Spector: Michael Kay’s seventh inning stretch

(Cassotto voce)...I sometimes forget how Kay got/keeps his job(s)...oh, yea.

I’m glad that we have the sound up on the Yankee game in the office tonight, because it gives me the chance to correct something that Michael Kay just said in passing.

In talking about the 100th anniversary of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” Kay joked that lyricist Jack Norworth must have “had a bad home life” to write the line “I don’t care if I never get back.”

Not quite. That line - in fact, the entire seventh inning stretch standard - is in the voice of a character named Katie Casey. What is sung at stadiums across America is actually the second verse of the song, whose introduction is all about what a big fan Katie Casey is. She’s the one who wants to be taken out to the ballgame when her beau wants to take her to a show.