fans feel the same and if they do follow through with the song it is met with a chorus of boos.... unlikely.... but how awesome that would be

[SouthernWingsFan 854]

oh cool! so next time the yankee's play the red sox we can have don cherry sing "the good old hockey game" Right? No?

oh,...

It's a baseball song, that's the problem.

"Cause it's one, two three strikes your out, at the old ball game"

Please tell me what in the flying flip mode squad that has to do with the most hyped regular season HOCKEY game of the year.

Spare me the attitude and get off your soapbox.

And to the other poster, life doesn't always revolve around Michigan and the Red Wings.

It is a one minute song that nobody is even going to remember about in the grand scheme of things regarding the game/event. The only people that are going to remember it are ones that are going to piss and moan that it'll take away from the game and find 1500 different things to complain about, such as yourself, which it won't.

It is played in a baseball park and one of the best ones at that so let whoever have his/her moment with the song if it happens, and just leave it at that. IT IS A SONG, NO MORE NO LESS.

Good freaking grief some of you will find anything to be miserable about.

At least Detroit is playing in the game, be happy with that.

EDIT: If you don't think the song is a good idea, that's fine, I have no problem with that and I understand there will be people who don't like it. What I have a problem with, a big problem with, is people giving me s**t and an attitude when I have done absolutely nothing to provoke being dumped on.

Edited December 30, 2008 by SouthernWingsFan

[55fan 5,133]

I don't like baseball. I don't like that song. If they sing it, I will deal with it and watch the game. This is nowhere close to "no octopus twirling" on my annoy-o-meter.

I think it is a stupid idea, although I have to admit that if they got the "12 days of Christmas" guys to sing it, it could have entertainment value.

[theman19 47]

Spare me the attitude and get off your soapbox.

you know what, i had a long post calling you out and what not. But it's late and i'm tired, so i'm sorry that i came across rude in my earlier post to you

Edited December 30, 2008 by theman19

[maltbyrocks18 0]

Spare me the attitude and get off your soapbox.

And to the other poster, life doesn't always revolve around Michigan and the Red Wings.

It is a one minute song that nobody is even going to remember about in the grand scheme of things regarding the game/event. The only people that are going to remember it are ones that are going to piss and moan that it'll take away from the game and find 1500 different things to complain about, such as yourself, which it won't.

It is played in a baseball park and one of the best ones at that so let whoever have his/her moment with the song if it happens, and just leave it at that. IT IS A SONG, NO MORE NO LESS.

Good freaking grief some of you will find anything to be miserable about.

At least Detroit is playing in the game, be happy with that.

for one thing, the reason why i think the game should be in the big house is NOT because of michigan or detroit, but is because of the stadiums size which would easily break records bringing more attention to the game all around the world.

And if it was just the song that was the problem, i wouldn't mind it so much. The thing is that it is just the cherry on the top to a whole marketing disgrace. From day 1 including the famous winter classic commercial, they have been laying the baseball song and feild very thick all over the game, as if it would make all the baseball fans in the world feel the need to watch this game. This winter classic is not the start of all this either. bettman has been trying new ways every year to try to disguise this sport as one of the mainstreams, whether it is jersey changes or the horrible division rivalry mock of baseball with the schedule last year. It's disgusting.

It is not just a song, it is a reminder to every one of us true hockey fans of how horrible bettman and the gang are at marketing our wonderful sport, and how they are willing to drag hockey through the mud as much as they feel it takes to attempt to increase viewers.

[SouthernWingsFan 854]

for one thing, the reason why i think the game should be in the big house is NOT because of michigan or detroit, but is because of the stadiums size which would easily break records bringing more attention to the game all around the world.

Fair enough.

And if it was just the song that was the problem, i wouldn't mind it so much. The thing is that it is just the cherry on the top to a whole marketing disgrace. From day 1 including the famous winter classic commercial, they have been laying the baseball song and feild very thick all over the game, as if it would make all the baseball fans in the world feel the need to watch this game. This winter classic is not the start of all this either. bettman has been trying new ways every year to try to disguise this sport as one of the mainstreams, whether it is jersey changes or the horrible division rivalry mock of baseball with the schedule last year. It's disgusting.

