I went to a Greenville Drive game tonight. They were playing against the Asheville Tourists. That is no lie. Tourists are the sort of people that those from my homeland consider like cockroaches made out of money - disgusting in every way except that they are made out of money. Yet Asheville, NC named a Single A baseball franchise after them. Great. The Drive are a farm team for the Boston Red Sox, and the stadium looked like a miniature Fenway Park. It was pretty neat, and everybody had Southern accents instead of Boston ones. Some of you may be thinking, "Well, that's sort of a lateral move, isn't it?" The answer is no, it isn't. A Southern accent is infinitely superior to a Boston one in every way. The Boston accent is like poop on a cracker.
One thing I remembered while sort of watching this baseball game is that I don't really understand the "Charge!" cheer. Or the wave, but let's do one thing at a time. The "Charge!" cheer, in my opinion, has no place in baseball or football games. It's merely a Pavlovian sound that elicits the same response wherever you go. The point of cheers is to psyche up your team so they'll perform better. If "Charge!" is universal, then it could be monkeys in the stands, rather than actual fans. Clemson has a cheer where they spell CLEMSON by sections around Death Valley. That is intimidating. If the PA system played the do-doo-do-doooo Charge! sound, sure it would be loud, but so what? Charge! can go to hell.
3 comments:
Southern accents are supperior to most, if not all accents.
hmmm, i'd have to debate that one. european accents are probably the sexiest, and i think boston accents are the most intriguing.
RAWR.
There are like a trillion European accents, not all of them good, so you're going to have to be more specific. There are even like 10 British ones - London English, Cockney English, Highland Scottish, Lowland Scottish, Welsh...
I am partial myself to European accents from the English speaking countries. The Central European ones I can do without. Southern accents, though, on a lady is hard to resist. Boston, as I've mentioned before, is like poop on a cracker. Why spoil the delightful English language (cracker) with such a foul accent (poop)?
Post a Comment