Saturday 9 *LATE*

Sweet Caroline

Welcome to Saturday: 9.  What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions  every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random  questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants  posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your  choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme!

Saturday 9: Sweet Caroline

The idea for this came from Harriet, who suggested the baseball theme.
1) "Sweet Caroline" has been sung during every Boston Red Sox home game since the 1990s. (Click here to watch Neil Diamond lead the fans in the first game after April's bombing.) Do you know the words well enough to sing along?

I do but my husband doesn't!  *Inside joke, we'll see if he reads this :) *

2) Do you have a favorite major league baseball team?

The Tigers.

3) Budweiser is the "official beer of major league baseball." Do you reach for a cold beer on a hot summer day?

No, I don't care for beer.
4) Every season, more than a million Vienna Beef Hot Dogs are consumed by baseball fans at Chicago's Wrigley Field. When you get a hot dog, what do you put on it?

I don't eat hot dogs either.

5) The odds of a fan in the stands being hit by a baseball are 300,000 to 1. The odds of winning the lottery are (approximately) 1 in 12,000,000. Do you play the lottery?

Not really.  Once or twice a year I buy a scratch off ticket but that's it.

6) Though his song has been adopted by faithful Boston Red Sox fans, Neil Diamond was born and raised in New York City. Have you ever visited The Big Apple?

No.

7) Baseball players are notoriously superstitious. For example, the Cubs' Matt Garza eats Popeye's fried chicken every day that he pitches. Joltin' Joe DiMaggio touched second base with his foot every time he ran on or off the field. Do you have any superstitions?

No.
8) A ball signed by Babe Ruth can fetch tens of thousands of dollars at auction. Have you ever asked a celebrity for his/her autograph?

No.  I'm not sure I could either.  I think I'd be too embarrassed.
9) Baseball means summer and summer means sun. Are you working on a tan, or do you slather on the sunscreen?

I slather it on the kids and if there's an advisory, I'll use it too but I don't mind getting a little tan.