# A request for equal time during the All Star Game

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-for-equal-time-during-the-all-star-game/411318>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 11, 2007, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-for-equal-time-during-the-all-star-game/411318 "2007-07-11T02:58:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-for-equal-time-during-the-all-star-game/411318/21 "2007-07-13T16:36:42Z")

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[QUOTE=Happy Scrappy Hero Pup]  
They sing “O Canada” before games involving the Blue Jays (and once upon a time, the Expos).  
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They always sing “O Canada” before the All-Star game. Always have.

Fox simply refuses to include it in the broadcast.

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**Author:** ![Superfreaknduper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Superfreaknduper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfreaknduper)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-for-equal-time-during-the-all-star-game/411318/22 "2007-07-13T17:11:03Z")

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[QUOTE=D\_Odds]  
They play this crappy song at every Yankees home game. With two outs in the top of the 7th, it is time for me to make a trip to the little boys’ room. Hate when the inning ends on a double play.

YMCA is usually in the 5th when the grounds keepers groom the field. You can see that they’ve gotten tired of their little bit of performance art.

Yankees don’t do Sweet Caroline, but they do have Cotton-Eyed Joe, and “New York, New York” at the end (usually Frank Sinatra’s version, but I’ve occasionally heard others).  
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Sweet Caroline is generally a Red Sox tradition. As for “New York, New York”, the Yankees play the Frank Sinatra version after a win and Liza Minelli after a loss. God how i love to here that excruciatingly horrid voice of Liza’s.

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-for-equal-time-during-the-all-star-game/411318/23 "2007-07-14T03:27:27Z")

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Where’s the love for Cotton-Eye Joe?

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**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-for-equal-time-during-the-all-star-game/411318/24 "2007-07-14T03:37:46Z")

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I’m offended by “God Bless America” mostly because it **SUCKS**. It’s trite, insipid **CRAP**. Anything else, in my mind, is incidental.

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