NEW RULE: If you don’t know the words, then you shouldn’t be given the microphone to sing the song!!!!!

Game 6 of the 2016 NLCS, Chicago Wrigley Field, and Bulls basketball legend Scottie Pippen comes to the microphone. He wouldn’t be my first choice considering his most recent headlines involve police calls for domestic disturbances at his LA Home. ( Mr. and Mrs. Pippen are in the middle of a brutal divorce.) But he is a Chicago sports celebrity, and apparently we let them do anything they want to!

From Wikipedia:

 “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” is a 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer which has become the unofficial anthem of North American baseball, although neither of its authors had attended a game prior to writing the song. The song’s chorus is traditionally sung during the middle of the seventh inning of a baseball game. Fans are generally encouraged to sing along, and at some ballparks, the words “home team” are replaced with the team name.”

Did you read that? The song has been around longer than the Cubs last appearance in the World Series. And he doesn’t know it????

Need a refresher…..Fine…..Here ya go.

Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd;
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack,
I don’t care if I never get back.
Let me root, root, root for the (Insert CUBBIES here) home team,
If they don’t win, it’s a shame.
For it’s one, two, three strikes, you’re out,
At the old ball game.

Next time please practice before you sing it! Or be sober until after you finish it.