Saturday Substitute Music Thread - October 24, 2026 [TRex]

Looks like we need a music thread for the Hobby Thread afterparty and Club ONT pre-party. As a dinosaur with a small brain and short arms, I can't carry a tune or keep a beat, but I'm impressed but others that can.

Shall we talk tunes?

How about a baseball theme since we're in the midst of the World Series?

"Take me out to the ballgame" from Luke Combs:

"Willie, Mickey, and the Duke" from Terry Cashman:

"Centerfield" by John Fogerty:

"Take me out to the Ballgame" led by Harry Caray at a Cubs game:

"The Cheap Seats" from Alabama:

"Enter Sandman" by Metallica for Mariano Rivera for the last time:

What songs am I missing? Glory Days by Springsteen is a candidate but my fingers somehow won't include a link. Weird.

Usual rules apply. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. If you're a troll, go away. Remember, there's no crying in blogging.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 08:38 PM

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1 Margin status -- BLOWN!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 24, 2026 08:39 PM (FZ29D)

2 Meatloaf - "Paradise by the Dashboard Light"

Baseball music thread mission complete.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 24, 2026 08:41 PM (Sco7b)

3 1 Margin status -- BLOWN!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 24, 2026 08:39 PM
***
Yikes! Foul ball!

Posted by: TRex - field umpire dino at October 24, 2026 08:42 PM (XfIK1)

4 TRex: thanks for the triple COB play! sorry I always miss the hobby thread. But I like tonight's theme.

Posted by: Iris at October 24, 2026 08:45 PM (286+n)

5 At work a guy started singing an N-Sync tune- which stuck them in my head.

I considered killing him, but figured being gay was punishment enough.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 24, 2026 08:46 PM (Y/06r)

6 youtu.be/oMVe_HcyP9Y

Not quite a baseball song but fond memories of the Pirates last WS.

And there goes the 'hint'.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 24, 2026 08:46 PM (BW+Gb)

7 He missed the tag! He missed the tag!

Posted by: 496 at October 24, 2026 08:49 PM (jWIwz)

8 Don't the Red Sox play 'Sweet Caroline?'

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 24, 2026 08:50 PM (Sco7b)

9 AC/DC - Play Ball

Posted by: Mark1971 at October 24, 2026 08:51 PM (/OKHJ)

10 Good evening and good nigjt everyone
Way past my usual bedtime

Posted by: Skip at October 24, 2026 08:52 PM (Ia/+0)

11 Really? It's a gimme:

https://youtu.be/BNCEFn7E34s

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 24, 2026 08:54 PM (Y/06r)

12 Cashman recorded several different versions of the song focusing on specific teams.

Posted by: Mark1971 at October 24, 2026 08:54 PM (/OKHJ)

13

I talk and talk and talk
She didn't hear a word I said

Gonna get Hank Aaron's baseball bat
And tenderize her head

Gotta put on my travelin' shoes

-Elvin Bishop

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 24, 2026 08:56 PM (Cqx++)

14
What we sing of von Tilzer's "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" is just the chorus.

Katie Casey was baseball mad,
Had the fever and had it bad.
Just to root for the home town crew,
Ev'ry sou
Katie blew.
On a Saturday her young beau
Called to see if she'd like to go
To see a show, but Miss Kate said "No,
I'll tell you what you can do:"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 24, 2026 08:56 PM (eRlcH)

15 The first baseball game from the Bob and Tom Show:

https://shorturl.ly/MVfKF

Posted by: Tonypete at October 24, 2026 08:57 PM (4R/FS)

16 Here's what's playing here right now. COVID-era Bach ensemble, everybody masked except for wind instrument players, who get spit shielded instead:
youtube.com/watch?v=OV0_DnuCPNw

Posted by: gp at October 24, 2026 08:58 PM (Jr5Lq)

17 Meatloaf - "Paradise by the Dashboard Light"

Baseball music thread mission complete.
Posted by: Stateless

That one immediately came to mind for me, too.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 24, 2026 08:59 PM (ftFVW)

18 That one immediately came to mind for me, too.
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 24, 2026 08:59 PM (ftFVW)

When you have a baseball announcer doing play by play for a minute or so, it's hard to pass up.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 24, 2026 09:02 PM (Sco7b)

19 I collected baseball cards as a kid. The Big Pay Strike in the... 90s?, soured me on pro baseball.

Posted by: RandomDave at October 24, 2026 09:02 PM (aJQbY)

20 Looks like a bunt

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 24, 2026 09:03 PM (Cq/ve)

21 >>Don't the Red Sox play 'Sweet Caroline?'