If this gets more people watching the sport, more power to that. I have enough things that give me annoyances in my life already. I'd rather not write a giant laundry list of things Bettman or the NHL does/doesn't too to make me even more annoyed. I'm just going to enjoy the game.

It is not just a song, it is a reminder to every one of us true hockey fans of how horrible bettman and the gang are at marketing our wonderful sport, and how they are willing to drag hockey through the mud as much as they feel it takes to attempt to increase viewers.

So if I don't care one way or the other about the song being played and just want to enjoy watching the game, does that make me a "fake" fan? The real vs. fake fan comparisons are nonsense, you are a fan regardless.

[maltbyrocks18 0]

Fair enough.

If this gets more people watching the sport, more power to that. I have enough things that give me annoyances in my life already. I'd rather not write a giant laundry list of things Bettman or the NHL does/doesn't too to make me even more annoyed. I'm just going to enjoy the game.

So if I don't care one way or the other about the song being played and just want to enjoy watching the game, does that make me a "fake" fan? The real vs. fake fan comparisons are nonsense, you are a fan regardless.

I did not mean to make it sound like i was questioning you or anyones level of fan, i think it came out wrong in my venting of my hate for bettman and his bull. I must agree though, through all of this, the best thing to do is not let this annoyances disrupt the enjoyment of the game. I will just change the channel for the segment.

[soultrain 43]

they should get dave mathews to sing it and then dump his bands piss and s*** on the croud.

[55fan 5,133]

There's really no need to fight. I have a compromise.

Cheli is from Chicago. If Nick is back, Cheli will be a scratch for the game. Didn't he sing Take Me Out to the Ballgame once last summer? Well, all we have to do is get him to do it again (they should let him), get him liquored up (shouldn't be too hard), and get him a set of alternate lyrics. And they go something like this:

Take me out to the ball park,

Bring some sticks and a puck.

Lay down some ice on the infield grass

(If I may digress, Gary Bettman sucks ass.)

So we'll root, root, root for the Red Wings.

If they don't win, it's a shame.

Cuz this ain't no Cubs or Sox crap- it's a HOCKEY GAME.

Yeah, that ought to do it.

[Cern 0]

It is played in a baseball park

This is the problem right here - IT SHOULDN'T BE PLAYED IN A GODDAMN BASEBALL PARK. A hockey rink simply dosen't fit the layout of a baseball stadium, it's forcing a square peg into a round hole. I feel sorry for the people who spent hundreds of dollars and wrung their hands awaiting waiting list results in order to find themselves at an angle that makes it all but impossible to see what the f*** is happening on the ice when they could be sticking their heads in the snow like ostriches and get the exact same experience for free. Distance to the ice is unfortunate but inevitable in any outdoor hockey scenario on an NHL level, I can accept that. Making the decision to place the ice in a location that requires every seat to be at a crazy corner angle to the ice on top of that just leaves me wondering what they care about more, the locale or the fans. Is singing Take Me Out To The Ball Game a big deal? The fact that IT ISN'T A BALL GAME and ergo is completely redundant nowithstanding of course it isn't, but it only serves as a reminder to the single fundamental error in this year's WC.

[Cern 0]

If this gets more people watching the sport, more power to that. I have enough things that give me annoyances in my life already. I'd rather not write a giant laundry list of things Bettman or the NHL does/doesn't too to make me even more annoyed. I'm just going to enjoy the game.

No idiot is going to start loving hockey because by virtue of a single game that happens to be played in a baseball park. At best to people uninitiated to hockey it will be seen as a curious event in Wrigley's history as a baseball stadium, not a special game for the NHL. You living in the South where hockey has been, is, and always will be considered a joke (at the expense of sports like, say, baseball?) should figure that out that better than anyone.

Edited December 30, 2008 by Cern

[CrossoverThrash 0]

Yep.

It's just a song that is as far from as offensive as you can get.

Don't really see the harm in possibly doing this.

