Music and baseball question!

Since this is a weekend, you probably don't care to hear about politics. You'd rather hear about baseball and music - even though baseball season is over, and this is the time of year when music radio always goes to shit (and never recovers).

A friend of mine who always has a lot of music questions insists I post this question here, so here it comes...

She says the song appeared on MTV around 1984. I should remember it just for that reason, yet embarrassingly, I do not. Anybip, the chorus of the song appeared to be singing, "Baaasebaaall." However, this was not the real lyric - just something that sounded like it.

I know there was a locally popular song about the Reds that sounded like this, but according to this friend of mine, the song in question here had nothing to do with baseball and that this was just a misheard lyric.

Can anyone help us out in answering this super stumper?