“Take Me Out to the Ball Game” Rings Hollow Now
On a spur of the moment, I went to a ballgame today.
See, in America you don’t have to say what kind of a “ballgame” it is. Everybody knows it’s “America’s favorite pastime” – baseball – also the kids’ beloved game. My younger daughter, for example, started playing it in kindergarten, for example (it was called T-ball at that stage).
No wonder that America’s favorite pastime must also have its own song. “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (a 1908 composition) is a song that put’s a smile on every American’s face. And it’s usually played during the “7th inning stretch” (another immutable baseball tradition – like the “halftime” in football or soccer, except here it’s after the 7th of 9 innings.
“Go figure, right?” a foreigner might say to that). A “halftime” after 78% of the game has been played?! 😀
Not to mention what a foreigner might think of this scoreboard. It looks more like something on the Wall Street stock exchange than at a sporting event. 😀
Here it is in Frank Sinatra’s and Gene Kelly’s rendition for the 1949 film Take Me Out to the Ball Game.
AZ Diamondbacks vs. LA Dodgers
I rarely go to baseball games. But Arizona Diamondbacks are trying to make it into the playoffs. Through the back door of the National League, so to speak (their chances are pretty slim). And today, they were facing the leader of the western division, the legendary Los Angeles Dodgers, winners of eight “World Series.” The season is almost over. Only three more games. So it is “do or die” time for the Phoenix team.
So I thought it would be fun to see it, especially since the game started around 1pm on a workday. So I figured the downtown Phoenix traffic would be light.
Boy, was I ever wrong. On all counts. I’ve forgotten that in the nearly five decades that have have lived in the Valley of the Sun Phoenix has become a five million-metropolis.
The traffic wasn’t “light.” Look at the “51” freeway. I’ve forgotten how much Phoenix has changed in the nearly five decades I’ve lived in the Valley of the Sun. What used to be a manageable desert city is now a five-million-strong metropolis — and the traffic proved it.
When I entered the stadium, the game had already started. I must say it gives me goosebumps to be a part of such a magnificent spectacle.
Take a look at the video I made upon entering…
Things Went Downhill From There
Things went downhill from there. First, I found myself in a crowd of LA fans. Second, the Dodgers were already leading 2-0 in the second inning.
The rest of the game was no contest. I left after the 6th inning with the Dodgers leading 8-0. That was also the final score. No wonder “half” the crowd wasn’t watching the game. They were eating and drinking in the corridors.
But it wasn’t just the game that grabbed my attention — it was the crowd. As I walked the stadium corridors, it felt less like Phoenix and more like Mexico City. The jerseys may have said “Dodgers,” but the demographic reality told another story.
As for California as a whole, it became the first American state where the whites became a minority. Check out my Truth in Media story from a quarter century ago, “A Demographic Earthquake Strikes California” (July 5, 2000).
“This makes California the first of the 50 states to succumb to waves of legal and illegal immigration during the last 35 years, especially from Latin America and Asia,” I wrote back then. “Yet as recently as 1970, non-Hispanic whites represented an 80% majority in California. Today, however, they account for three quarters of all deaths, and for barely a third of all births, in the Golden State.”
And now that the Hispanic/Asian migration wave has washed over from California to Arizona. In the last ten years alone, 630,000 people have moved from the LA County to Phoenix. And I know from personal experience, that such a demographic invasion had actually started long before 2014, to which this number refers.
Because I predicted it!
Memory Floodgates Opened at the Game
Check out these excerpts from a speech I gave at the Reform Party Convention in Phoenix in May 2000, at which I endorsed Pat Buchanan for president (click on the image to read the speech).
NO2NWO, YES2PAT
Aztlan: America’s Kosovo
Why America Needs Buchanan as President
“Because (late Senator John) McCain, again like “Dubya,” Clinton or Gore, doesn’t give a hoot about nine million Mexican immigrants invading our country.
The U.S. immigration floodgates are wide open. No wonder Arizona ranchers are having to defend their property and our borders almost all by themselves against an army of illegal immigrants.
We must back these American citizens, especially now that Mexico is trying to transfer the jurisdiction over a sovereign U.S. issue to the United Nations. And when Madeleine Albright and Janet Reno are siding with this foreign country against Americans.
Talk about a government “of the people” turning AGAINST the people!
Ladies and gentlemen, have you ever heard the term Aztlan? If not, you’d better remember it now. It’s the old Mexican name for the American Southwest – California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. And Mexico is invading it systematically and demographically, legally and illegally, just as Albanians have done in Kosovo.
Here are some consequences if such immigration continues:
· Sometime this year, Hispanics, Asians and Blacks will represent 51 percent of the population in Santa Clara County, the heart of California’s Silicon Valley.
· Hispanics will become the largest minority in the United States in 2010.
· By 2050, Caucasians with no Hispanic heritage will become a minority in the United States for the first time in history.
Welcome to Aztlan, ladies and gentlemen, America’s Kosovo! [pause]
Friends, this is no accident. It is a consequence of national sabotage by Washington. First, by the Immigration Act of 1965 that totally changed the quantity and the quality of immigrants. Second, by a deliberate negligence of our federal government.
The reason? The Democrats’ courting of the Hispanic vote.
The result? Cheaper labor for the Princes’ businesses. And a lower standard of living for the rest of Americans.
“Back home, we will look at the consequences of rampant immigration in this country during the last 35 years, and talk about Aztlan, America’s Kosovo.
This has got to stop! “
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Wow. All these memories flooded out while I was looking to get a hotdog at a ballgame?
Indeed. It was actually sad for me to see just to what extent my prediction came true. This is no longer my city. The LA newcomers and those from south of the border are now claiming it.
No wonder patriotic Americans are applauding what Trump has been doing with immigration raids in LA, DC and other cities while the liberals are squealing like a stuck pig. They’d ruled the roost for decades. But enough is enough. It is high time for us to try to reclaim our country, America the Beautiful, as it once was and pass it on to future generations as such. Which is why Charlie Kirk had such a huge following among the young people.
This realization cuts especially deep in my case. Because my country of birth – Serbia – has allowed illegal immigrants (Albanians) to occupy and take away the cradle of the Serbian civilization – Kosovo. As I said 25 years ago, unless we do something about it in America, Arizona and California may become America’s “Kosovo.”
So yes, I went for a hot dog at a ballgame — and walked away reminded that the game may still be American in name, but the country it reflects has changed beyond recognition. What’s at stake now isn’t just baseball… it’s the soul of the nation that used to sing along “Take Me to the Ballgame.”
Foreign Players
And then, just look the roster of the players, especially that of the LA Dodgers. You see names like Ohtani, Yamamoto, Sasaki (Japan), other foreign players from Dominican Republic, Venezuela, and Panama, even South Sudan.
Overall, about 30% of Major League Baseball (MLB) players were foreign-born on the 2025 Opening Day rosters. This figure includes players from 19 countries and territories outside the US.
And then consider the LA payroll of $355 million for 2025, the highest in the league, and you realize the “America’s Favorite Pastime” has become just another commercial enterprise which has wrapped itself in stars and stripes.
Nachos Galore
Whew. Back to earth… as it turns out, the line for dogs was too long. So I got some nachos. Served in a baseball helmet! 😀 Yummy!
Drive Home
The drive home was uneventful and VERY hot. See 109F (46C) on the third day of the calendar “autumn?”
Well, welcome to Phoenix.
Remember the 1959 Marilyn Monroe film “Some Like It Hot” with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon?
Well, we like it hot in the desert. And if you don’t, well, what can I say. There’s always New York, Chicago, San Francisco… for the likes of “bleeding heart liberals.” 😀
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