Mike Ditka sings during seventh inning stretch July 5 1998

Mike Ditka sings "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the seventh-inning stretch at Wrigley Field during a Chicago Cubs game
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[@DecentG]

The organist trying to keep up is the funniest part

[@RobertSmith-tk2ci]

Cubs fan on winning world series

[@nintendonerdsvideos4727]

actually the best part was Harry the 3rd laughing like a hyena

[@benhaushalter5067]

RIP GARY PRESSY

[@Crichtonator1982]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Crichtonator1982]

Let alone everyone singing ha ha ha.🤣🤣🤣

[@ryanstumfoll902]

Ditka was stuck in traffic on addison during the top of the 7th. He pulled the car up right to the front gate, and with terrible hips ran up the ramp to the booth. Funny stuff.

[@rickrose5377]

Oh, I misread your explanation. I thought you said "with terrible lips".

[@justinnoceda2115]

Dedication

[@greenskiis]

The way he rolls his eyes after he finishes and his voice cracks on the final note is friggin' priceless!

[@kevg715]

1...2...3 strikes you're out at the old! Ball! GEEEEAME!

[@windowsthefan]

"root root root for the home team" LOL

[@jimjohnson5752]

I was crying from laughter. What a classic moment.

[@hellpoemer8312]

0:36 he takes the mic before the guy finishes his sentence LMAOOO

[@stampbee913]

Thank you Gary Pressy for playing the organ as fast as Ditka could sing! Thank you for ALL your 33 years of playing, too. Cub fans and other fans, too will greatly miss you and your talented fingers! Sept 22, 2019

[@toddm1239]

This was actually July 5, 1998, not June 5th. I was at this game, and I remember the Cubs came back in the 8th inning to win.

[@ericruiz1036]

Inspired by Mike's performance

[@iplaywithrocksforfun]

Him and Ozzy crushed it

[@Fireteam2479]

0.75 speed, he sings normal. Lol.

[@bmla88]

You’re right. Hilarious

[@Hiei2k7]

Hey Coach, meter's running. METER'S RUNNING GO FASTER!

[@logalogalog]

Saw this live in TV. Didn't know he was the Bears' coach until my father pointed it out to me (I was born AFTER the Bears won SBXX. All I could think was "how did somebody so awful get the opportunity to be a guest conductor of The Stretch?"

[@MCO18]

“IF THEY DON’T WIN IT’S A SHAAAAME!”

[@walterlv01]

Ditka stayed with Chip and Steve for the bottom of the 7th as they asked him about his Saints team that upcoming year - he called Chip "Skip" (his dad's name) about 4 or 5 times during the inning and then had to leave because he had left his car running outside the park.

[@crpdiem]

😅😅😅😅

[@Nicky2Chains]

The Cubs literally scored 7 runs after this

[@jerometurner8759]

Oh my god! I remember when Mike sang and he was the talk of the town. The news was making fun of him. In my mind it was a recent thing, and now I see 1998 and realize this "recent" thing was 23 years ago! WOW. It was a lifetime ago.

[@trustysteeringwheeltray7392]

The organist needing to adjust their speed 😂 😂

[@Crichtonator1982]

0:54 I'll root, rah root for the home team.

[@kylemoses6914]

Hes got talent

[@tammyrichards1976]

You don't know talent then cause that was awful and a disgrace to a tradition!

[@nuzdog1]

This happened JULY 5th, 1998, not June 5th. I was at the game.

[@devondibley5717]

June 5, 98, Cubs played the White Sox. This is July 5. Cubs came back from 5-0 deficit to win 7-6.

[@KingAndrew5000]

that was Awesome! #ditka !!!

[@hoosierflatty6435]

LOOOOL, I watched this live as a kid and was rofl

[@seamusosullivan6128]

He sang it fast and he said root root root for the home team

[@ECP-xu5vj]

He was thinking my car is running the whole time

[@jacobtapianieto9655]

To be fair, that's the original lyric of the song although it's traditional to call out the home team's name.

