Ode to the Sox

(These will be slowly getting posted all day, as I do have some work to do. :))

I really enjoyed the Boston Globe today that gave a forum for fans to share songs and poems that they wrote to the red sox. Here are a few of my favs:

ODE TO PAPELBON" (sung to the tune of "Edelweiss" from The Sound of Music)Pa-pel-bon, Pa-pel-bon

Every inning you thrill me.

Tall and lean, Pitching King

You look stress-free to me. To me.

Lord of the Dance, now you have your chance

Chance to dance a champion!

Pa-pel-bon, Pa-pel bon

BLESS OUR RED SOX FOREVER!

ODE TO A HERO
He carried an urn

filled with infield grass

forged from melted spikes

hammered by southpaws yielding black fungos



He roamed, but unlike Romanian Gypsies or Jews

more migratory, a lone fowl

urged by the changing seasons

of waiver options

who came to perch on the chalk line

two hundred and twelve feet from Pesky’s pole

ninety feet from home



Replaced, but never last

first on base and first at bat

no photo op pin-up, proto lead off hitter

those aren’t boos you are hearing

“Youk! Youk! Youk!



FENWAY OUR FATHER
Our Father, who art at Fenway...

Baseball be thy game.

Thy Kingdom come,

Playoffs need to be won,

On Earth, then on to the Cask 'n' Flagon.

Give us this day, a perfect Papi,

And forgive us our losses,

As we forgive those,

Like Eric Gagné.

And lead us not, into desperation,

But deliver us from any losses.

For thine is the Power,

And the Glory,

To beat the Rockies,

Forever and ever....the Yankees still suck