Oops there goes another Rockie Kerplop!
TELL THAT LITTLE GIRL that the Phillies have no chance. Go ahead, I dare you. When I saw her last Saturday outside Citizens Bank Park, I had high hopes just like she did that the Phillies would win that day. They didn't. But they did the next day to clinch the division. And now we face another must-win game in Colrado Saturday night. And, well sir, to summon the words of my departed pal Tug McGraw, "Ya gotta believe!"
The English army under King Harry faced slightly tougher odds against victory during a during an away battle in France on a muddy field called Agincourt. We can only hope that Charlie Manuel calls the Fightin's together in the clubhouse before the game and delivers a pep talk as effective as one Shakespeare wrote for King Henry V :
"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he who sheds his blood with me this day
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."
Failing that, perhaps we should turn our attention to the voice , if not the words, of Frank Sinatra:
OFFICIAL PHILLIES THEME SONG
OF THE 2007 MLB PLAYOFFS
Next time you're found /with your chin on the ground
There's a lot to be learned. . .so look around.
JUST WHAT MAKES that little old ant/ Think he'll move that rubber tree plant
Everyone knows an ant CAN'T
Move a rubber tree plant
But he's got HIGH hopes
He's got HIGH hopes
He's got high apple pie in the SKY hopes.
SO ANY TIME you're gettin' low/'stead of lettin' got/just remember that ANT
OOPS there goes another rubber tree . . .
OOPS there goes another rubber tree. . .
OOPS there goes another rubber tree PLANT
When troubles call and your back's to the wall
There's a lot to be learned. . . that wall could fall.
ONCE THERE WAS a silly old ram/Thought he'd punch a hole in a dam
No one could make that ram SCRAM/He kept buttin' that dam.
'cause he's got HIGH hopes
He's got HIGH hopes
He's got high apple pie in the SKY hopes.
SO ANY TIME you're feelin' bad/'stead of feelin' sad/just remember the METS
OOPS there goes a billion kilowatt . . .
OOPS there goes a billion kilowatt . . .
OOPS there goes a billion kilowatt DAMN!
All problems just a toy balloon/They'll be bursted soon
Just remember the SOX!
OOPS there goes another problem ker-. . .
OOPS there goes another problem ker-. . .
OOPS there goes another problem ker-plop.
Ker-PLOP!
