In the Bleachers by Ben Zaehringer for September 20, 2024

And if they don’t win, it’s the same…

Just so long as it’s not peanuts, popcorn, and crackerjack.

I’m sure they’ll get to the root of it.

What a silly thing to argue about…it’s not like the serious argument of whether it is buck-naked or butt-naked…

This one’s gonna go right over the heads of any non-US readers.

They never, ever agree on anything.

Doesn’t matter in a few more days in Oakland. MLB is led by a bunch of hypocritical owners, starting with that Philly bum.

Original version, with most people committing many common (but admittedly insignificant) errors:

Take me out to the ballgame

Take me out with the crowd

Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack

I don’t care if I never get back

Let me root, root, root for the home team

If they don’t win it’s a shame

For it’s one, two, three strikes you’re out

At the old ball game

I don’t care.

give ’em both some cracker jacks with the toy inside… that should make ’em happy!

Common guys, keep it civil.

What does this have to do with sports

The original 1908 sheet music for “Take Me Out To The Ball Game” can be found at the Library of Congress. The word in that lyric is “never”. You can argue that the song has achieved the status of folk music, but that doesn’t help you win the argument because there is no such thing as a “correct” lyric in folk music, only lyrics sung by this or that singer or group. (Just search for the words, Take Me Out To the Ball Game Library of Congress.)

well… I never!! (or, did I mean, ever??….rats!!)