Athletics Nation: An SB Nation Community

Navigation: Jump to content areas:



Around SBN: Lowrie Forces Angels To Walk-Off Back To Anaheim Bar-right-arrows



An interlude for the Poets: Don't Poop on Our Parade

 

 

With apologies to Styne, Merrill and Monkey

(I can't account for the occasional random line breaks.  And yes, I do happen to be a heterosexual)

Don’t tell us not to cheer—

Just mope and compute,
Life’s winning and the goal’s
A chance to crapshoot.
Don’t bring around some stat
To poop on our parade!

Don’t tell us “no sac bunts”
We think they count, too.
If we can steal a base,
We really ought to.
No dreary acronyms

To poop on our parade!

We’ll march our rooks out,              
Bet on the come.
And if we’re hooked-out,
Your turn at bat, Rats.
At least we didn’t flake it,
Drat, Rats, maybe Oh-9 is when we’ll make it …

But if we’re 20 wins,
Of rare perfection.
Or painful losing streaks
Meaned by regression
The Lasik or some blurry sunscreen in the eye,
We gotta play ‘em,
We’re gonna flay ‘em,
Hardly even pay ‘em, this year
Baseball is heaven,
Six months or seven --
We get to cheer the A’s, dear.

Get ready for us, League,
The A’s are comers,
Marching to the beat
Of left-field drummers.
Don’t bore us with some stat 
To poop on our parade!

We’re gonna win, and win Now!
Play off your charts--we know how,
Play-off for the whole jackpot,
Pitch, catch and hit where they’re not,
Eye outside sliders, and take--
Wait for the fastball, and rake-- 
Hey, Mister Selig, kiss our bum!

Repeat: We’ll march our rooks etc.

Repeat: Get ready for us etc.

Original lyrics  here.

Youtube  version here.

 

Poll
So, are you:
  • A stat-head?
  • A Poet?
  • A puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a pawn and a king?

  12 votes | Results

4 recs | Comment 0 comments

Read Related

Story-email Email Printer Print

Comments

Display:

Comments For This Post Are Closed


User Tools

Welcome to the SB Nation blog about Oakland Athletics.

Community Guidelines ANcillary Terms

FanPosts

Community blog posts and discussion.

Recommended FanPosts

Gametime_wlogo_small
Photos - Done with a new twist
Asavatar_small
DLD 10/5/08: Because I'm still not over Hazing
Tg-ipa_small
An insomnia DLD for 10/2/08
Bump_small
Korach Charity -- Calling All Pledges!
08-_the_author_small
DLD 10/1/08: there's only one october

Recent FanPosts

Ascencion57_small
What do we do with Crosby?
Oaklandathletics_small
Bill King denied HOF yet again :(
Oakland_small
A Place to Follow the Arizona Fall League
Ziegler160px_small
Brad Ziegler T-shirt
Small
Looking Down the Road, Who's the Competition
Avatar_small
Photos-Seattle Series
Small
Where are they now - Jeff Tam
Fightclubcalvin_small
A couple of random thoughts

Post_icon New FanPost All FanPosts Carrot-mini


Managers

Banana_album_041907_small monkeyball

Baseball_small baseballgirl

Oakland_small Blez

Goat_small Nico

As_kings_cal_small louismg

Editors

Countdown_small Taj Adib

Recent_family_ones_july__07_091_small notsellingjeans

Authors

P1010266b_small devo

Super_grover_small grover

The_baby_small salb918

ad

Site Meter