The town is going ape-wire<\/span> over the Cleveland Cavaliers again. Some of the guys don’t care. Some of the guys do.<\/p>\n In 1997, when the Indians were in the World Series, Yiddishe Cup was playing Simchat Torah gigs,<\/em> and we hid in the temple cloak room and caught bits of the action on a small portable TV.<\/p>\n Yiddishe Cup <\/strong>is not sports adverse. We play fight songs. <\/span><\/span>Here are the fight songs you need to know in our part of the Midwest:<\/p>\n 1. Ohio State’s\u00a0 “Hang On Sloopy” and “Fight The Team Across the Field.”\u00a0 Sometimes we hold off on “Hang On Sloopy” until the Buckeyes score.\u00a0 That’s the protocol. If you play “Hang on Sloopy” before the Bucks score, it’s bad luck.<\/p>\n 2. Michigan’s “The Victors” is a biggie<\/span>. <\/span>Also, Michigan State, “On Wisconsin,” and the Pitt fight song, which is not the same as the Steelers’ song. Forget about Notre Dame –for a klez band.<\/p>\n Yiddishe Cup<\/strong><\/span> knows “Are You From Wooster?”:<\/p>\n If you’re from Oberlin or <\/em>Denison<\/em> or <\/em>Wesleyan<\/em> U.<\/em>,<\/em><\/p>\n The Scots will take good care of you before they’re through.<\/em><\/p>\n Beisbol! 1957<\/p><\/div>\n —<\/p>\n A version of this first appeared 6\/3\/09.<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yiddishe Cup’s singer, Irwin Weinberger, wrote a song about attending baseball games with his father. Irwin even mentioned The Rock in the song — Rocky Colavito. Guys are supposed to talk about sports, and drink when they get together.\u00a0 I know this isn’t always a fact.\u00a0 One Yiddishe Cup musician calls sports a “cult.” The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer","category-sports-pages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25158,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25152\/revisions\/25158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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