The Boston Globe had a piece on why “Sweet Caroline” plays at every 8th inning. I hate “Tessie”, but “Sweet Caroline” has always had a so-bad-it’s-kitschy appeal to it for me. Reminds me of that scene in Beautiful Girls where they all sing along to that song… come to think of it, that was written by a Massachusetts native, Scott Rosenberg, before “Sweet Caroline” became a standard at Fenway. For that matter, I have a recording of U2 singing that song in Foxboro (purportedly) and everyone joins in the “bah-bah-bah” and “so good, so good, so good” parts. What’s with the Massachusetts connections to the song?
Good times never seemed so good
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