The World's Best Baseball Punk Band

November 12, 2020 11:13 AM

"Magic Loogie" (off of Nuclear Strikezone) is a Seinfeld homage track by the self-proclaimed "World's Best Baseball Punk Band" and named after a sports team in the Simpsons: The Isotopes (sometimes "Isotopes Punk Rock Baseball Club", based in Vancouver, BC). Lyrics filled with deep baseball references and humor, they came back to Seinfeld with "Rochelle, Rochelle" (on 1994 World Series Champions) about George's run into Bette Midler. They took a year off from touring (one year they planned 81 road shows) in 2018 to start a baseball league and released their most recent single shortly after the intended start of the 2020 baseball season: "The Invisible Hand of the MLB is Meddling".
posted by skynxnex (2 comments total)

Former MLB pitcher, Scott Radinsky, is actual baseball punk. He bounced around league for 11 years with the White Sox, Dodgers, Cardinals, and Indians. Then coached for a while as well. Before all that time in the bigs, he was the singer for some bands including the great early '80s Nardcore band (Oxnard, CA), Scared Straight.
posted by NoMich at 12:00 PM on November 12, 2020 [3 favorites]

Albuquerque named their minor league baseball team the isotopes after the Simpsons. (Maybe they should change their names to the Heisenburgs.)
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 12:08 PM on November 12, 2020 [1 favorite]