Baseball boogie

During the late 1980's A.D., somtime before sarcasm and carefully-manicured apathy scored their ultimate triumph in the First Irony War, the always-evocative world of sports-related culture was going through a dark time. Self-love, third-person-speaking, and delusions of granduer were everywhere trouncing the forces of self-criticism, self-respect, and second-thoughts. The casualties of these great battles lay scattered across the cultural wastelands: choreographed endzone dances, the movie Cool Runnings, professional wrestling, any Ricky Henderson interview. Unwilling to let the Bears' sports-cultural cross-over hit The Icky Bowl Shuffle stand alone as the sole future-wince-inducer of the era, the LA Dodgers decided to make a little travesty of their own. I give you the Baseball Boogie:



Luckily for us, gangsta rap has replaced 80's cheese-hop as the soundtrack of the sports world and has forever changed the self-image of pro atheletes. Goodbye fun-loving kids living their dreams, hello hardened street-credible proto-gangsters. Rather than making goofy, guileless rap songs, our stars are following more respectable, irony-proof hobbies, such as underground dog-fighting rings, starting massive club brawls, strip club drive-bys, and leading back-alley stick-ups. Personally, I consider this our Golden Era.