If you follow Arrow star Stephen Amell on Twitter, or especially on Facebook, you’ll know he has been campaigning for weeks now to get Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson elected to start in next Tuesday’s MLB All-Star Game in Cincinnati, and it was officially announced yesterday that Donaldson will be starting at third for the American League. Perhaps even more impressive, however, is that Donaldson did not simply lead all Major League Baseball players in voting but broke the record for most All-Star votes of all time, with his total number of votes coming in at 14,090,188, over three million more than Josh Hamilton’s 2012 all-time single-season record of 11,073,744.
While Amell had promised during his campaign for Donaldson that he could hit a homer in a Major League park (which he showed that he most definitely can do), another promise he had made was to sing the Canadian national anthem. And so what did Amell do last night after it was officially revealed that Donaldson was going to be starting on the American League All-Star team? He went to Facebook, as he does, and posted a video of him singing for fans, writing “A promise is a promise!”
Now, as a baseball fan, I’m extremely happy to see Donaldson make it to the All-Star Game, because he truly does deserve to start. However, as a fan of Arrow, The Flash, and musicals in general, Amell proving that he can sing pretty darn well in the video above pushes all of my baseball knowledge out of my head and makes me only determined to see one thing happen now: an Arrow and The Flash crossover musical episode. Amell, Grant Gustin, Rick Cosnett, Carlos Valdes, and, of course, Jesse L. Martin (just listen to “Seasons of Love” or “I’ll Cover You” from Rent) have all proven they can sing, and I’m sure that the rest of the Arrow and Flash casts can carry a tune (also, bonus points if Victor Garber is somehow in the episode).
Fans have been clamoring for a musical episode for a while now, and although talk of one has maybe died down a little bit, with this video, the fiery passion inside them will be reignited. It needs to happens. Please, make it happen, Arrow and Flash writers.
Arrow returns to The CW for Season 4 on Wednesday, Oct. 7, at 8 p.m. Check it out below:
O’ Canada. A promise is a promise! Congratulations to Josh Donaldson of the Toronto Blue Jays!!
Posted by Stephen Amell on Sunday, July 5, 2015
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