Vida Blue Day, August 1971. That’s the day anybody whose last name was Blue (and could prove it) got in free at Yankee Stadium to see the Yankees face off against the Oakland A’s starring Vida Blue. Vida’s mom was there and all 51 people named Blue from the New York phone book white pages. But not the Blue Oyster^ Cult. They could’ve gone down to the Bronx with their Columbia recording contract which included the name Blue and their names and birth dates and they would’ve been allowed in free of charge. But they didn’t go. No they didn’t go.

Why didn’t they go? That’s a good question, how come they didn’t go? Because baseball is dull? Could be, in fact it’s likely since Cult singer Manny Bloom — who’s so greasy he comes across as hot rendered fat and belongs nowhere else but on top of a bowl of freshly chopped chicken liver — has often said “Baseball is punk shit.”