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If there's one baseball tradition that should be messed with as little as possible, it's the seventh-inning stretch, when fans can stand up, try to get their last beer of the evening, and belt out "Take Me Out To The Ballgame." But that's what the Kansas City Royals—currently trying to stave off their fourth straight 100-loss season—are in the mood to do. In what's clearly an attempt to distract their fans from more headlines about "rebuilding," they've launched a competition to select their new seventh-inning stretch song. And not to get all Project X, but we have to run down the team's list of candidates, which not only reads to us like a DJ's "Un-Super Sweet 16" playlist, it inadvertently highlights the team's struggles: More »