tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65095603322294072602024-02-18T22:11:30.406-06:00Baseball Song of the DayThe "Baseball Song of the Day" blog is devoted to discussing the current issues resonating in baseball, as well as relating the music that expresses the emotions of our country's past-time. We'll delve into the stats of today, the songs of yesteryear, and anything and everything related to music and baseball. Email: songs@baseballhistorian.com.Public Address Announcerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15367788621079847472noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509560332229407260.post-77900641445090937872010-04-16T15:40:00.001-05:002010-04-16T15:42:49.065-05:00Jay-Z sues Big Papa for 40/40<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rolling-Stone-Magazine-Issue-November/dp/B001Z1AKAI?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Rolling Stone Magazine Issue #1040, Jay-Z Cover (November 29, 2007)" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B001Z1AKAI&tag=baseballhistorian-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B001Z1AKAI" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B001Z1AKAI" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/04/16/jay-z-sues-red-sox-slugger-david-ortiz-over-4040-club-name/">Rolling Stone Magazine is reporting</a> that Jay-Z is suing the Boston Red Sox "Slumping Slugger" for unauthorized use of the name "40/40" for Big Papi's nightclub which is located in the Dominican Republic.<br />
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From Rolling Stone online...<br />
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In a lawsuit filed yesterday, Jay accuses Big Papi of naming his Santa Domingo nightclub “Forty-Forty,” a variation of Jay-Z and Juan Perez’s line of 40/40 Clubs in New York, Las Vegas and Atlantic City.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Big-Papi-Story-Dreams-Hits/dp/0312383444?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Big Papi: My Story of Big Dreams and Big Hits" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0312383444&tag=baseballhistorian-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0312383444" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />“[Jay-Z and Perez] have accused Ortiz of trading on the fame, value and goodwill of their name through his club Forty/Forty and its website, www.fortyforty.net, which they say has caused their business ‘marketplace confusion and damage,” reads the lawsuit. Jay-Z’s suit goes on to argue that the shared name isn’t accidental, as Ortiz “has been a patron [at the 40/40 Club] on several occasions long before he opened his infringing Forty/Forty Club.”<br />
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As Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind” all but soundtracked the Yankees’ World Series-winning run last season, it’s no surprise that he might take offense to someone not named Derek Jeter or Alex Rodriguez opening a club with the “40/40″ name. <br />
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The baseball blog Big League Stew points out the “40/40″ moniker comes from when a player achieves both 40 home runs and 40 steals in one season. Only four players in history have done it — including current Yank A-Rod — but Big Papi hasn’t come close, managing only 10 steals total over the course of his entire 14-year baseball career. (To Ortiz’s credit, he has hit a Red Sox record 54 home runs in a season, but then why not the “Fifty-Ten Club”?)<br />
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No word whether Jay-Z is seeking compensation, a club name change or maybe just an apology from Ortiz for his Game Four, 12th inning, course-of-history-changing walk-off home run against the Yankees in the 2004 playoffs.<br />
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Today's Baseball Song of the Day comes from Warren Zevon who also wrote the terrific "Werewolves of London" (for all you kids out there...look up "All Summer Long" by Kid Rock). Today's BSOD, "Lawyers, Guns, and Money" was written in 1978 for the "Excitable Boy" album.<br />
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The song has been featured in:<br />
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- The movie "Grand Canyon"<br />
- The movie "Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson"<br />
- TV series Justice<br />
- TV show Farscape three part episode "Liars, Guns and Money"<br />
- TV show "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" in a spoof called "Robots, Bears, and Lincolns"<br />
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<b>BSOD 4/16/2010: Lawyers, Guns, and Money</b><br />
<b>Artists: Warren Zevon</b><br />
<b>Released: 1978</b><br />
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<b>Lawyers, Guns, and Money Lyrics</b><br />
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Well, I went home with the waitress<br />
The way I always do<br />
How was I to know<br />
She was with the Russians, too<br />
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I was gambling in Havana<br />
I took a little risk<br />
Send lawyers, guns and money<br />
Dad, get me out of this<br />
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I'm the innocent bystander<br />
Somehow I got stuck<br />
Between the rock and the hard place<br />
And I'm down on my luck<br />
And I'm down on my luck<br />
And I'm down on my luck<br />
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Now I'm hiding in Honduras<br />
I'm a desperate man<br />
Send lawyers, guns and money<br />
The shit has hit the fanPublic Address Announcerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15367788621079847472noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509560332229407260.post-73298851554673583902010-04-15T12:30:00.005-05:002010-04-16T13:25:17.116-05:00Marlins 2010 Creed: Marlins Will SoarLast year the Florida Marlins...wait..are they the Miami Marlins yet? No, that comes with the new ballpark I believe. It's hard to keep up with the Marlins. Anyway, last year the Marlins had the Reggaetón artist Pitbull record a theme song for the team titled “Marlins Time to Represent" (see video below).<br />
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2010 brings in a new year...a new song...a new Creed. Well, a lead singer of Creed that is; Scott Stapp, who adapted one of his songs "You Will Soar" to "Marlins Will Soar" which will be used as the Marlins Official Song of 2010.<br />
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A chance meeting between Stapp, a Palm Beach Couny resident who grew up in Orlando and went to school at Florida State, and Marlins team President David Samson during an airport delay brought the two together.<br />
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Stapp who sang the National Anthem at the home opener, which also just-so-happened to have one of my all-time favorite players (and new Hall of Famer at that), Andre Dawson throwing out the first pitch.<br />
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<blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.baseballhistorian.com/images/bios/dawson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.baseballhistorian.com/images/bios/dawson.jpg" width="206" /></a></div>BSOD Note: "Did I ever tell you the time that I met Andre Dawson at a 7-11 convenient store in Chicago's Wrigleyville neighborhood? I was living there at the time, about 5 blocks from the ballpark. A few of the players had condos nearby so a chance meeting wasn't all that out of the question. Andre was a "my guy." A soft spoken, hard worker that came to the Cubs with the offer of...I want to play for you, sign me to whatever you think I'm worth. I believe the Cubs' decided that to be $500,000, for what turned out to be a 1987 MVP year. Did I also mention that I have an Andre Dawson, game used bat, and autographed "1987 MVP" bat? I do.</blockquote><blockquote>You see, When I was younger, a few of my favorite players were Ryne Sandberg, Andre Dawson, and Cecil Cooper. So, a chance meeting with him was the highlight of my day. I pulled into the 7-11 on a Saturday afternoon, stepped out of my car, slammed the door shut and looked up, and there he was, my guy, Andre Dawson. I did what any true fan would do at that moment, paused, made eye contact and said, "Hi Andre" and then continued walking to go get my blue rasperry slurpee." Andre responded back with a polite nod of the head and a soft "Hello" and smile back to me, as he entered into his car and pulled away.</blockquote>Ok, not a great story overall. But I respected the man, it was his day off, and really, other than watching him play, what else should I expect of him?<br />
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The point of all of this? Nothing really, other than I like to talk like the old uncle of the family and corner the younger relatives and tell them my stories.<br />
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Sometimes chance meetings lead to things, other times they don't. <br />
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In the case of the Marlins and Scott Stapp, it led to today's baseball song of the day, "Marlins Will Soar."<br />
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Note: This song is getting panned by Internet commenters at forums, blogs, and newspapers. People seem to hate it. I'm not sure if they don't like it because Stapp has been known to rub people the wrong way with his messianic overtones to his music. Or, if it's the fact that he took one of his songs and changed it, or if they think that it just plain stinks. Listen to it for yourself and let us know what you think.<br />
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I can't say that I'm that too familar with Creed other than the "Arms Wide Open" song and their latest song "Rain" which came out in 2009. Not having heard the original song "You Will Soar", and hearing this on its own merits, I somewhat like the song. Not as much as Hanson's "Mmmmm Bop" (a story for another time), but with the beating of the drum and Stapp's belting out the lyrics, it's not half bad. The best news is, even if you hated it, it clocks in at 1 min 49 secs. <br />
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<b>BSOD 4/15/2010: Marlins Will Soar</b><br />
<b>Artist: Scott Stapp</b><br />
<b>Released: 2010</b><br />
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<b>Marlins Will Soar Lyrics</b><br />
(thanks to: <a href="http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/crossfade/2010/04/creeds_scott_stapp_marlins_will_soar_lyrics.php">http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/crossfade/2010/04/creeds_scott_stapp_marlins_will_soar_lyrics.php</a>)<br />
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"Marlins Will Soar"<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Florida-Marlins-Hanley-Ramirez-Poster/dp/B001CS46FY?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Florida Marlins (Hanley Ramirez) Sports Poster Print - 24" X 36"" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B001CS46FY&tag=baseballhistorian-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B001CS46FY" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />Let's play ball, it's game day<br />
We watch strikeouts, base hits, double plays<br />
Take the field, hear the roar of the crowd<br />
Come on Marlins, make us proud<br />
Come on Marlins, make us proud<br />
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Keep hoping and dreaming and you will soar<br />
With a little faith and luck, you will soar<br />
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One strike, two strikes, swing away<br />
A diving catch, a stolen base<br />
A perfect game, a triple play<br />
A [undistinguishable] play of praise <br />
We're series champs, we [crack of bat?]<br />
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Keep hoping and dreaming and you will soar<br />
With a little faith and luck, you will soar<br />
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Keep hoping and dreaming and you will soar<br />
With a little faith and luck, you will soar<br />
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Related Links:<br />
<a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Creed-singer-greets-Marlins-with-arms-wide-open-?urn=mlb,234451">http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Creed-singer-greets-Marlins-with-arms-wide-open-?urn=mlb,234451</a><br />
<a href="http://blogs.trb.com/sports/custom/business/blog/2010/04/florida_marlins_home_opening_n.html">http://blogs.trb.com/sports/custom/business/blog/2010/04/florida_marlins_home_opening_n.html</a><br />
<a href="http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/crossfade/2010/04/creeds_scott_stapp_marlins_will_soar_lyrics.php">http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/crossfade/2010/04/creeds_scott_stapp_marlins_will_soar_lyrics.php</a>Public Address Announcerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15367788621079847472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509560332229407260.post-11508347112259232302010-04-14T19:43:00.002-05:002010-04-16T12:04:31.350-05:00Dodgers Opening Day: Will.I.Am<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsspkpWxrrG_CCbKjR1tBGmaJpR7MJQ3GT0bG-bfAmmItS7t_p5wo94RALfm5glNQkgP4aVXUlK8fnpCaJSmF3ZFk6x3TQSvV7ll3sKsIa5WTEnxKYMHGwVLYRYWUeTNLzyaGbgNWBiYTg/s1600/will_i_am_dodgers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsspkpWxrrG_CCbKjR1tBGmaJpR7MJQ3GT0bG-bfAmmItS7t_p5wo94RALfm5glNQkgP4aVXUlK8fnpCaJSmF3ZFk6x3TQSvV7ll3sKsIa5WTEnxKYMHGwVLYRYWUeTNLzyaGbgNWBiYTg/s320/will_i_am_dodgers.jpg" width="180" /></a>Whom do the Los Angeles Dodgers put on the mound for their Home Opener to <i>get things started <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">against the Arizona Diamondbacks</span></i>?<br />
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Well, none other than Will.I.Am of the Black Eyed Peas. <br />
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<---- <a href="http://www.upi.com/enl-win/794317ab8ec6493f09926180d07c3a52/">photo: UPI/Phil McCarten</a><br />
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From <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/14/sports/la-sp-0415-erskine-20100415">an article at the La Times by Chris Erskine</a>...<br />
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Out on the mound, Will.i.am was throwing out the first pitch, despite a name that annoys virtually everyone. Just imagine that planning meeting in the executive suites.<br />
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"So, whom do Dodgers fans want to see throw out the first pitch on opening day?"<br />
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"Hey, I wonder if Will.i.am is available."<br />
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"Could we possibly get him?"<br />
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Somehow they did. And the rest is his.to.ry.<br />
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Erskine continues on...with notes from the home opener...<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Best-Arli-Sports-Super-Agent/dp/B00008WJBD?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="The Best of Arli$$: The Art of the Sports Super Agent" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B00008WJBD&tag=baseballhistorian-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B00008WJBD" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />Back inside the stadium, Tuesday's mostly well-behaved crowd started out tame and got rowdy over time. I catch up with one customer, the great actor Robert Wuhl ("Bull Durham," "Arli$$") as he heads to his spot in the Dugout Club.<br />
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Anyway, I ask Wuhl if he thinks the McCourt divorce has any chance of creating some sort of curse, as with the curse of the Bambino that hung over Boston, or the curse of the billy goat, which I think also involved a divorce, but that was Chicago, where they live a different and more open lifestyle.<br />
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Wuhl smiles and says "That's a strong statement," and disappears through guarded doors, into the land of Caesar salads and carved meats.<br />
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Fortunately, the Dodgers themselves don't seem to care about such controversy. The bling seems to be back in Manny's swing. Matt Kemp is taking the right routes to fly balls again -- mostly. Casey Blake and Andre Ethier provide the kind of quiet, old school leadership that winning clubs need.<br />
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<b>BSOD 4/14/2010: Let's Get it Started</b><br />
<b>Artist: Black Eyed Peas</b><br />
<b>Released: 2003</b><br />
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<b>Let's Get it Started Lyrics</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Get-It-Started/dp/B000WLVHTU?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Let's Get It Started" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B000WLVHTU&tag=baseballhistorian-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B000WLVHTU" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />Let's Get It Started, in here...<br />
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And the base keep runnin' runnin', and runnin' runnin', and runnin' runnin', and runnin' runnin', and<br />
runnin' runnin', and runnin' runnin', and runnin' runnin', and runnin' runnin', and...<br />
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In this context, there's no disrespect, so, when I bust my rhyme, you break your necks.<br />
We got five minutes for us to disconnect, from all intellect collect the rhythm effect.<br />
Obstacles are inefficient, follow your intuition, free your inner soul and break away from tradition.<br />
Coz when we beat out, girl it's pullin without. You wouldn't believe how we wow shit out.<br />
Burn it till it's burned out. Turn it till it's turned out. Act up from north, west, east, south.<br />
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[Chorus:]<br />
Everybody, everybody, let's get into it.<br />
Get stupid.<br />
Get it started, get it started, get it started.<br />
Let's get it started (ha), let's get it started in here. Let's get it started (ha), let's get it started in here.<br />
Let's get it started (ha), let's get it started in here. Let's get it started (ha), let's get it started in here.<br />
Yeah.<br />
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Lose control, of body and soul.<br />
Don't move too fast, people, just take it slow.<br />
Don't get ahead, just jump into it.<br />
Ya'll here a body, two pieces to it.<br />
Get stutted, get stupid.<br />
You'll want me body people will walk you through it.<br />
Step by step, like you're into new kid.<br />
Inch by inch with the new solution.<br />
Trench men hits, with no delusion.<br />
The feeling's irresistible and that's how we movin'.<br />
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[Chorus:]<br />
Everybody, everybody, let's get into it.<br />
Get stupid.<br />
Get it started, get it started, get it started.<br />
Let's get it started (ha), let's get it started in here. Let's get it started (ha), let's get it started in here.<br />
Let's get it started (ha), let's get it started in here. Let's get it started (ha), let's get it started in here.<br />
Yeah.<br />
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Runnin' runnin', and runnin' runnin', and runnin' runnin', and runnin runnin' and...<br />
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C'mon y'all, lets get woohoo!<br />
Lets get woohoo! (in here)<br />
Lets get woohoo!<br />
Lets get woohoo! (in here)<br />
Lets get woohoo!<br />
Lets get woohoo! (in here) Ow, ow, ow!<br />
Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya...<br />
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Let's get ill, that's the deal.<br />
At the gate, we'll bring the bud top drill. (Just)<br />
Lose your mind this is the time,<br />
Ya'll test this drill, Just and bang your spine. (Just)<br />
Bob your head like epilepsy, up inside your club or in your Bentley.<br />
Get messy, loud and sick.<br />
Ya'll mount past slow mo in another head trip. (So)<br />
Come then now do not correct it, let's get pregnant let's get hectic.<br />
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[Chorus:]<br />
