Motivation Quote by Ron Fairly

Only a ballplayer-turned-broadcaster would dress up a gut-level truth in such comically formal clothes. Ron Fairly's line - "The wind at Candlestick tonight is blowing with great propensity" - is a small masterclass in how sports talk turns weather into narrative, then turns narrative into coping mechanism. Candlestick Park was notorious for its swirling, game-warping gusts; everyone in the stadium already knew it was windy. The intent isn't to inform so much as to ritualize: to mark the conditions, to warn hitters and outfielders, to pre-load the audience for weird bounces and cheap homers. It's the verbal equivalent of tugging your cap down and bracing.

The subtext sits in that odd phrase, "great propensity". Wind doesn't have a "propensity" the way a person does; that's the joke, whether Fairly meant it or not. It anthropomorphizes the elements while also dodging plain speech, as if calling it "really windy" would be too pedestrian for the moment. That slight mismatch between subject and diction is what makes it memorable: a whiff of accidental poetry, the kind that emerges when a broadcaster reaches for novelty during a long season and finds something stranger instead.

Context matters: Candlestick is baseball's cautionary tale about environment overriding design. Fairly's sentence becomes a tiny monument to that stadium's personality - a reminder that some ballparks don't just host the game; they meddle in it.