Seventh Inning Stretch

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Take
ME out TO the BAAAAALLgame

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Monday, 10 May 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate this song.

Take yourself out to the ballgame. What do I look like, an ATM? Buy your own crap.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 10 May 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

And clean up your room while you're at it, sports fan.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 10 May 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

How'd you know my room's a mess?

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Monday, 10 May 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

in Baltimore, "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" is immediately followed by John Denver's "Thank God I'm a Country Boy." WTF?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 10 May 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

God, that's terrible. At least it isn't "God Bless America".

― Kerry (dymaxia), Monday, 10 May 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

About a year ago, I went to a baseball game at the Tokyo Dome (Yomiuri Giants/Yakult Swallows) and a particularly hokey version in English ("Come on everybody, let's sing along...") of "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" was played during the 7th Inning Stretch. (By this point in the game, my impression of the Japanese baseball fans had been intensely rabid and dedicated and pretty much awe-inspiring.) I was relieved that the otherwise maniacal fans completely ignored it.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 10 May 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Back in the Astrodome, they would go straight from "Take Me Out..." to "YMCA". I actually thought that was fun.

Now they go into "Deep in the Heart of Texas", which is better than the "Cotton-Eyed Joe" you get at the Ballpark in Arlington. Excuse me, that would be Ameriquest Field in Arlington.

― boldbury (boldbury), Monday, 10 May 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Rednex gets love in NYC, too. Asshats.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 10 May 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

At Shea it inexplicably goes into "Che la Luna" (aka Crazy Mary). I feel like I'm at Connie Corleone's wedding.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 May 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Uhh...not the Rednex version. Just some honest-to-goodnes ho-down version.

― boldbury (boldbury), Monday, 10 May 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, at least that makes some sense. Whoever thought of pumping Rednex at Yankee Stadium (WITHOUT showing the accompanying Beavis & Butthead footage) should be sent into the bleachers wearing a Babe Ruth Red Sox jersey.

I think, at Fenway, they just play "Take Me Out..." on the organ, and leave it at that.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

That whole thing in Baltimore with "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" goes back to when Earl Weaver was the manager. I guess that was their team song to go up against the Pirates "We Are Family".

I thought they used to play it at the end of the game when the Orioles won at home.

― earlnash, Monday, 10 May 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

There is no "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" at games in Cuba -- or anything else in mid-7th -- but our tour chieftain suggested we sing it anyway. We got some amazing looks.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Franz Ferdinand should sing the 7th inning stretch. Last game I went to the Oak Ridge Boys sang. I died a little that day.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Ameriquest Field in Arlington.
oy, I want to kick Hicks in the nuts.

At least selling the naming rights seems to have started the fall of the House of Hicks.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, the Rangers held out for a long time on the naming rights, so I give them a little credit there. I'm disappointed that they made it Ameriquest Field. I liked having the word 'Ballpark' in there. Ameriquest Field at the Ballpark in Arlington? I guess that's a little too long. The City of Arlington has some deal that the 'Arlington' must always be in the official title of the stadium.

― boldbury (boldbury), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't think it was holding out so much as no one was buying.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

But the entire concept pisses me off. Hicks and the ownership cadre before him, didn't spend a penny on the park. It was paid for by the good taxpayers of the city of Arlington, etc. who've gotten royally screwed on the deal at every turn. (I still have pictures of the mockup riverwalk and tourist mecca Bush and that asshat Mayor Green promised us.)

The naming rights should be owned by the city, and it should be getting the $70mln to spend on parks or schools.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone want to take any guesses as to who will buy the naming rights to fenway? they can't hold out forever.

my early guess would be either john hancock or prudential.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

How much do the Yankees make off their stadium deal with adidas? I could see something like that happening at Fenway instead of actually selling the naming rights. That would just be wrong.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

it's gonna happen sometime. they'll get to the point where they're spending so much money to compete against the yankees that they will no longer be able to ignore a revenue stream. they've already put seats above the green monster, renovated the right field roof for additional seating (right field in fenway is the worst seating anywhere for any sport) and this was only 5 years after adding additional rows of seating behind homeplate and down the lines at first and third.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Looking at the old nuFenway proposal, it's not as bad as I would expect. Keeping the same dimensions but improving everything else is hard to argue with, I guess.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

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