[@joepaulo5653]

i would say that was pitiful but oozy osbourne has set the standard so pathetically low that this is considered Grammy award winning.

[@mtndewman1022]

if they dont win its a SHHAAAAMMEEE

[@lisalawson5480]

Jl on jk@. 12

[@BroncoKnight34]

WAH TUHH THREE STRYKES YER OTT AT THEE. OL..BALL..GaaAme!

[@goldenapplereviews9135]

That really is the greatest thing of all time!! 😂

[@ryansoberri8379]

Nothing like when Ozzie did it

[@UMAMIMAMU]

I'm 100% making an MP3 of this.

[@Pokemonmaster150b]

What's up with coaches being crappy singers? Ditka, Mourinho, Van Gaal...the list goes on.

[@jaimeduran9387]

they scream too much

[@TruSuperGamerFriends]

Shoutout Rob Scallon and Gary Pressey

[@Joeytheumpire]

Yes indeed

[@Finessa_Williams]

Ha! Those were the days

[@kennygworld]

I heard that at the time he was late because before that he went out golfing and was stuck in traffic that's why he singed that way, I wouldn't blame him imagine climbing all those ramps and short stars it does get tiring if you're rushing

[@martinhuff6119]

if they don't win IT'S A SHAME!!!!!

[@gameshows5973]

I wonder if Steve Stone ever sang. Chip Caray actually has a pretty good voice. He must of inherited that from his mom's side of the family.

[@jesseboone8087]

There was not a person in the stands who would boo him. #DaCoach

[@windowsthefan]

0:38 where he starts

[@jackervin6455]

He was really just yelling the whole thing😂

[@Haroldm814]

I'm gonna sue you for putting this up because I literally laughed my ass off hahaha! So glad I found this

[@PittsburghMarky]

All I know is this is inspirational. The Cubs came back and won the game! And it was July 5, 1998. I know. I watched the game. As a Pirates fan, I still feel bad about it. www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1998/B07050CHN1998.htm

[@Joeytheumpire]

I feel bad for Gary Pressy, who had to play this. Take me out to the ball game.

[@masongaming2623]

This was exactly what Gary Pressy was talking about. If you dont know who he was, he was the organist.

[@brianmccormick3837]

I remember watching a video of what you're saying. I think it was a documentary. Now I can't find it. Do you have the link to what Gary Pressy was discussing?

[@masongaming2623]

@@brianmccormick3837 Yes, I can’t get a link but it was a video of a guitarist interviewing him. It should pop up when you type in “Gary Pressy” on YT.

[@brianmccormick3837]

@@masongaming2623 Do you know what the guitarist's name was?

[@Crichtonator1982]

This is just too funny 🤣 😂 😆

[@bethaniesmith9798]

Lol, was he singing fast because he was late and had to hurry before the bottom of the 7th started?

[@flatsfishin]

that was good. laughing my ass off

[@randallwong7196]

He has places to go.

[@Splinter48708]

MY EARS!!! THEIR MELTING (DA BEARS!)

[@manuginobilisbaldspot424]

I was weak when I saw this live haha.

[@DaveyHendersonAH]

That's fucking hilarious

[@TheDisputedTruth]

DAAAA COACH.

[@keyboardwarrior327]

It's amusing that the Cubs would invite the Saints coach to sing Take Me Out to the Ballgame.

[@keyboardwarrior327]

I know he was, but at the time he coached the Saints. It was a joke.

[@brandonsmith7787]

That 1,2, and 3 was really fast 😅😅😅

[@jennifersnyder802]

That is the song i sing in my concert in third grade

[@garrettbrooks6576]

Gary said later that Mike was running late, struggling with his artifical hip and such and was trying to get it done I suppose

[@mattgeary9987]

It's a SHHHAME

[@asanitheafrofuturist]

At the old ball gAAAme

[@cardscubesandcars6587]

0:57

[@terucks]

Classic. . .super funny

[@ronymexico1]

one big jagoff

[@dannydanley9449]

He sounded like he didn't want to be there!

