Cubs Fans Boo Gordon
Submitted by
cubsnet on Tue, 2005-05-24 21:21.
Op-Ed There have been many occasions over the last several years that have provided the Cubs with strong hints that it would be a good idea to get rid of 7th inning stretch guest singer program.
Mike Ditka's first crazy man performance.
Steve McMichael threatening umpire Angel Hernandez with bodily injury.
Ozzy Osbourne's incoherent rambling.
Add what happened
tonight to that list. Cubs fans are now booing the help. NASCAR star
Jeff Gordon was the guest singer of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" tonight. He started off on a much different pace than the organ. He then forgot the words, or didn't know them to begin with.
Many fans at Wrigley Field tonight promptly began booing Gordon in the middle of the song. Loudly. The booing lasted until the end of the song, and beyond.
Len Kasper and
Bob Brenly, when interviewing Gordon in the bottom half of the inning, prudently stayed away from the subject. They didn't even talk baseball with him at all.
When a 13-year-old girl froze up singing the National Anthem at a Portland Trailblazers game in 2003, coach
Maurice Cheeks went up, stood next to her, and began singing the song with her.
Gordon needed a Maurice Cheeks tonight. What he got was thousands of fans whose class had escaped them.