The Godgers?
Posted: September 17th, 2008 | Filed under: Baseball, Pop Culture | 61 Comments »
Now, maybe I am mishearing things. I definitely could be mishearing things. I’ve listened to the clip below about 12 times, and sometimes I hear it one way, sometimes another, maybe this is like that optical illusion picture where from one angle it looks like a young woman, from another like an old hag. Maybe what you see and hear depends on what kind of dark stuff is bouncing around inside your own mind.
StilI I could swear that in the clip, pit-bullish, reforming sportscaster Sarah Palin says: “And spring training as it continues today in the big leagues … the Godgers and Mets got a taste of what the ‘88 season could have in store.”
I keep hearing Godgers. I do. I’ve asked a couple of friends now, and they hear Dodgers. Maybe she said Dodgers. Maybe my ears are just bad. But I hope for all our sake, she did say Godgers. I mean, I don’t need to tell you what the ‘88 season DID have in store for Los Angeles. Godgers indeed.*
*The baseball stuff starts at about 3:06, just after we get word that the Nanooks beat the Seawolves in some hockey. Stick around for Sarah’s classic commentary about Tommy Lasorda’s yawn.**
**And stick around until the end for a rather uncomfortable exchange between the anchor and Sarah … that guy looks like a jerk.
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I dont know, Joe. It definately sounded like she said Dodgers to me. Maybe a poll to settle this?
Sounded like Dodgers to me. The Lasorda line was a classic.
No poll needed. That’s as Dodgery as you can be.
I think it is ridiculous to add Cocoa Puffs and not Count Chocula. What kind of cereal buff are you?
As much as I want to, I don’t hear the “G.” And even if she did say “Godgers,” I’m willing to accept that Russia got in her eyes.
Sorry, Joe. I agree with much of what you say, but I just don’t hear it…
Oh My Godgers…
Another vote for “Dodgers”, but I can see where you were mislead by her homey, folksy accent. Ugh.
Sorry. Definitely Dodgers.
And is this a worldwide, decades-long thing where the news anchors and the sports person have a little by-play about some event that wasn’t covered in the sports bulletin but somehow seems important to them and therefore will be to us? And as often as not causes viewers (me anyway) to shout at the screen “If you’re going to ad lib, rehearse it for God’s sake!”
Nope, Dodgers it is.
Just curious… What happened with the free books? Who were the winners? Is that dead? Did I miss it?
Go Boilers!
Dodgers. I’m trying to make myself hear “Godgers” and I just can’t do it.
Thanks, Joe. I had to stand on my head, cross my eyes and sneeze to see the beautiful woman in that image.
Also, I heard Dodgers.
I need to know if she really thinks the Godgers moved to LA 50 years ago… because she’s going to have the nuclear codes.
She wanted to go to ESPN, so who did they have instead, Karie Ross?
I’m more disturbed by the fact that she can’t pronounce “Mackey” Arena and that she seems to think there are 4 quarters in college basketball.
Sorry, I hear “Dodgers.”
I’m new to the site. Really great work.
I listened at least 10 times and heard Dodgers every time and I was trying to hear something else….you’re right about the jerk at the end
Fey: What an amazing time we live in. Just to think two years ago, I was a small town mayor of Alaska’s crystal meth capital. And now I’m just one heartbeat away from being president of the United States. It just goes to show that anyone can be president…
Poehler: ….Anyone. Anyone! Anyone.
And I was worried she doesn’t have enough experience…
Sounded like Dodgers to me too Joe.
Has it really been 20 years when sports got 4 minutes?
Seems like that’s how often Katie Horner breaks in to report that it’s windy, these days.
I can hear the Godgers, but it took about four listenings…
Also, definitely hag. No comely young wench in that drawing.
Listened to it three times. All three times I think she said Dodgers. I wish she’d stayed in sportscasting, not because she’s good at it, but because we’ve had eight years of airhead politics and that’s what has led to the current economic mess (i.e. If I stop paying for the regulatory agencies to be able to enforce the laws, what could go wrong? It’s not as though they’ll gouge the public, run rampant in search of dangerous profits, require bailouts, or anything). Airheads in sports are okay, although the fact that I’m posting here says that I appreciate some deep analysis with my Cocoa Puffs. But she did say Dodgers. And she showed a bit of bantering skills. Remember, this is small market television. Heck, everything in Alaska is small market television.
And to go back to pizza, the local (truly local) Pizza Factory has a $5 special on any mini. Thick crust (needed to support the toppings adequately), extra cheese, sausage, mushroom, pineapple, with some red pepper flakes for zing. Every component is needed. Not the best pizza in the world, but the best I’ve had outside of major hubs of pizza.
I only see the old hag… is that an omen of some sort?
