Reviving the Art of Baseball Doggerel
Inside the Mets’ locker room
Is a future Hall of Fame pitcher,
Probably the only one ever
With a losing record:
The great Jacob deGrom.
He wouldn’t do it –
If you knew him, not his style –
But someone should be advertising
Somewhere, anywhere,
For non-existent Mets’ run support.
In the words of the Baseball Project, “This is the first of a series of songs we’ll be releasing regularly throughout the 2021 baseball season. The idea is that we pull a story from the morning headlines, write and record a song and post it while the ink is still wet. Quick, fired up and on the newsstand for the evening edition. ” You can follow them (with the familiar names of Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Steve Wynn) on Youtube or support them on Bandcamp.
The elbow of Michael Conforto
created a major distort-o.
Kulpa fell for that bull
now the Met’s culpable
for a walk-off strikeout (?), Bad Sporto.
Mets-Marlins Game Ends in Controversy
With his smile and electric arm
He put Mets-ville on the map.
Boy of Summer, Hall of Famer –
Simply put: he was Tom Terrific.
My idea of managing
is giving the ball to Tom Seaver
and then sitting down
and watching him work.