Rootin’ for the Home Team

ReadingToothFairy

The Reading Fightin’ Phils’ tooth fairy

It’s the top of the seventh—time for the stretch. Everybody stand and sing along.

Take me out to the ball game.
Take me out to the park.
Buy me peanuts and popcorn and cracker jacks.
I don’t care if I ever come back.
So it’s root, root, root for the …

Er…

“Fightin’ Phils?”

Really?

Who thought up that name? Who vetted this? Did they not notice it doesn’t fit in The Song? And by the by, what happened to “Phillies?”

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