> Vince wrote: > > << Only White Sox fans are classy enough to post the words to Amelia to prove > who the world's best song writer is! >>
Murphy responds: > While Red Sox fans are wondering whether or not Ted Williams' corpse will be > frozen or cremated! Seriously though, Vince, I am astounded that any one > group of sports fans would know so much about Joni. Or even care. > > And Bob, some White Sox fans can read without moving their lips too! :-) (although I can't...) Actually a number of my friends at Comiskey are working musicans and among the sports fans that I know at many levels - granted I don't hang out with NASCAR folks - the range of interests and knowlege is as varied there as it is in the JMDL. And when to the University of Michigan football games, the PhD percentage of fans goes way up. Last year before one of the games we were having a fascinating discussion on the legacy of Rabalais. The guy who runs the Sox message boards wrote his dissertation on "Conversion as Ethical Intersubjective Temporality: The Time for Religion and Change in the Work of Emmanuel Levinas." We have to have something to talk about during time outs! We may look like we are all dumb jock sports fans, but never stereotype... I wasn't surprised that people waxed eloquently on Joni Mitchell, although that was pleasant; what made my day was when the one dude popped up with the lyrics to Amelia to argue his point that she was the best songwriter ever. He had to have those lyrics right at hand to have posted them so fast - so that's a real Joni fan out there. The consensus of White Sox fans is that the body should be taken away from that theiving and corrupt John Henry and that Ted should be cremated. And that the Red Sox are cursed and will never beat the Yankees. However, we also we are cursed. What we need is a magic elixir like from Donatelli's opera... Vince
