TDMMC March Madness - TRADITION - Sweet Caroline vs. Blue Seaters

[Dave Gray]

From wiki:
"Sweet Caroline" is popular at sporting events. Fenway Park, home of Major League Baseball's Boston Red Sox, has played the song since at least 1997, and it has been played at every game in the middle of the eighth inning since 2002.[7] On opening night of the 2010 season at Fenway Park, the song was performed by Diamond himself.

On April 16, 2013, the day after the Boston Marathon bombings, the New York Yankees—longtime Red Sox rivals—announced they would play the song during their home game, preceded by a moment of silence, as a tribute to the victims.[8] On Saturday, April 20, 2013, during the 8th inning of the Red Sox-Kansas City game in Fenway Park, Neil Diamond led the crowd in a rendition of the song. The song was sung at sporting events across the country after the Boston Marathon bombings, in efforts to show solidarity with those affected by the tragedy.



From wiki:
In Rangers fan lore, one of the most traditional, as well as one of the rowdiest, sections of the Garden is the blue seats, up in the 400 level. The nickname comes from the color of the old seats in the Garden, and the cheapest seats being the blue ones up top. In the 1970s, "blue-seaters" would heckle opposing players, and also heckle the "red-seaters", down below. This led to the perception that the blue seats were also home to a great deal of profanity, or "blue language."

The generally working-to-middle-class Ranger fans upstairs would poke fun at corporate- and business-type people in the more expensive seats of the 100 level. This tradition carried over to the bleachers at Yankee Stadium, where the "Bleacher Creatures" would point to the outfield boxes and chant "RED seats suck!" and yell out the price of those seats when a fan in them was thrown out, i.e. "Thirty dollars!"

Blue-seaters would also come up with the popular Garden chants such as "Potvin Sucks", "Beat Your Wife Potvin" (both of those chants pertain to former New York Islanders defenseman, Denis Potvin), and "Shoot The Puck Barry" (started for Barry Beck, a Ranger in the 1980s). Though the seats in the 400 level at MSG were once teal thanks to a 1990 renovation of the Garden, they were still referred to as the blueseats, and the supporters who sit up there are called blueseaters. The blueseaters still continue many of the traditions that they are known for.

[Dave Gray]

I picked Sweet Caroline because I think it's become a bigger tradition since the Boston bombings.  That song being played around the league was a pretty special sports moment.

[Phishfan]

I also pick the song. I could care less about it playing in Yankee Stadium though. I'm an Isle's fan and Potvin was an all-time great.

[Brian Fein]

This is the other song I would pick.