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Baseball avid gamers like cash. So much. So much so that even when they are being paid tens of millions, they still can’t face up to a just right get wealthy quick scheme and one of the very best is the recording of the novelty record. The 80’s have been a golden age for sports activities novelty data, thanks to the Chicago Bears “Super Bowl Shuffle” in ‘85, but they have been round since the ‘40s. All you needed to do used to be get a pair of players on a staff into a recording studio to talk over a syncopated beat and then you definately watch the cash are available like Scrooge McDuck. Didn't all the time work that approach though.
We've gathered the eight cheesiest “songs” recorded by means of Major League baseball avid gamers. Note: we said “music” which is why the 1977 California Angel’s thought album, produced by way of the rock prog band Yes, “Baseball-Oplia” a few post-apocalyptic world the place conflict has been abolished and all disputes are settled on the diamond is ineligible. Although Sid Monge’s and Nolan Ryan’s duet on the twenty two minute “ninth Inning Suite” is deeply transferring. Here’s the listing:
8."Get Metsmerized" (1986, George Foster, Darryl Strawberry, Howard Johnson, and so forth.)
Mets fanatics mostly hate George Foster for his lousy performance on the box. This is an entire other reason why. Clocking in at 4:42, “Get Metsmerized” is one of the bigger items of crap in recorded historical past which is shocking since you’re speaking about the vocal abilities of George Foster, Dwight Gooden, Darryl Strawberry, Lenny Dykstra, Rafael Santana and others. Sample lyrics come with, “I’m George Foster / I really like this crew / The Mets are better then the Big Red Machine.”
Most teams sucker lovers into buying admittedly substandard merchandise like this by giving the money to charity. George Foster felt no such compunction. Plus it was once recorded without the endorsement of the Mets, which intended it wasn't sold at Shea Stadium. In the pre-internet days, anticipating even Mets lovers to send in a check for this piece of crapola wasn't terribly lifelike. When Atari mass produced a “E.T.” online game with out debugging it, they buried masses of 1000's of return cassettes in the wasteland in New Mexico. Hopefully the subsequent crater over lies the unsold copies of "Get Metsmerized.” Although, “My name is HoJo, I’m here to say / Our team is going all the way” remains as poignant lyric as has ever been written.
7."Talking Blue Jays Baseball" (1986, Terry Cashman)
In 1981, Terry Cashman recorded a song called “Talking Baseball” which paid glory to all the great ball players from the 30’s to the present. In the baseball strike of the same year, this song really hit the nostalgia bulls eye and it become a big hit. If there’s no sport more American then baseball, then there’s no creative urge more American then taking something people like and running it into the ground. See the second and third “Hangover” movies as a fine example.
Emboldened by his hit, Cashman set about making a “Talking Baseball” song for every major league team including the Blue Jays. Problem was that the Jays had only been around for ten years and they stunk. Instead of homage being paid to great players like Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle and Duke Snider, this song mentioned Jerry Garvin, Doug and Rick Bosetti. One lyric goes “Bosetti had a flair and a style…” The “flair” Cashman was referring to was Bosetti’s habit of urinating in the outfields of every Major League stadium with natural grass. His dream was to “water” every outfield in baseball which is why he was so excited about inter-league play.