You Heard It Here First
This weekend, I returned the beloved G4 to my good friend Melio in Pittsburgh. We met in Princeton, West Virginia. It was a relatively uneventful trip -- a bit of stencil tagging in the Applebee's parking lot, but other than that, nothing really. A missed turn, a bacon cheeseburger. Nothing out of the ordinary for a Lazlo road trip.
As usual, I listened to a lot of bad radio. I heard one of my favorite crappy country songs. It's called "I Wanna Do It All," and it's by Terri Clark. It's horrible. It has the most inane lyrics you can probably imagine. Almost every line is a cliché. I heard the song as I was driving through Virginia, and I noticed a lyric I hadn't heard before. It was something like, "I wanna start a NASCAR tradition, y'all." I thought it was kind of strange that I hadn't noticed that line before, given my hatred of NASCAR.
THEN, TODAY -- Kate and I were in the kitchen, and I flipped the radio to a country station just as this stinking pile of a song was coming on the air. "OH, KATE!" I said, "You have to hear this horrible song!" I waited and waited for the NASCAR line (my new favorite), but IT NEVER CAME. Instead, she sang, "I wanna watch the Jaguars play ball," which I also found odd. SO, I DECIDED to some INTERNET SLEUTHING. On Google alone, there are at least SEVEN VARIATIONS of this song!
They are:
1) Watch the Gators play ball,
2) Watch the O's play ball,
3) Watch the Ravens play ball,
4) Watch the Packers play ball,
5) Watch the Browns play ball,
6) Watch the Rams play ball, and
7) Watch the Yankees play ball.
I suppose that Virginia just doesn't have a ball-oriented sports team with enough of a following to justify faking another version of this song. BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT.
Can you believe this crap? This is worse than Clear Channel faking local DJs. This is the cheapest, most insidious pandering I've ever heard of. It's not hard to please country fans, but Terri Clark has stooped to a new low, here. I ... I don't even know what to say about this atrocity. Am I too easily offended?
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Also, while you're answering that; I'm trying to come up with a better word for "stencil." The word stencil connotes somebody sprucing up their mobile home with a floral pattern on their bathroom walls. Any ideas?
Well, the only things I could come up with sounded way to dirty, so im not going to submit them.
my favorite part was when adam left it wide open for someone else to come in and be dirty....but apparently i already did that in paperhat's comments with the kittens. gross.
p.s. have you seen josie and the pussycats? i think perhaps you should.
maybe i could suggest "stencilee" it sounds french.
oooh! or maybe "spray paint template"? that sounds so tough!
i suggested sprayhole, but it was rejected.
spraypaint applique...i've trying to post this for three days.
Rachel --
I -have- seen Josie and the Pussycats. It's great. The best line, of course, is, "take the Chevy to the levy."
Found your site while sleuthing to the bottom of this myself. I travel around a lot and heard three different versions of the song-- I love country music, but this is just atrocious.
And you can add "Redskins" to your list.
And y'all are right-- this is straight out of Josie and the Pussycats. If you haven't seen the movie before, get the DVD-- the "du jour" video on the bonus features is the best part...
Yep, Minnesota has "Watch the Vikings Play Ball"
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I found this web site while I was searching the internet trying to get to the bottom of this mystery... I have always loathed the song - especially since it mentions the Yankees and I hate the Yankees...but tonight when I heard it on the radio the Yankees part was replaced with "Red Sox". Although I am a huge sox fan, sorry, Terri - I still hate your song! How pathetic that she is trying to appeal to other fans by making different versions of the same song. Furthermore, she is clearly not a baseball fan at all!
I found this web site while I was searching the internet trying to get to the bottom of this mystery... I have always loathed the song - especially since it mentions the Yankees and I hate the Yankees...but tonight when I heard it on the radio the Yankees part was replaced with "Red Sox". Although I am a huge sox fan, sorry, Terri - I still hate your song! How pathetic that she is trying to appeal to other fans by making different versions of the same song. Furthermore, she is clearly not a baseball fan at all!
RED SOX PLAY BALL - and i've been trying to find a copy of the song forever and no one has it damn it
I heard this song as "watch the yankees play ball" the first time, and learned it like this. I'm in Maryland, and a few days ago I heard "watch the O's play ball" and just wondered what was wrong with her. It's as bad as Jessica Simpson's (I think) new song where she sings a personalized version for your ringtone.