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Is there some connection between the song "Sweet Caroline" and Boston that I have missed? I know he played it last year and there was some discussion about it. Today while watching the Red Sox game, the song was playing during an inning break and I swear over the announcers you could hear the audible sounds of the crowd singing along. Is this just a coincidence?
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it goes back to the era when Ruth was sold and there was alleged a curse on the Sox. The gentleman selling Ruth's contract had an illegitmate daughter with the woman he was seeing (the lead in "No No Nanette"). That daughter was named Caroline.Gulfbreeze wrote:That was pretty funny...ragtopW wrote:I was thinking
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As she grew older, God created a guy named Neil Diamond. She became attached to the song "Sweet Caroline" as a means of overcoming a very low level of self-esteem. Eventually, it was adopted by the Sox, no strangers to excessively-low self-esteem either.
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The fans picked the song. Over the course of a season some years back, they Sox played 5 different songs during the 8th inning (I know YMCA was one, can't remember the other 3), and the fans were asked to choose which one they wanted to be the every game song. As it turns out, "Sweet Caroline" was chosen by the fans as the song to be played. The new owners left it in place. Now it's a tradition.jimsig wrote:According to an article I saw a week or so ago in one of the Boston papers, it started to be played a few years back before the current owners bought the team. When the new owners took over they kept playing it. No one knows why it started or who ever picked the song.
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I like my version better...jimsig wrote:According to an article I saw a week or so ago in one of the Boston papers, it started to be played a few years back before the current owners bought the team. When the new owners took over they kept playing it. No one knows why it started or who ever picked the song.
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habourgirl wrote:Oh, y'all just got me super excited! I"m going to a game on Sunday and now I"m pumped! I can't wait to spend $8 on crappy beer! Woo hoo!!! And of course it's a tradition to SHOW MY Hooters after the big game! SO excited!
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Hahahah.. well, if it was last year at the phenway park show that would have been true... Or either of the GreatWoods shows, or Mohegan...Cubbie Bear wrote:habourgirl wrote:Oh, y'all just got me super excited! I"m going to a game on Sunday and now I"m pumped! I can't wait to spend $8 on crappy beer! Woo hoo!!! And of course it's a tradition to SHOW MY Hooters after the big game! SO excited!
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Another mystery of the Diamond, explained at last
By Stephanie Vosk, Globe Correspondent | May 29, 2005
The lyrics have nothing to do with baseball.
The composer has no connection to the Red Sox.
The song hit the charts more than 30 years ago.
So why does 'Sweet Caroline" pump from the speakers at Fenway Park in the middle of the eighth inning of every single Red Sox game?
Like all the Sox fans questioned at one of this month's rare sunny home games, Paul Sundeen has no idea. And he attends 10 to 15 games a season.
'It's just one of those things," says Sundeen, 24, of West Roxbury. 'Everybody seems to sing it."
'Maybe one of the player's wives is Caroline," offers Michael McCarthy, 25, a Back Bay resident.
'I think it was all Pedro Martinez's fault," says Marc Schwalb, 32, of Revere, shaking his arms to imitate the way the former Red Sox ace would dance for the crowd when the song was played.
Schwalb says he makes a point to sing along, despite the fact he finds 'Caroline" 'one of the worst songs ever written."
Dennis Doherty, 28, of Hyde Park, also disses the song.
' 'Sweet Caroline' has nothing to do with Boston," Doherty says. 'I think they should end it; I don't like it."
As April McGann, 30, a FleetCenter employee from Randolph, explains the song has 'something to do with the Red Sox," her friend jumps in with a more detailed answer.
'Boston's supposed to be 'Sweet Caroline,' " says Mairead Finn, 30, of Weymouth, with the voice of authority.
As the question spreads among nearby fans, Lauren Manforde, 21, of Naugatuck, Conn., jumps in, voicing frustration.
'Nobody knows," she says, 'I've been trying to find out for years."
Even Sherrie Levy, press agent for songwriter and singer Neil Diamond, has no clue.
'I'm not sure how it started, but we're very pleased that it happened," Levy says.
Diamond is on tour and not available to comment on the question, according to Levy.
Scheduled to perform at the FleetCenter Aug. 15, Diamond has been asked by the Red Sox to sing at their Aug. 14 home game against the Chicago White Sox. It is not yet known whether he will, Levy says.
Amy Tobey knows the answer to the 'Sweet Caroline" question.
Tobey began working for the Red Sox through her job at BCN Productions, a film and video communications company, having interned for the Boston Bruins.
Her assignment was to decide what music would be played at the park from 1998 to 2004.
She had noticed 'Sweet Caroline" was used at other sporting events, and she decided to send the sweetness over the Fenway speakers.
The song was picked up by fans, and the more it caught on, the more superstitious Tobey became about playing it.
Tobey would play the song somewhere between the seventh and ninth innings if the team was ahead, depending on whether she felt the team was going to win.
She didn't go by any specific margin of runs, but rather who the opponent was, and her gut instincts.
'I actually considered it like a good luck charm," Tobey says. 'Even if they were just one run [ahead], I might still do it. It was just a feel."
In 2002, when new management took over at the park, they requested that Tobey play the song during the eighth inning of every game.
'They liked it and they just loved the crowd reaction with it and stuff," she says.
Though Tobey says she was nervous the change would be bad luck for the team, its appeal to fans ultimately ruled.
And under the song's spell, the Red Sox last season won their first World Series in 86 years.
It was even included in the recent film 'Fever Pitch," starring Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore, that appropriates scenes from 2004's winning season.
To Lauren Rochon, 23, of Quincy, 'Caroline," is the 'epitome of Boston."