Everybody, everybody, let's get into it.<br />
Get stupid. (Come on)<br />
Get it started (come one) , get it started (yeah), get it started.<br />
Let's get it started (ha), let's get it started in here. Let's get it started (ha), let's get it started in here.<br />
Let's get it started (ha), let's get it started in here. Let's get it started (ha), let's get it started<br />
(woah, woah, woah) in here.<br />
Yeah.<br />
<br />
Lets get woohoo!<br />
Lets get woohoo! (in here)<br />
Lets get woohoo!<br />
Lets get woohoo! (in here)<br />
Lets get woohoo!<br />
Lets get woohoo! (in here) Ow, ow, ow!<br />
Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya...<br />
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Runnin' runnin', and runnin' runnin', and runnin' runnin', and runnin' runnin'<br />
[fade]Public Address Announcerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15367788621079847472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509560332229407260.post-87513127422605204982010-04-13T20:48:00.004-05:002010-04-13T20:55:30.631-05:00Target Field: Holding Steady on Opening Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifUyIR6SiPRj7Cv1C9vMI0MrrndReqVn4yUOy5r-LnT8oEryrpzXEw4tFm0oDX3lDPxVH7a_j50R3Q1RuYnx-zaSJiFgh7vkIyUR1dgfM3G5wE1mz3j0A3YPAyX69s5k9Aj-FcwcY11be1/s1600/target+field.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifUyIR6SiPRj7Cv1C9vMI0MrrndReqVn4yUOy5r-LnT8oEryrpzXEw4tFm0oDX3lDPxVH7a_j50R3Q1RuYnx-zaSJiFgh7vkIyUR1dgfM3G5wE1mz3j0A3YPAyX69s5k9Aj-FcwcY11be1/s320/target+field.jpg" /></a></div>The Minnesota Twins christened their new 500 million plus "al fresco" ballpark, Target Field yesterday (4/12/2010) with a 5-2 victory over the Boston Red Sox. Having tailored their team for the past 28 years to fit the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, the twins now have the challenge of finding the right players for the right stadium once again.<br />
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The job of managing the players on the field belongs to manager Ron Gardenhire, however the job of entertaining the crowd with tunes belongs to Kevin Dutcher, the Music Man.<br />
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<a href="http://www.foxsportsnorth.com/pages/landing?Kevin-Dutcher-the-Music-Man=1&blockID=213907&feedID=4040">From foxsportsnorth.com</a>, we learn about Dutcher's daily routine...<br />
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<blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Minnesota-Twins-Color-Auto-Emblem/dp/B002HWIR1S?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Minnesota Twins Color Auto Emblem" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B002HWIR1S&tag=baseballhistorian-20" /></a></div><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B002HWIR1S" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />"The first thing I do when I get to the stadium is throw in batting practice music – the boys like to hear their tunes! We have a meeting 2 1/2 hours prior to the game to go through all of the details of the game "script", all of the between-inning segments that our department (Game Presentation) is responsible for. We talk about the various preshow elements – speakers, presentations, etc. – and I focus on the audio needs, what kind of music we need with or under each one."</blockquote>When asked about entrance and rally music...Dutcher explains...<br />
<blockquote>"I run the BP playlist until the doors open, when I switch to a more "family-friendly" mix. That plays until we start our pregame program, and then play songs between all of the different elements. I also underscore the PA reads and most all of presentations on the field. I play the "build-up" music as we await the team taking the field, and of course "Win Twins!" I play "rally music" when we get runs, and alternate "cheerleading" with Twins’ organist Sue Nelson (the cavalry charge, "We Will Rock You," all of those little snippets). I play music between innings, during pitching changes and any breaks in play. If you listen for it, music is constantly on in the park."</blockquote><blockquote>"I love all kinds of music, I have really eclectic tastes, which is helpful for the job. I like to play music from bands with area ties, from the ‘Mats to Husker Du to Prince to The Hold Steady. I’m working on getting more music from local bands into the new stadium, I think it’s an exciting possibility to incorporate more local music into the Twins experience."</blockquote>Regarding input as to the music he plays, Dutcher states...<br />
<blockquote>"I often get feedback about what I play, and a lot of the time it’s positive and negative about the same exact song – the great thing about music is that it’s subjective. Everybody has an opinion."</blockquote>Some of those opinions have been bandied about by Twins fans and can be found recently at the <a href="http://www.alright-hamilton.com/2010/04/music-at-target-field.html">Alright Hamilton Blog</a> ... where we find some fantastic suggestions about which songs could be intergrated into the game:<br />
<ul><li>Prince - Baby I'm a Star</li>
<li>The Hold Steady - Constructive Summer</li>
<li>The Hold Steady - Party Pit</li>
<li>Morris Day & The Time - Cool</li>
<li>The Screams of Passion by The Family</li>
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Personally, BSOD likes the suggestions of music from The Hold Steady, the Springsteen-esque working man's band that hails from the land of 10,000 lakes.<br />
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There's a fantastic <a href="http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=321198&category=321195">interview from an article at The Portland Mercury</a> which delves deep in the band's fascination and love for the Minnesota Twins and even puts them to the test with a pop quiz of Twins history. <br />
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<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0035Z7YB0" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />Some gems from the interview with front-man Craig Finn are:<br />
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<b>Did you grow up in Minnesota and were you always a Twins fan?</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hold-Steady-Limited-Gig-Poster/dp/B0035Z7YB0?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="The Hold Steady Limited Edition Gig Poster" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B0035Z7YB0&tag=baseballhistorian-20" /></a>Well, I moved to Minnesota from Boston as a kid, and my parents were Red Sox fans. I was kind of a Sox fan, but my dad had access to Twins tickets through his work, so I was mildly a fan. That was until 1987; the year I got my driver's license, my first girlfriend, and the Twins won the World Series. That was a magical year. Kent Hrbek, Kirby Puckett, Tom Brunansky—it was just a great team with some amazing personalities. That whole year just turned me into a major Twins fan, along with everyone I know.<br />
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<b>Are there a lot of people in the Minnesota music scene that are Twins fans?</b><br />
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Definitely. Especially the older crowd, like the Jayhawks and Golden Smog. I was at Twins' spring training this year and I saw Paul Westerberg at the game.<br />
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<b>That is crazy. Well, the whole theme of this issue is about the relationship between sports and music. Mostly how we all have that moment—that dreaded choice—where we choose between one or another. Do you know what I mean?</b><br />
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Yes. The band and I were recently talking about this, how it seems cooler now for musicians to be into sports. Most bands we play with have a least one or two members who are into it. My theory is, when I was growing up, no cool bands liked sports, although now I know that Westerberg loves the Twins. It just never seemed like they could actually like sports. The band that I think changed it all was Pavement. They seemed like normal dudes who made great music and happened to like sports. They might have changed it all.<br />
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<b>Do you have a favorite baseball song?</b><br />
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I just heard Bob Dylan do "Take Me out to the Ball Game." That was pretty great.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/MLB-Cooperstown-Figure-Catfish-Hunter/dp/B00065IRAE?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="MLB Cooperstown Series 2 Figure: Catfish Hunter with Green Jersey" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B00065IRAE&tag=baseballhistorian-20" /></a><b><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B00065IRAE" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
You know "Catfish" (<a href="http://baseballsongoftheday.blogspot.com/2008/01/day-13-catfish.html">about famed pitcher Catfish Hunter</a>), right?</b><br />
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Oh yeah, of course, that's a great one. I don't know if I have an all-time favorite baseball song. There's not a lot to pick from.<br />
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<i>BSOD Editor's Note: We're proving that "There's not a lot to pick from is" is false. :)</i><br />
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It's easy to pick a song such as Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" which of course is a "let it all out and party until the night is done" song, however seeing as the Twins have realized their dream of making something bigger, and constructed Target Field, we agree with the folks at the Alright Hamilton Blog in choosing "Constructive Summer" as the song of the Twins. Bonus points for any song that pays homage to "St. Joe Strummer."<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>"we're gonna build something this summer</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>summer grant us all the power </b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>to drink on top of the water towers</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>with love and trust and shows all summer</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>let this be my annual reminder</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>that we can all be something bigger"</b></div><br />
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<b>BSOD 4/13/2010: Constructive Summer</b><br />
<b>Artist: The Hold Steady</b><br />
<b>Released: 2008</b><br />
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Constructive Summer Lyrics<br />
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Me and my friends are like<br />
the drums on "Lust for Life"<br />
we pound it out on four toms<br />
our songs are sing-a-long songs<br />
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this whole town is like this<br />
been that way our whole lives<br />
just work at the mill until you die<br />
work at the mill and then you die<br />
we're gonna build something this summer<br />
we'll put it back together<br />
raise up a giant ladder<br />
with love & trust and friends and hammers<br />
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we're gonna lean this ladder<br />
up against the water tower<br />
climb up to the top<br />
and drink it up<br />
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me and my friends are like<br />
double whiskey, coke no ice<br />
we drink along in double time<br />
might drink too much but we feel fine<br />
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<b>we're gonna build something this summer</b><br />
<b>summer grant us all the power </b><br />
<b>to drink on top of the water towers</b><br />
<b>with love and trust and shows all summer</b><br />
<b>let this be my annual reminder</b><br />
<b>that we can all be something bigger</b><br />
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i went to your schools<br />
i did my detention but the walls are so grey i couldnt pay attention<br />
i read the gospel it moved me to tears<br />
but I couldn't find the hate and couldn't find the fear<br />
i met your saviour I knelt at his feet<br />
and he took my ten bucks and went down the street<br />
tried to believe all the things that you said<br />
but my friends that aren't dying are already dead<br />
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raise a toast to st joe strummer<br />
think he might've been our only decent teacher<br />
getting older only makes it harder to remember<br />
we are our only saviours<br />
we're gonna build something this summer<br />
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<b>Related Links:</b><br />
<a href="http://theholdsteady.net/">http://theholdsteady.net</a><br />
<a href="http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=321198&category=321195">http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=321198&category=321195</a><br />
<a href="http://www.foxsportsnorth.com/pages/landing?Kevin-Dutcher-the-Music-Man=1&blockID=213907&feedID=4040">http://www.foxsportsnorth.com/pages/landing?Kevin-Dutcher-the-Music-Man=1&blockID=213907&feedID=4040</a><br />
<a href="http://www.alright-hamilton.com/2010/04/music-at-target-field.html">http://www.alright-hamilton.com/2010/04/music-at-target-field.html</a><br />
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</div>Public Address Announcerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15367788621079847472noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509560332229407260.post-2119262462680033982010-04-12T11:51:00.001-05:002010-04-12T17:34:21.841-05:00The Baseball Project 2010: Cubs 2010 Song<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Green-Bay-Packers-Cheesehead-Hat/dp/B00021LLQE?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Green Bay Packers Cheesehead Hat" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B00021LLQE&tag=baseballhistorian-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0013PYYOO" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B00021LLQE" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B00021LLQE" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />The Chicago Cubs home opener is Monday, April 12th 2010 against their Cheddarific friends from the North (who like to wear Cheesehead hats), The Milwaukee Brewers. The home opener brings a lot of things including hope, chicken wings at Yakzies, people taking pictures holding beer around the Harry Caray statue, and of course...a new song of hope and promise that this year will finally be the year to break the 102 year old Chicago Cubs curse.<br />
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The new song this year is titled "Cubs 2010" and is the 2nd release off the 2010 Baseball Project 2010 album (in the making - as they release one new song per month).<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC4OkPtByFRgN7kUpHFN_M8SjZVZKKonrzsikF8vPctSQFLlT6k8-NTx1Z49DouIFkdboEp5DJtSEVrepaAWT7wKv0wvEMyPNunpodCk9kKoIzTXszllNSDrBGIH_qlSRMSxY-c72F1YGU/s1600/life_baseballproj_220.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC4OkPtByFRgN7kUpHFN_M8SjZVZKKonrzsikF8vPctSQFLlT6k8-NTx1Z49DouIFkdboEp5DJtSEVrepaAWT7wKv0wvEMyPNunpodCk9kKoIzTXszllNSDrBGIH_qlSRMSxY-c72F1YGU/s200/life_baseballproj_220.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>The Baseball Project consists of: Scott McCaughey (The Minus 5, R.E.M., Young Fresh Fellows), Steve Wynn (The Dream Syndicate, Gutterball, Miracle 3), Linda Pitmon (Miracle 3, Golden Smog) and Peter Buck (R.E.M.). <br />
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<a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/music/index.ssf/2010/04/song_of_the_day_for_opening_da.html">Ryan White of The Oregonian wrote an article</a> about the new song on The Baseball Project titled, "Cubs 2010." (<a href="http://baseballsongoftheday.blogspot.com/2010/03/baseball-project-2010.html">we wrote about it last month with their first release, "Broadside Ballads"</a>), along with an interview the Baseball Project's Scott McCaughey.<br />
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<a href="http://cpanel.redeyeusa.com/pdl.php?id=5747378101&v=d29130f7c35eb4ce3e90d5030">>>> Download the Song for FREE here <<<</a><br />
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From the article...<br />
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Does McCaughey truly believe this could be the Cubs' year?<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Chicago-Cubs-Reverse-Curse-Cursed/dp/B003BW7778?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Chicago Cubs - Reverse the Curse - Break the Curse Billy Goat - Cubs Cursed Goat" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B003BW7778&tag=baseballhistorian-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B003BW7778" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />"Sure, why not? It's like the song says, if all these things happen, it could go that way," McCaughey wrote in an e-mail interview last week. "They need Zambrano to be dominant, they need to get [Ted] Lilly back soon, they need Ramirez, Lee and Soriano to be healthy, and see if Marmol really is going to be able to harness his closer stuff."<br />
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McCaughey acknowledges that's a lot of ifs, but he said he believes that offseason outfield acquisition Marlon Byrd could potentially have a huge year and that the offense "could be tremendous if Geovany Soto gets it back together."<br />
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<a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/thelife/news/story?id=5053976">>>> Listen to Cubs 2010 song here <<<</a><br />
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<b>BSOD 4/12/2010: Cubs 2010</b><br />
<b>Artist: The Baseball Project</b><br />
<b>Released: 2010</b><br />
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Cubs 2010 Song Lyrics<br />
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This is the Cubs year<br />
Two thousand and ten<br />
One hundred and two years<br />
This draught has to end<br />
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Everybody from 1908 is dead<br />
Like Merkels boner it will be heaven sent<br />
Time to win it again cuz<br />
Time to win it again<br />
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Goodbye Milton Bradley<br />
And all those mistakes<br />
Looks like Carlos Marmol - has finally got what it takes<br />
To hold down the closers job<br />
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Aramis and Derrek<br />
Will be thirty one / hundred men (30 HR's / 100 RBI's)<br />
Time to win it again cuz<br />
Time to win it again<br />
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Zambrano is going to keep his head<br />
Soriano's knees will painlessly bend<br />
Soto will hit like a rookie again<br />
And we'll hear all about it from Bob and Len<br />
from Bob and Len<br />
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<s>This will be the year of no *** joke </s><i><s>(if anyone knows the missing lyric..please let us know)<br />
</s></i><br />
This will be the year of no last-minute choke<br />
No Will Clark, no black cat, and no billy goat<br />
No cursing billy goat<br />
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Pinella didn't come to Chicago<br />
Just to contend<br />
Time to win it again cuz<br />
Time to win it again<br />
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Ernie Banks will be there<br />
Tears of joy in his eyes<br />
Ron Santo will moan with ecstatic surprise<br />
forgetting nineteen sixty-nine<br />
<br />
Harry Caray will look down from heavenly skies<br />
It's two thousand and ten cuz<br />
World Champion time<br />
<br />
Time to win it again<br />
Two thousand and ten<br />
Time to win it againPublic Address Announcerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15367788621079847472noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509560332229407260.post-23964202789867413132010-04-11T09:01:00.010-05:002010-04-12T11:22:49.934-05:00Vintage Song Sunday: Love is Like a Baseball Game<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Love-Like-Baseball-Game/dp/B00137V544?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="(Love Is Like A) Baseball Game" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B00137V544&tag=baseballhistorian-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B00137V544" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />Formed in Philadelphia in 1960, the smooth stylings of The Intruders were a part of the development known as the Philadelphia Soul movement, which included artists such as The Delfonics, Patti LaBelle, The O'Jays, The Stylistics and even Daryl Hall & John Oates.<br />
