by Tommy Gimler
Let’s face it. Folk singer James Taylor is almost as old as our national anthem, so we’ll go ahead and cut him some slack on this one. But when Taylor fucked up The Star-Spangled Banner before the start of Game 2, maybe it was an omen for Red Sox Nation that Thursday night was going to be an absolute turd.
Check it out. James Taylor is looking about as cool these days as using vowels while texting:
Taylor later redeemed himself, as he would finally get his chance to sing America The Beautiful during an emotional seventh-inning stretch for the people of Boston. And let’s be honest. His drawers would have had to have fallen to his ankles, exposing his old slut slayer for his national anthem fail to be as bad as this: