3rd June 2008, 11:47 PM
I think the "God Bless America" thing in baseball (during the 7th inning stretch) started right after 9/11, as a reaction to that... it is unfortunate that it never went away.
I mean, the way baseball is supposed to work is that the national anthem is sung before the game, and then you do "Take Me Out to the Ball-Game" during the 7th inning stretch! Replacing that with God Bless America... bah. Baseball should be about baseball. :(
As for the Pledge of Allegiance, my issue is the same as ever... just get rid of the words "Under God" and I have no major problem with it. They weren't in it originally anyway.
It is national propaganda, but it's not like getting rid of that would change much; school curriculums are designed to help national pride anyway, generally. Compared to things people are actually learning the pledge is relatively harmless.
Yeah, and on NeoGAF you'd probably be instantly permabanned for posting in an old thread, much less one this old. This isn't NeoGAF. :)
I mean, the way baseball is supposed to work is that the national anthem is sung before the game, and then you do "Take Me Out to the Ball-Game" during the 7th inning stretch! Replacing that with God Bless America... bah. Baseball should be about baseball. :(
As for the Pledge of Allegiance, my issue is the same as ever... just get rid of the words "Under God" and I have no major problem with it. They weren't in it originally anyway.
It is national propaganda, but it's not like getting rid of that would change much; school curriculums are designed to help national pride anyway, generally. Compared to things people are actually learning the pledge is relatively harmless.
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Yeah, and on NeoGAF you'd probably be instantly permabanned for posting in an old thread, much less one this old. This isn't NeoGAF. :)