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Consisting of lush musical arrangements combined with funk, and often strings and horns, the Philly Soul movement was the perfect arrangement for any love song. <br />
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So this Sunday night, pull the curtains closed, dim the lights, put some candles around the room, order out a few hot dogs with mustard and a pickle (no ketchup please), and put on today's Baseball Song of the Day...<br />
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"Love is Like a Baseball Game" by The Intruders:<br />
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<i>The song hit #26 on the billboard charts back in 1968.</i><br />
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<b>BSOD 4/11/2010: Love is Like a Baseball Game</b><br />
<b>Artist: The Intruders</b><br />
<b>Released: 1968</b><br />
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<b>Love is Like a Baseball Game Lyrics</b><br />
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Love is just like a baseball game<br />
Three strikes you’re out<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/I-Love-Heart-Baseball-Mousepad/dp/B003DN961A?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="I Love/Heart Baseball Mousepad" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B003DN961A&tag=baseballhistorian-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B003DN961A" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />Up to bat <br />
I thought I hit a love run<br />
But to my surprise<br />
I found I didn’t hit none<br />
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Threw her love so fast<br />
She put me in a daze<br />
Never knew that love<br />
Could come so many ways<br />
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Strike one -- She took me by surprise<br />
Strike two -- Right in front of my eyes<br />
Strike three -- Oh, I was out without a doubt<br />
Oh, I was out<br />
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Love is just like a baseball game<br />
Three strikes you’re out <br />
Whether you win or lose<br />
Love is just like a baseball game <br />
Three strikes you’re out<br />
Everybody’s got to pay some due<br />
<br />
Oh, I’m up to bat <br />
I’m gonna try love one more time<br />
<br />
I really love this girl<br />
And I’m gonna make her mine<br />
<br />
I ain’t never won<br />
When I played a baseball game<br />
Now it seems that love<br />
And baseball are just the same<br />
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Strike one -- Oh, she did it again<br />
Strike two -- Looks like I’m never gonna win<br />
Strike three -- Oh, I was out without a doubt<br />
I was out<br />
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Love is just like a baseball game<br />
Three strikes you’re out <br />
Whether you win or lose<br />
Love is just like a baseball game<br />
Three strikes you’re out<br />
Everybody’s got to pay some due<br />
-- You got to pay some due<br />
<br />
Love is just like a baseball game<br />
Three strikes you’re out <br />
-- Three strikes you’re out whether you win or lose<br />
Love is just like a baseball game<br />
Three strikes you’re out <br />
Everybody’s got to pay some due<br />
-- Got to say it again<br />
<br />
Love is just like a baseball game<br />
Three strikes you’re out<br />
-- Three strikes you’re out whether you win or lose<br />
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<b>Related Links:</b><br />
<a href="http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Intruders.html">http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Intruders.html</a><br />
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*not to be confused with the <a href="http://www.myspace.com/intrudersofficial">Vancouver, Canada Rock and Roll band "The Intruders"</a>Public Address Announcerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15367788621079847472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509560332229407260.post-26601677241822625332010-04-10T21:50:00.000-05:002010-04-10T21:50:45.566-05:00The Garfoose on the LooseThere's been a bird (Mark Fidyrich), a few mooses (Moose Haas, Moose Skowron), a penguin (Ron Cey), an antelope (Emil Verban), a cobra (Dave Parker), a rhino (Ryne Sandberg), and even a kangaroo (Davy Jones). But baseball has never had or seen anything like The Garfoose.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkK-pKm2CDJBdNanCxQyVM82bajgfpbyJYsWntahhJCWxK1ZXoI5lJWRGOHORtl7JKp6FTK7BpwpFNsFN5u8dsBo30oCW3QSW-eSOa8dQeVVaVVAw1pqCLQws4ypbZLJqHqHJWBf_hGBhH/s1600/garfoose.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkK-pKm2CDJBdNanCxQyVM82bajgfpbyJYsWntahhJCWxK1ZXoI5lJWRGOHORtl7JKp6FTK7BpwpFNsFN5u8dsBo30oCW3QSW-eSOa8dQeVVaVVAw1pqCLQws4ypbZLJqHqHJWBf_hGBhH/s320/garfoose.jpg" /></a></div><b>The Garfoose</b>, a fire breathing, magically empowered, indestructible, wifi enabled, half giraffe half moose is the protector of the sacred Baseball Grove where the world’s most perfect baseballs are found, hanging in bunches upon baseball trees.<br />
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Some say like a Cubs World Series Championship, he doesn't actually exist. Some say he's an imaginary friend, second cousin to Harvey the Rabbit. Some say he's a creation of the mind of pitcher Dirk Hayhurst. <br />
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BSOD says, "Phoooey", he does exist, and we have the interview to prove it. Our original plan was to sneak into the Baseball Grove where he lives and protects the sacred baseballs (or Garfooseberries as they know them), and to capture him by blaring music by umpire Country Joe West until he just couldn't take it anymore.<br />
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However as we moved in closer, and finally caught a glimpse of the Garfoose via telescopic camera, one sight of those teeth and glare (see picture above), we thought better of it. So, we took the next best approach. We decided to Angus MacGyver (yes, Angus was MacGyver's first name) the scope with a coat hanger that we carry around, and send electronic messages directly to the Garfoose via it's wifi enabled antlers.<br />
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In this Baseball Song of the Day elusive exclusive (we were only able to capture and hold his attention for a few minutes before he escaped), we were able to find out the following information:<br />
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Hello Mr. Garfoose. Thank you for taking time out of foraging for baseballs to answer a few questions.<br />
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<b>Q: Do you have a first name? </b><br />
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Garfoose! (Garfoose)<br />
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<b>Q: I've heard that you are wifi enabled. If so, do you download or stream music? Are you a Pandora, or last.fm kinda Garfoose, or do you prefer to download?</b><br />
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Garfooooooooooose! (Pandora) <br />
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<b><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B000YXMMAO" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />Q: What are some songs that you have been listening to lately?</b><br />
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GARFoooooooSE (White Knuckles by OK GO, Jumping Jack Flash by the Rolling Stones, and the entire In Rainbows album from Radiohead) <br />
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<b>Q: What's your favorite baseball related song?</b><br />
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GARFOOOOOSE!!!!!!! (I hate baseball songs, I hear then every freaking day and I can't take them anymore!) <br />
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<b>Q: If you were manager and had to select from the following to pitch the 7th game of a World Series, whom would you choose: Dick Drago, Bob Moose, Joe Berry, Steve Fireovid, or "Moose" Skowran?</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Snake-Plissken-Chronicles-William-ONeill/dp/B001926O7Q?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Snake Plissken Chronicles #1" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B001926O7Q&tag=baseballhistorian-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B001926O7Q" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />GarfOOOse? (None of the Above. I would take Snake Plissken, though I know he's not a baseball player per say, I think he could get it done)<br />
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Thank you Mr. Garfoose. Looking forward to writing about you and reading and promoting your friend Mr. Hayhurst's book.<br />
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Garfoose =) ( No, THANK YOU, and if I was to eat you or any of your friends, don't take it personally). <br />
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Majestically yours, <br />
<br />
The Garfoose<br />
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<b>BSOD 4/10/2010: White Knuckles</b><br />
<b>Artist: OK Go</b><br />
<b>Released: 2010</b><br />
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</b><br />
<b>White Knuckles Lyrics</b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">You'll never get that taste, out of your mouth</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">You'll never get the paw prints, out of the hen house now</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">And you can't go back, same way you came</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Round all the pieces up, but they just dont fit the same</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">White knuckles</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Maybe it's not so bad</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">So let your hair down now</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">White knuckles</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Yeah maybe it's not so bad</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Aww go ahead and let it down</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">So come and let it all out, let it bleed</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Did you get what you want? Did you get what you need?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Behind the lines, behind the walls</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Tell me what's the bet you made, was it that bad after all?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">White knuckles</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Yeah maybe it's not so bad</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">So let your hair down now</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">White knuckles</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Aww maybe it's not so bad</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Just let it all come down now</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">So just have fun, it's far enough</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Everybody needs to sleep at night, everybody needs a crutch</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">But couldn't good, be good enough?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Cause nothin' ever doesn't change but nothin' changes much</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Yeah, maybe it's not so bad</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">So let your hair down now</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">White knuckles</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Aww maybe it's not so bad</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Just let it all come down now</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Yeah maybe it's not so bad</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Just let your hair come down now</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Oh maybe it's not so bad</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Just let it all come down</span></b><br />
<b><br />
</b><br />
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<b>Related Links:</b><br />
<a href="http://www.dirkhayhurst.com/">http://www.dirkhayhurst.com</a><br />
<a href="http://www.dirkhayhurst.com/Dirkhayhurst.com/Garfoose.html">http://www.dirkhayhurst.com/Dirkhayhurst.com/Garfoose.html</a><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bullpen-Gospels-League-Veteran-Paperback/dp/B003EMDDIM?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran (Paperback)" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B003EMDDIM&tag=baseballhistorian-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B003EMDDIM" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Garfoose is a good friend of Dirk Hayhurst; pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays who recently underwent shoulder surgery and will be rehabbing in 2010 on his way back into the game. <br />
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Dirk has chronicled his way through the minor leagues and into "the bigs" and has just released a book titled, "The Bullpen Gospels" which is receiving massive praise from the baseball pundits and fans alike. Here's some reviews:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><blockquote style="text-align: left;">Bullpen Gospels is a rollicking good bus ride of a book. Hayhurst illuminates a baseball life not only with wit and humor, but also with thought-provoking introspection.</blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>--Tom Verducci, Sports Illustrated.</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left;"> “Bull Durham meets Ball Four in Dirk Hayhurst's hilarious and moving account of life in baseball's glamor-free bush leagues.”</blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>--Rob Neyer, ESPN.com</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br />
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<b><blockquote><div style="display: inline !important; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">“Yes, Virginia, there is a big-league ballplayer who can write a memoir all by himself that is not a whistle-blowing, naming-of-names diatribe, but rather an intelligent, articulate, profound, brutally honest, self-effacing, funny, touching book about the painful but rewarding relationship between baseball and life. Dirk Hayhurst’s The Bullpen Gospels is a from-the-heart, refreshingly stereotype-busting account of a year in his minor league pitching career that reveals him not as a number on a uniform or a bunch of stats or a grinning face on a baseball card, but a vulnerable, humble, flesh-and-blood real person with real feelings. Gospels is a funny bone-tickling, tear duct-stimulating, feel-good story that will leave die-hard baseball fans—and die-hard human beings, for that matter—well, feeling good.”</span></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">--Bob Mitchell, Author of Once Upon a Fastball, and Match Made in Heaven<br />
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So, what are you waiting for? <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bullpen-Gospels-League-Dreams-Veteran/dp/0806531436?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Go buy the book already</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0806531436" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />.</div></b><br />
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</div>Public Address Announcerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15367788621079847472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509560332229407260.post-57296939634201361192010-04-09T05:16:00.034-05:002010-04-10T21:29:00.354-05:00The Voice of Summer: Ernie Harwell Tribute<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tivoli-Audio-Model-Classic-Walnut/dp/B00006I5WK?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Tivoli Audio Model One AM / FM Table Radio, Classic / Walnut" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B00006I5WK&tag=baseballhistorian-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B001C2BF04" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B00006I5WK" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />The radio. For me, it's more than just background noise, and during baseball season, it's a constant companion who's always there for me seven months out of every year (eight if you include spring training games). In the days before the Internet and cell phones, listening to baseball on the radio was the only way to keep up with your team. <br />
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Whether you were at home, in the car, with a hidden earpiece connected to a transistor radio during school, at work, or in bed late at night listening to West coast games, the crackling of distant lightning strikes making it only that much more authentic and real, baseball on the radio was always by my side. <br />
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I recently read about a Detroit Tigers fan who had the same appreciation for radio and baseball and his team's announcer.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKdXfi2QSEZa-P3W7RNwrJMQpsM_W1iEbq2p1knXEkdLEeTeJNhAbaOipS4Qz9eMfr_v1TXz5kPN4LzLzWM7zMFy25Hl4dtdaCom6PCOH5Owus45VgsapMFqkBARL8h_5Y3OpjnjpjlP47/s1600/ben_hassenger_voice_of_summer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKdXfi2QSEZa-P3W7RNwrJMQpsM_W1iEbq2p1knXEkdLEeTeJNhAbaOipS4Qz9eMfr_v1TXz5kPN4LzLzWM7zMFy25Hl4dtdaCom6PCOH5Owus45VgsapMFqkBARL8h_5Y3OpjnjpjlP47/s320/ben_hassenger_voice_of_summer.jpg" width="264" /></a></div>Twenty years ago, Lansing, Michigan native Ben Hassenger put his musical talents to use in writing a terrific song about the legendary and <a href="http://baseballhall.org/awards/frick/1980-ford-c-frick-award-winner-ernie-harwell">Hall of Fame announcer of the Detroit Tigers; Ernie Harwell</a>.<br />
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The song "The Voice of Summer" by Ben Hassenger is a sweet sounding tune which instantly warms one's heart and tells about the singer's best friend who was always with him through all the important moments in his life.<br />
<blockquote>Hassenger sings.."The voice of Summer, is calling on my radio, what I'd ever do without him, I don't want to know."</blockquote>Sounding to me like it would fit snugly into any Subdudes album, "The Voice of Summer" frolicks along like its dancing through a lifetime of memories and steps together lightly with harmonica stylings and sweet guitar strumming. A perfect song for a warm Summer night on the back porch highlighted by some tea lights.<br />
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<b>>> </b><a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/benhassenger"><b>Download the song, "The Voice of Summer" for free</b></a><b> <</b><<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br />
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Hassenger states in a <a href="http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2010/04/local_musician_combines_passions">recent column at The StateNews.com</a> ...<br />
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Growing up a Tigers fan and listening to Harwell call Tigers games his whole life, Hassenger said he always saw Harwell as a special person.<br />
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<iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=baseballhistorian-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=1572437170&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe>“He’s one of those guys that seems like your favorite uncle or grandfather,” Hassenger said. “And he’s like that when you meet him. He’s genuine and he won’t let you down.”<br />
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After originally writing “Voice of Summer” during his summer off in the ’80s, Hassenger and his band Mystic Shake redid the song in 2002 — the year Harwell retired.<br />
