Dan O'Neill hates that hippity hoppity music the kids like

[Popeye_Card]

Hockey is probably the best, because there are so few stoppages of play. Only thing that sucks is waiting through the intermission between periods.

Baseball really started to annoy me a couple of years ago. They do something between almost every pitch during the postseason. Ugh. Just let the crowd do their own chanting, etc. for once without the PA/organ involved.

--P--

[heyzeus]

I sure do love that hip hop group, Arcade. And the Akron! Oh yes, he is quite capital.

What an embarrassing article for the PD.

[sighyoung]

I've got just the CD for Dan:

[jim]

Hockey is probably the best, because there are so few stoppages of play. Only thing that sucks is waiting through the intermission between periods.

Baseball really started to annoy me a couple of years ago. They do something between almost every pitch during the postseason. Ugh. Just let the crowd do their own chanting, etc. for once without the PA/organ involved.

--P--

They have always done that in ST. Louis. Ernie Hayes was plucking away between every pitch as long ago as the 1970's. In some ways, I think Cardinal fans are conditioned to just sit there and wait for Ernie to wake them up. Rarely do you hear a crowd started chant at Busch.

[docellis]

I sure do love that hip hop group, Arcade. And the Akron! Oh yes, he is quite capital.

What an embarrassing article for the PD.

I think the article is silly too but I think "Arcade" might have been mentioned because of this:

Steven Jackson mentioned he would like the stadium to play more current music. A little hip-hop, a little alternative rock; anything to pump up the crowd. Fairly harmless, off-hand remark.

Still a silly article.

[jim]

I sure do love that hip hop group, Arcade. And the Akron! Oh yes, he is quite capital.

What an embarrassing article for the PD.

I think the article is silly too but I think "Arcade" might have been mentioned because of this:

Steven Jackson mentioned he would like the stadium to play more current music. A little hip-hop, a little alternative rock; anything to pump up the crowd. Fairly harmless, off-hand remark.

Still a silly article.

But an even sillier comment from Jackson if you ask me considering the circumstances. Hey Steven, want to pump up the crowd? How about going better than 2-9 or whatever.

[Jocephus]

ya see! the kids listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage! with the hippin and a-hoppin' and a-bippin and a-boppin...so they dont know what the JAZZ is all about!

[thrill]

The one complaint I have is that there is just too much music period at sporting events. It's like they have to fill every down second with something. I watched the Bulls/Raptors in Toronto on TV the other day, and I swear there was music blaring the entire time, even when the ball was in play. I thought I was watching some weird ballet.

I agree. Especially the NBA; drives me crazy.

This is why Soccer is a great sport no matter what yaal say.

No commercial breaks except for half time, no music pumped in and unless you're watching ESPN, no overbearing play-by-play guys.

[heyzeus]

I went ahead and forwarded this fine article to the popular music blog Idolator, and they ran it as a post. They gave me props, but those really belong to thrill:

http://idolator.com/tunes/sports-writer ... 327081.php

[ThatGuy]

I e-mailed him asking if this article was submitted against his will, along with pointing out that the rest of us were having a mighty good time with it. I also told him it was easy to ruin one's "street cred" by butchering the names of popular artists like Akon and Arcade Fire.

He apologized for the "regrettable" mistakes, and said he was not concerned (in any form or fashion) with "street cred."