It's a hockey game, dosen't need to be trashed by low class sports

[CrossoverThrash 0]

This is the problem right here - IT SHOULDN'T BE PLAYED IN A GODDAMN BASEBALL PARK. A hockey rink simply dosen't fit the layout of a baseball stadium, it's forcing a square peg into a round hole. I feel sorry for the people who spent hundreds of dollars and wrung their hands awaiting waiting list results in order to find themselves at an angle that makes it all but impossible to see what the f*** is happening on the ice when they could be sticking their heads in the snow like ostriches and get the exact same experience for free. Distance to the ice is unfortunate but inevitable in any outdoor hockey scenario on an NHL level, I can accept that. Making the decision to place the ice in a location that requires every seat to be at a crazy corner angle to the ice on top of that just leaves me wondering what they care about more, the locale or the fans. Is singing Take Me Out To The Ball Game a big deal? The fact that IT ISN'T A BALL GAME and ergo is completely redundant nowithstanding of course it isn't, but it only serves as a reminder to the single fundamental error in this year's WC.

It should have been played at soldier field or a college football stadium like northwestern nearby but im not sure how big that one is.

[Drake_Marcus 890]

This first look isn't deceiving

Hidden in this gem of an article is:

This sort of thing should not be happening at a hockey game. Blackhawks fans have put up long enough with McCub's theatrics. The circus atmosphere inherent to a Cubs "game" is, sadly, already beginning to creep into the United Center. Next thing you know, he'll be importing the century long championship drought, too.

Uggg.... didn't the recent WC commercial prove this is a bad idea?

Well if we can't nix the Crosby banner at the completely non-Penguins event, nixing the song celebrating another sport is probably going to be tough. (Why don't they put a Malkin banner up? He's the one leading the league in points by a mile)

[SouthernWingsFan 854]

This is the problem right here - IT SHOULDN'T BE PLAYED IN A GODDAMN BASEBALL PARK. A hockey rink simply dosen't fit the layout of a baseball stadium, it's forcing a square peg into a round hole. I feel sorry for the people who spent hundreds of dollars and wrung their hands awaiting waiting list results in order to find themselves at an angle that makes it all but impossible to see what the f*** is happening on the ice when they could be sticking their heads in the snow like ostriches and get the exact same experience for free. Distance to the ice is unfortunate but inevitable in any outdoor hockey scenario on an NHL level, I can accept that. Making the decision to place the ice in a location that requires every seat to be at a crazy corner angle to the ice on top of that just leaves me wondering what they care about more, the locale or the fans. Is singing Take Me Out To The Ball Game a big deal? The fact that IT ISN'T A BALL GAME and ergo is completely redundant nowithstanding of course it isn't, but it only serves as a reminder to the single fundamental error in this year's WC.

You claim that it isn't a big deal, but you are certainly making it out to be one.

No idiot is going to start loving hockey because by virtue of a single game that happens to be played in a baseball park. At best to people uninitiated to hockey it will be seen as a curious event in Wrigley's history as a baseball stadium, not a special game for the NHL. You living in the South where hockey has been, is, and always will be considered a joke (at the expense of sports like, say, baseball?) should figure that out that better than anyone.

And that still could be the start to perhaps watch a few more games.

What is with the attitude hurled towards me when I have done nothing to deserve getting dumped on?

You are so focused on everything that could go wrong with this event that you are just going to completely ruin watching the event for yourself from minute one.

An outdoor professional hockey game, which rarely happens, at a great stadium. Seems like a great ordeal. It isn't complicated to me and I'm leaving it at that instead of finding hundreds of different reasons why it might go wrong when those things in the end probably will not be a big deal at all.

It's a hockey game, dosen't need to be trashed by low class sports

How is it low class? Just because you don't like the sport? That's a pretty awful assumption. Some people who won't even give hockey a chance from the start will say the same thing about that sport. Unfair? Yes, but you are doing the same thing regarding baseball as well.

[oldredbarnman 13]

There's really no need to fight. I have a compromise.

Cheli is from Chicago. If Nick is back, Cheli will be a scratch for the game. Didn't he sing Take Me Out to the Ballgame once last summer? Well, all we have to do is get him to do it again (they should let him), get him liquored up (shouldn't be too hard), and get him a set of alternate lyrics. And they go something like this:

Take me out to the ball park,

Bring some sticks and a puck.

Lay down some ice on the infield grass

(If I may digress, Gary Bettman sucks ass.)