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Toward the end of the 2002 baseball season, Hassenger tried to gain exposure for the song by sending it to radio stations and other media outlets in Detroit. He also dropped a CD off at the broadcast booth in Comerica Park for Harwell, not thinking anything would come of it, until one day he received a call from the Tigers legend.<br />
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“He said, ‘I just wanted to tell you that I really appreciate you writing that song about me. I’m honored,’” Hassenger said. “I’m going ‘Geez, I listened to you my whole life, I’m honored that you called.’ Obviously it made my day.”<br />
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<b>BSOD 4/9/2010: The Voice Of Summer</b><br />
<b>Artist: Ben Hassenger</b><br />
<b>Released: 1980?? (to be determined)</b><br />
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<b>Voice of Summer Lyrics</b><br />
<i>Words and music by Ben Hassenger</i><br />
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The first voices I remember<br />
Were those of my mom & dad<br />
The second voice turned out to be<br />
The best friend I ever had<br />
Everywhere I'd go<br />
And everything I'd do<br />
I was never far from my radio<br />
Listening to the orange & blue<br />
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And the voice of summer<br />
He’s calling on my radio<br />
What I'd ever do without him<br />
I don't want to know<br />
I guess that I'd be left there standing like a house by the side of the road<br />
Without the voice of summer on my radio<br />
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He followed me through high school<br />
And on to college too<br />
And that night I cried when my grandfather died<br />
He was there to fill his shoes<br />
I learned so much about the game<br />
From the stories he would share<br />
When I couldn't make it to the park<br />
He'd make me feel like I was there<br />
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He's the voice of summer<br />
Calling on my radio<br />
What I'd ever do without him<br />
I don't want to know<br />
I guess that I'd be left there standing<br />
Like a house by the side of the road<br />
Without the voice of summer on my radio<br />
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Staying up past my bedtime<br />
Praying for some instant runs<br />
Wondering how he ever knew<br />
Where all the people in the park were from<br />
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The time's they are a'changin<br />
Nothing seems to be the same<br />
No more crowds at Michigan and Trumbull<br />
And only millionaires play the game<br />
But some things should last forever<br />
At least that how I'd like them to stay<br />
I'll hear Ernie inside my head<br />
Every time I watch the Tigers play<br />
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He's the voice of summer<br />
Calling on my radio<br />
What I'd ever do without him<br />
I don't want to know<br />
I guess that I'd be left there standing like a house by the side of the road<br />
Without the voice of summer on my radio<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">--------------------------------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: auto;"><i>Note: BSOD got in contact with Ben about his wonderful songs and he was kind enough to send the lyrics along right before heading out for Opening Day at Comerica Park. (Tigers won 5-2). Ben has also written another "Tiger tune" called "The Corner", which is a tribute to old Tiger Stadium. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i>I'm sure we'll catch up with Ben again to find out more about that song<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><s>, </s></span><s>and to answer a few baseball related questions that we had for him.</s> As they say in baseball, it's a marathon, not a sprint, so the season is still young.</i></span></i></div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i>---------------------------------------</i></span></i><br />
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<i>As Mel Allen used to say, "How 'bout that?" Ben quickly responded to us not long after the Tiger's Opening Day victory with answers to our questions:</i><br />
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<i><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><b>1. What's your favorite baseball song (besides your own of course)?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">The first one that comes to mind is Chuck Brodsky's "Letters in the Dirt" ; he grew up a Phillies fan and wrote this amazing song about Ritchie Allen and the prejudice he faced (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q8CHJ3i1Aw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q8CHJ3i1Aw</a>). He's written a bunch of great baseball tunes, but this is probably my favorite of his. Of course "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" (check out my uke version at: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSV2C5gR9sM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSV2C5gR9sM</a>) and "Centerfield", but there are a whole bunch more great baseball tunes. Jeff Campbell and his "Hungry for Music" organization has put together some nice collections called "Diamond Cuts": <a href="http://hungryformusic.com/cds/diamond-cuts/">http://hungryformusic.com/cds/diamond-cuts/</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Detroit-Tigers-Gibson-Mounted-Poster/dp/B001DSNJWE?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Detroit Tigers - Great - Gibson - 1984 World Series - Wood Mounted Poster Print" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B001DSNJWE&tag=baseballhistorian-20" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><b> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B001DSNJWE" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />2. Would the 1984 Tigers have won if they played the 1984 Cubs instead of the Padres? (Yes, as a cub fan the '84 season still hurts).</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">I love the Cubbies too and wanted to see an I-94 World Series, but the Tigers would have killed them. The Cubs lost to the Padres, who were then swept by Detroit. The World Series title was their destiny in '84. that 35-5 start was amazing. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><b>3. Trammel and Whitaker, should either be in the Hall of Fame?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Maybe Trammell. Jack Morris should probably be in there too, both have statistics that are better than some of the players enshrined. I'll see if I can use my newfound clout to get them in :)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><b>4. Since you wrote another song about Old Tiger's Stadium, what do you miss most about it?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Tiger Stadium (there's only one, not an old or new) was a special place for me and many other fans. Things I'll remember most include:<br />
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* Walking up that long dark tunnel to the bleacher entrance where the bright blue sky and emerald green field greeted you<br />
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* The many friends I met there in the bleachers<br />
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* The 1-0 win over the Blue Jays in the last game of the regular season in 1987 that clinched the pennant for Detroit<br />
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* The walk through the old neighborhood of Corktown on my way to the park<br />
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* The final game in 1999, I sat in the stands with many other fans long after the game was over, we didn't want to say goodbye</span><br />
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</i></span></div></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>BSOD Editor's Note: "I went to a game at Detroit in the early 1990's and a memory I have of the game is Rickey Henderson of the Oakland A's politely giving the fans the middle finger. I state politely because first of all, the Tigers' fans were heckling him to no end, and this included many curse words. Rickey didn't respond for the first few innings, and then at one point, bent over with his glove and throwing hand on each knee, and looked intently towards home plate, and then put his hand behind his back and flipped the bird to the left field hecklers."</b></div>Public Address Announcerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15367788621079847472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509560332229407260.post-26206376531027559672010-04-08T11:17:00.049-05:002010-04-10T06:51:10.216-05:00Talking Yogi Talk<blockquote><blockquote>"This may be the greatest music that's never been heard."</blockquote></blockquote><br />
Ok, so that may not be quite up to Yogi Berra's standards, but I took a shot.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw84LeL6FEW4DpVkMQO6d3Laf8EvezjnGUxWCcD_kwpDujUqYn90ReemeIX9r8MUCPbZ4YHepETypt-vReU_JBgsahTSa9FAzZ_3YzTP3yQU0p_A9d1OtGTiLARaWLu0SKNIonykEdE6wj/s1600/john_mccutcheon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw84LeL6FEW4DpVkMQO6d3Laf8EvezjnGUxWCcD_kwpDujUqYn90ReemeIX9r8MUCPbZ4YHepETypt-vReU_JBgsahTSa9FAzZ_3YzTP3yQU0p_A9d1OtGTiLARaWLu0SKNIonykEdE6wj/s320/john_mccutcheon.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B00166V72C" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />Today's <i>Baseball Song of the Day</i> comes from six time grammy award winner, John McCutcheon.<br />
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Born in Wisconsin (and a Milwaukee Braves fan), McCutcheon has produced over 30 albums during his career and has received some high praise from such artists as Johnny Cash who called him, "The most impressive instrumentalist I’ve ever heard.” Mainly a folk singer, McCutcheon plays a variety of instruments including a 12-String Guitar, Fancy Banjo, Fiddle, Hammered Dulcimer, Nyckelharpa, and something called a Piano too.<br />
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<i>(photo by Gary Harrison, May 6, 2001 at the Baseball Hall of Fame)</i><br />
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From his biography on his web site: <a href="http://www.folkmusic.com/bio">http://www.folkmusic.com/bio</a>, one of McCutcheon's greatest gifts are to bring all types of people together through his music, which ranges from political, to the everyday (a child's haircut) to one of my favorite subjects, Baseball.<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0786613777" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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“Some of them know me through my albums for children,” he explains. “Some know me as a hammered dulcimer player. Some know me for writing topical songs. Yet all of these people find themselves sitting next to one another at my shows. They laugh and cry. They get nostalgic and they think about the future. They think about their kids and their ancestors. They get inspired and energized. And this inspires and energizes me too."<br />
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<iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=baseballhistorian-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B00166V72C&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe>In 2008 McCutcheon recorded an album dedicated to the subject of baseball called "Sermon On the Mound" in which he honored a few of the games heroes (Cal Ripken Jr., Roberto Clemente, Jackie Robinson), discusses the dark side of the game (John Rocker and the steroids issue) and catches many bittersweet moments.<br />
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From <a href="http://www.ajc.com/lifestyle/folksinger-happy-to-be-440043.html?cxtype=rss_news_128746">an article by Mike Tierney on the Atlanta Journal Constitution web site</a>, McCutcheon explains about a few of the songs meanings...<br />
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"Doin' My Job" recognizes Cal Ripken's consecutive games streak while equating it to common people going to work every day.<br />
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"One More Mountaintop" relives Mark McGwire's record-breaking home run from the perspective of the groundskeeper who retrieved the ball and honorably gave it to McGwire rather than sell it to a collector.<br />
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"Cross That Line" revisits pioneer Jackie Robinson's integration of the major leagues made easier with a simple but profound gesture by teammate Pee Wee Reese. Its message: Seize the moment when one arises for a positive impact.<br />
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Not every McCutcheon number is wrapped in warm nostalgia. He bemoans the infiltration of steroids in "Big." He tosses melodious beanballs at the former Braves pitcher/sociopolitical observer in "John Rocker." ("You want him in the bullpen, you want him in the zone, but you want him far away from a microphone.")<br />
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Another song on the album; "Sermon on the Mound" is today's Baseball Song of the Day, "Talking Yogi Talk" which highlights many of the New York Yankee and Hall of Famer Yogi Berra's famous sayings.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wit-Wisdom-Yogi-Berra/dp/1572434724?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="The Wit and Wisdom of Yogi Berra" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1572434724&tag=baseballhistorian-20" /></a><b><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1572434724" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />BSOD 4/8/2010: Talking Yogi Talk</b><br />
<b>Artist: John McCutcheon</b><br />
<b>Released: 2008</b><br />
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A sampling of the lyrics from Talking Yogi Talk by John McCutcheon<br />
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"I wanna tell you a little story<br />
about a hero of mine<br />
I was six or seven<br />
at the time<br />
learned to catch behind the plate<br />
when up steps the yankees number 8<br />
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one of the best to ever play the game<br />
enshrined in baseball's hall of fame<br />
Yogi Berra could hit, he could throw<br />
but when he opened his mouth <br />
(laughs) well...you just never know<br />
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he hits from both sides of the plate<br />
heeee's ammmmmmmmphibious<br />
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the future ain't what it used to be<br />
i won't buy encylodpedia for my kids<br />
let them walk to school like i did<br />
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sometimes he said things that actually sounded profound<br />
like..in theory there is no difference between theory and practice<br />
in practice, there is<br />
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<b>Related Links:</b><br />
<a href="http://www.folkmusic.com/">http://www.folkmusic.com</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xwfFc-42k4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xwfFc-42k4</a><br />
<a href="http://www.ajc.com/lifestyle/folksinger-happy-to-be-440043.html?cxtype=rss_news_128746">http://www.ajc.com/lifestyle/folksinger-happy-to-be-440043.html?cxtype=rss_news_128746</a>Public Address Announcerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15367788621079847472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509560332229407260.post-26826602768883557442010-04-07T06:55:00.009-05:002010-04-10T07:46:54.534-05:00Drilling in a Pitch in Tulsa<b><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0014STPOY" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />Tim McGraw to throw out first pitch at the Tulsa Driller's Opening Game. It's the first professional game in Tulsa in 80 years.</b><br />
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From: <a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=408&articleid=20100406_11_B1_Countr962831">TulsaWorld.com</a> ...<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Southern-Voice-Tim-McGraw/dp/B002I0O9MU?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Southern Voice" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B002I0O9MU&tag=baseballhistorian-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0007PJ5PO" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B002I0O9MU" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />Country music singer and actor Tim McGraw will throw the ceremonial first pitch at ONEOK Field for the Tulsa Drillers' sold-out opening game Thursday. <br />
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"We are very fortunate to have Tim McGraw agree to do this. He's a busy man," Drillers owner Chuck Lamson said Monday. <br />
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McGraw is scheduled to play a concert at the BOK Center on Thursday. <br />
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Lamson said it is fitting that McGraw throw the pitch because he has a baseball connection — his father, Tug McGraw. <br />
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Tug McGraw was a premier relief pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Mets. He died in 2004.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tugmcgraw.org/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtUaHKkOCdN7KFScHBSwnxFieYWCchGqzLG7gJ7EgxQABxiO2ohjd87e8lMmuDVnTmkaeuXYe9e_8maDrI31KC3bHOTju_PQOgcUY1pJZUGH_bIdlltTrDWM6GYLl2vbPuV7U6iR3x2X2r/s200/TUG-101-x.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>In the 1980 World Series, Tug McGraw earned the final out against Kansas City with a strikeout, giving the Phillies their first world championship.<br />
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He was twice selected to play in the MLB All-Star game, and he is in the New York Mets Hall of Fame and on the Philadelphia Phillies Wall of Fame. <br />
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Tim McGraw attended Northeast Louisiana University on a baseball scholarship. <br />
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When Lamson and others realized that Tim McGraw would be in Tulsa the same night as the Drillers' opening game and debut of the new downtown ballpark, officials began efforts to see if McGraw would throw the pitch.<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B002I0O9MU" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> <br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Minor-League-Baseball-Cap-Adjustable/dp/B0007PJ5PO?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Minor League Baseball Cap - Tulsa Drillers Alt 1 Cap by New Era (Adjustable)" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B0007PJ5PO&tag=baseballhistorian-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0007PJ5PO" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />"When it was all said and done, it was some Louisiana connections that made this happen," Lamson said, pointing to Mike Neal, CEO and president of the Tulsa Metro Chamber, and Paul Wilkening, former chief deputy for the Tulsa County commissioners. <br />
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Neal's wife went to college with Tim McGraw at Northeast Louisiana, and later the children of Neal and Tim McGraw competed in sports against each other. Wilkening was a fraternity brother of McGraw's in college. <br />
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Neal said it's a huge plus to have the superstar in town. <br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/BMORE-Sports-Tulsa-Drillers-Baseball/dp/B0014STPOY?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Tulsa Drillers Neon Baseball" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B0014STPOY&tag=baseballhistorian-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0014STPOY" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />"Albeit, we would prefer to not have the opening night of the Drillers in competition with a Tim McGraw concert, but everything worked out ideally with Tim's willingness to participate in the ceremonial first pitch," he said. <br />
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"I'm sure there will be a lot of us start out at the ballgame and move over to Tim's concert later," Neal said. "That just shows how our two venues can complement one another. Downtown Tulsa is certainly going to be hopping Thursday night." <br />
