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Nathan Buff's avatar

Cal Raleigh is in a commercial this year for an insurance company. He says working with this company is a can of corn, and tells the young couple it means easy. then he hard-tosses a can of corn right at the lady who catches it in a bit of quality video editing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bx_e_ncuOw

Glad you wrote this, I didn't know that's where it came from.

Postcards From Home's avatar

Can of corn works for all of the reasons you mentioned and because it is short and alliterative. Can of beans just doesn’t have the same ring to it. Red would have known that.

Keith Rohman's avatar

What a beautiful piece of writing about something that is familiar to all of us baseball fans and yet you’ve added layers and layers to our understanding. Thanks for this.

Nathan Buff's avatar

My new salutation:

May life grant you many cans of corn.

B. Thiesen's avatar

Beautifully written. Well done. Too young to have heard Red say “can of corn” from the booth. I’ve heard others use the phrase. Maybe the first time I heard it was from Jack Brickhouse. Red Barber used to talk with Bob Edwards in the early days of NPR. I tried to not miss those conversations.