[@charles00000000000]

It's a good thing the Cubs came back and won or Ditka would have come into the clubhouse after the game!! 🤣🤣

[@cnsmith0719]

I dont know whose version is worse-his, Ozzy Osbourne's or Jeff Gordon's

[@wyssmaster]

Ditka clearly couldn't sing the melody, but Gordon's was the worst. He was well off the melody AND had awful issues with the timing, not to mention "WRIGLEY STADIUM".

[@staggmovie]

+Connor Smith I would say that Ozzy Osbourne's is the worst, I mean it is one thing for a person like Mike Ditka or Jeff Gordon that is not known for singing to mess up. But for somebody like Ozzy Osbourne that is known for singing to mess up, that is another thing. And I believe that Ditka and Gordon at least knew what they were singing, Osborne on the another hand, didn't look at the lyrics, he sang one or two lines that you can understand, and that mumbled the rest of the song, and had the nerve to cheer after he was done.

[@whoaitsreesy]

Connor Smith don't forget Danica Patrick.

[@The_Doug124]

Jeff Gordon’s is definitely the worst. He was always my all time favorite nascar driver but his whole “Wrigley Stadium” bit is still to this day the most cringe worthy moment of my life.

[@nintendonerdsvideos4727]

according to Chip Caray, Ozzy is the worst. Coach Krzyzewski was bad too

[@tipdub]

looool. i've never seen a dinosaur sing at a ballgame before.

[@creeg84]

Da Coach

[@BurntPuke82]

Still better than Ozzy

[@cyndimartinez6371]

My ears! They're destroyed! Help!

[@joepaulo5653]

I would call this performance pitiful and horrifying but Ozzie osbourne has set the standard so pathetically low that this is considered Grammy award winning in comparison.

[@thomasschroeder5981]

Roseanne Barr national anthem much worse

[@ramuelcruzada3207]

Ditka da rapper lol

[@djslendii9073]

guest hes a sox fan

[@Ciattofi]

Hi billy

[@redsox116]

still better than Warren god damn G

[@jonnyblair4109]

+boogyyman but he didn't though... Root root root for the Cubbies, cmon son

[@dangeiger9796]

And both he and Warren G were better than Ozzie Osbourne

[@joepaulo5653]

Ozzie osbourne set the standard so incredibly low that basically anyone who sings the song now is a Grammy award winner.

[@jennifersnyder802]

But i sing the holl thing

[@carltownsend3166]

SAFE TO SAY HE WILL NEVER BE ON AMERICAS GOT TALENT.STICK TO FOOTBALL,PLEASE

[@mattdurand]

GOOD ONE

[@Mr.Derogatory316]

Typical Mike Ditka and the media

[@asanitheafrofuturist]

When you don't wanna do the job but you already got paid

[@stephenpavebay]

Hilarious

[@flaccidwhitecoat]

“sings”

[@musicman76enator]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[@mrgold3205]

When the cringe is too strong

[@Crichtonator1982]

🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😅😅😅

[@tobiaslepke]

Is he missing a few of his front teeth?

[@joepaulo5653]

Duh, because he played football.

[@x2415]

So weird so fast poor organist and Ditka with Referee jersey

[@shannonwilliams1941]

Wasn’t worth the wait!

[@NBbowler]

Stick to terrible Bears football, Ditka. (Go Pack Go, but also Go Cubs Go!)

[@iconr6racer]

way to be stupid.. how's it feel?

[@joepaulo5653]

Go Red Sox!

[@cgialloreto]

Did he snort a kilo of coke before going up to the booth?

[@Ciattofi]

What the fuc

[@JustinDeFiblander]

HAHAHAHAHA. At least we never tried to duplicate harry carry on the Southside jagoffs. Btw youre organist is an amateur.