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Lamson said he is excited to have such "a great guy bring a blend of country music and baseball to really kick off this new era of Drillers baseball." <br />
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<b><i>Read more from this Tulsa World article at </i></b><b><i><a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=408&articleid=20100406_11_B1_Countr962831">http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=408&articleid=20100406_11_B1_Countr962831</a></i></b><br />
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<b>Watch today's Baseball Song of the Day, "Live Like You're Dying" by Tim McGraw</b><br />
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<b>BSOD 4/7/2010: Live Like You're Dying</b><br />
<b>Artist: Tim McGraw</b><br />
<b>Released: 2004</b><br />
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<b>Live Like You're Dying Lyrics</b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">He said: "I was in my early forties,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"With a lot of life before me,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"An' a moment came that stopped me on a dime.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"I spent most of the next days,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"Looking at the x-rays,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"An' talking 'bout the options an' talkin’ ‘bout sweet time."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">I asked him when it sank in,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">That this might really be the real end?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">How’s it hit you when you get that kind of news?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Man whatcha do? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">An' he said: "I went sky diving, I went rocky mountain climbing,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"And I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">An' he said: "Some day, I hope you get the chance,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"To live like you were dyin'." </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">He said "I was finally the husband,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"That most the time I wasn’t.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"An' I became a friend a friend would like to have.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"And all of a sudden goin' fishin’,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"Wasn’t such an imposition,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"And I went three times that year I lost my Dad.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"Well, I finally read the Good Book,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"And I took a good long hard look,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"At what I'd do if I could do it all again,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"And then: </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"I went sky diving, I went rocky mountain climbing,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"And I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">An' he said: "Some day, I hope you get the chance,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"To live like you were dyin'." </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Like tomorrow was a gift,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">And you got eternity,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">To think about what you’d do with it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">An' what did you do with it?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">An' what can I do with it?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">An' what would I do with it? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"Sky diving, I went rocky mountain climbing,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"And then I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"And I watched Blue Eagle as it was flyin'."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">An' he said: "Some day, I hope you get the chance,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"To live like you were dyin'." </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"To live like you were dyin'."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"To live like you were dyin'."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"To live like you were dyin'."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"To live like you were dyin'." </span><br />
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</b>Public Address Announcerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15367788621079847472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509560332229407260.post-39244067540179491752010-04-06T15:54:00.033-05:002010-04-08T17:29:14.867-05:00Toledo Mud Hens Hip-Hop Heavy HittersWriter "lilD" of The <a href="http://www.toledofreepress.com/2010/04/06/lild-heavy-hitters/">Toledo Free Press</a> writes about the psyche of baseball and how important confidence at the plate can be for one's success, and suggests some of Toledo, Ohio's hottest hip-hop artists and songs for swinging for hip-hop hits at one of minor league baseball's historic teams; The Toledo Mud Hens.<br />
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<b>April 6, 2010</b><br />
<b>Writer: lilD</b><br />
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The Mud Hens are getting ready to kick off another season, and while there are several components to success, one of the most important factors is confidence. So listed below is a list of Toledo Hip-Hop artists’ hottest singles to simultaneously boost the male ego and get the blood pumping. Play ball!<br />
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<b>1. Chief “Change the Beat”</b><br />
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The title describes the ever-changing instrumental behind the smooth flows of Chief’s complicated flow. With production by Midwest Tone, a premier Toledo producer and a cocky set of verses, this song will not only wake up a player, it will get his swagger up to a sufficient level. That is, very high.<br />
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If the strong guitar riffs don’t wake up the Mud Hens, Dre P.’s intensity will. With its catchy lyrics and intense melody, this song is sure to get the blood flowing before a game and have all the players “rockin’.”<br />
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<b>3. Big P.I. “Dat Boy”</b><br />
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From the moment this song starts, the music catches your attention. But that’s typical of any song produced by Mally Speaks. A perfect complement to Mally’s unique instrumentation is popular Toledo rapper Big P.I., who boasts of his ability to steal the spotlight, leaving everyone asking “What’s that boy’s name?”<br />
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And what professional athlete doesn’t want everyone to know who he is?<br />
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<b>4. Spade “I Go Dumb”</b><br />
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Arguably the best Hip-Hop artist in the city, Spade dedicated an entire song to informing people of his level of talent. “Going dumb” is a term meant to describe being the best at one’s craft; the Mud Hens will be the best this season, right? Well, here’s its theme music!<br />
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<b>5. Johnnie Mae “I’m Paid”</b><br />
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One of the few female hip-hop artists in Toledo with a real buzz and high expectations, Johnnie Mae’s anthem for getting money and handling business always moves a crowd. And after all those endorsements come rolling in, all the Mud Hens could sing this song, yelling “I’m paid.”<br />
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<b>6. Young Chuck “Can’t See Me”</b><br />
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This Toledo up-and-comer has a potential hit on his hands, and it kills boredom immediately.<br />
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All about acknowledging your creative superiority, this song will give every member of the Mud Hens a confidence boost.<br />
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<b>7. Ray Stone “I’m So Fly”</b><br />
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This song is legendary in Toledo. Who doesn’t want to feel like they’re at the top of their game? Ray Stone encompasses every emotion, and accompanying adjective, that describes greatness.<br />
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This will definitely get the Mud Hens pumped up and ready to do great things on the field.<br />
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<b>8. 419ers “Stuntin’ Habit”</b><br />
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Stunting is the act of physically displaying achievements, be it economically, academically or athletically.<br />
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So being in the habit of stunting is a good thing for a professional baseball team, and being supplied with an auditory reminder is perfect.<br />
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<b>9. B Wills “Everybody Wanna Be Me”</b><br />
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The first line of this song<br />
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says, “I’m looking like a million bucks.” Confidence is a great ego booster, and when you look good, you feel good.<br />
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And when you feel good, you pitch no-hitters and hit homeruns.<br />
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<b>10. Cuntry “Look At Me”</b><br />
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This song is performed by the most popular Hip-Hop artist in the city, and had everyone looking in the mirror, daring someone to challenge his or her authority.<br />
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And listening to a song like this before a game will help give the Mud Hens the authority needed to laugh off the competition.<br />
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<b>BSOD 4/6/2010: Look At Me</b><br />
<b>Artist: Cuntry </b><br />
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Sunday April 4th kicked off the 2010 baseball season with the 2009 World Series Champions; the New York Yankees meeting their rivals the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park.<br />
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Appearing first on the day was hip-hop's very own Dr. Dre. Dre as he took batting practice sporting a Red Sox jersey and hawking his new "Beats by Dr. Dre" Red Sox headphones. With him was Interscope chairman Jimmy Iovine who stated that he's from Brooklyn and was originally a Mets fan, but today is rooting for Boston.<br />
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Up next was fresh out of rehab - Steven Tyler, the lead singer of Aerosmith performing "God Bless America" at the bottom of the 7th inning. I have an open mind when it comes to music and differing versions of songs, but in all honesty, even though I enjoyed his effort, I found the version off putting and would have enjoyed a more traditional sound for one of our country's respected songs. Performing acapella, with his daughter Chelsea joining in at the very end (I rather liked that part), Tyler's voice is just too raw and screeching for the song. A hit, and a miss.<br />
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Finishing up the trio was Neil Diamond sporting a Red Sox hat, and a dark black blazer with the words, "Keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn" in white lettering on the back. <br />
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Diamond was definitely showing his age, and the song was definitely "schlocky" and that's alright with me. This man has been around for years and years and having his song being adopted at the park for the 8th inning in which everyone (I'm sure there's some holdouts) joins in and sings "So good, so good, so good" back to him is nothing but silly fun. Racing sausages (in Milwaukee) are ok but singing "Sweet Caroline" isn't? <br />
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<b>BSOD 4/5/2010: Sweet Caroline - 8th Inning Stylee</b><br />
<b>Artist: Neil Diamond and the Boston Red Sox Fans</b><br />
<b>Released: 4/4/2010</b><br />
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"So good, so good, so good!!!"<br />
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<i>Note: The Red Sox beat the Yankees 9-7</i>Public Address Announcerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15367788621079847472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509560332229407260.post-13173354495925922562010-04-04T21:59:00.036-05:002010-04-08T09:53:27.471-05:00Vintage Song Sunday: A Dying Cub Fan's Last RequestMany great things in life can be bought with a beer. Need help in moving your furniture from one apartment to the next? Get some beer for your friends. Need the cable guy to add a lil sump'n sump'n, offer up a beer.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dying-Cub-Fans-Last-Request/dp/B000QP7JP8?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B000QP7JP8&tag=baseballhistorian-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B000QP7JP8" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />For folk singer Steve Goodman, in the early 1970's, he was able to buy the attention of a young Arlo Guthrie with a beer. Guthrie like many artists had people coming up to him and wanting to play a song for him to listen. Guthrie agreed to listen to Goodman's song as long as Steve bought him a beer, and for as long as it took him to drink the beer. The song was "The City of New Orleans", the terrific rambling tune of a train that garnered Guthrie a top 20 hit in '72, and that was later covered by Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson amongst many others and earned Goodman a posthumous Grammy in 1985. <br />
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A<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B000WYT9VU" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> true Chicagoan, Goodman was born in 1948 on Chicago's North Side. His love of music led him to start writing songs and he often performed during his teenage years while at Maine East High School, after his parents moved to the North Suburbs. Staying close to home, he went to the University of Illinois and then staying closer to his dream, he left college to pursue a career in music.<br />
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Well known for his die hard fan loyalty to the Cubs and popular for playing around town, the Cubs were to have Goodman perform the "Star Spangled Banner" before their first playoff game in 39 years in 1984, however Goodman was battling Leukemia since the late 60's and unfortunately he passed away four days before the Cubs clinched the playoff spot. Jimmy Buffet filled in for Goodman and dedicated the song to him. The Cubs would win the first two games of the playoffs vs the San Diego Padres, and then go on to lose the next three in heartbreaking fashion.<br />
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In 1988, Goodman's wishes from his song were realized when his ashes were spread at Wrigley Field. This is one of the most accurate songs about the Chicago Cubs and what they can do to your heartstrings, time and time again. Today's Old Time, Famous, Vintage, Heartfelt, Sad Yet Beautiful Baseball Song of the Day; "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request" by Steve Goodman. All Cub fans, raise an Old Style beer to you every time this song is heard.<br />
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I<i>t's been 101 years since the Cubs won the World Series. I think there's been a lot of requests. If you think about it, nobody is alive that last saw them win the World Series.</i><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.mainelyurns.com/chicago-cubs-urn.html" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghUnRf0hSqaVVDJlr36Y7E8bqMto8MddrLWvan7bH3yK0qxBZJz0Pd7xlHXmh3VuIJ3-rlblVdQz-4ZAnT5fZNUgBhyphenhyphenTOEdCFzJpgWDIfbqnRPidT2IPBsfQxHIwx-VhPle0aZrxdLHdvm/s320/cubs+urn.jpg" /></a></div><b>BSOD 4/4/2010: A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request</b><br />
<b>Artist: Steve Goodman</b><br />
<b>Released: 1979</b><br />
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By the shore's of old Lake Michigan<br />
Where the "hawk wind" blows so cold<br />
An old Cub fan lay dying<br />
In his midnight hour that tolled<br />
Round his bed, his friends had all gathered<br />
They knew his time was short<br />
And on his head they put this bright blue cap<br />
From his all-time favorite sport<br />
He told them, "Its late and its getting dark in here"<br />
And I know its time to go<br />
But before I leave the line-up<br />
Boys, there's just one thing I'd like to know<br />
<br />
Do they still play the blues in Chicago<br />
When baseball season rolls around<br />
When the snow melts away,<br />
Do the Cubbies still play<br />
In their ivy-covered burial ground<br />
When I was a boy they were my pride and joy<br />
But now they only bring fatigue<br />
To the home of the brave<br />
The land of the free<br />
And the doormat of the National League<br />
<br />
Told his friends "You know the law of averages says:<br />
Anything will happen that can"<br />
That's what it says<br />
"But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant<br />
Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan"<br />
The Cubs made me a criminal<br />
Sent me down a wayward path<br />
They stole my youth from me<br />
(that's the truth)<br />
I'd forsake my teachers<br />
To go sit in the bleachers<br />
In flagrant truancy<br />
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<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B002RGZ460" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0000690OH" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />and then one thing led to another<br />
and soon I'd discovered alcohol, gambling, dope<br />
football, hockey, lacrosse, tennis<br />
But what do you expect,<br />
When you raise up a young boy's hopes<br />
And then just crush 'em like so many paper beer cups<br />
Year after year after year<br />
after year, after year, after year, after year, after year<br />
'Til those hopes are just so much popcorn<br />
for the pigeons beneath the 'L' tracks to eat<br />
He said, "You know I'll never see Wrigley Field,<br />
anymore before my eternal rest<br />
So if you have your pencils and your score cards ready,<br />
and I'll read you my last request<br />
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He said, "Give me a double header funeral in Wrigley Field<br />
On some sunny weekend day (no lights)<br />
Have the organ play the "National Anthem"<br />
and then a little 'na, na, na, na, hey hey, hey, Goodbye'<br />
Make six bullpen pitchers, carry my coffin<br />
and six ground keepers clear my path<br />
Have the umpires bark me out at every base<br />
In all their holy wrath<br />
<br />
Its a beautiful day for a funeral, Hey Ernie lets play two!<br />
Somebody go get Jack Brickhouse to come back,<br />
and conduct just one more interview<br />
Have the Cubbies run right out into the middle of the field,<br />
Have Keith Moreland drop a routine fly<br />
Give everybody two bags of peanuts and a frosty malt<br />
And I'll be ready to die<br />
<br />
Build a big fire on home plate out of your Louisville Sluggers baseball bats<br />
And toss my coffin in<br />
Let my ashes blow in a beautiful snow<br />
From the prevailing 30 mile an hour southwest wind<br />
When my last remains go flying over the left-field wall<br />
Will bid the bleacher bums ad eu<br />
And I will come to my final resting place, out on Waveland Avenue<br />
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The dying man's friends told him to cut it out<br />
They said stop it that's an awful shame<br />
He whispered, "Don't Cry, we'll meet by and by near the Heavenly Hall of Fame<br />
He said, "I've got season's tickets to watch the Angels now,<br />
So its just what I'm going to do<br />
