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2008 Poetic Interlude #???: Holliday in Alameda



[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

Star-divide

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 reply actions 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 reply actions 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 reply actions 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 reply actions 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 reply actions 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 reply actions 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 to parent up reply reply actions 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 reply actions 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 reply actions actions   0 recs

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? @('.')@

by monkeyball on Nov 14, 2008 12:04 PM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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

by Leopold Bloom on Nov 14, 2008 7:39 PM PST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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 to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Monkeyball...

… hits it out of the park!!!

by jdub69 on Nov 14, 2008 11:45 PM PST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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

by Leopold Bloom on Nov 15, 2008 1:50 AM PST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Nice work LOVE DK…

6+4+3=2

by doublezero on Nov 15, 2008 7:26 AM PST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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