Why do we have anthems

The actual game? Ignore it. With the Yankees up, , in the eighth, Cessa entered and made all-gone, 1, 2, 3, on just five pitches. And with the DH, no worries about pinch-hitting for the pitcher. Soon the Yankees were losers in But new-standard, mind-throttling senselessness remains the specialty of all the houses. In the fourth, one could see why Brett Gardner is batting. He had a count against starter-without-portfolio Tanner Houck, righty pitcher versus lefty batter, thus Gardner loaded up to swing for Uranus and beyond.

Monday, Angels manager Joe Maddon, who tried to lose the World Series for the Cubs with absurd pitching changes, removed Shohei Ohtani, placing him in the outfield after he had pitched six scoreless innings. The Angels then lost to the Athletics, Florida remains headquarters to highly compromised Florida football players — student-athletes — recruited by highly compromised Florida colleges. Those fine folks at Miami have found yet another.

Safety Avantae Williams, a year-old redshirt freshman and four-star recruit, has been dismissed from the team after his arrest last week for three counts of aggravated assault against his weeks pregnant girlfriend. Time for Brooks Koepka to cease fueling his childish feud with Bryson DeChambeau with petulant taunts — though I suspect his Nike endorsers love him for it. In some countries like China and Colombia, the national anthem is played at specific times of the day by radio and television channels.

Thus, different countries promote their national anthems in different ways. Most countries also mention several etiquettes to be observed while performing or listening to the national anthem like standing up, removing headwear, etc. For example, Taiwan is not recognized as an independent country by the Olympics committee. Hence, the national anthem of Taiwan is not performed in the Olympics and instead the National Banner Song is played.

The national anthem, like other national symbols of a country, represents the tradition, history, and beliefs of a nation and its people. It also helps unite the citizens of the country by one single song or music. During the performance of the national anthem, citizens of a nation, despite their ethnic differences, rise up in unison and listen attentively or sing the song with great enthusiasm.

It gives them a feeling of having made their country proud. Students who listen to the national anthem in their schools learn to respect their nation and develop a sense of unity among themselves. The concept of a national anthem was first popularized in 19th century Europe. After their independence from European colonial powers, many of the newly-independent nations also composed their own national anthems and today, virtually every sovereign nation in the world has its own national anthem.

In fact, the two teams had won six of the last 15 world championship titles. A giant flag lowered for the national anthem during the Red Sox home opener at Fenway Park in Boston, Yet even though the event featured two teams at the top of their games, the crowd was somber that day, writes ESPN The Magazine.

Since entering the Great War a year and a half ago, more than , U. And just a day before the game, a bomb had exploded in Chicago, the city in which the game was held , killing four people and injuring dozens more. In addition, the U. All this sat heavy on the shoulders of both the players and the smaller-than-usual crowd of fans that day. But during the seventh-inning stretch, the U. Navy band began to play the Star-Spangled Banner; and something changed.