He said, "but you the living, you're stuck here with the Cubs,<br />
So its me that feels sorry for you!"<br />
<br />
And he said, "Ahh Play, play that lonesome losers tune,<br />
That's the one I like the best"<br />
And he closed his eyes, and slipped away<br />
What we got is the Dying Cub Fan's Last Request<br />
And here it is<br />
<br />
Do they still play the blues in Chicago<br />
When baseball season rolls around<br />
When the snow melts away,<br />
Do the Cubbies still play<br />
In their ivy-covered burial ground<br />
When I was a boy they were my pride and joy<br />
But now they only bring fatigue<br />
To the home of the brave<br />
The land of the free<br />
And the doormat of the National League<br />
<br />
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Oh, and if you're from Chicago and never heard, "The Lincoln Park Pirates" about the Lincoln Towing Service, it's a must listen for anyone who's been plundered and pilfered by them.<br />
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<b>Sources:</b><br />
<a href="http://www.stevegoodman.net/">http://www.stevegoodman.net</a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Goodman">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Goodman</a>Public Address Announcerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15367788621079847472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509560332229407260.post-70566426958280639882010-04-03T21:26:00.001-05:002010-04-03T21:33:52.362-05:00Saturday Night at the Movies: The Slugger's Wife<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sluggers-Wife-Michael-OKeefe/dp/B00018D3VE?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="The Slugger's Wife" height="200" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B00018D3VE&tag=baseballhistorian-20" width="137" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B00018D3VE" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />It's Saturday Night at the Movies, tonight's feature is the 1985 film; "The Slugger's Wife", starring Michael O'Keefe (Caddyshack's Danny Noonan..."Noonan...Nooooonan...Nooonan") and Rebecca DeMornay ("Risky Business", "And God Created Woman", "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle").<br />
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Written by famous playright Neil Simon, the story centers around a power hitting ballplayer for the Atlanta Braves; Darryl Palmer, who falls for a gorgeous rock singer, Debbie Huston. After interspersed scenes of persistant courting by Palmer (which includes scenes of DeMornay actually singing "Little Red Corvette") the film cuts to scenes of Palmer striking out at the plate during a game. Get it, he's striking out in courting her and at the plate too. Wow, that's coincidental. <br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Michael-OKeefe-autographed-Atlanta-Braves/dp/B00389SZXO?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Michael O'Keefe autographed photo 8x10 (Atlanta Braves - Sluggers Wife - Daryl Palmer)" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B00389SZXO&tag=baseballhistorian-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B00389SZXO" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />At the bar one night, when Debbie is performing, the music stops and the spotlight moves to Darryl. While smoking a cigar and being cocky, he promises to hit two home runs the next day. If he accomplishes the feat, then she agrees to go out with him. If not, then he'll donate $1,000 to her favorite charity. Randy Quaid's character, (one of the co-stars on his team) then utters, "two homers..you can't even drive a truck that far!" Palmer then states that the reason he hasn't done well that year is that he hadn't had any inspiration, then he points to Huston and states, "that - is my inspiraton." <br />
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At the game the next day, while stepping towards the plate, his manager asks, "When was the god-damn last time that you hit two home runs in a game?" Palmer answers, "High school, it was a 24 inning game..I batted twelve times."<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Slugger%60s-Wife-Folded-Movie-Poster/dp/B002VNYAM8?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="The Slugger`s Wife Folded Movie Poster 1985" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B002VNYAM8&tag=baseballhistorian-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B002VNYAM8" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />But even against a filthy Mark Fidryich pitching for the Astros, Palmer knocks one out in his first two at bats of the game and the film abruptly cuts to the dinner scene. His two HR's finished, who cares about the rest of the game.<br />
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After time, their romance hits the big leagues and they eventually marry. While his career flourishes and he's knocking homers all over when they're together (trying to break the HR record of 61 (pre-steroid era)), her career falls apart and she gives up singing to be with him. After time, she realizes what she misses and her mistake, and thus leading to their separation. Darryl stops hitting homers and his manager tricks him by having another girl pretend to be Huston. In the end, Darryl breaks the record (against Al Hrabosky), and there's a meeting at the ballpark between the two (Huston and Palmer..not Hrabosky), but its unsure if their relationship will ever be back to the way it was.<br />
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A review of this movie in one word: "Schlocky." I'm not really sure what that means but it sounds appropriate. If pressed for another word, "Chintzy" comes to mind. <br />
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The music is lounge lizard bad. The songs and stylings are those you'd here in a bar on the outskirts of town, because they'd never make it in town. There's some really bad cover versions of famous songs such as "Love the One You're With" (Stills), "Hungry Heart" (Springsteen), and "Hey Hey My My" (Young).<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lips-Unsealed-Memoir-Belinda-Carlisle/dp/0307463494?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Lips Unsealed: A Memoir" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0307463494&tag=baseballhistorian-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0307463494" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />It should be noted that the director of the film; Hal Ashby, did however make some outstanding movies earlier in his career, including "Harold and Maude", "Bound for Glory", "Coming Home", and one of my all time favorites, "Being There."<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant.jsp?spid=6212"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0307463494" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />Turner Classic Movies online states that the film</a> was loosely based on Mike Marshall (Dodgers and Mets 1B and OF) and Belinda Carlisle (Go-Go's).<br />
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<i>Fun Note: About Mike Marshall. The legendary announcer, Harry Caray, once said during a Cubs telecast that, "Mike Marshall is going back to LA to get some cocaine for his foot." His partner in the booth, color commentator Steve Stone, quickly interjected, "Uh, Harry, that's novacaine."</i><br />
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</i><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Watch the trailor here: <a href="http://www.starz.com/titles/TheSluggersWife">http://www.starz.com/titles/TheSluggersWife</a></span></i><br />
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Watch and listen to a weird clip of someone recording a speaker playing Rebecca DeMornay singing "Oh Jimmy" (youtube below) from the movie:<br />
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<b>BSOD 4/3/2010: "OH Jimmy"</b><br />
<b>Artist: Rebecca DeMornay</b><br />
<b>Released: 1985</b><br />
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</b><br />
"OH JIMMY"<br />
Written by Sarah M. Taylor<br />
Produced by Tom Bähler<br />
Performed by Rebecca De Mornay<br />
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<i>Other Notable Songs from the Soundtrack. Not notable because they're good, but notable, because they're popular songs.</i><br />
<br />
"HUNGRY HEART"<br />
Written by Bruce Springsteen<br />
Produced by Tom Bähler, Brock Walsh and John Van Tongeren<br />
<br />
"LITTLE RED CORVETTE"<br />
Written by Prince<br />
Produced by Tom Bähler, Brock Walsh and John Van Tongeren<br />
Performed by Rebecca De Mornay<br />
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"SINGIN' IN THE RAIN"<br />
Written by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown<br />
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"HEY HEY MY MY"<br />
Written by Neil Young<br />
Produced by Tom Bähler, Brock Walsh and John Van Tongeren<br />
Performed by Rebecca De Mornay and Loudon Wainwright III<br />
<br />
"LOVE THE ONE YOU'RE WITH"<br />
Written by Stephen Stills<br />
Produced by Tom Bähler, Brock Walsh and John Van Tongeren<br />
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"WHEN I NEED YOU"<br />
Written by Carole Bayer Sager and Albert Hammond<br />
Produced by Tom Bähler, Brock Walsh and John Van Tongeren<br />
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"STRAY CAT STRUT"<br />
Written by Brian Setzer<br />
Produced by Tom Bähler, Brock Walsh and John Van Tongeren<br />
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"SUMMER IN THE CITY"<br />
Written by John Sebastian<br />
Produced by Tom Bähler, Brock Walsh and John Van Tongeren<br />
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"LOVE POTION NUMBER NINE"<br />
Written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller<br />
Produced by Tom Bähler, Brock Walsh and John Van TongerenPublic Address Announcerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15367788621079847472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509560332229407260.post-14356102451122289982010-04-02T17:52:00.060-05:002010-04-03T11:01:32.284-05:00Opening Day Song: Life's Good Again<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbAQQaox9WrsVfCzTr9_u5jXqHnoR08i1eRxYaRnCh1RqWI6suekriT_hsOvIkZMvvXGOEkE3-wOXNjMcJb7u5KXhqPZl61CWLkeAF1rtxqtz552Ue8EwP_IYPnxczEJmmyrR526klSPkX/s1600/Narcissus_Geranium.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbAQQaox9WrsVfCzTr9_u5jXqHnoR08i1eRxYaRnCh1RqWI6suekriT_hsOvIkZMvvXGOEkE3-wOXNjMcJb7u5KXhqPZl61CWLkeAF1rtxqtz552Ue8EwP_IYPnxczEJmmyrR526klSPkX/s320/Narcissus_Geranium.jpg" /></a></div>I'm not sure what its like for those of you that live in warm weather climates. But for those of us who experience a full Winter where the only green we see comes from the Christmas tree, the warm winds of Spring can never come soon enough. The daffodils peeking out in front of the leftover snowmobile trail signs, the rippling of the water from once frozen over streams, all remind us, that Spring has sprung, and life begins its cycle once again.<br />
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It's this anticipation, for what is to come, that inspires us, and gives us hope in our lives. To enjoy life's outdoor activities once again, not encumbered by three layers of clothing. To ride a bicycle, plant vegetable seeds, watch a movie at a drive in, eat roasted-dipped in a vat of butter-salted corn on the cob, and the most wondrous of all, catch a game at the ole' ballpark.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT-aiwul-l1AqaiUmTwCIbI5VDjK2J3Vef34MrUoDzcgGScbB7u48lm5nnvjin9AvMfQ1yQSKqVqs8__RdPKXkoyTIDtvSj4GeNMC1BfBHjeYxyTCUQlTf6Q6egGAf024mV07mxrJ0-1C_/s1600/crawford_275x235.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT-aiwul-l1AqaiUmTwCIbI5VDjK2J3Vef34MrUoDzcgGScbB7u48lm5nnvjin9AvMfQ1yQSKqVqs8__RdPKXkoyTIDtvSj4GeNMC1BfBHjeYxyTCUQlTf6Q6egGAf024mV07mxrJ0-1C_/s200/crawford_275x235.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>To this we salute the most righteous of Spring's offerings; <b>Baseball Opening Day</b>, with a look at a homegrown "Baseball Opening Day" song from "Regular Rob" Crawford; Vice President of Red Sox Nation.<br />
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Opening Day 2010 begins on April 4th with the World Series Champs of 2009, the much loved and <i>hated</i> New York Yankees appearing at Fenway Park. Our pick for this year's Opening Day song, goes to "Regular Rob" Crawford.<br />
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"Crawdaddy" Crawford as he was known before trying for presidency of the <a href="http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/bos/fan_forum/redsox_nation_president.jsp">Red Sox Nation</a> (Boston maniacal fans who live and die for their team), is a father of five who, by his own accord is <a href="http://crawdaddycove.com/about/">dominated in his life by parenthood and baseball</a>. <a href="http://crawdaddycove.com/2008/02/24/what-i-love-about-baseball/">On his blog, "Regular Rob" writes about why he loves baseball</a>, "The leathery-dirt smell of a Rawlings baseball glove. The feel of a high-seamed baseball under my fingertips. Kids imitating their heroes’ batting stances. Defensive replacements in the 9th inning. The allure of an expansive green lawn."<br />
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His list of reasons why he loves baseball continues on a very looooooooong page, and it contains one of my favorites, "Old men and women who keep score, every game." It is just this passion that he is referring to, when he wasn't able to find an adequate song about his feeling for baseball and Opening Day. So, what's a man to do but... write an Opening Day song of his own. <br />
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The weekend before the 2008 opening day game for the Boston Red Sox, "Regular Rob" Crawford snuk on down to the basement (aka the "daddy bunker") when the kids were asleep and put together a terrific song about what baseball's opening day means to him, and in essence, like any good song, to all of us too. <br />
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There's only one thing left to say..."Play Ball!"<br />
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>>> <a href="http://crawdaddycove.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/opening-day-mp31.mp3">Listen to the Song</a> (right click to save it) or go to <a href="http://crawdaddycove.com/opening-day-song/">Rob's Blog and hear it there</a><br />
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<b>BSOD 4/2/2010: Opening Day! (song)<br />
Artist: Rob Crawford<br />
Released: 2008</b><br />
<b><a href="http://www.crawdaddycove.com/">www.crawdaddycove.com</a><br />
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Opening Day! Lyrics<br />
by Rob Crawford (ASCAP)</b><br />
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Well it’s Opening Day<br />
Winter’s gone, let’s celebrate<br />
Skipping school for the game<br />
Got no choice, it’s in my D.N.A.<br />
Baseball everyday ’til fall<br />
Sing Spangled Stars, then let’s play ball<br />
Yes it’s Opening Day<br />
Life’s good again<br />
<br />
Opening Day!<br />
Opening Day!<br />
<br />
Well it’s Opening Day<br />
Winter’s gone, spring starts today<br />
Skipping work for the game<br />
Guess I’ll update my resume<br />
From Japan to Canada<br />
U.S.A. to Latin America<br />
Yes it’s Opening Day<br />
Life’s good again<br />
<br />
Opening Day!<br />
Opening Day!<br />
This year our team’s going all the way<br />
It all starts on Opening Day<br />
<br />
Well it’s Opening Day<br />
Winter ended yesterday<br />
Skipping school for the game<br />
It’s baseball’s own religious holiday<br />
And the rockets’ red glare<br />
The bombs bursting in air<br />
Yes it’s Opening Day<br />
Life’s good again<br />
<br />
Baseball everyday ’til fall<br />
No more hot stove, let’s play ball<br />
Yes it’s Opening Day<br />
Life’s good again<br />
<br />
Opening Day!<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">---------------------------------------------------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Note: What's a great opening day performance???</b></i><br />
How about this: Karl "Tuffy" Rhodes hit three home runs on Opening Day in 1994 for the Chicago Cubs. Acquired in the off season from the KC Royals, Tuffy had only played in less than 100 games in the major leagues before the Cubs gave him the nod. What's more, Karl hit the home runs off of....Dwight Gooden. Tuffy then went on to Japan where in the 2001 season, he hit his 55th homer to tie Sadaharu Oh's Japanese League single season home run record, set in 1964. View other great Opening Day Bests at: <a href="http://baseballhistorian.com/html/opening_day.htm">http://baseballhistorian.com/html/opening_day.htm</a></div>Public Address Announcerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15367788621079847472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509560332229407260.post-78384164127325532262010-04-01T04:43:00.005-05:002010-04-02T09:03:15.580-05:00The Miracle LeagueFrom The Auburn Plainsman (4/1/2010):<br />
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<a href="http://www.theplainsman.com/view/full_story/6904961/article-People-Of-The-Plains--Cox-Shares-Miracle-of-Baseball?instance=home_news_lead_story">http://www.theplainsman.com/view/full_story/6904961/article-People-Of-The-Plains--Cox-Shares-Miracle-of-Baseball?instance=home_news_lead_story</a><br />
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Cox is the chairman of the league’s board. “The reason that I do it is because of the smiles that I see on these children’s faces when they play baseball,” Cox said. <b>One of his favorite gameday duties is turning on the music in the stadium. Cox said he likes to play country, rock and oldies tunes. “I think one of the most important things you can do at a baseball game is play good music,” Cox said.</b><br />
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Cox hopes the Miracle League will eliminate stereotypes about people with special needs. “They can do anything that we do, they may do it a little differently,” Cox said. “But they have the same abilities.” Cox said it is the players and their families who make gameday on Billy Hitchcock Field so special. “You can build all the baseball fields you want to,” Cox said, “but if there aren’t people on the bases, it doesn’t matter. And especially these people. They just mean a lot to us.”<br />
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<b>BSOD 4/1/2010: “The Miracle League” </b><br />
<b>Artist: Eddie Kilgallon – Montgomery Gentry Group</b><br />
<b>Released: Unknown</b><br />
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In 1997 Rockdale Youth Baseball Association’s coach Eddie Bagwell invited the first disabled child Michael to play baseball on his team; Michael a 7 year old child in a wheel chair attended every game and practice, while cheering on his 5 year old brother play America’s favorite pass-time.<br />
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And in 1998, the Rockdale Youth Baseball Association (RYBA) formed the Miracle League to further its mission of providing opportunities for all children to play baseball regardless of their ability. The disabled children in the community had expressed the desire to dress in uniforms, make plays in the field, and round the bases just like their healthy peers. The league began with 35 players on four teams.<br />
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There were no programs for the Miracle League to copy. It was decided that:<br />
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<ul><li>Every player bats once each inning</li>
<li>All players are safe on the bases</li>
<li>Every player scores a run before the inning is over (last one up gets a home run)</li>
<li>Community children and volunteers serve as ‘buddies’ to assist the players</li>
<li>Each team and each player wins every game</li>
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</div>Public Address Announcerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15367788621079847472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509560332229407260.post-6032343091441786572010-03-31T14:22:00.007-05:002010-04-02T09:12:41.829-05:00He Wants to Make Her Happy: Matt KempFrom Indyhiphop.com: <a href="http://indyhiphop.com/national/news-gossip/britneyb/rumor-are-rihanna-matt-moving-in-together/">http://indyhiphop.com/national/news-gossip/britneyb/rumor-are-rihanna-matt-moving-in-together/</a><br />
