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Duncan Grant

(8,258 posts)
Sun May 22, 2016, 04:30 PM May 2016

Padres in hot water over national anthem mixup

Padres in hot water over national anthem mixup
San Diego Men's Gay Chorus calls for investigation after woman's voice played over Petco PA with 100 men's chorus members on field

The Padres have a PR problem on their hands after a mixup during the national anthem for Saturday night's game against the Dodgers.

There were 100 members of the San Diego Gay Men's Chorus on the field to sing the anthem, but a woman's voice — believed to be that of Friday's anthem singer — was played over the PA system while the men stood on the field. The anthem is not always performed live, and this was an instance where a taped version was to be played with the performers on the field.

The Padres issued a one-paragraph statement during Saturday night's game to apologize for the incident:

“This evening, during the pregame ceremony, a mistake was made in the Petco Park control room that prevented the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus from performing the National Anthem as scheduled. We apologize to anyone in the ballpark who this may have offended, and have reached out to the Chorus to express our deep regret for the error.”


San Diego Union-Tribune
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Padres in hot water over national anthem mixup (Original Post) Duncan Grant May 2016 OP
Surely another invite will be forthcoming! TexasMommaWithAHat May 2016 #1
"...mixup." Iggo May 2016 #2
They are not including a comment Tien1985 May 2016 #3
At the ryan_cats May 2016 #4

Tien1985

(920 posts)
3. They are not including a comment
Tue May 24, 2016, 04:00 PM
May 2016

on the booing and derogatory slurs hurled at the men?

From what I understand they have fired the DJ, at least.

ryan_cats

(2,061 posts)
4. At the
Wed May 25, 2016, 09:20 AM
May 2016

At the risk of getting another post hidden for homophobia (I am not self hating), in my area it is 2016. It was however (my post) over the top.

I will let someone else point out the issue that men are paying to watch other men in tight uniforms to play a game but let a gay choir sing, the horror.




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