Another good title for today would have been “Run Like Hell” from Floyd, but I’ve been a little Floyd heavy lately, so I went with the great catch phrases from the two greatest baseball announcers ever… Jack Brickhouse and Harry Caray. Caray was over at the Sox for a while and has a bit of 1977 trivia in his history: that was the year Jimmy Piersall joined Harry as his announcing partner for White Sox games. Ta-da. And you thought I was only a NASCAR fan. Hey, we’re talking Chicago sports here, I know a little stuff. I’ve attended at least ONE game for each pro sports team here in Chicago, including the old White Sox park, Wrigley, the old Stadium (Black Hawks) and the Bulls. Drank so much at the White Sox game that I tossed up the sliders we had on the bus ride home. Great times, great times…
I was going to post up the Cubs theme song, but it wasn’t available, so I decided to go with a secondary theme of RUN! Actually this little gem is in my collection of dusty & scratchy old 45s. Best to my knowledge, Jo Jo Gunne was a one-hit wonder but this wonderful little platter was spun on my turntable back in 1972/73 for a bit. So what little one-hit wonders do you have in your library? Come on, I’ve got worse than this! Let’s hear what golden goodies you guys have to offer!
Decided to add Slade’s “Run Runaway” just for the hell of it. 🙂
Discussion (50) ¬
Crazy Irish folks XD
Robyn’s Da looks like a Joe. Or a Gerry. Or maybe a Fergus Or – aah, go on, tell us what he’s called!
maybe he’s a seamus? 😀
man, i almost prefer no-hit wonders to one-hit wonders…but i guess that’s just how i roll. 😀
–dee!
Holy ****ing ***! I thought I was the only one in the world who remembered “Run” and the name of the perp. I often run that baby in Mr Brain while walking to get coffee on a slow day. Gets the blood pumping.
Only song I know with one line verses. But ya gotta love the racing motorcycle gear-changes he runs on his axe.
The only question is: why don’t I own a copy?
“Cubs”? “Sox?”
Are these nicknames for people who play for the Yankees?
*<8o)***
For the record…Cubs. I was born in New York, so I understand…you choose Mets or Yankees, and never the twain shall meet. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be. 🙂 (And in that case, Mets. I’d root for a team of murderers, coached by Hitler and owned by Satan before I’d root for the Yankees. 🙂
Getting in a Pogues reference a few years early, are we, lad? 😉
(And if yer a Pogues fan, have ye yet heard Flogging Molly?)
Not knowing anyone from the Chicago area I had only heard of this “pick a side, and make sure it’s the one I agree with” rivalry thru here say. My older brother and his family just recently moved to Chicago and from the get go they have been asked several times which team they support. Having been only to a Cubs game on one of their visits they arrived as Cubs fans, but his foreman is a die hard White Sox fan and he found out first hand that people take that stuff a little too personally. To say the least he’s figured out there’s three things he has to avoid getting sucked into a conversation about at work, “Religion, Baseball, and Politics”. Evidently Baseball is ranked higher than religion when the conversation turns to White Sox or Cubs. 🙂
Ah, Jimmy Piersall… my first MLB idol. Saw him and ted Williams with the Red Sox back in ’57 as a wee lad. Couldn’t believe my luck when he came to the Senators later.
I’m not even a baseball fan (yeah, being Canadian you have this tendency towards hockey) but I pick the Cubs over the White Sox anyday.
Growing up in Philly and living in South Jersey now, I’m a HUGE Phillies fan…but the Cubs are cool with me since they’re an NL team. 🙂
since you’ve asked for rare gems, I was very recently introduced to this german cover version of an all time high piece of 70’s Rock.
It’s performed by a couple otherwise very successfully tied to the german ‘Schlager’ genre which goes back to operetta music and would in closest US popularity terms maybe equal to Country&Western, more something like Carpenters. The lyrics were not translated, instead the texter chose to make something up from scratch about the Conan Doyle / Sherlock Holmes Hound Of The Baskervilles. This famous beast – or the closest resemblance the director of photography could spot – is also featured in the clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIYRFvQMh7A
full version is at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReiAGVoJFkc
but only features the LP cover instead of a video, which should give you an idea about what style of music the couple usually did.
…. and know I’ll have to go to disembowel myself honorably for putting that stuff upon you
Dad must be fearsome. She’s even running! 😀
oooh, WHITE Sox… why do I always think Red Sox? Got confused there.
Go… Indians? Nah, nevermind, who am I kidding.
hmmm at least some of you yanks know how to speak a little bit of the language of your fore fathers. Pog Ma Thoin= Kiss My Ass
Also…what is this ‘baseball’ of which you speak, Earthling? ~wanders off to watch mental videos of Great Moments in Middle Distance Running~
baseball? its like cricket in the respect that it can be just as boring…it just moves a little quicker sometimes. 😀
*runs!*
Hah! At least cricket has pleasantly white uniforms. And hysterically funny commentary betimes. And more restful-looking expanses of green when it’s on telly. I’m pretty sure baseball is just jumped-up rounders with stupid-looking costumes 😛
ANYway, since you’re asking for our favorite one-hit wonder, mine is Billy Thorpe. “Children of the Sun”, the song, is one of my Top Five Faves. “Children of the Sun”, the album, minus the titular song, sucked donkey dong.
Sounds like a good enough reason to pick a fight!
I LOVE the hair on both characters in the last panel! HILARIOUS
Ah, two things incomprehensible to the British mind: American sports (are we talking about the one that’s like rounders or the one that’s like rugby?) and Irish-Americans (except that they all hate the British – we’re used to that and respond accordingly. Something to do with what my great-great-great many times great-grandfather might have done to their umpteen-times great grandfather in County Guinness in 1690, apparently)
Genius cartoon, though, and the Pogues – a grand band but with un-American dentistry…!