I would buy this, but I would need a glass casing to frame it, an underground bunker to house it, armed police to guard it, and a giant magnet to deflect the gamma rays that might cause it to decay over the next million years. Plus tasteful backlighting.
Backstory... and we need to check this out: According to a source, WFAN is using the lyrics to the Yankee lead-in song. The lyrics, people. Because, dammit, words do count.
Two three four.
ReplyDeleteHit. Run. Slide.
Score.
Go. Go. Go.
Byron would weep in envy.
It's right up there with the time in the 70's when Rod Stewart rhymed "lyrical" and "physical" in some sappy ballad to Britt Eklund. Each, in its own way, is the Mount Everest of poetry, I'm tellin' ya.
ReplyDeleteFirst thing is, the didn't bring back all the lyrics, they only brought back the Y-A-N-K-E-E-S part. If anyone on the John Sterling blog actually listened to the spring training broadcasts they'd know that.
ReplyDeleteSecond, they also brought back Jack "Candy" Moldanado. Unless you were a Mets fan back then, you might remember him from WABC.
Third, if you don't like the lyrics, you still can't deny the beat is snappy. Surely the local poet laureates can whip up some new words?
D-E-R-E-K-J-E-TER
Where are the matting-lies?
And Mantles hanky pank-ies?
Affordable beer and frank-ies?
Everyone knows it's to pay prositutes for Hal and hank-ie