Blue Jays 9, Twins 8: The Bullpen of Despond

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Blue Jays 9, Twins 8: The Bullpen of Despond

It was a won game. Then the eighth-inning relievers came in. It was a lost game. | Vaughn Ridley / Getty Images

1, 2, 3, score!
My team, we don’t mess around:
Despite the owners’ woes, we haven’t hit the floor.
This season might be goner,
But we’re still determined, and we’re back for more.
Though summer’s cribbed the ceiling,
It’s forever joy when hearing bats go POW.
So through the loss, I’m glad
We stand the stormy weather, staying anyhow.

Play ball… play ball!
Play ball… play ball!
Play ball… play ball!
Play ball… play ball!

We thought they’d got it: Byron came to swat it,
They’d knot it, lead it, get it: Lee and Keaschall came to maul….
Toronto’s Schneider’s knocked a couple riders;
The ‘pen was hanging sliders and they drove ’em to the wall….
If what you say is “money’s all the matter,”
Then what takes, what takes, what takes joy to the action?
So try-o, try-o, try-o, try-o, try-o,
Some STUDS have played with style, but we know what just happened here…

…y’all should know that the ‘pen and Pohlads are DUDS.
(Play ball… play ball!)
Don’t want to ponder queries, (play ball…)
Just want to take the series. (…play ball!)
Don’t want to be a bummer, (play ball…)
Just want to dig the summer. (…play ball!)
I’m, I’m, (play ball…)
I’m just seeing bombas,
I’m just seeing bombas! (…play ball!)

Hey, all right now,
All right now, bullpen? (Yeah?)
Who’s cooler than being cool? (I’m cold.)
I can’t hear you!
I said, what’s cooler than being cool? (I’m cold.)
All right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right,
All right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right,
Okay, now, batters? (Yeah!)
Now y’all tried to take this thing home in just a few seconds.
And you ought to see Zach get the Comment of Day here.
Cranked out some homers; you came to play here!
Yeah!
Here we go:

Shaken, sh-shaken, shaken, sh-shaken,
Shaken, sh-shaken, shaken:
Shaken, sh-shaken, shaken like a dolor-void pitcher.
Play ball!
Shaken, sh-shaken, shaken, sh-shaken, shaken,
Shaken, shaken hurlers,
Shaken like a dolor-void pitcher.

Now all the Tonkins and 92s
And lousy arms, get out the door.
We just know there is much to do;
We know what to do;
We know what to do!

Play ball… play ball!
Play ball… play ball!
Play ball… play ball!
Play ball… play ball!

Source: https://www.twinkietown.com/minneso...-of-despond-byron-buxton-home-runs-blown-lead