I love it when my twin obsessions intersect, all the more so when it happens unexpectedly.
I don't think it's any surprise when a Simon or a Fogerty or a Springsteen drops a baseball reference into a lyric. But when a Scottish pop band does it-- and with a startling level of specificity at that-- I tip my cap.
Piazza, New York Catcher is a fine piece of Belle & Sebastian, baseball content aside. But then it drops in details like Piazza's lifetime batting average at the time (.318), and a great play on words regarding the Giants' statue of Willie Mays: “The statue's crying too/And well he may”...
That's a doubleheader sweep right there.