So we'll root, root, root for the Red Wings.

If they don't win, it's a shame.

Cuz this ain't no Cubs or Sox crap- it's a HOCKEY GAME.

Yeah, that ought to do it.

That's hilarious. I could definately see Chelios singing those lyrics. Even the Hawks fan would agree about the Bettman line.

[Hitchhiker 9]

This first look isn't deceiving

Hidden in this gem of an article is:

This sort of thing should not be happening at a hockey game. Blackhawks fans have put up long enough with McCub's theatrics. The circus atmosphere inherent to a Cubs "game" is, sadly, already beginning to creep into the United Center. Next thing you know, he'll be importing the century long championship drought, too.

The "circus atmosphere" has already been at the United Center for years if you count Bulls games.

That aside, I really don't see this as a problem. The NHL is trying to broaden the appeal of the NHL as long as they don't choose Def Leopard

[VM1138 1,921]

As a tribute to Wrigley Field, why not?

Because this is not a baseball game, Wrigley field or not. Why should hockey promote a rival sport? Not to mentino it's a really dumb song and out of place in the middle of winter.

[b.shanafan14 733]

No thanks, its a hockey game at Wrigley, let it end there. Its not a baseball game, if anything give Cubs fans in attendence a taste of a good ol' fashion hockey game and all the sights and sounds. Its a hockey game after all, and hell maybe some baseball fans watching will like what they see. Stompin' Tom Connors could help:

[CrossoverThrash 0]

How is it low class? Just because you don't like the sport? That's a pretty awful assumption. Some people who won't even give hockey a chance from the start will say the same thing about that sport. Unfair? Yes, but you are doing the same thing regarding baseball as well.

Hockey is the greatest sport, every other sport sucks, you'll know once you've played it and not watch it like most people do.

[SouthernWingsFan 854]

Hockey is the greatest sport, every other sport sucks, you'll know once you've played it and not watch it like most people do.

So just because I don't play hockey doesn't mean I don't know anything about the sport?

I watch hockey every season and catch nearly every Wings game. Yes, I happen to like watching hockey so much that it is one of my favorite sports to watch. Does that mean I have a little knowledge of the sport?

Seriously, are you kidding me with this bulls**t?

Do you realize how narrow minded you are being?

Just because you think hockey is the greatest thing since the creation of the sliced bread doesn't mean that other sports stink. I love watching football. I used to play plenty of pick-up basketball. I like to cycle. Does that make me "less knowing" according to you?

On the flip side, I don't watch baseball much, nor do I watch much in the way of golf or soccer. Does that make them bad sports just because I don't pay as much attention to them? No.

I don't mean to be rude but you really sound obnoxious and ridiculous.

[CrossoverThrash 0]

So just because I don't play hockey doesn't mean I don't know anything about the sport?

I watch hockey every season and catch nearly every Wings game. Yes, I happen to like watching hockey so much that it is one of my favorite sports to watch. Does that mean I have a little knowledge of the sport?

Seriously, are you kidding me with this bulls**t?

Do you realize how narrow minded you are being?

Just because you think hockey is the greatest thing since the creation of the sliced bread doesn't mean that other sports stink. I love watching football. I used to play plenty of pick-up basketball. I like to cycle. Does that make me "less knowing" according to you?

On the flip side, I don't watch baseball much, nor do I watch much in the way of golf or soccer. Does that make them bad sports just because I don't pay as much attention to them? No.

I don't mean to be rude but you really sound obnoxious and ridiculous.

i get you;re point, but hockey is pretty much impossible to play, to regard it on the level i do, you have to play it, i understand you hold it high, theres no doubting that but once you've played, you know

[SouthernWingsFan 854]

i get you;re point, but hockey is pretty much impossible to play, to regard it on the level i do, you have to play it, i understand you hold it high, theres no doubting that but once you've played, you know

I already know how hard of game it is to play without having ever played it. I don't need a book or actual playing experience to realize how hard of a game it is.

The whole "I've played hockey so I automatically know more than you" or "You don't know hockey *insert sport here* if you haven't played it" is so incredibly ridiculous and snobby.

Other sports are pretty hard to play on a competitive and professional level as well. That doesn't make those sports bad.