Alex Cooper's Wrigley Field visit explodes online for painfully awkward reason

There was a time when the seventh-inning stretch at Wrigley Field was like no other tradition in Major League Baseball. More often than not, the Cubs, unless hosting one of their former players, would entrust the responsibility to a well-known Chicago celebrity. Sure, there are bad performances, like Mike Ditka, but the Wrigley Field faithful appreciate the moment, just as they did when Steve McMichael called out Angel Hernandez during his performance.

That said, it's a process that has jumped the shark. Sure, the Cubs still bring in their cast of former players and celebrities associated with the team, but they have leaned into just bringing in everybody. The once-appreciated tradition has become watered down, and performances like the one from Alex Cooper of the "Call Her Daddy" podcast are the reason why.

Cooper sang the seventh-inning stretch on Sunday, during the Cubs' 11-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals, and she was deservedly booed relentlessly.

Wrigley Field crowd reacts to Alex Cooper's seventh inning disaster

Due to the game being on ESPN, Cooper's horrendous rendition of the seventh-inning stretch was not caught on national television. Nevertheless, because of how bad it was, the Cubs fans in attendance at Wrigley Field last night are making sure it goes viral.

Let's repeat the circumstances: the Cubs, at the time of Cooper's performance, were leading 11-0 over their biggest rival, the Cardinals, en route to a series victory that likely pushes St. Louis closer to selling at the MLB Trade Deadline. It takes a special kind of bad for Cubs fans to boo anyone performing the stretch given what happened in the game. Cooper obliged and offered quite possibly one of the worst performances in the history of the seventh-inning stretch.

Cooper's performance was so bad that the Cubs should just implement a change to the process now. Instead of rolling out a celebrity to be named later while they are in town, promoting something that fans, in the moment, care nothing about, the team should just stick to replaying the video of Harry Caray performing the stretch. It saves all involved from the embarrassment that was Cooper and her performance on Sunday night.

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