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Opening day, Baby! Put me in coach, I'm ready to play! (Original Post) Brother Buzz Mar 2023 OP
No joy in DC either nitpicked Mar 2023 #1
Happy Opening Day!! MontanaMama Mar 2023 #2
Love that song nycbos Mar 2023 #3
Terry Cashman actually played pro baseball... Brother Buzz Mar 2023 #4
Wow I didn't now Cashman played nycbos Mar 2023 #8
I totally missed it, but it's right in Matt Groening's glorious irreverent wheelhouse Brother Buzz Mar 2023 #11
I SAY ENGLAND'S GREATEST PRIME MINISTER WAS LORD PALMERSTON nycbos Mar 2023 #12
England's greatest Prime Minister was George Santos Brother Buzz Mar 2023 #13
You're ready, Giants aren't ... Auggie Mar 2023 #5
That traitor Native Californian who sold out for the dough, Judge? Brother Buzz Mar 2023 #7
I think the Giants offered more money. nycbos Mar 2023 #9
He has hitters to protect him in New York too Auggie Mar 2023 #10
We're at Fenway, where the Red Sox are...in uniform. Croney Mar 2023 #6
There is nothing like Opening Day DeeDeeNY Mar 2023 #14

MontanaMama

(24,013 posts)
2. Happy Opening Day!!
Thu Mar 30, 2023, 02:28 PM
Mar 2023

My Cubbies are currently ahead of the the Brewers. Here's to a wonderful 2023 season! Even with the new rules

Go Cubs Go!!!

Brother Buzz

(37,795 posts)
4. Terry Cashman actually played pro baseball...
Thu Mar 30, 2023, 03:15 PM
Mar 2023

Unfortunately he never made it to the 'Big Show'. He was a pitcher.

As crazy as it sounds, I'm reading Cashman wrote, like, seventy songs about baseball!

Both Cashman and Fogerty's songs have been 'Inducted' into Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame, along with John Fogerty's baseball bat guitar (he had more than one made)


nycbos

(6,345 posts)
8. Wow I didn't now Cashman played
Thu Mar 30, 2023, 03:52 PM
Mar 2023

Now though the version he did for the Simpsons is more well know than the original.

Brother Buzz

(37,795 posts)
11. I totally missed it, but it's right in Matt Groening's glorious irreverent wheelhouse
Thu Mar 30, 2023, 04:40 PM
Mar 2023

I'm guessing Cashman was honored, and had a blast doing it.

Thanks

The lyrics are so tight, I suspect the writers helped, but Terry's soft distinctive voice drove it out of the park

Well, Mr. Burns had done it,
The Power Plant had won it,
With Roger Clemens clucking all the while,
Mike Scioscia's tragic illness made us smile,
While Wade Boggs lay unconscious on the bar-room tile.

We're talkin' softball,
From Maine to San Diego,
Talkin' softball,
Mattingly and Canseco,
Ken Griffey's grotesquely swollen jaw,
Steve Sax and his run-in with the law,
We're talkin' Homer,
Ozzie and the Straw.

We're talkin' softball,
From Maine to San Diego,
Talkin' softball,
Mattingly and Canseco,
Ken Griffey's grotesquely swollen jaw,
Steve Sax and his run-in with the law,
We're talkin' Homer,
Ozzie and the Straw.

Brother Buzz

(37,795 posts)
7. That traitor Native Californian who sold out for the dough, Judge?
Thu Mar 30, 2023, 03:50 PM
Mar 2023

Damn, he's good. So is his agent.

nycbos

(6,345 posts)
9. I think the Giants offered more money.
Thu Mar 30, 2023, 03:53 PM
Mar 2023

Remember, he was drafted by the Yankees and he came up through their minor league system.

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