HARDBALL: From Punk Prettyboy to Professional Pitcher by Paul Slifer (From Roctober #1, 1992)

Last April me and my friend Jake went to see the Chicago White Sox play the Red Sox at Fenway Park. But, other than seeing a good ball game, our main intention was to meet Scott Radinsky, a good pitcher for the White Sox and former frontman of the now defunct hardcore band Scared Straight. Scared Straight was one of those early to mid-80's California hardcore bands that was I on Doug Moody's mostly 7" record label Mystic Records which I'm pretty sure doesn't exist anymore. Anyways, me and Jake stood by the Chicago bullpen with the Scared Straight 7" in hand waiting for Scott. When he came running over to the bullpen after warmups we yelled to him and held the record up. When he saw it he looked real surprised and said "Where did you guys find that?" We talked to him a while, and the rest of his teammates were really interested in seeing the record with the picture of Scott shirtless and bald on the back. Scott seemed really out of touch with the music scene considering he asked me if SSD and the FU's were still playing around. I guess he's just really busy with his baseball carreer. So me and Jake talked to Scott a bit more about baseball and Rock music then we went back to our seats and watched the game with our autographed copy of the Scared Straight 7". A true baseball punk rock story.