Not usually, no. It’s tremendously insulting to do so. But hey, Canadian lives are only worth US $1250 these days, what’s a song worth?
Gord Downie is a singer for a big Canadian rock band. Sort of a straight Michael Stipe with a pinch of Eddie Vedder.
It really is ugly Americanism to clip O Canada from the telecast. US networks think it’s more important to make a few extra bucks on commercials than to show a little respect for our good neighbors. I get CBC, and I can attest that Canadian telecasts do NOT clip the US anthem. Another bonus of getting CBC is FAR superior Olympic coverage. CBC even shows medal ceremonies with no Canadians on the platform, complete with the anthems of other nations. NBC doesn’t think its viewers could handle something like that.
When Manny put it over the fence I laughed my ass off. I can’t stand that jerk Clemens.
When he was going for his 300th win last tear my second thought was, “Please God, not against the Sox.” My first thought was, “I hope his goddamned arm falls off tomorrow.”
My first thought, too! Maybe it was just too tempting! 
When a dominant pitcher like Clemens switches leagues and faces guys who have mostly never hit against him, it’s no surprise that he had 10 wins by the All-Star break.
Last night he takes the hill against veteran AL’ers, all of whom have faced him many times. Manny Ramirez has always hit Clemens well. Alfonso Soriano spent 3 years right behind him at second base, watching every pitch he threw. Joe Torre and Mel Stottlemyre, his manager and pitching coach for five years, were on the AL bench. Do ya think that maybe they all had an idea as to how he pitches???
No, Roger Clemens doesn’t suck, he’s just at the end of a great career. That scrag-ass anthem-killer Fantasia sucks. What a load. At first note I grabbed that remote and hit the Last Channel button faster than Wyatt Earp.
Actually, I think it had very little to do with pitching against veteran ALers who know him.
According to the ESPN guys, he couldn’t get his fastball to do what he wanted so he reverted to a lot of sliders and off-speed stuff, but that’s stuff is not as effective without the fastball to set it up. That’s why you saw him keep shaking off Piazza since Piazza wanted to call a lot of fastballs.
Just an off night. It happens.
Piazza obviously wasn’t going to head out to the mound and give him a break/ breather but the NL pitching coach, Rosenthal sure should have. If nothing else it might have reduced the damage from 6 to 3.
35 pitches and no one visits?
Tell me about it. When i lived in Canada, i spent half my TV time watching hockey and the other half watching baseball. Whenever a Canadian team played and American team, and they played both anthems, the telecast showed both anthems.
On a somewhat different note, i was living in Canada in 1992, when the Canadian flag was flown upside-down in Atlanta at the second (?) game of the World Series between the Blue Jays and the Braves. That was pretty funny.
I remember that- it was a Marine honor guard. When the series went back to Toronto, a fan held up a sign that said- MARINES- THE FEW - THE PROUD- THE DYSLEXIC
Thank you, all, about the info for the Canadian anthem! I honestly did wonder. And I admit, I think it’s a smashing song. I like the US National Anthem, but I do wish people would just sing it and not add all those extra notes. I am guessing it is sung first at US games, out of courtesy for the visitors?
I miss when I could look at the CBC for news, back when I had an analogue satellite dish (now a 10-foot across bowl for wisteria), and before I got the DSL hook up. I looked at many matches on the CBC (not cos I like Toronto, grumbling as an Orioles supporter who is still annoyed at Mike Mussina’s All Star snub), but I enjoyed the broadcasts. I also used to look at Expos games in French!
I wish they did include it, and didn’t feel the need to fill that extra short time with adverts, both cos it’s lovely, and cos well crikey, there are two teams in Canada (even if they are expansion teams 
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:smack: ‘It’ meaning ‘O Canada.’
If you hate Roger Clemens, then you’ll love this letter to Roger by Seth Stevenson of Slate Online. The page also has a link to the NPR Audio archive of the “Day to Day” segment where he reads the letter aloud.
As a long-suffering Red Sox fan myself, I heartily recommend listening to it for full effect.
I don’t hate Roger Clemens. But I found it interesting that during RC’s disastrous first inning yesterday, Piazza never came out to the mound to kind of, you know, talk things over, help him calm down & get his stuff together, like catchers often do for pitchers. He just left him out there to twist slowly in the wind, so to speak. Who knows, maybe MP was calling bad pitch choices, or not setting up a good target, and figured the NL would be able to recover in the later innings.
Maybe he didn’t come out cos he was afraid he wouldn’t be able to keep from giggling like Ted Baxter on that episode of Mary Tyler Moore.
Or maybe he was afraid Roger would throw a bat at him?