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Popular Podcaster's Cubs Game Performance Sparks Loud Boos and Viral Backlash
Popular Podcaster's Cubs Game Performance Sparks Loud Boos and Viral Backlash originally appeared on Parade.
When you head to a ballgame, you expect a few things: overpriced snacks, a rivalry win, and a crowd-pleasing rendition of 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game.' But on Sunday, July 6, fans at Chicago's Wrigley Field got a very different seventh-inning stretch — and they let their voices be heard.
Alex Cooper, host of the Call Her Daddy podcast (which now pulls in roughly 10 million listeners per episode), took the mic as part of her 'Big Al's Takeover' with the Cubs. Dressed in a custom jersey, the 30-year-old internet personality tried her hand at leading the crowd in the classic tune. Instead of cheers, she was met with loud, extended boos.
.@alexandracooper brought the energy for Sunday Night Baseball 😂 📺 Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN
— espnW (@espnW) July 7, 2025
'You've never seen something like this before,' she said before launching into an offbeat, exaggerated solo performance. Her friends flanked her as backup dancers, lifting her into the air at the end, but the crowd didn't budge. The jeers only grew louder.
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And it wasn't just in the stands. Once footage hit social media, the internet wasted no time reacting.
7/6/25. Alex Cooper. Immediate lifetime ban is warranted. Making a mockery of this @ Wrigley is so disgusting and disrespectful. #7thInningStretch #WrigleyField #Disrespect
— 7thInningStretch (@StretchCritic) July 7, 2025
'What Alex Cooper did at Wrigley should be studied forever,' one person wrote on X (formerly Twitter). 'If you get booed for ANYTHING while the Cubs are beating the Cardinals by 11 runs, you definitely deserved it.'
'A cappella and without Auto-Tune... I'll only say that she's a brave woman,' another fan posted. 'The only question is whether she was drunk.'
'Safe to say they will never bring her back,' a third chimed in.
Others called the performance 'cringe,' 'disrespectful,' and 'brutal,' comparing it to infamous flops like Mike Ditka's or Ozzy Osbourne's renditions, but arguing Cooper's was worse because she meant it to be that way.
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.
— Matt Lindner (@mattlindner) July 7, 2025
Cooper isn't the only one to feel the sting of boos this year. In February, Taylor Swift faced a similar moment when she was booed by Philadelphia Eagles fans during a Jumbotron appearance at Super Bowl LIX.
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Taylor Swift laughed off being booed at the Super Bowl 😅
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) February 10, 2025
The incident, captured on video, showed the 35-year-old pop superstar briefly startled before regaining composure and brushing it off with a laugh.
Even more recently, Tom Brady got hit with the same treatment. The NFL legend was loudly booed during a Jumbotron appearance at the Indianapolis 500 in May.
Popular Podcaster's Cubs Game Performance Sparks Loud Boos and Viral Backlash first appeared on Parade on Jul 7, 2025
This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 7, 2025, where it first appeared.