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The singer was linked with Kemp, who plays baseball for the Los Angeles Dodgers, back in January when they went on vacation to Mexico together. However the pair have always said they were just friends.<br />
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A source told Star magazine,<br />
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“Matt is very happy to be moving in with Rihanna. He knew it was only a matter of time before Rihanna moved him in. He wants to make her happy. He had boxes of his things brought over in mid-March. He’s training in Arizona now, but when he’s back he’ll be at her place. He’s keeping his house, to see how things go, but they are so in love.”<br />
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<b>BSOD: 3/31/10: Rude Boy</b><br />
<b>Artist: Rihanna</b><br />
<b>Released: 2009</b>Public Address Announcerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15367788621079847472noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509560332229407260.post-84564519712676312262010-03-30T02:22:00.002-05:002010-04-02T08:38:04.783-05:00Gave Him the Bat: No Hay Nadie Como Tú<a href="http://ph.news.yahoo.com/afp/20100326/tls-baseball-lifestyle-cuba-cub-aeafa1b.html">Yahoo! Sports writes...</a><a href="http://ph.news.yahoo.com/afp/20100326/tls-baseball-lifestyle-cuba-cub-aeafa1b.html">About Baseball & Music & Passion in Cuba...while their island's baseball finals are going on between the Havana Blue Lions and the Villa Clara Orangemen</a><br />
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<div>More than the national sport, baseball is a passion here, to the point that it has become part of the lexicon of daily life.</div><div><br />
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</div><div>To get in the spirit of the finals, the Puerto Rican hip hop group Calle 13 donned the shirts of the Cuban national baseball team at a huge free concert Tuesday at Havana's Jose Marti Anti-Imperialist Plaza.</div><div><br />
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Calle 13 won a Latin Grammy for record of the year in 2009 for "No Hay Nadie Como Tú (Featuring Café Tacuba)"</div><div><br />
</div><div><b>BSOD 3/30/2010: No Hay Nadie Como Tú (Featuring Café Tacuba)</b></div><div><b>Artist: Calle 13 </b></div><div><b>Released: 2009</b></div><div><br />
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<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B00137ZHHU" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />On the heels of releasing her new album,"I'm Still Here" country singer Mindy McCready is back in the news and again, its not for the musical reasons. Vivid Entertainment has announced that a "sex tape" video of McCready titled "Baseball Mistress" will be released in April 2010.<br />
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The sex tape will have Mindy discussing her relationship with once future, but now in doubt Hall of Famer; Roger Clemens. The album itself is getting mixed reviews, but let's turn the clock back to 1996 (I'm sure Roger wishes he could too), for today's Baseball Song of the Day, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Girls-Gotta-Do-What/dp/B00137ZHHU?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">A Girl's Gotta Do (What a Girl's Gotta Do)</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B00137ZHHU" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />. <br />
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Note: the sex tape will not be video of her and Roger Clemens but of Mindy and an ex-boyfriend named "Peter."</i><br />
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<b>BSOD 3/29/2010: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Girls-Gotta-Do-What/dp/B00137ZHHU?ie=UTF8&tag=baseballhistorian-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">A Girl's Gotta Do (What a Girl's Gotta Do)</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=baseballhistorian-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B00137ZHHU" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></b><br />
<b>Artist: Mindy McCready</b><br />
<b>Released 1996</b><br />
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A Girl's Gotta Do (What a Girl's Gotta Do) Lyrics<br />
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The first thing I did when you said goodbye<br />
Was sit myself down and have a real good cry<br />
The next thing I did was put my red dress on<br />
And go downtown dancing till the break of dawn<br />
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A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do<br />
And now I've gotta get to getting' over you<br />
Too bad I gotta do it with someone new<br />
But a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do<br />
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Fancy meeting you out stomping ground<br />
Sorry if you caught me painting the town<br />
Guess I shoulda stayed home with your memory<br />
Baby don't take it personally<br />
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A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do<br />
And now I've gotta get to gettin' over you<br />
Too bad I gotta do it with someone new<br />
But a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do<br />
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Give me a call sometime real soon<br />
And remind me to remember <br />
To forget about you, hoah yeah<br />
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A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do<br />
And now I've gotta get to gettin' over you<br />
Too bad I gotta do it with someone new<br />
But a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do<br />
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A girl's gotta do it<br />
Yeah a girl's gotta do it<br />
To bad I gotta do it (with someone new)<br />
To bad I gotta do it with someone new<br />
But a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta doPublic Address Announcerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15367788621079847472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509560332229407260.post-62286501858781712722010-03-28T21:47:00.003-05:002010-03-28T21:53:01.148-05:00Vintage Song Sunday: Let's Go, Go-Go White Sox<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-f7xZo4aSd-mJA1w8WPY3Qn7bVGcvmAWP8lD4wHfps0Gr-8BP1-2FhaFVZV9U0wl7Jci4bXIaK_1gtuTWSsJmnL6ub9pWAFvI_y6l5nyhaEjkxN-3EMzs9DBXCJCWzcYbyY5YVDwewGB2/s1600/1959_WhiteSox_WS_program.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-f7xZo4aSd-mJA1w8WPY3Qn7bVGcvmAWP8lD4wHfps0Gr-8BP1-2FhaFVZV9U0wl7Jci4bXIaK_1gtuTWSsJmnL6ub9pWAFvI_y6l5nyhaEjkxN-3EMzs9DBXCJCWzcYbyY5YVDwewGB2/s200/1959_WhiteSox_WS_program.jpg" width="154" /></a><br />
The year was 1959 and they enthralled the city of Chicago with their hustling and bustling scrappy play, fantastic defense, and their speed. The Chicago White Sox were battling the Cleveland Indians for the division and were finally making amends for the "Black Sox Scandal" of 1919.<br />
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Venezuelan shortstop Luis Aparicio (who's uniform number 11 was just un-retired in 2010 for slick fielding Omar Vizquel), his partner in action Nellie Fox at second base, power at first base with Ted "Big Klu" Kluszewsk and the workhorse in starting pitcher Early Wynn.<br />
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The peppy play of the White Sox that year inspired a song to be written by one of their very own; former White Sox minor leaguer Al Trace as well as his friend Walter "Li'l Wally" Jagiello. Trace and Jagiello brought the song to the attention of Captain Stubby (Tom C. Fouts who also voiced "Little Sprout" in the Green Giant commercials) and the Buccaneers, who were known to be a popular country band playing in and around Chicagoland, and the song was recorded and released on Jagiello's record label; Drum Boy Records.<br />
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However fast forward 46 years later, and in 2005 the vintage / retro feel inspired a whole new generation when it was played at U.S. Cellar Field on the jumbotron, as well as was played during FOX tv's playoff broadcasts of the White Sox in their historic playoff run, in which the White Sox <i>dominated the playoffs</i> winning 11 of 12 games against the Red Sox, Angels, and Astros.<br />
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<b>BSOD: 3/28/2010: Let's Go, Go-Go White Sox</b><br />
<b>Artist: Captain Stubby and the Buccaneers</b><br />
<b>Released: 1959</b><br />
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<b> Video Montage to : Let's Go, Go-Go White Sox</b><br />
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<b>Let's Go, Go-Go White Sox lyrics</b><br />
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White Sox! White Sox!<br />
Go-Go White Sox!<br />
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Let's go, Go-Go White Sox<br />
We're with you all the way!<br />
You're always in there fighting,<br />
And you do your best.<br />
We're glad to have you out there in the Middle West.<br />
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We're gonna root-root-root-root White Sox<br />
And cheer you on to victory<br />
When we're in the stands,<br />
We'll make those rafters ring;<br />
All through the season,<br />
You will hear us sing.<br />
Let's go, Go-Go White Sox,<br />
Chicago's proud of you!<br />
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White Sox! White Sox!<br />
Go-Go White Sox!<br />
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Root-Root-Root for the White Sox<br />
We'll cheer you on to victory<br />
When we're in the stands,<br />
We'll make those rafters ring;<br />
All through the season,<br />
You will hear us sing<br />
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Let's go, Go-Go White Sox,<br />
Chicago's proud of you! (Play ball!)<br />
White Sox! White Sox!<br />
Go-Go White Sox!<br />
Let's go, Go-Go White Sox!<br />
Chicago is proud of you!Public Address Announcerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15367788621079847472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509560332229407260.post-47305383982881141032010-03-27T21:55:00.001-05:002010-03-28T16:58:51.558-05:00Saturday Night at the Movies: Bull Durham - She May Get Wooly<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinQpV7ndw48gqIzm9C-jnt0CuzGy4TJeSm34hbZAJKOuDnZb-K_nepRmmPPHx4PvG5HVBy7AEWfP6z9u-hxjLp6HKaNO1o3NuYsYP4A7q6su9zmxS93YbVFjVP37goKl1ozF31Xr7p0uXD/s1600/Bull_Durham_movie_poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinQpV7ndw48gqIzm9C-jnt0CuzGy4TJeSm34hbZAJKOuDnZb-K_nepRmmPPHx4PvG5HVBy7AEWfP6z9u-hxjLp6HKaNO1o3NuYsYP4A7q6su9zmxS93YbVFjVP37goKl1ozF31Xr7p0uXD/s200/Bull_Durham_movie_poster.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><br />
It's Saturday Night at the Movies, today's feature is the 1988 film "<i>Bull Durham</i>" starring Kevin Coster as the aging veteran (Crash Davis) of the minor leagues, Susan Sarandon (Annie Savoy) as the Baseball Muse, and Tim Robbins (Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh) as the "all talent - no brains" flame thrower making his way up the minors. The song that we'll be mentioning today comes initially from Nuke whilst he's picking away at the geetar in the back of the bus, totally oblivious (as he is to many things in life) to the history of the song and the words contained therein.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And then from the back of the bus, some soft, gentle, but slightly dissonant guitar chords.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">THE BACK OF THE BUS -- Nuke sits across the aisle from Crash, who's re-reading Thomas Pynchon. Nuke has a guitar and is struggling with some chords to "Try a Little Tenderness". <br />
He butchers the chords and the words.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">NUKE</div><div style="text-align: center;">(singing softly)</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oh she may get wooly, women do get wooly, because of all the stress...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">CRASH</div><div style="text-align: center;">(in disgust) Gimme that.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">CRASH STRONGARMS THE GUITAR from Nuke.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">CRASH</div><div style="text-align: center;">I hate people who get the words wrong. It ain't "woolly" it's "weary" </div><div style="text-align: center;">and it nobody's got stress, they're wearing a dress.</div><div style="text-align: center;">(beat)</div><div style="text-align: center;">Listen.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">CRASH WHIPS THROUGH THE FIRST FEW BARS of the song.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">CRASH</div><div style="text-align: center;">(sings softly)</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oh she may be weary, Young girls do get weary, Wearing the same old dress...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">HE SHOVES THE GUITAR back at Nuke.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">NUKE</div><div style="text-align: center;">How come you don't like me?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">CRASH</div><div style="text-align: center;">'Cause you don't respect yourself, which is your problem, </div><div style="text-align: center;">but you don't respect the game--and that's my problem.</div><div style="text-align: center;">(beat)</div><div style="text-align: center;">You got a gift.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">NUKE</div><div style="text-align: center;">What do I got?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">CRASH</div><div style="text-align: center;">A gift. When you were a baby the gods reached down and turned your right arm into a thunderbolt.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Nuke looks at his right arm, rubs his shoulder curiously.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">CRASH</div><div style="text-align: center;">You got a Hall of Fame arm but you're pissing it away.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">NUKE</div><div style="text-align: center;">I ain't pissing nothing away. I got a Porsche already. A 944 with A.C. and a quadraphonic Blaupunkt.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">CRASH</div><div style="text-align: center;">You don't need a quadraphonic Blaupunkt--you need a curve ball.</div><div style="text-align: center;">(beat)</div><div style="text-align: center;">In the Show, everybody can hit the fastball.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">NUKE</div><div style="text-align: center;">You been in the Majors?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><iframe align="right" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=baseballhistorian-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B001FAK9AA&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe><b>Today's BSOD is Otis Reddings' "Try a little Tenderness"</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Artist: Otis Redding</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Released: 1966</b></div></div><br />
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</div>Public Address Announcerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15367788621079847472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509560332229407260.post-25101566587472155172010-03-26T15:59:00.091-05:002010-03-28T12:29:20.485-05:00Oh, Come All ye Baseball FansOh, Come All ye Baseball Fans, its time to Sound The Trumpet!<br />
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Back in the early 1970's, the <a href="http://www.justonebadcentury.com/chicago_cubs_mustaches_34.asp">Chicago Cubs had a mustached second baseman/middle infielder by the name of Carmen Fanzone</a>. Carmen wasn't a world beater at the plate, with a lifetime .224 avg (although he did hit 8HR and 42 RBI's in <i>only</i> 222 AB's in 1972) but he was well known for his trumpet playing, which he later turned into a jazz career. Not only did Carmen play the national anthem before a game at Wrigley, but he also performed in "The Tonight Show" band for Doc Severinsen and Johnny Carson.<br />
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Move the clock forward to the mid-nineties and you'll find a <a href="http://www.wclv.com/page.php?pageID=265">classical FM radio station of WCLV in Cleveland</a>, Ohio commissioning the Case Western Reserve University Music Department to create a baseball song in keeping with its classical format to celebrate the Cleveland Indians return to the World Series in 1995. <br />
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What <a href="http://music.case.edu/directory/?id=5">Professor Ross Dufflin</a> and the music department came up with was "Oh, Come All ye Baseball Fans," based on "Sound the Trumpet" by the Henry Purcell (17th Century English composer), with adjusted lyrics by Professor Ross.<br />
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<b>Sound the Trumpet</b><br />
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<b>Baseball Song of the Day: Oh, Come All ye Baseball Fans<br />
Artist: Case Western Reserve University - Department of Music<br />
Released: 1995</b><br />
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<b>Oh, Come All ye Baseball Fans lyrics</b><br />
<i>(original lyrics)</i> <br />
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Belle, Baerga, Visquel, Ramierz,<br />
Lofton, Alomar.<br />
Cleveland's heroes you'll be crowned.<br />
You make Lake Erie's shores resound.<br />
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Nagy, Martinez, Clark, Tavarez,<br />
Orel, Ogea,<br />
Mesa: Masters of the mound.<br />
You make Lake Erie's shores resound.<br />
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You're exciting baseball,<br />
Exciting baseball play.<br />
Oh, if you could win it all:<br />
Playoffs, American League, yes, win it all --<br />
World Series -- we'd be standing tall.<br />
We'd celebrate the glories of the day.<br />
The glories, the glories of the day!<br />
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Come all ye baseball fans.<br />
Wahoo! Hooray!<br />
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Top Jacobs Field we'll go<br />
to see the Indians play.<br />
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Lift all your voices<br />
Their labors repay.<br />
Let's celebrate!<br />
Let's celebrate their triumphant day!<br />
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Buy me some peanuts<br />
Forever we'll stay.<br />
Let's celebrate!<br />
Let's celebrate their triumphant day!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwwrU0WQGBBgCD_awTMxSPG7dVAt6gqvGNW9KFK2vq5iwCezWr6nlyAIzv6XaP_Z2kgFpvECCR2BYoh4uftZQklfmKQ8k4bxaV-m3jtqmmEYyrEhrV-driiAkuA2tXYT5fVSG6KhE3bdtY/s1600/Asu-logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwwrU0WQGBBgCD_awTMxSPG7dVAt6gqvGNW9KFK2vq5iwCezWr6nlyAIzv6XaP_Z2kgFpvECCR2BYoh4uftZQklfmKQ8k4bxaV-m3jtqmmEYyrEhrV-driiAkuA2tXYT5fVSG6KhE3bdtY/s320/Asu-logo.png" /></a></div>Move the clock forward to 2010 and you'll find a talented baseball and trumpet player named De’Marcus Price at Albany State University in Albany, Georgia. <a href="http://www.potentialrealized.org/athletics/mens/baseball/index.dot">The Albany State Golden Rams baseball team</a> are part of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and their baseball team has been doing well this year being 7-1 in conference play and 16-10 overall.<br />
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In an <a href="http://www.albanyherald.com/sports/headlines/89085122.html?ref=122">interview with the Scott Chancey of the Albany Herald</a>, Price explains his dedication to both baseball and trumpet playing and how its a great idea to have both realistic and lofty goals.<br />
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Price began playing the trumpet in 6th grade and quickly learned many similarities between working hard on the baseball diamond as well as working hard toward his musical craft.<br />
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Being in the band, you have to keep practicing,” Price said. “You have to go over things in every detail, and you have to pretty much do the same thing in baseball.”<br />
