So Sad

[Jeff Ream]

Yes, I meant to say " Wrigley Field " above as a matter of fact and incorrectly mentioned " Comiskey Park " in my remarks as another example. But we both made an error as you typed it in as " Wirgley " Field ( haha )

newborn sleep deprivation will do that

[BRASSO]

newborn sleep deprivation will do that

haha.. 'understand.. Do you think that the first words out of his mouth will be be Momma or " Dada ", Jeff ?

[Northern Thunder]

haha.. 'understand.. Do you think that the first words out of his mouth will be be Momma or " Dada ", Jeff ?

Only if he's a Blue Devils fan.

[BRASSO]

Only if he's a Blue Devils fan.

haha..good point

[Jeff Ream]

haha.. 'understand.. Do you think that the first words out of his mouth will be be Momma or " Dada ", Jeff ?

at her rate, probably "food" or "Phillies"

[EdMedina]

Here's my theory.

Persons older than myself are always saying that drum corps is not as loud as it once was, and, therefore, it is not as amazing as it once was. I have a possible explanation for this. Could it be that as we get older our hearing diminishes and things don't sound as loud? Students of mine who view drum corps shows always come back and rave to me about the volume level.

"OMG, Mr. Medina, corps X was sooooooo loud," Joe student might say. "Why can't we play loud like that?"

My retort in my head is always something like, "wow, it wasn't terribly loud to me."

Oh shoot! And there you have it. This 1992 ageout is getting older!!

Thanks for your time.

[kaseyW]

entire thread=

Shocking that people can't agree on the correct/best/proper form of an activity based in music and artistic movement.

It's art, it's supposed to be controversial. If it wasn't then art would lack its luster. There would be no Mona Lisa, there would be no Beethoven's 9th. Even though it doesn't seem like it, this is what makes art so powerful. It's all about interpretation.

[BRASSO]

at her rate, probably "food" or "Phillies"

lol !

[BRASSO]

Here's my theory.

Persons older than myself are always saying that drum corps is not as loud as it once was, and, therefore, it is not as amazing as it once was. I have a possible explanation for this. Could it be that as we get older our hearing diminishes and things don't sound as loud?

hmnnn...I don't know. Do we really think the dinos are going to like the current Blue Devils if they get a Miracle Ear device ?

That'd be some miracle all right.

Edited July 27, 2012 by BRASSO

[Liahona]

Then there is the story of Fenway Park.For years and years, folks clammored to have the " old " replaced with the new. " Tear it down, replace with artificial turf, time to change", etc was the frequent mantra heard everywhere, including some quarters in Boston. Other cities and teams built spanking new and big stadiums. They were fresh, new, had all the latest amenities. Boston resisted. Partly out of space restrictions and political unwillingness in some quarters, but mostly because a lot of folks in Boston did not want to give up on the place. As the years went by, the 70's, 80's, 90's, into the 2000 era, new stadiums were built everywhere. Then people began to look around after they were built. They began to witness something many had not anticipated. The newer stadiums were real nice and all, but it was the old Fenway Park ( and at the time Chicago's Comiskey Park ) that was unique, different, and began to have an allure and a likeable quality missing in some of the newer antiseptic larger stadiums with no history at all, as the other stadiums has been bulldozed and reduced to rubble and a new, modern monolith created somewhere else for the team. But Fenway Park was different. The place looks almost identical to that of 1946. Nothing changed there. As time went on, the younger and newer baseball fans could join not only their Mothers and Fathers, but their Grandfathers and Grandmothers and go to a baseball game there and the place would be exactly as Grandpa and Grandma remembered it, right down to the sitelines, scoreboard, bleachers, the "Pesky pole "the bullpen, the " Green Monster ", and the grandstand girders where you had to look around to see the action if you had a vision impaired 50% off seat. Generations could share in the same experiences of going to the games there . The newer fans, those under 30, are the MOST apprreciative that the city elders never gave in to the request to demolish Fenway Park. Boston values history and tradition while trying not to be captive to it. This became its emost endearing quality of Fenway Park. That it did not go quietly into the night. That it would fight the scrapping of a place that had over 100 years of played experience in the old " dump ". The fact that Boston did not follow the others lead for new stadiums has found itself today a treasure that not only Bostonians value, it has become a tourist attraction where people now from all over the world can walk into the same Fenway Park that Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Honus Wagner, Stan Musial, Cy Young, Steve Carleton, Hank Aaron,Bob Gibson, Bob Feller, Roberto Clemente, Reggie Jackson, Nolan Ryan, Mickey Mantle, Don Sutton, Tom Seaver, Willie Mays, Ty Cobb, Joe Dimaggio,etc once played in. Fans can walk onto the field and touch and feel the grass and the very ground that the current grass springs from that was present in days that were simpler and in which dreams were made. Those who go to Fenway Park look beyond its obvious imperfections structurally, and are able to witness history come alive and as if time never changed. THAT is the beauty of it all. And why it has become a treasured landmark by all baseball fans, not just Boston Red Sox fans. Some things are worth changing. And then there are things that the wisest move was not to have changed anything at all.