A Song For The Red Sox Fan

So, I spent my baseball-free evening writing a little song about the 2009 season. Ok, it's a rather long song, but I hope you'll enjoy it anyway;-)

Red Sox 2009 Season Song: “A Song For the Red Sox Fan”
To the tune of “Piano Man”
With apologies to Billy Joel

‘Twas on a Tuesday at Fenway Park
The Red Sox were facing the Rays
Josh Beckett, he fanned 10 Rays batters
James Shields, he had seen better days.

But Lester and Dice-K would struggle
The Red Sox would drop the next two
They went to the west coast and floundered
‘Till Wakefield his knuckleball threw

Chorus:

Sing us a song for the Red Sox fan
Pour us a glass of good wine
As we ride all the highs and we suffer the lows of
The season of two thousand nine!

Wake’s complete game performance
Spurred on a long winning streak
They had themselves a perfect homestand
And sure made the Yankees look weak

The starting rotation was getting rocked
Big Papi looked lost at the plate
If not for the clutch hits from Jason Bay
They would have faced a much worse fate

As April rolled over into May
Papi was looking forlorn
On the 20^th of May, a Wednesday
His mighty home run stroke reborn

Chorus

In June the Sox still owned the Yankees
They made out well in interleague play
John Smoltz made his debut in Washington
But they had to send down Dice-K

One night they were playing the Orioles
At Camden Yards in Baltimore
Up nine runs to one at the rain delay
But ten more runs those O’s did score

Tim Wakefield was named to the All-Star Team
But in the game he didn’t play
What a disappointment for Red Sox fan
But we saw Youk, Pap, Beckett, and Bay

Chorus

Clay Buchholz got called to Toronto
He pitched to the Blue Jays and won
The remaining games on the road trip,
They weren’t nearly as fun

The offense was putting up zeroes
Smoltz and Penny were giving up runs
The team’s ship was rapidly sinking
So many were saying “They’re done”

On July 31 Theo Epstein
Called Shapiro about a big trade
V-Mart for Masterson and prospects
‘Cause ‘Tek was in second-half fade

Chorus

Early in August, still scuffling
The Sox staggered into New York
No longer did they own the Yankees
Those devils had found their pitchforks

But soon that game-changer called V-Mart
Helped his bummed-out team turn around
Like Jason Bay had done before him,
He lead the team to a rebound

Buchholz was starting to dominate
But Beckett served up gopher balls
Penny and Smoltz, they got sent on their way
Replaced by the Byrdie named Paul

Chorus

Lowrie was struggling at shortstop
Lugo now plays in St. Lou
So back once again we saw Gonzo
Such a pleasure to see him turn two

September saw them play great baseball
They still were atop the Wild Card
But rain, Zach Greinke and Yankees
Made this team fall and fall hard

The Rangers and Rays they had faded
Soon the playoff berth was clinched
The cure for their slide was the Indians
Sweeping them was such a cinch!

Chorus

They ended the season winning 95
Matching their mark from last year
Here’s hoping the ’09 post-season
Brings this team and their fans lots of cheer!