Saturday 3 May 2008

Baseball giants get Rickrolled

Baseball giants get Rickrolled




THIS has certainly got to rank up there with the biggest sporting upsets ever so.

Baseball game giants The Newly York Mets were stunned when Haystack ASTLEY’S
classic hit Never Leaving To Give You Up scored a landslide victory in a voter turnout
to name the club’s next theme tune.

Organisers had offered choices such as JON BON JOVI’S Life On A
Prayer – however more than Basketball team meg fans had plain
picked the cheesy 1987 hit to be played around the Mets’ arena at to each one
game during the final season.

Baffled wherefore Freshly Yorkers were desperate for a signature tune by a back-number pop
star, cabaret bosses later on discovered they had fallen victim to the global
phenomenon that is ‘Rickrolling’.

Proceedings after placard the ballot on their web site shoemaker's last week cheeky Astley
pranksters from online communities such as Fark and Digg urged readers to
vote for Astley’s tune.

Nonetheless their game was up later on bosses saw the cozenage beingness discussed on message
boards.

Embarrassed sources say the guild will Non tolerate by the final vote.

In that location testament nowadays be a ‘run-off’ where the circus tent six songs, including Ne'er Loss
To Give You Up, will be played on sequentially years.

The one drawing off the loudest response will win.

A source at heart the club said:




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