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June 22

Dress in Spain

Moved to Humanities upon OP's request Dismas|^(talk) 03:20, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Will baseball ever try anything different?

Football has tried many sub leagues and failed every time. Baseball hasn't tried. With MLB approval, let's have a once a year game where we shoot all the players up with PCP (with legal and medical waivers). Or how about letting a random ticketholder play? Have a playoff game with no crowd, to see if it makes a difference. Have the beard game where everyone wears a beard, no exceptions. Bb guns for outfielders (for very limited circumstances, only!). I have other ideas but I've probably bored you eneough.Baseball and and and Popcorn Fanatic (talk) 01:39, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Do these suggestions correlate at all with your opening comment about football "sub leagues"? Subs might have footballs, but that post-dates the league. Anyway, baseball has a long history of the sort of promos you suggest. Disco Demolition Night is a particularly infamous one. — Lomn 04:06, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

• Well, baseball has tried something different and it is still controversial after all these years. Also, a minor league team did try having a game with no crowd. [1] As to the beard game, in 1972, the Oakland A's got their entire roster to wear mustaches (some for the full season, but all at least temporarily). They became known as the Mustache Gang. [2] --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:34, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

One problem with taking on too many of the ideas you suggest is that baseball is probably the most steeped in tradition of all American sports, and a great many fans prefer that. Baseball attendance is at its highest ever, television ratings and revenue are setting records, all while keeping the game virtually as it was 150 years ago. To change baseball radically in order to attract a few more fans would seriously risk alienating a substantial percentage of current fans, to the extent that attendance would actually drop. Minor tweaks every decade or two (the DH, wild cards, interleague play) already cause major riffs among fans. — Michael J 00:57, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Van Halen song

There is a Van Halen song that starts off acoustically, then David Lee Roth says something like "let's go boys" and it becomes a full rock song. It was on a "deep cuts" weekend on one of the radio stations here, so it's apparently on the second side of its album, or at least not a single. I don't remember any other lyrics. So before I start searching for every DLR-era non-single Van Halen song, I was wondering if anyone here had any idea what I'm talking about? Adam Bishop (talk) 06:13, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

[3]? Someoneinmyheadbutit'snotme (talk) 18:51, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes! Thanks! Adam Bishop (talk) 19:20, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

The name of the song is "Ice Cream Man" It's an old blues song that Van Halen did. It's on their first album.Bluesmanjay (talk) 14:49, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Dylan in the Movies

In the Belle & Sebastian song "Like Dylan in the Movies," from their masterful 1996 album If You're Feeling Sinister, Stuart Murdoch sings, "If they follow you, don't look back, like Dylan in the movies..." Does anyone know which Dylan and which movies he intends to reference here?

Thank you!

MelancholyDanish (talk) 08:23, 22 June 2008 (UTC)MelancholyDanish

• Dont Look Back was the name of a documentary film about Bob Dylan. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 14:39, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by MelancholyDanish (talk • contribs) 22:12, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Rock song from riff

I'm trying to find this rock song, and all I can remember is the following riff (say it starts in D because I don't know what key it's in):

dcAG F CD   *   dcAG F CD   *   edBA G DE   *   edBA G DE

where capitals are in a lower octave, spaces are rests, and asterisks represent something like a cymbal crash. Does this ring a bell for anyone? All suggestions appreciated. —Keenan Pepper 20:38, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Central Dark

I've noticed there are some intruiging propositions offered by the latest installment of Alone in the Dark regarding some of the mysteries of the park, but the article on Central Park is devoid of any references. Is there a factual or mythological basis to any of the claims it makes? It'd be very interesting to hear about some oddities of it's history, even if there are rational explanation for them. 167.1.163.100 (talk) 23:45, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Considering many of us have probably not played the game, we may not be able to help you as far as the "claims it makes". The Alone in the Dark article doesn't state any claims. Could you maybe go over a few for us? That might get you more than silence in response to your question. Dismas|^(talk) 12:42, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

I just rechecked the plot section of the article and it does appear to make quite a few references to the mythology surrounding the park. 70.65.196.13 (talk) 12:39, 24 June 2008 (UTC)