2008 Poetic Interlude #???: Holliday in Alameda

by monkeyball on Nov 14, 2008 7:36 AM PST Comment 25 comments

[Original lyrics here.]

[Full Poetic Interlude after the jump.]

Holliday in Alameda

So you hit in Coors
For a year or two
And you know how to work four balls
In mile-high air
Hitting yours go far
Bay East your type Beane don't call

Play walkup by Stapp
Or some crap like Jason Mraz
On your thirteen-five salary
Betcha you don't know
Why Oakland hitters feel cold
In their slumps like Craft, Patrol

Its time to play for your next career
Foul yard will not help you here
You'll be on base by yourself, I fear
We'll replace your bat, next year

It's Matt Holliday in Alameda
Hittin's tough here late at night
It's Matt Holliday in Alameda
Don't bother to bring your wife

You're a star hitter with the ash
You want too much cash
You want everyone to try and sign you
Hit better than Swish
So you can get rich
But Billy Beane gets richer off you

Well you'll swing harder
With no one to get your back
For a single run a day
Slave for numbers
'Til the All-Star Break
Then your role is brokered in a trade

Then you can go where games are won
Then you can go where the teams score runs
What we need, bar none
Is a new third baseman

It's Matt Holliday in Alameda
Where people dress in black
Matt Holliday in Alameda
Where you'll take pitches at bat

Ball bat ball bat ball bat ball bat ball bat (etc.)

And it's Matt Holliday in Alameda
Where you'll hit as you're told
Matt Holliday in Alameda
Where our slumps stay icy cold

Bill Beane!

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I never in my wildest dreams thought the Dead Kennedys would be remembered

nearly 30 years after I bought their album. Not that it isn’t absolutely awesome of course. But not many people thought that then.

It's not the results, it's how you look going about those results -- Tim McCarver

by WaddellCanseco on Nov 14, 2008 7:47 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

Has it seriously been 30 years?

This.

by Blicks on Nov 14, 2008 7:48 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Wow.

This.

by Blicks on Nov 14, 2008 7:48 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

And then you stay, forever

This.

by Blicks on Nov 14, 2008 7:47 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

There's always room for Jello!

I am Ray Fosse's infatuations with Clay Wood and high-definition television.

by franks a lot on Nov 14, 2008 8:13 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

Coliseum uber alles... uber alles Coliseum!

by still bills kingdom on Nov 14, 2008 8:19 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

haha nice

witty remark

by dtownmbrown on Nov 14, 2008 10:44 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

In that live video, it looks like Jello could've used some Right Guard

"However, at Elias, I think they keep track of the amount of sunflower seeds spit in a dugout each night." - Brad Ziegler, 8/7/08

by doctorK on Nov 14, 2008 8:46 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

AWESOME

Seriously, Holiday In Cambodia NEEDS to be his entry music

by mikev on Nov 14, 2008 8:57 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

Last time I posted a fanpost with a musical title yet no lyrics monkeyball got mad at me

Good thing I kept my “It’s a Holliday in Oak-a-land, it’s tough, kid, but it’s life” to my own blog this time.

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by iamawesomer on Nov 14, 2008 9:49 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

nice

i’d like to see him walk up to the plate using his bat as a microphone stand.

BB should send scouts to watch cricket players.

by alea iacta est on Nov 14, 2008 10:07 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

What, no "Too Drunk to Foulke?"

by easyraider on Nov 14, 2008 10:31 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

We've Got a Bigger Contract Now

Did you overpay for those eggs? @('.')@

by monkeyball on Nov 14, 2008 10:40 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

lol

A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05

by xbhaskarx on Nov 14, 2008 11:55 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

lol

It sounded like the kids in that video were chanting “POT, POT, POT”

Nicely done Monkeyball. Nice edge.

"Not in your wildest alcoholic nightmare would you ever imagine such events unfolding!" Bill King

by Buck Turgidson on Nov 14, 2008 10:33 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

My fav so far!

witty remark

by dtownmbrown on Nov 14, 2008 10:45 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

Hit better than Swish
So you can get rich
But Billy Beane gets richer off you

uh, scott boras?

A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05

by xbhaskarx on Nov 14, 2008 11:58 AM PST reply actions 0 recs