Posted on 09/27/2003 4:11:13 PM PDT by Davea
GO CUBS!!!!!!
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore?gid=230927316
{Doing my Pat Piper imitation:}
'TENSHUN! 'TENSHUN, please! . . . Have your pencils . . . and scorecards ready . . . and we'll give you . . . the kee-rect line-ups . . . for today's game. . . . The batt'ry . . . for Philadelphia . . . Wise . . . and Dalrymple. . . . Batting order. . . .
They broke my heart.....
You and me both. (I was 16 years old in 1969.)
Do they still play the blues in Chicago
When baseball season rolls around
When the snow melts away,
Do the Cubbies still play
In their ivy covered burial ground
When I was a boy they were my pride and joy
But now they only bring fatigue
To the home of the brave
The land of the free
And the doormat of the National League
Told his friends "You know the law of averages says:
Anything will happen that can."
That's what it says.
"But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant
Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan"
The Cubs made me a criminal
Sent me down a wayward path
They stole my youth from me
(that's the truth)
I'd forsake my teacher's
To go sit in the bleachers
In flagrant truancy
and then one thing led to another
and soon I'd discovered alcohol, gambling, dope
football, hockey, lacrosse, tennis
But what do you expect,
When you raise up a young boys hopes
And then just crush 'em like so many paper beer cups.
Year after year after year
after year, after year, after year, after year, after year
'Til those hopes are just so much popcorn
for the pigeons beneath the 'EL' tracks to eat
He said "You know I'll never see Wrigley Field, anymore before my eternal rest
So if you have your pencils and your score cards ready, and I'll read you my last request
He said, "Give me a double header funeral in Wrigley Field On some sunny weekend day (no lights)
Have the organ play the National Anthem and then a little "na, na, na, na, hey hey, hey, Goodbye"
Make six bullpen pitchers, carry my coffin and six ground keepers clear my path
Have the umpires bark me out at every base In all their holy wrath
Its a beautiful day for a funeral, Hey Ernie lets play two!
Somebody go get Jack Brickhouse to come back, and conduct just one more interview
Have the Cubbies run right out into the middle of the field,
Have Keith Moreland drop a routine fly
Give everybody two bags of peanuts and a frosty malt And I'll be ready to die
Build a big fire on home plate out of your Louisville Sluggers baseball bats,
And toss my coffin in
Let my ashes blow in a beautiful snow
From the prevailing 30 mile an hour south west wind
When my last remains go flying over the left field wall Will bid the bleacher bums adieu
And I will come to my final resting place, out on Waveland Avenue
The dying man's friends told him to cut it out
They said stop it that's an awful shame
He whispered, "Don't Cry, we'll meet by and by near the Heavenly Hall of Fame
He said, "I've got season's tickets to watch the Angels now, So its just what I'm going to do
He said, "but you the living, you're stuck here with the Cubs, So its me that feels sorry for you!
And he said, "Ahh Play, play that lonesome losers tune,
That's the one I like the best
And he closed his eyes, and slipped away
What we got is the Dying Cub Fan's Last Request
And here it is
Do they still play the blues in Chicago?
When baseball season rolls around?
When the snow melts away,
Do the Cubbies still play
In their ivy covered burial ground?
When I was a boy they were my pride and joy
But now they only bring fatigue
To the home of the brave
The land of the free
And the doormat of the National League
Just got back from the Royals/White Sox game. Don't even want to talk about tonights score. Ok, so I'm a sore loser ;-) but what a year the Royals gave us. Hoping for a better year next year.
Americana extraordinaire
I miss him.
What about Jim Qualls?
May ERNIE BANKS get to throw out the first pitch in the World Series and RON SANTO get elected to thehall of fame. My fondest memory of this September will be sitting in PNC Park for a double header rooting for the Cubbies against the home team with my daughter on one side and my wife on the other.
Wow. Good knowledge. He broke up Seavers perfect game. Just looked him up. With the Cubs 69-70, 72. 63 games. Career avg. 223. Ouch!
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