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The Orix Buffaloes can't read my, can't read my, no they can't read my 'porker' face?

May 1, 2010, 4:30 PM EDT

They’ve got to love nobody. Or something.
Big ups to Ben Cohen who is running the ship over at Deadspin today for this find. Apparently, the Orix Buffaloes, a Nippon professional baseball team based in Osaka, Japan, list the songs they play at the stadium to entertain their fans on their website. According to the above screencap, the usual suspects are there (but no “Rock & Roll, Part Two” by Gary Glitter? They must not be big fans of pedophiles in Japan): “Thunderstruck” by AC/DC, “We Like To Party” by something called the Vengaboys and a little ditty you may have heard of, sung by the biggest pop star on the planet, Lady Gaga:
“Porker Face.” Wait. What? A full-sized image of the screencap after the jump.


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That is just awesome. Interestingly, “Porker Face” has another connection to pop music history and provides a sad footnote to this story: rumor has it that the other members of The Mamas & The Papas secretly used that very moniker for portly bandmate Mama Cass.
And in the interest of complete disclosure, even a hip and happening guy like me can get into a little Lady Gaga from time to time. She’s a trip, got a funky beat and I can bug out to her. It’s like I always say, “Just dance, gonna be okay, da da doo-doo-mmm, just dance, spin that record babe, da da doo-doo-mmm.”
Well, I don’t actually say that, but you know, it’s all good and stuff.
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Next Up, Lady Gaga Performing Her Hit Single, “Telegram” [Deadspin]