Major League alert

[TwoGloves]

Starts in 59 minutes on AMC. "You may run like Mays but you hit like ****."

 

[pressmurphy]

And it's the back half of a doubleheader with Caddyshack!

 

[OTD]

Starts in 59 minutes on AMC. "You may run like Mays but you hit like ****."

If it's on AMC, that line won't be in it, I'm guessing.

 

[pressboxer]

Strike this ... guy ... out!

 

[TwoGloves]

"Let me think it over, will you Charlie? I've got a guy on the other line about some white walls."

 

[BYH]

"How's your wife and my kids?"

 

[TwoGloves]

"You saying Jesus Christ can't hit a curve ball?"

 

[User 1019]

And it's the back half of a doubleheader with Caddyshack!

Almost as bad as Blazing Saddles and Monte Python.

 

[RossLT]

No point in watching it edited.

 

[amraeder]

"Uht-oh Rexy, don't think that one's got the distance" (my favorite line to break out at the ballpark).

 

[TwoGloves]

"That's all we got? One god damned hit?"

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Just started on AMC (again).

 

[Chef]

No point in watching it edited.

I concur.

 

[DanOregon]

Was Rick Vaughn the first reliever with a specific entrance song?

 

[buckweaver]

Was Rick Vaughn the first reliever with a specific entrance song?

Not even close.

Teams have been playing specific music to introduce players since at least World War II, around the time that the Dodgers and Braves began using organists.

A SABR listserv query I made in 2006 came back with the following results:

- The Mariners used to play Alice Cooper's "School's Out" for Mike Schooler in the 1980s.

- The Yankees used to play "Pomp and Circumstance" for closer Sparky Lyle in the 1970s.

- The Royals played "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" for Mark Littell in the 1970s.

- Mets organist Jane Jarvis played some kind of Irish jig for Tug McGraw in the 1970s.

- The Cardinals played the "Hungarian Rhapsody" for Al Hrabosky, whose nickname was the "The Mad Hungarian," in the 1970s.

- Shay Torrent, the White Sox organist in the early 1960s, used to play the theme song from the 1950s television show "Medic" when Hoyt Wilhelm came in to pitch. This was in reference to Sox radio announcer Bob Elson talking about "Dr. Wilhelm and his dancing medicine show" whenever Hoyt was brought into a game.

- The Twins organist played "Won't you come home, Bill Bailey" for Bill Dailey in 1963.

Here's a 2006 Slate.com article that came out of that thread (even though the writer failed to credit any of the SABR members who did this research): http://www.slate.com/id/2139937/?nav=ais

 

[DanOregon]

Thanks Buck. Figured it had to have come from some where.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

I will say X's version of "Wild Thing" may be the best cover song ever. Just takes that tune to a whole new level.

 

[JackReacher]

"Let me think it over, will you Charlie? I've got a guy on the other line about some white walls."

"Let me think it over, will you Charlie? I've got a guy on the other line about some white walls."

Paging Hejira Henry.....

 

[EStreetJoe]

"Uht-oh Rexy, don't think that one's got the distance" (my favorite line to break out at the ballpark).

Better ones (or ones just as good) to break out at the ballpark:
"Too high, too high"

"Who gives a **** it's gone"

 

[JackReacher]

"Uht-oh Rexy, don't think that one's got the distance" (my favorite line to break out at the ballpark).

Better ones (or ones just as good) to break out at the ballpark:
"Too high, too high"

"Who gives a **** it's gone"

I say that at least two or three times every time I go to a Nats game. Usually happens when the other team is at bat.