Things that might only interest me, Journey/Steve Perry edition

September 15, 2009 by Jason@IIATMS

With all apologies to Peter King of SI.com for the title of this posting, this has basically no actualbaseball significance. But as a child of the ’80s who now finds it amusing that his boys love singing this song, I found this hilarious:

Steve Perry, the former lead singer for Journey, will be at Dodger Stadium wearing his Giants cap as usual when the team plays there this weekend and he will leave before the eighth inning, as usual, but not to beat the traffic.

Late last season, the Dodgers started playing Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’ ” before the bottom of the eighth inning every night as a rally song, and Perry leaves before they do.

“I have to,” he said. “I don’t want to hear it.”

Why? Because Perry is a diehard Giants fan who cannot stand the fact that the Dodgers “hijacked it first” and use it to win games.

I’m officially old. Click thru for some other random Journey stuff, guaranteed to make you laugh at/smile with/mock me or your money back:

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Journey Separate Ways Remake with Original. These guys are genius!

Don’t Stop Believin’, LIVE. (I think I had that shirt once, or twice. Or still do.)

“Faithfully”, embedding disabled, sorry. (Ladies choice at the roller rink?).

Here’s a live version:

“Open Arms”, LIVE 1982, off the chart cheesiness. I dare you NOT to sing along. I think I also had the shirt the pianist was wearing. And his haircut.

“Any Way You Want It”, embedding disabled, original video. Here, too. Massive hair required. Here’s the live in Japan version, 2003:

“Any Way You Want It”, CADDYSHACK version! So let’s dance!

“Oh Sherrie“, because what’s a Steve Perry reference without this masterpiece. Feel free to close your office door or wait until your office is empty and turn it up. You know you want to.