Post by wildroses on Jan 31, 2007 19:02:05 GMT -5
I don't know if anyone else is aware of this, but I thought I'd tell you anyway.
Richard Roeper (of Ebert and Roeper) wrote a book called "Sox and the City" A fan's love affair with the White Sox from the heartbreak of '67 to the Wizards of Oz.
During the section about Game 2 of the American League Championship Series of 2005 Roeper mentions Billy.
this is what it said:
The crowd seemed a little edgy before the game. See? That Boston series had been too easy. Now, we were a fight. Now, we knew that if we didn't pull this one out, the odds against a World Series appearance would nearly be astronomical. There was a lot of clapping and high-fiving and well wishing in the stands before the game, but a lot of us were casting wary glances at the field, as if we feared something memorably awful might happen out there.
Enter the Lovehammers.
Not the entire band-just their guitarist, one Billy Sawilchik, who had been tapped to play the "Star-Spangled Banner". As Sawilchik ripped through a searing, heavy-metal version of the national anthem, the South Side crowd roared its approval and seemed to regain its footing. That's right-we're not about the Three Tenors or some American Idol second place finisher or a Bobby Darin knockoff singing the national anthem. This version rocked.
(I had to re-read this paragraph over and over again to make sure that my mind wasn't playing tricks on me.)
Richard Roeper (of Ebert and Roeper) wrote a book called "Sox and the City" A fan's love affair with the White Sox from the heartbreak of '67 to the Wizards of Oz.
During the section about Game 2 of the American League Championship Series of 2005 Roeper mentions Billy.
this is what it said:
The crowd seemed a little edgy before the game. See? That Boston series had been too easy. Now, we were a fight. Now, we knew that if we didn't pull this one out, the odds against a World Series appearance would nearly be astronomical. There was a lot of clapping and high-fiving and well wishing in the stands before the game, but a lot of us were casting wary glances at the field, as if we feared something memorably awful might happen out there.
Enter the Lovehammers.
Not the entire band-just their guitarist, one Billy Sawilchik, who had been tapped to play the "Star-Spangled Banner". As Sawilchik ripped through a searing, heavy-metal version of the national anthem, the South Side crowd roared its approval and seemed to regain its footing. That's right-we're not about the Three Tenors or some American Idol second place finisher or a Bobby Darin knockoff singing the national anthem. This version rocked.
(I had to re-read this paragraph over and over again to make sure that my mind wasn't playing tricks on me.)
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