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Radio Baseball

25 Jun 2003 by Matthew Linderman

Need to kill time during a road trip? In this interview, the band Earlimart suggests Radio Baseball.

It’s the exact same rules as baseball, but the seek button on your radio is the pitcher. It throws a song out there and if you can get the artist, it’s a single, you get the name of it and it’s a double, you get the album it’s off of it’s a triple, and a home run is if you get the year. You buy a discography of hits and that’s how you check yourself. It can suck up like seven hours of time.

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25 Jun 2003 | 8500 said...

Fun concept but it could be as boring as real baseball if the players are not pop music sponges.

09 Jul 2003 | Rog said...

I just played this with my son last night. It's as fun as you want it to be. In LA there are plenty of non-pop stations; classical, talk, spanish, some unrecognizable genre. Talk radio and commercials are balls, if you don't know anything about the song it's a strike. Don't bother getting a discography, it would slow the game down. The batter gets until the end of the song to guess it, so once in a while you catch the tail-end of a song and it's like a 90mph fastball just flew by. The classical stations at the top of the dial are like the bottom of your lineup, maybe you'll get lucky and there will be a pledge break and get a ball, but generally it's strike-out city up there.

Seriously, it's a good way to pass an hour or so in the car.

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