How do I go about seeing the young woman?
I must have led a pure life, or a protected one — I immediately saw the young woman (looking over her left shoulder, Nate). I had to search for the hag.
But where’s Wally? He’s got to be in there somewhere.
Nate,
Try and look at the nose as a chin. The young woman is looking away from you towards the left horizon.
The mouth is a necklace and the old woman’s right eye is a nose.
Also, cover up the old lady’s eye and mouth with your finger. Then you should see the young woman’s face to the left of your finger.
Another vote for “Dodgersâ€. Anyway, did you see how often she blinked? Quite often. That is cause for concern.
Yeah, she said Dodgers, but with a Fargo-like accent. I think Orel Hershiser was the one talking about the Godgers that year.
Sorry, Joe. I don’t think this was an instance of her trying to bring God to the country.
I think DORIGHT made a mistake — the old woman’s nose wart (not right eye) is the young woman’s nose. Also, the old woman’s left eye is the young woman’s ear.
Those may be the oddest 2 sentences I ever wrote.
Sorry, Joe. I heard “Dodgers” too. If it’s any consolation, I thought I heard “Aplanta” when she was doing the NBA scores.
Hey, did we ever find out who won the free Rosenberg books!?
I don’t hear Gogders, but she dropped a lot of “g”s anyway. It was startin’ to get annoyin’ after listenin’ for a bit.
Sounded like Dodgers to me.
I liked the shot at the wave in the stands. Don’t know the last time I saw a wave make the highlight reel.
Yep, Dodgers. And the “McKey” Arena thing bugged me, too.
AND… there sure seemed to be a lot of killin’ goin’ on during her little sportscast!
I heard Godgers. I think one of the babies she had that year was named Godger.
“Dodgers.”
Both times.
And without getting too political, just how “small town” is this woman?
The losers of the Iditarod — a day after someone* won the race– was the lead sports story?
*What’s he gotta do to impress you?!
Perhaps you heard “codger,” which would reveal a premonition of her…. well, I’m not gonna get too political.
What I love about the clip:
Oklahoma 113 : Nebraska 93. I miss Billy Tubbs.
The Washington Bullets beat the Pistons. I miss the Bullets. The Wizards are a soccer team.
You’re all missing the best part of the clip. The Whalers beat the Rangers 3-1.
Yeah she definitely said Dodgers. If you listen close there is a rhythm when the says “the Dodgers”, easy to tell. Not much polish though, but then again this was back when ESPN wasn’t a household name for her to learn from, and a 2 liter of Coke was more expensive than a gallon of gas. Not bad though for having Ron Burgundy as a co-anchor.
Yup, Dodgers. And I saw the young woman before I saw the hag. So I’ve got that going for me. Which is nice.
Watched a couple of times, I got Dodgers everytime. There’s a define “D-uh” sound at the beginning, at least by my ears.
Dodgers
I heard Aplanta. Not sure what that means about dinosaurs walking the earth 4000 years ago, though.
Very easily dodgers not even close
I heard Gadodgers instead of the dodgers but that’s just a bit of nitpicking.
I heard Dodgers. Even trying to hear Godgers, I heard Dodgers. Sorry Joe, I think you’ve spent too much time thinking about the 1975 Reds.
Definitely Dodgers. But in the hockey report, she says ” killin’ ” twice, as in, “Whadya doin’ to that caribou?” “Killin’ it.”
Nate, sorry if I put you on the wrong road. She’s looking over her RIGHT shoulder. (I’m in the Southern hemisphere — spring and autumn switched, Christmas in summer, water circles down the plughole the opposite direction, that sort of thing — forgot to compensate.)
I am shocked as to how long the sportscast is. What are today’s local sportscasts like 90 seconds? They are in DFW.
Of course it doesnt matter that OU won the Big 8, cause KU is on route to win it all.
We get this non-existent foible, but no “Nittaly Lions”?
I like how Joe brings up how much of a jerk the male anchor is at the end there, as if it’s not jerky to smugly bring this non-issue up.
I’m still trying to get over the Bon Jovi hair. Why can’t the Obama campaign use it?
I heard Dodgers also, but i am sure that if the person writing the cue cards had written Godgers, she would have said Godgers.
Dodgers, Godgers, who cares? I finally, FINALLY, saw the young woman in the illustration.
Dodgers.
Talk about a foreshadowing…Greg Jefferies grounds out as the Dodgers beat the Mets…It was good to see highlights from Port St. Lucie, even if the groundskeeper had a bad day…I can’t believe the Rangers lost to the Whalers.
Dodgers.
What’s weird to me is seeing an old sports newscast like that, where one anchor goes on and on like that. I’m of the Sportscenter generation, and accustomed to all the bells and whistles and short segments that cater to my short attention span.