2008 Poetic Interlude #???: Holliday in Alameda
by monkeyball on Nov 14, 2008 7:36 AM PST
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[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
There's always room for Jello!
I am Ray Fosse's infatuations with Clay Wood and high-definition television.
Coliseum uber alles... uber alles Coliseum!
by still bills kingdom on Nov 14, 2008 8:19 AM PST reply actions
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
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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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
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
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
well, I was working on the whole theme that Holliday will be trade bait in July
Plus, Beane is more the charismatic sociopathic leader, following Jello’s original theme.
Did you overpay for those eggs? @('.')@
I Heart Monkeyball.
A bowl of rice a day will keep Pol Pot away.
I see a deranged rabbit, on fire, cowering away from a vagina. I await the results of the Rorschaschererer. -Nico
no, but I am taking way too many pain meds.
I see a deranged rabbit, on fire, cowering away from a vagina. I await the results of the Rorschaschererer. -Nico
by Leopold Bloom on Nov 14, 2008 9:11 PM PST up reply actions
And it's nice
that you chose a song that Jello stills owns the rights to.
I see a deranged rabbit, on fire, cowering away from a vagina. I await the results of the Rorschaschererer. -Nico
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