Entries Tagged as 'songs'

Friday, March 20th, 2009

The Ballad of Shawn Hill

Feel free to imagine Gordon Lightfoot singing this homage to his fellow Canuckian. The Ballad of Shawn Hill A young pitcher born in Saskatchewan came down To the Montreal Expos encampment Where he took the ball and threw it right by them all With a blend pure stuff and enchantment. On his first turn at [...]

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Wily Mo Pena

I’ve had this song kicking around for a long time, since last season when we got Wily, to be exact. It’s what I think Jim Bowden must have been thinking when he made the deal, if what he was thinking was set to the tune of “Give it Away” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. [...]

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Johnny Pat!

I wrote Johnny Pat with my brother Ned. (I love you bro!) Johnny Pat was meant to be the Nat’s ace in 2007, and it just didn’t work out that way – but my philosophy with these songs is to turn every Nat into Paul freaking Bunyan if I can help it. Multi-tracking and exclamation [...]

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Livan!

This is the first song I ever wrote for the Nats in praise of the famously durable Livan Hernandes. It’s dated now, but who knows, maybe the Nat’s will get him back this year and it’s come back in style. Like floodpants. We’ll just have to replace “Majewski” with “Ray King”. Listen Livan! Livan! Leave [...]

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Hats Off For Ryan

The first cheer / song by rights should be for the best player on the team. Hats Off For Ryan! I expect to see all y’all take off your hats and yell it loud next time Zim comes to bat. Hats Off For Ryan! And the home runs he sends flyin’ And the teams he [...]