Baseball Season 2010

I am slow for the beginning of Major League Baseball, but with it being only a week old and many games to play, it is still the right time to give it's due.  Here in the great state of Minnesota we are trying so hard to be PC.  We have taken up the cause to eliminate the culture of hate by having high schools relinquish their old names that had to due with Native American slang to something whitewashed. If that was done in MLB, Cleveland and Atlanta would be the most effected.  One of them could adopt the bat as a mascot.  They could have a celebrity endorsement of the highest magnitude with the following sign:

What is a talk of baseball without some great tunes? First on deck is a song that I have played before, but it is still a good one "Centerfield" by John Fogerty.  The next batter up is "Glory Days" by Bruce Springsteen.  For the literacy minded, there are a few pieces of renown.  The first up is the famous "Casey at the Bat."  There is another point of view to the story told from the visiting team.  It is called "Casey at the Bat (Road Game.)"   In case you need a refresher about the scorecard, here are Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First" that will straighten you out.   We will end this with  a piece that was written by David Gans that ran originally in the Official Book of the Dead Heads called "Grateful Dead concerts are like baseball games."


Music for today:

Grateful Dead
October 16, 1974
Winterland Arena
San Francisco, CA
listen here (not the original recording that I listened to)

Grateful Dead
June 7, 1975
Bob Weir's Studio
Mill Valley, CA
"Blues Ruffs"
studio sessions for Blues for Allah
listen here