Bottom of the 8th, every home game.

Not even a Sox fan but this was always fun.

https://tinyurl.com/yf6wbje7

Posted by: JackStraw at October 24, 2026 09:03 PM (viF8m)

22 Baseball been very good to me. I leave it alone and it leaves me alone.

Posted by: Eromero at October 24, 2026 09:06 PM (LHPAg)

23 The Greatest... I think by Kenny Rogers?

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 24, 2026 09:06 PM (K3aCg)

24 Beastie Boys in “Hey Ladies”
“I got more hits than Sadaharu Oh.”

Posted by: Ol Blue Eyes at October 24, 2026 09:07 PM (WM02/)

25 Posted by: JackStraw at October 24, 2026 09:03 PM (viF8m)

Yeah, that's a nice tradition.

Thanks for the thread TRex.
Back to work.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 24, 2026 09:07 PM (Sco7b)

26 Harry Caray: Before he defected and became a traitor, when he worked for the White Sox, Jimmy Piersall asked him why the Sox didn't draw for day games the way that Northside team did. Harry's response was, "Jimmy, our fans work."

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at October 24, 2026 09:11 PM (j7INY)

27 Meatloaf - "Paradise by the Dashboard Light"

Baseball music thread mission complete.
Posted by: Stateless

That one immediately came to mind for me, too.
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 24, 2026 08:59 PM (ftFVW)

Phil Rizzuto doing the play-by-play. Story goes they gave him the script and recorded it in a separate session. He had no idea what the song was about. Given that Meatloaf was not very well known at the time, it sort of tracks, and Phil would readily admit to not being too quick on the uptake..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 24, 2026 09:20 PM (08OqX)

28 What team uses that song "Dirty Water" ? I think that's the title

Posted by: Savage Henry has cashed his check at October 24, 2026 09:21 PM (ZxPkt)

29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRg316KJ5js

Posted by: what the cat drug in at October 24, 2026 09:23 PM (jrgJz)

30 28: Red Sox

Posted by: Caf at October 24, 2026 09:24 PM (fawlF)

31 Since the late 70s, the 7th inning stretch song at Orioles games is a live version of John Denver's "Thank God I'm a Country Boy".

Posted by: Doof at October 24, 2026 09:27 PM (QMAsf)

32 Intermission at the ballet.

Cinderella is heading to the ball.

That Prokofiev fellow was quite a tunesmith.

Guest prima ballerina Rosemary Deiorio is impressive.

Daughter is the evil step-mom.

Gotta go

Posted by: mindful webworker at large at October 24, 2026 09:28 PM (Kdg7+)

33 >>Don't the Red Sox play 'Sweet Caroline?'

Bottom of the 8th, every home game.

I blame them for taking a perfectly OK little song and turning it into the worse call-and-response cacophony ever. If it had stayed in the stadium, that would be one thing but now it's inescapable.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 24, 2026 09:28 PM (vTZFs)

34 Mrs. Robinson should get a mention for asking the iconic musical question, Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 24, 2026 09:28 PM (08OqX)

35 Meatloaf - "Paradise by the Dashboard Light"

Baseball music thread mission complete.
Posted by: Stateless

That one immediately came to mind for me, too.
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 24, 2026 08:59 PM (ftFVW)

Phil Rizzuto doing the play-by-play. Story goes they gave him the script and recorded it in a separate session. He had no idea what the song was about. Given that Meatloaf was not very well known at the time, it sort of tracks, and Phil would readily admit to not being too quick on the uptake..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 24, 2026 09:20 PM

I remember one neighborhood block party years ago. The DJ was playing that, and at one point he announced "it looks like young [neighbor's 13 yr old son] has just figured out what this song is about!" We, the adults, laughed hysterically.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 24, 2026 09:29 PM (RmySe)

36 The NY Mets have a song too. Classic!

https://tinyurl.com/s745y63b

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 24, 2026 09:30 PM (3ImbR)

37 Speed ball.
Speed ball?
Yes, speed ball.
He said “speed ball”?
Yes.
That was the moment, maybe a year ago, that I fully comprehended the depth Springsteen’s douche e ness.
That, and the notion that a Vietnam Nam vet couldn’t get a job in the oil patch in 1970.
A five gallon pail of vinegar and salt.

