American's Feelings Towards Baseball

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
So I was keep that music going for me. Michael.
I was a young disc jockey when this song actually
came out John Fogerty of Credence Clearwater Revival. It's a
song about baseball. Man drown and put me in coach.
I'm ready to play. The reason I mentioned that is

(00:29):
I've heard it already ten times today. Why hasn't somebody
else written a baseball song? Clearly, even if it's not
very good, even I should do that today. I'll get
home with my you know, my uculickly my guitar and whatever.
No crank out of Oh. I like baseball with the
gloves and the bats. Who rah? I mean, just if
there were any other song about baseball, people would play it.

(00:50):
They just need to do we have a song about it.
We got to that put Me in Coach song? Yeah,
use that always because there's one baseball song. Apparently, um,
baseball season start today. Major League Baseball got pushed back
a little bit by a work stoppage that everybody's worried
was going to ruin the season. But anyway, we're basically
getting start on time. He usually starts around April first,
and now itay is April seven and Um, before I

(01:13):
get to some of the particulars of people's attitudes toward
baseball and what a beer and a hot dog will
cost you, here's our favorite clip ever from the greatest
baseball announcer of all time, Vindnce Scully of the Dodgers,
when he decided to start talking about Venezuela. For some reason,
socialism failing to work as it always does, this time

(01:33):
in Venezuela. He's talking about giving everybody something free, and
all of a sudden there's no food. Eat. And who
do you think is the richest person in Venezuela. The
daughter of Hugo Childs Hello anyway, and to the anyway
owing to the funniest thing ever anyway, And um, I

(01:56):
wish you'd have done that more often. Of course, as
you see, uh, Fernando Allen's well on the I R
with an injury. Of course, luckily he still has private healthcare.
You know, many are suggesting government healthcare in this country.
All you need to do is look at the ni
H in England to get an idea of how well
that works. Anyway. Oh and two, I wish he had
done that all the time. Fantastic, oh boy, And that

(02:22):
ball just outside the line. Another line, of course, is
the border between the United States and Mexico, which currently
isn't being attended to, and we have a legal immigration
problem in this country. Anyway, falls one back. I would
have liked more of that from it. Of course, he
probably wouldn't have been his popular if he had done
that throughout the years. Um So, the season kicks off today,

(02:45):
half of Americans say they're at least a little interested
in Major League Baseball the greatest interest, of course, what
group of people are mostly interested in baseball? That's right?
Old women, No young men. I'm sorry I read that wrong.
Young men men under thirty are who are most interested
in baseball. Of course, that's not surprising at all, but
I thought this was. You know, this justifies talking about
it at all. What out of eight Americans is planning

(03:07):
to attend a game this year? Let alone, you know,
in their lifetime, one out of eight Americans planned to
attend a Major League Baseball game in person this year? Who?
What are the favorite teams? It makes me ill to
say it. The New York Yankees, the Boston Red Sox, nay,
Atlanta Braves are the three favorite teams. The what's the
main reason you're a fan of a team. Why do
they even ask freaking questions like this? It's because of

(03:29):
where I grew up. No way, Okay, what are the
least likely to be cited? His favorite teams in America?
The San Diego Padres, the Miami Marlins, and the Oakland A's.
All of those teams have had great success and have
just fantastic fan bases at home. But um, nationally, not

(03:54):
as much. It's a regional sport. If your team is in, uh,
you know, the playoffs, the World Series, you watch. If
your team is not and you tend not to watch.
Other sports aren't like that. You'll watch whoever's in. But
baseball is not like that. UM cheapest ballpark for beer,
Course Field in Colorado. That's not fair. Of course, they're
sponsored by course. They keep the prices low. Who's got
the most expensive beer? The New York Mets. You got

(04:18):
to get yourself a beer eleven dollars seventy five cents
for a beer if you're going out to watch the
Mets play, followed by the Orioles and Phillies at ten
comes in about ten nationals about ten. Cheapest place for
a hot dog? Arizona Diamondbacks enjoying a nice ball game
and the the the warm confines of a hundred and
twenty two degrees two dollars for a hot dogs. Because

(04:41):
you can't sell a hot dog to somebody who's a
hundred and twenty. You gotta practically give him away to
get anybody to eat a hot dog. I realized I
got a roof with the closet, turn on, the air condition.
Most expensive park for hot dogs, the Washington Nationals. So
they got a ten dollar beer and a seven dollar
and cent hot dog. Holy ca. I guess it's because
I got all those lobbyists in d C. They're all

(05:02):
government people. They're there. You know what it is. They're
all buying those hot dogs and beers with some sort
of expense account that is being written off in this
taxpayer money. So we're all buying those hot Thank you,
President Biden. Bingo Bingo Giants, San Francisco Giants where I
was just a couple of months ago, six seventy for
a hot dung um. But there you go, Arizona Diamondbacks

(05:24):
two dollar hot dogs. Oh man, I would eat till
I just yact seventh inning stretch would be the seventh
inning hurl, if I was at into diamonds of that game,