Call Her Daddy podcaster Alex Cooper was booed for her rendition of the seventh-inning stretch at Wrigley Field during Sunday night’s Chicago Cubs game against the St. Louis Cardinals.
The ESPN Sunday Night Baseball broadcast did not show Cooper and friends singing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” on television (viewers instead saw a commercial break), but the espnW X account showed what viewers missed.
X user MBDChicago posted a video from the seats at Wrigley that made the boos loud and clear.
Among the reactions on social media, X user Matt Linder wrote, “Alex Cooper’s Stretch wasn’t Ditka or Ozzy Osbourne level bad. It was somehow worse because she was actually trying to do it that way.”
Michael Bolling wrote, “What Alex Cooper did at Wrigley should be studied forever because if you get boo’ed for ANYTHING while the #Cubs are beating the Cardinals by 11 runs you definitely deserved it.”
And Jon Greenberg of The Athletic noted that Cubs radio voice Pat Hughes (who can be seen in the background of the espnW video) was “getting a kick out of Alex Cooper’s rendition of “Take Me Out To The Ballgame.”
Cooper co-created and hosts the hugely popular Call Me Daddy podcast, which was acquired by Barstool Sports in 2018 and remained there until 2021, before she left Barstool to sign a $60 million deal with Spotify, where she started “The Unwell Network” in 2023. And last August, she brought her show and network to SiriusXM as part of a $125 million deal.
So, Cooper is in high demand in the podcast and social media worlds, but it’s unlikely the Cubs will invite her back for the seventh-inning stretch anytime soon.
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