Posted by: Accomack at October 24, 2026 09:30 PM (m6Eem)

38 I blame them for taking a perfectly OK little song and turning it into the worse call-and-response cacophony ever. If it had stayed in the stadium, that would be one thing but now it's inescapable.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 24, 2026 09:28 PM

Clearly you were not at the TxMoMe.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 24, 2026 09:30 PM (RmySe)

39 Baseball songs?

Y'all got 'em all already. I got nothin'.

https://youtu.be/aLnZ1NQm2uk

Posted by: mikeski at October 24, 2026 09:33 PM (VHUov)

40 Clearly you were not at the TxMoMe.

Sadly, I was not. But if that song was played there, I feel slightly less bad about that.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 24, 2026 09:33 PM (vTZFs)

41 Neil Diamond is way overrated.

Posted by: Accomack at October 24, 2026 09:37 PM (m6Eem)

42 I’m not a Giants fan, nor from NoCal, but this one was pretty cool:

https://youtu.be/_P-DpMFd8_A?is=gQjEBHQwpyY4nMiL

Posted by: pikkumatti at October 24, 2026 09:37 PM (GxSAi)

43 Mrs. Robinson should get a mention for asking the iconic musical question, Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 24, 2026 09:28 PM

Stiffler's Mom >>> Mrs. Robinson

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 24, 2026 09:38 PM (RmySe)

44 I don't know any other baseball song but I got a Basketball Jones.

Posted by: fd at October 24, 2026 09:39 PM (MWfyi)

45 As a dinosaur with a small brain and short arms
.......

I'm just glad the aliens didn't get all of you.

Posted by: wth at October 24, 2026 09:40 PM (oq9dX)

46 I blame them for taking a perfectly OK little song and turning it into the worse call-and-response cacophony ever. If it had stayed in the stadium, that would be one thing but now it's inescapable.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 24, 2026 09:28 PM

Clearly you were not at the TxMoMe.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 24, 2026 09:30 PM (RmySe)

Not sure if the Red Sox can be blamed for starting that one. My first exposure to it was at a bar in Surf City, NJ circa 1980. The resident act was a guy named Jackie Vee. He also did a version of My Girl and coached the crowd to provide hand motions during the chorus. What can I say? The chicks dug it and that was enough for me..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 24, 2026 09:43 PM (08OqX)

47 It's not a song, but there's a video out there somewhere of Norm MacDonald telling Bob Uecker stories. I'll see if I can find it again. It is hilarious as only Norm can be.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 24, 2026 09:47 PM (QaH55)

48 Not sure if the Red Sox can be blamed for starting that one. My first exposure to it was at a bar in Surf City, NJ circa 1980. The resident act was a guy named Jackie Vee. He also did a version of My Girl and coached the crowd to provide hand motions during the chorus. What can I say? The chicks dug it and that was enough for me..
Posted by: Joe Kidd

Yeah, drunk people like to participate. They have more fun and maybe leave something in the tip jar.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 24, 2026 09:47 PM (ftFVW)

49 Speed ball.
Speed ball?
Yes, speed ball.
He said “speed ball”?
Yes.
That was the moment, maybe a year ago, that I fully comprehended the depth Springsteen’s douche e ness.
That, and the notion that a Vietnam Nam vet couldn’t get a job in the oil patch in 1970.

Posted by: Accomack at October 24, 2026 09:30 PM

I mean, "fastball" would fit, or he could have gone with "curveball". No one had the stones to explain to El Jefe that speedball is not a thing in baseball? Was he trying to make it a thing?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 24, 2026 09:51 PM (08OqX)

50 As a dinosaur with a small brain and short arms
.......
I'm just glad the aliens didn't get all of you.
Posted by: wth

Baseball songs, I don't have. Dinosaur songs, I have.

https://youtu.be/hwKwqUgZ8RQ

Posted by: mikeski at October 24, 2026 09:53 PM (VHUov)

51 Speed ball?

Was he working on Something Big?