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Once Price entered college, he found a calling for both music and baseball. He gets plenty of exercise from both passions as well.<br />
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“We go up and down the field, 100 yards, repetitively over and over,” Price said. “We all have to pick up our legs at a 90-degree angle because we’re a traditional showband, marching with the high-leg kick"<br />
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“Music is always going to be there for me,” Price said. “Baseball is not guaranteed that I will make it to the next level, so I have to take music more importantly because that’s my major. It will be staying with me. But in baseball, I’m also trying to finish my career with a championship. That has been my approach.”<br />
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<blockquote>"If I was a musician, I'd be Kanye West. If I was in the NBA, I'd be Ron Artest," the 31-year-old former Expo, Indian, Dodger, Athletic, Padre, Ranger and Cub said this week. "In baseball, they've got Milton Bradley. I'm that guy. You need people like me, so you can point your finger and go, 'There goes the bad guy.'"</blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ7FY9XWvczYxoFdrdCsjVBbGjcQnmVAcyfieuYhTPGV4IaDrdzac8suppGs1tsRKwm0pBLLRtQZdoQV8J7mrNqZmHTGuKcIFofCjUUqlkd8MhClpHJg0hzqsbQLnqixHPEVVu9t4B6ZZE/s1600/American_Cash.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ7FY9XWvczYxoFdrdCsjVBbGjcQnmVAcyfieuYhTPGV4IaDrdzac8suppGs1tsRKwm0pBLLRtQZdoQV8J7mrNqZmHTGuKcIFofCjUUqlkd8MhClpHJg0hzqsbQLnqixHPEVVu9t4B6ZZE/s320/American_Cash.jpg" /></a>I'm always willing to give a guy a chance and don't believe a lot of hearsay, so when the Cubs signed Milton Bradley to a 3 year $30M contract before the 2009 season my first reaction wasn't, "Ohh man, he's a bad dude", because truth be told, I don't know any baseball players personally. I have no idea on a day to day basis whom is a good guy and whom is a bad guy, and I'd rather let performance do the talking. Sure he's had run ins with umpires and managers and players, but maybe he's just someone who tries too hard and is misunderstood. What made no sense to me was why the Cubs General Manager Jim Hendry would hand over a pile of cash to someone for a 3 year deal for that much money for someone whom in 10 seasons prior, had only two years of 60 RBI's or more, and only four of those years with 350 or more at bats. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-6p44bTjjM8uHjKbGwJKcZTuV4K_AW5udvhJY-3C8AM4KDkUg7MfhjS6ovqM4njAW1gUDHYNTBMLFXxlU9-tC3sjPykcOrgeN7Lb3EyxJXzFpZ5DvrKe2J1JFpQbcrzYMgiL0earO4ogM/s1600/Milton_Bradley_-_2009-07-29.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-6p44bTjjM8uHjKbGwJKcZTuV4K_AW5udvhJY-3C8AM4KDkUg7MfhjS6ovqM4njAW1gUDHYNTBMLFXxlU9-tC3sjPykcOrgeN7Lb3EyxJXzFpZ5DvrKe2J1JFpQbcrzYMgiL0earO4ogM/s320/Milton_Bradley_-_2009-07-29.jpg" /></a></div>Due to injuries and other reasons, Milton just doesn't play a full season, so why a 3 year deal for a volatile player who by his own admission, isn't a big hitter. The Cubs already had long term contracts for players who are under-performing in Soriano and Zambrano, and were in the process of being sold, why add Milton to the roster when someone like Bobby Abreau was available at the time and signed for a one year deal for $5M with the Los Angeles Angels? A one year deal with Milton I could understand. A three year deal was unthinkable. I know that GM Hendry wanted a left handed bat, which is why he traded Cubbie favorite Mark Derosa, however it needed to be noted that the multi-position DeRosa, who's not known as a "pure hitter" the way that Milton is, had his 3rd consecutive 70+ RBI season (besting Milton) and 21 HR and 86 RBI's in 2008. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(photo by Jauerback, edited by BSOD)</i></span><br />
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By Milton's own account, he's not a big HR or RBI producer. In <a href="http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/mariners-counting-on-milton-bradley/">an interview with the NY Times</a>, Milton states:<br />
<blockquote>“Two years ago, I played, and I was good,” Bradley said. “I go to Chicago, not good. I’ve been good my whole career. So, obviously, it was something with Chicago, not me.”</blockquote><blockquote>He added: “Just no communication. I never hit more than 22 homers in my career, and all of a sudden I get to Chicago and they expect me to hit 30. It doesn’t make sense. History tells you I’m not going to hit that many. Just a lot of things that try to make me a player I’m not.”</blockquote>Milton says he's happy now that he's out of Chicago and with a team and city that wants him and that Chicago was the problem and not him. I wish him well, I hope he succeeds in Seattle, but history tells me that he won't change, nor does he want too. <a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_bba_mariners_bradleys_place.html">In the interview with Gregg Bell of the AP</a>, Milton continues on...<br />
<blockquote>"I had a teammate last year who said if I ever change, he'd kick my (rear)," Bradley said. "So I'm not changing. Everybody is not going to love you, no matter how you treat other people, no matter what you say. (I) never say anything bad about anybody. Somebody is always going to have something bad to say about you."</blockquote>For the record, he's already been tossed from two spring training games for showing up / arguing with the umpire over the calls at the plate.<br />
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Forget Kanye West, Milton should set his sights on the MLB record of most franchises played of 12, set by both Mike Morgan and RonVillone. Morgan and Villone were pitchers though, perhaps Milton could try for the now svelte Matt Stairs' record of 11. Which could be 12, if Stairs makes the San Diego Padres 2010 opening day roster. Assuming he stays healthy, Milton's stay with the Mariners will run out at the end of the 2011 season, so add another team then as his pattern doesn't seem to show him re-signing with his current team. <br />
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Today's BSOD comes from the World Wrestling Entertainment's very own John Cena. John is a hip-hop musician and actor who has appeared in the movies "The Marine" and "12 Rounds."<br />
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<b>Baseball Song of the Day: 3/25/2010: Bad Bad Man</b><br />
<b>Artist: WWE John Cena and Tha Trademarc f/Bumpy Knuckles</b><br />
<b>Released: 2005</b><br />
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<b>Bad Bad Man lyrics</b><br />
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Aww, you done did it now<br />
Chaos you shoulda put this one in the vault man!<br />
They not ready - they don't know what's comin man!<br />
Oh we gonna drop this on 'em right here<br />
Y'all ain't ready for this, Y'ALL AIN'T READY FOR NONE OF THIS!<br />
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Your boy's a bad man, and we invadin the streets<br />
Make unclever rappers scurred, they be droppin the heat<br />
Shocked the world, now I'm standin alone<br />
I flip fools like them clamshell cellular phones<br />
You can't help but nod your head to the track<br />
Fuck the watered down rap, we be takin it back<br />
Give it to me straight - ain't no chasin it<br />
Check yourself in the mirror - ain't no facin it<br />
Cause you, playin the role and you plannin to fold<br />
This the masterplan, we got the planet on hold<br />
We all over the streets like your favorite sneaker<br />
Breakin up your sound like a drive-through speaker<br />
Everything that I be spittin is strong<br />
After I rock, fast forward through the rest of the song<br />
We the monkeywrench, that's gonna ruin your plan<br />
And don't fuck with John Cena - I'm a BAD, BAD MAN<br />
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[Chorus 2X: Bumpy Knuckles]<br />
With the mic in my hands I'm a bad man<br />
Even in a fight with the hands I'm a bad man<br />
Livin in the streets all my life I'm a bad man<br />
I'm a bad man, I'm a bad man<br />
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[Tha Trademarc]<br />
We devils - rockin ambient levels<br />
We set loose among hot tunes to instrumentals<br />
And cats got one-liners, I drop several<br />
And I think it's funny you choose, losin progress<br />
or runnin in place; we makin moves, and y'all settle<br />
I rip rappers and take responsibility<br />
for makin future hall-of-famers look third rate<br />
Y'all are lost for words like conversation on your worst first date<br />
and ride beats, creep through side streets<br />
Looseleaf notepads that's where rhymes leak<br />
Punchlines - man, don't even beg<br />
I got knee-slappin tracks, y'all brusin your leg<br />
You a rhyme writer - funny man, that's a joke<br />
You ain't worthy of bein my secretary man that's a quote<br />
I flood tracks like cracks in boats<br />
And pussy rappers choked up with they own lines in they throat<br />
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[Chorus]<br />
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[Bumpy Knuckles a.k.a. Freddie Foxxx]<br />
TURN UP THE MICROPHONE and feed me I'm a beast<br />
MC's and they beats is what I eat, 16 I'll leave you in the street<br />
My rhymes are sicker than gangrene in both feet<br />
It's spreadin up the leg, and headed for the head<br />
Your rhymes are whack your style is proof that the brain corrosion<br />
is fuckin with your chosen flows, I'm nice with mics<br />
My hands'll break your nose like Mikey Tyson<br />
Fightin in his prime, one rhyme<br />
And I shake up the room one time, BOOM! To the jaw<br />
Your face is a coat type raw<br />
And the blood and snot they mix, jelly on the floor<br />
My love is cop them bricks, belly on the floor<br />
I rob you, you soft and you really ain't a problem<br />
I solve you, 357 long nose revolve you<br />
Acid in your face, bad look, dissolve you<br />
I'm a bad, bad man<br />
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Yeah, check it out<br />
It's Bumpy Knuckles baby<br />
And I want you to say hello to the BAD, BAD, MAN - C'MON!<br />
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</div>Public Address Announcerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15367788621079847472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509560332229407260.post-22386650437114581722010-03-24T23:29:00.001-05:002010-03-25T07:32:07.861-05:00Gosh(en) Doesn't Everyone Do It?There was an historic event that occurred Wednesday in Goshen, Indiana. For the first time since 1957, the national anthem was played before two sporting events at Goshen College. After the playing of the anthem, the Peace Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi was read. The anthem was played before a baseball doubleheader against Siena Heights University and a softball doubleheader against St. Joseph's College at 3 p.m.<br />
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Goshen College, established in 1894, is a residential Christian liberal arts college rooted in the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition. There are approximately 1.5 million Mennonites in the world, and their faith is rooted in the mission and ministry of the Jesus Christ and as such, Mennonites are a peaceful church committed to living their lives in non violence.<br />
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The school's President; Jim Brenneman spoke to reporters at the event:<br />
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"At Goshen College, our entire learning process is framed by a commitment to address complex problems, no matter the discipline, and to do so with academic rigor and civility. Playing the national anthem or not before our games is one such complex issue for us.<br />
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</div><div>"The crux of the matter has to do with our relationship with God and with our country. We are asking ourselves such questions as: how should faithful Christians order their allegiances? How do we celebrate the freedoms and opportunities of this country and still challenge injustices that also exist in our midst? And how does a church college retain its historic peace heritage while welcoming an increasingly diverse student body from other traditions?</div><div><br />
</div><div>"On our campus, we have students from many backgrounds. Among them, we have students committed to pacifism whose parents or grandparents were conscientious objectors and who grew up with a deep suspicion of patriotic observances. We have students raised as pacifists who have no objection to flying the flag or playing the anthem, particularly as part of a pre-game sports ritual. We have students whose relatives served in the military and who are proud to fly the U.S. flag in honor of their service. We have students who are children of new immigrants who love this country for the freedom it has given their families. And we have international students for whom the Star-Spangled Banner has no personal meaning.</div><div><br />
</div><div>"All of these students are a vital part of this community, and I had them in mind when I led in the decision to play the national anthem before games. I am committed to retaining the best of what it means to be a Mennonite college, while opening the doors wider to all who share our core values. And I invite others to join us at Goshen College as we make peace in all of its forms, even with the national anthem."</div><div><br />
</div><div>Source: <a href="http://www.goshen.edu/news/pressarchive/03-23-10-game-day440.html">http://www.goshen.edu/news/pressarchive/03-23-10-game-day440.html</a></div><div><br />
<b>Baseball Song of the Day 3/24/2010: The National Anthem of the United States of America</b><br />
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To watch the President Jim Brenneman speak about the decision of whether or not to play the National Anthem before sporting events, click the videos below. There are 3 parts in total.<br />
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<object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KSKa04Kzgns&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KSKa04Kzgns&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object></div></div>Public Address Announcerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15367788621079847472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509560332229407260.post-11435164896177360332010-03-23T22:40:00.061-05:002010-03-24T13:36:18.716-05:00Wingstock: Free Beer, Hot Wings, & Snoop Dogg<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjABul79CGDFDWQuFslNcAroMYJLvknpHFivaTllo8-HFqgQkMYt3Q7U7FYiuNA4H5pbwQ_gSX2gnLglA6uVjWd-rsGsGdw4SHhcQeXVHuJstzCYKjnahp-qvssm1oM55Cl7qAbyIEq7k2Y/s1600/wingstock_promo220px.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjABul79CGDFDWQuFslNcAroMYJLvknpHFivaTllo8-HFqgQkMYt3Q7U7FYiuNA4H5pbwQ_gSX2gnLglA6uVjWd-rsGsGdw4SHhcQeXVHuJstzCYKjnahp-qvssm1oM55Cl7qAbyIEq7k2Y/s320/wingstock_promo220px.jpg" /></a></div>Minor league baseball events have come a long way from the days of just cheering on costumed mascots racing each other. This Summer, on June 12th at the class "A" affiliate of the Detroit Tigers, the West Michigan Whitecaps are throwing one heckuva party at Fifth Third Ballpark. Everything from Free Beer & Hot Wings to the hip-hop daddy of them all; Snoop Dogg, will be in attendance at the ballpark located about 7 miles North of Grand Rapids, Michigan.<br />
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</div><div>The morning show and one of the stations that its syndicated at, <a href="http://www.wgrd.com/Wingstock2010/tabid/12938/Default.aspx">WGRD in Grand Rapids, Michigan are hosting the inaugural "Wingstock"</a> (not <a href="http://baseballsongoftheday.blogspot.com/2010/03/woodjock-2010-big-league-jam-fest.html">Woodjock</a>), on June 12th at Fifth Third Ballpark. The event will feature live music from four bands, with the highlight of the show coming from 12 time Grammy nominated hip-hop rapper, producer and actor; Snoop Dogg. Appearing also will be the heavy meal Southern rock band Jackyl, and the local favorite artists of Pop Evil and Richy Nix. <br />
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The event will of course have a wide assortment of spicy wings in their "Wing Alley", which will offer a variety of outside vendors presenting their own unique wing flavors and tastings.<br />
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<i>The Details: Wingstock 2010, June 12th, Fifth Third Ballpark, gates open at 4pm, tickets are $25/$35/$45 and can be purchased online at </i><a href="http://www.whitecapsbaseball.com/"><i>www.whitecapsbaseball.com</i></a><i>, by calling the Whitecaps ticket office at 616-784-4131 or at the Fifth Third Ballpark Box Office.</i><br />
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<b>Today's Baseball Song of the Day: 3/23/2010: G Funk (intro)</b><br />
<b>Artist: Snoop Dogg feat. Dr. Dre, George Clinton and Lady of Rage</b><br />
<b>Album: Doggystyle</b><br />
<b>Released: 1993</b><br />
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Yeah....<br />
This is another story about dogs<br />
For the dog that don't pee on trees, is a bitch<br />
So says Snoop Dogg,so get your pooper scooper<br />
Cuz the nigga's talkin shit<br />
Aroof! *echoes*<br />
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Verse One: Rage<br />
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I'm sippin on Tanqueray<br />
with my my mind on my money and my mouth in the ganjahy<br />
R-A-G to the motherfuckin E<br />
Back with my nigga S-N double O-P<br />
[Dre] Yeah, and ya don't stop<br />
Rage in effect I just begun to rock<br />
[Dre] I said yeah, and you don't quit<br />
<iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=baseballhistorian-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B001KQK5Y4&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe>[Snoop] Hey yo Rage would you please drop some gangsta shit<br />
I rock ruff and stuff with my Afro Puffs<br />
Handcuffed as I bust bout to tear shit up<br />
Oh what did ya think I, didn't ever think I<br />
Would be the one to make you blink eye, I catch you like pink-eye<br />
Never will there ever be another like me<br />
Um you can play the left, cuz it ain't no right in me<br />
Out the picture out the frame out the box I knock em all<br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">Smack em out the park, like A Friendly Game of Baseball</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">Grand, slam, yes I am</span></b><br />
Kickin up dust and I don't give a god DAMN<br />
Cuz I'm that lyrical murderer<br />
Pleading guilty, you know for my skills I'm about to be<br />
Filthy large, Rage in charge<br />
You know what's happenin don't try to play large<br />
this ain't no Rerun, see hun, don't ya wanna be one<br />
A cover, word to wreck ya, cause I never get my vocals<br />
I'm loco, close to Constatanople, uhhh!<br />
I'll make 'em go coo-coo for my Cocoa<br />
puffin stuff, aiyyo Snoop, you're up<br />
Let these niggaz know that niggaz don't give a fuck!<br />
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Verse Two: Snoop Doggy Dogg<br />
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This is just a small introduction to the G Funk Era<br />
Everyday of my life I take a glimpse in the mirror<br />
And I see motherfuckers tryin to be like me<br />
Every since I put it down with the D-R-E<br />
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Outro:<br />
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Foamin at the mouth and waggin his tail<br />
Searchin through the yards with a keen sense of smell<br />
Lookin for the business in heat<br />
And when he find it he'll be sniffin her seat<br />
We travel in packs and we do it from the back<br />
How else can you get to the booty?<br />
We do it Doggystyle, all the while we do it Doggystyle<br />
Yo motherfuckin hoes!!!<br />
He fucked the fleas off a bitch<br />
He shaked the ticks off his dick<br />
And in the booty, he buries his motherfuckin bone<br />
And if there's any left over<br />
He'll roll over and take a doggy bag home<br />
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Damn, that Tanqueray is talkin to a nigga<br />
I ain't bullshittin, one of y'all niggaz gotta get it<br />
Man I got ta piss<br />
Breath test?<br />
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