Pearl Jam 45 vinyl Bushleaguer mint 2002 George Bush

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Rare and mint vinyl and picture sleeve 2002 vinyl 45 release by Pearl Jam Bu$hleaguer b/w Down. Beautiful picture sleeve, nice paper, picture labels on 45. Pearl Jam's protest 45. Buyer pays postage, will ship worldwide. Eddie Vedder wrote this about US president George W. Bush. It express his view that Bush is a warmonger with no sense of diplomacy. (thanks, jon - saint John, Canada)There are lots of baseball references in this song. Players trying to get to the majors often play in the "bush leagues" first. These are leagues of low-level minor league teams in small cities where most of the players lack the talent to make it big. The phrase "bush league" can be used to describe something or someone who lacks skill or intelligence, which is how Pearl Jam applies it to George Bush. One of these bush leagues is in Texas and is known as the "Texas League," and in baseball a "Texas Leaguer" refers to a cheap base hit that bloops over the infield. Vedder uses the term as a derogatory way to describe George Bush in the line, "He's not a leader, he's a Texas Leaguer." Before he was governor of Texas, George Bush was part-owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team.At a show in Denver in 2003, Vedder caused a great deal of controversy when he used a George W. Bush mask during his performance of this song. He did a little dance with the mask read more

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