Posted by: JQ at October 24, 2026 09:54 PM (rdVOm)

52 Mark Knopflers song, Remembrance Day, uses a cricket match as the setting. But if you squint your ears just right, it's easy to visualize a baseball game instead. Good song.

Posted by: I really haven't settled on a nic at October 24, 2026 09:55 PM (nGjyj)

53 It's kinda fun when a theme song plays as a certain player comes to bat. Several years ago they played Baby Shark whenever Gerado Parra was up. Started because his 2 year old loved the song and the team plated it for a joke. It became an anthem for the Nats that year they won the Series.

Posted by: JTB at October 24, 2026 09:55 PM (yTvNw)

54 Boys of Summer, by that asshole...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 24, 2026 09:56 PM (08OqX)

55 I mean, "fastball" would fit, or he could have gone with "curveball". No one had the stones to explain to El Jefe that speedball is not a thing in baseball? Was he trying to make it a thing?
Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 24, 2026 09:51 PM (08OqX)

Speedball was Heroin or morphine plus some sort of methamphetamine.
It replaced the term "goofballs" which was barbiturates and some upper like Benzedrine

The more you know!

Posted by: Kindltot at October 24, 2026 09:57 PM (rbvCR)

56 >>What team uses that song "Dirty Water" ? I think that's the title

Also Red Sox.

The song is about the Charles River. Which is no longer dirty.

Wait for it.

https://tinyurl.com/8tysnjac

Posted by: JackStraw at October 24, 2026 09:58 PM (viF8m)

57 Was he working on Something Big?
Posted by: JQ at October 24, 2026 09:54 PM (rdVOm)

It's Sunday, man. Let me think.

Let us not soil the memory of the great Tom Petty with that poncey dick Springsteen.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 24, 2026 10:00 PM (QaH55)

58 Mark Knopflers song, Remembrance Day, uses a cricket match as the setting. But if you squint your ears just right, it's easy to visualize a baseball game instead. Good song.
Posted by: I really haven't settled on a nic at October 24, 2026 09:55 PM (nGjyj)

His song The Bug, references a Louisville slugger. But wait, there's more! Dodger stadium plays a blooper reel of fielding errors while the song plays underneath..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 24, 2026 10:01 PM (08OqX)

59
wait, is this the ONT?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 24, 2026 10:06 PM (mmrXZ)

60 His song The Bug, references a Louisville slugger. But wait, there's more! Dodger stadium plays a blooper reel of fielding errors while the song plays underneath..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 24, 2026 10:01 PM (08OqX)

Mary Chapin Carpenter, who is a frothing leftie, but I do like her music. Covers Dire Straits. Sometimes you're the Louisville Slugger. Sometimes you're the ball.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 24, 2026 10:06 PM (QaH55)

61 wait, is this the ONT?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Someone will have to measure the whelm level to be sure.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 24, 2026 10:07 PM (ftFVW)

62 Turn the ball game off and get upstairs!

ONT is NOOD!

Posted by: mikeski at October 24, 2026 10:08 PM (VHUov)

63 Ont open!

Posted by: Piper at October 24, 2026 10:09 PM (ZdaMQ)

64 I got didn't get to post during the hobby thread, but when we moved down to the Texas coastal prairie over 7 years ago I didn't know nuthin' bout cotton. That you tube about harvesting cotton was very interesting. During the first cotton harvesting month, I was racing up and down I59 from Houston to down here and I started thinking that rural Texas was really trashy! It looked like paper was thrown out all over the highway. It took a few weeks before I realized what I thought was paper all over the highway was actually cotton!

Posted by: DanMa'am at October 24, 2026 10:11 PM (8uzBS)

65 Mary Chapin Carpenter, who is a frothing leftie, but I do like her music. Covers Dire Straits. Sometimes you're the Louisville Slugger. Sometimes you're the ball.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 24, 2026 10:06 PM (QaH55)

Same. She wrote one of my favorite Christmas songs. Remind me to link to it after Thanksgiving..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 24, 2026 10:11 PM (08OqX)

66 And ONT is up...

NOOOOD!!

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 24, 2026 10:13 PM (08OqX)

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