Not only did
the Nats 2014 season end with a whimper rather than a bang in baseball terms, they
were also not making good choices with their seventh-inning stretch songs, at
least in my humble opinion. I’m sure “Friends In Low Places”, for instance, appeals
to some, but it’s neither sufficiently uptempo nor easy enough to sing along
with.
Naturally, I
came up with a short list of tunes (7, if I remember correctly) that I
considered more appropriate, and this was one of those that made it. In
addition to meeting the criteria mentioned above and being a nice tribute to
Gore, who died early the next year, it’s short enough (just 1:36) that you
might be able to squeeze the whole thing in before play resumed.
Fortunately
for us Nats fans there was a happy ending. I never heard them use this song,
but they did go with the Tom Jones classic “It’s Not Unusual” (which was also
on my list) during many of the games we attended last season, and I’m certainly
not complaining about the times they played “Uptown Funk” instead.
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