'It's just in every bar you go to, it's one of those songs," Rochon says. 'It's Boston's theme song."
'It's just a catchy tune, the words are easy . . . it gets the whole field in one rhythm," says Jackie Davidson, 52, a Taunton resident, standing outside the park on Patriots Day.
'You don't sing 'Sweet Caroline' . . . you didn't go to a game."
Another mystery of the Diamond, explained at last
By Stephanie Vosk, Globe Correspondent | May 29, 2005
The lyrics have nothing to do with baseball.
The composer has no connection to the Red Sox.
The song hit the charts more than 30 years ago.
So why does 'Sweet Caroline" pump from the speakers at Fenway Park in the middle of the eighth inning of every single Red Sox game?
Like all the Sox fans questioned at one of this month's rare sunny home games, Paul Sundeen has no idea. And he attends 10 to 15 games a season.
'It's just one of those things," says Sundeen, 24, of West Roxbury. 'Everybody seems to sing it."
'Maybe one of the player's wives is Caroline," offers Michael McCarthy, 25, a Back Bay resident.
'I think it was all Pedro Martinez's fault," says Marc Schwalb, 32, of Revere, shaking his arms to imitate the way the former Red Sox ace would dance for the crowd when the song was played.
Schwalb says he makes a point to sing along, despite the fact he finds 'Caroline" 'one of the worst songs ever written."
Dennis Doherty, 28, of Hyde Park, also disses the song.
' 'Sweet Caroline' has nothing to do with Boston," Doherty says. 'I think they should end it; I don't like it."
As April McGann, 30, a FleetCenter employee from Randolph, explains the song has 'something to do with the Red Sox," her friend jumps in with a more detailed answer.
'Boston's supposed to be 'Sweet Caroline,' " says Mairead Finn, 30, of Weymouth, with the voice of authority.
As the question spreads among nearby fans, Lauren Manforde, 21, of Naugatuck, Conn., jumps in, voicing frustration.
'Nobody knows," she says, 'I've been trying to find out for years."
Even Sherrie Levy, press agent for songwriter and singer Neil Diamond, has no clue.
'I'm not sure how it started, but we're very pleased that it happened," Levy says.
Diamond is on tour and not available to comment on the question, according to Levy.
Scheduled to perform at the FleetCenter Aug. 15, Diamond has been asked by the Red Sox to sing at their Aug. 14 home game against the Chicago White Sox. It is not yet known whether he will, Levy says.
Amy Tobey knows the answer to the 'Sweet Caroline" question.
Tobey began working for the Red Sox through her job at BCN Productions, a film and video communications company, having interned for the Boston Bruins.
Her assignment was to decide what music would be played at the park from 1998 to 2004.
She had noticed 'Sweet Caroline" was used at other sporting events, and she decided to send the sweetness over the Fenway speakers.
The song was picked up by fans, and the more it caught on, the more superstitious Tobey became about playing it.
Tobey would play the song somewhere between the seventh and ninth innings if the team was ahead, depending on whether she felt the team was going to win.
She didn't go by any specific margin of runs, but rather who the opponent was, and her gut instincts.
'I actually considered it like a good luck charm," Tobey says. 'Even if they were just one run [ahead], I might still do it. It was just a feel."
In 2002, when new management took over at the park, they requested that Tobey play the song during the eighth inning of every game.
'They liked it and they just loved the crowd reaction with it and stuff," she says.
Though Tobey says she was nervous the change would be bad luck for the team, its appeal to fans ultimately ruled.
And under the song's spell, the Red Sox last season won their first World Series in 86 years.
It was even included in the recent film 'Fever Pitch," starring Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore, that appropriates scenes from 2004's winning season.
To Lauren Rochon, 23, of Quincy, 'Caroline," is the 'epitome of Boston."
'It's just in every bar you go to, it's one of those songs," Rochon says. 'It's Boston's theme song."
'It's just a catchy tune, the words are easy . . . it gets the whole field in one rhythm," says Jackie Davidson, 52, a Taunton resident, standing outside the park on Patriots Day.
'You don't sing 'Sweet Caroline' . . . you didn't go to a game."
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What time do we leave? and which Hooters?haha.Drink before the game at Boston Billiards. Cheapharbourgirl wrote:Oh, y'all just got me super excited! I"m going to a game on Sunday and now I"m pumped! I can't wait to spend $8 on crappy beer! Woo hoo!!! And of course it's a tradition to go to Hooters after the big game! SO excited!
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I prefer Boston Beer Works over Billiards whenever I go to see a game in Fenway (even though it has been close to 5 years since I have been to Fenway). Anyone up there want to have me up?tequilatom wrote:What time do we leave? and which Hooters?haha.Drink before the game at Boston Billiards. Cheapharbourgirl wrote:Oh, y'all just got me super excited! I"m going to a game on Sunday and now I"m pumped! I can't wait to spend $8 on crappy beer! Woo hoo!!! And of course it's a tradition to go to Hooters after the big game! SO excited!
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Agree , but 1.00 beers you can't beat. I was up there in May and of course like so many times when i get good tickets up there. rain out.aeroparrot wrote:I prefer Boston Beer Works over Billiards whenever I go to see a game in Fenway (even though it has been close to 5 years since I have been to Fenway). Anyone up there want to have me up?tequilatom wrote:What time do we leave? and which Hooters?haha.Drink before the game at Boston Billiards. Cheapharbourgirl wrote:Oh, y'all just got me super excited! I"m going to a game on Sunday and now I"m pumped! I can't wait to spend $8 on crappy beer! Woo hoo!!! And of course it's a tradition to go to Hooters after the big game! SO excited!