Does it exist? Care to discuss? Is it only a hetero phenomenon?

I've never heard of the baseball/opera connection before.

I hope to never hear of it again.

Explain please....I'm totally baffled by this.

Save for the term "It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings.".

maybe he's talking about that hot dog vendor in Detroit who always sing "Hot Dooooooooogs" Either way,I like opera but this guy sounds awful. Hot Dooooooogs

[ July 23, 2006, 04:58 AM: Message edited by: eddiec. ]

awwww, operaman is totally cool, Eddie!

Probably the most unique character at Comerica.

Sun 9/4 I go back there, can't wait!

Not familiar withe the baseball-opera connection, but have read a lot about the golf-rap, synchronized swimming-acid rock and women's basketball-scat connections.

The only baseball-opera connection I know of is when Lt. Frank Drebin knocked out Enrico Pallazzo, the opera singer who was supposed to sing the national anthem at the Mariners-Angels baseball game where the evil Vincent Ludwig planned on assassinating Queen Elizabeth.

[ July 23, 2006, 09:20 AM: Message edited by: George Twins fan ]

Jim Allen, please report to the Outsports baseball thread......

I know Beverly Sills is a baseball fan. So is Yitzhak Perlman, who practices while watching Yankees' games (but he isn't specifically from the opera world.)

~Adam

It works like this: Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelungen" is not about Norse gods, but the behind-the-scenes scheming to build and finance a lavish mega-ballpark. The funds are supposed to be raised by mining gold from a riverbed, but it turns out the miners are slaves, so hunter-turned-activist Sig Mund starts singlehandedly working to tear down the project. He ties up the developers and their henchmen with the law, draining their resources, but loses credibility when it's discovered that he's eloped with his sister. The developers arrange to have him killed, but his love-child Ziggy Freddy, who wields a mighty bat and runs the bases with lightning speed, finds new weapons to fight them. Hoping to replace the stadium with a "Magic Fire" theme park in which maidens ride bareback, and he performs in a disappearing act, Ziggy travels about making allies to his cause. But blood will out and Ziggy is exposed as a bigamist married to his aunt and one of the developers' nieces. All comes crashing down when the legal challenge to the park is finally resolved against the developers, who arrange to have Ziggy killed. As he's laid to rest, the stadium erupts in a blaze before it crumbles and sinks back into the river bottom from which it was born.

I think Mario Lanza had something to do with this ... blame it on the heat.

gmg,
I'm not terribly fond of German opera but I have to say that is a brilliant analysis!Bravo!!!!!!!!!

[ July 24, 2006, 03:37 AM: Message edited by: eddiec. ]