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I readily admit I have some whacked out priorities in life.......And I like Pete Rose a great deal.

But the frustrated television director in me has to ask the question:

Pete, you have no damn neck; Why with the bow ties all the time? They ain't' doing you no on camera favors, my friend.:p
 
Really? What do you call bleachers in the UK?

Yeh, had to look it up, I just call them bench seats.

The students are singing it this week, and it helps if their teacher knows what the lyrics mean.
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Really? What do you call bleachers in the UK?

We don't really have that style of seating around small sports fields.
I suppose we'd call them 'stands', or terraces, as you find in soccer stadiums. They're called that because people used to stand up to watch the game, however these days stadiums are all seated.
 
I'm sure stands and terracing were made illegal in UK stadiums following the Hillsborough disaster in 1989.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster

Probably why don't see them there now, it's all proper seating these days.

We have small wooden bench stands at school sports fields in China, which are temporary and can be transported around.
Good info & funny article. The "funny" part is where it keeps calling Soccer "Football". [emoji23] I drive a car but I don't call it a "Truck". It always cracks me up, no hate tho.
 
Could only take two nights of my addled condition in the mayhem of Dodger Stadium. They lost one, won one, nothing really changed... except that that was the ballgame I think I'll ever go to.
 
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