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Bill Murray, sausage races, and home runs are all a part of baseball tradition.
In the video, Bill Murray is talking about the national anthem. Anthems of the world can be heard here. When a country hosts a baseball game everyone hears their anthem. Fort McHenry is the battle that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the Star-Spangled Banner, which is the United States National Anthem.
You may have noticed in the Carlos Delgado clip, that is the first home run, that a giant apple emerged from a cup. Why is this, you ask? Well after the events of September 11, the people of New York City felt it was time to bring peace to the world. So they decided to commemorate the memory of the Beatles and the Apple Records by putting a mechanical apple in their stadium that would mark peace, love, and politics every time someone hit a home run. Improbable, you say? That's right. It's because New York is The Big Apple, dummy.
More information on Apple Corps.
More information on Carlos Delgado and the Cuban Revolution. I can't say for sure, but Carlos might have been named after Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, the 47th President of Venezuela.
Many people credit Iraq as the inventor of sausages. Did you know that? Well anyway, sausage races are a great tradition in Milwaukee.
2 comments:
Ben as always you impress me with your baseball passion. I like the video, as well as the fun facts displayed in the post.
I don't like New York enough to think that the apple at Shea Stadium is anything but rash self promotion of horrible baseball fandom and utterly disgusting fans.
Alright the NY rant is over.
Do you remember when the baseball player (I can't remember his name) but he swing his bat at the sausage racer injuring him. That was crazy .
Anyhew, my one complain is the volume on the Bill Murray clip. Because of the music in the background it is really hard to hear him.
But the moving drawn images of the baseball game were freakin' sweet.
good video, ben. anything with bill murray in it is good. just look at ghostbusters, royal tenenbaums, broken flowers, rushmore, lost in translation, and this one. i really like how you used the drawings to transition between clips. good stuff.
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