A Great Honor

[howeird]

I have been invited to sing the national anthem at the 8th game of the World Series!

Comments

[howeird]

You will be very lonely there, there is a maximum of 7 games in the Series.
:-)

[howeird]

Got me.

[satyapriya.livejournal.com]

Well, yay for you! Congratulations.

[cinchntouch.livejournal.com]

Honest!?

Now I have to watch it. When is it on? What channel?

[howeird]

Channel 666 on the 12th of never. :-)

[cinchntouch.livejournal.com]

I forgot they only play three games for the Stanley Cup.

[howeird]

I'm betting on the Celtics.

[howeird]

It must be all your time being an ex-pat, everything American comes into better focus. Yes, the World Series is a best-of-seven event, there is no game 8.
:-)

[scendan.livejournal.com]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!! You going to do it???????????

[howeird]

If they have a game 8 this year, I'll be there, yes.

[scendan.livejournal.com]

SQUEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[scendan.livejournal.com]

Um...am I being stupid? Yes, I am, aren't I.

Why would there be an even number of games.

Am I being dumb?

Should I crawl under a table, now?

[johno.livejournal.com]

{grin}


...


though it did take a second reading...

[wolfen-dancer.livejournal.com]

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE *glomps*

[frabjouslinz.livejournal.com]

Well, there *might* be 8 games, should they, um, tie, and stuff. It's happened, I think. Er...anyway, you can always just sing it loudly in the street and see what happens.

[howeird]

There's never an 8th game, there are no ties in major league baseball, if it's tied at the end of the 9th inning, they just play till someone wins -- if the home team is ahead after the first half of the inning, or the visiting team is ahead at the end of the inning.

I think current rules say an inning cannot start after 1 am, so if the score is still tied they come back later that day, or the next day, to finish.

A World Series game has never gone more than 14 innings, and that's only happened twice (game 3 last year and game 2 in 1916 (Babe Ruth was the winning pitcher - yeah he was a pitcher before he was a home run hero).

[melchar.livejournal.com]

LOL! [go Rays!]

[howeird]

The Rays of hope. :-)

At least they play this series in the same time zone...

[mistymarshall.livejournal.com]

congrats...that is awesome

[howeird]

You've been out of the country for a while, haven't you? :-)