My Favorite Things (an interactive showtune)

[Guest Edgy DC]

Charles Dillon Stengel with Joan Whitney Payson
Jay Payton pumped up like Anthony Mason
Green rookie pitchers with young healthy wings
Dese are a few of my favorite dings

(now you)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

GMs who don't freak out at statisticians
Backups who hit and play five field positions
Smoke 'em inside and send him tumbling
These are a few of my favorite things

[G-Fafif]

When the tarp's up
When the skies clear
When they shout play ball...

[MFS62]

A Met MVP
And an ERA king
And meaningful games in
the Fall.

(surpressing "later" for continuity)

[soupcan]

Montanez hotdogging and Flynn having tripled
Stearns stealing bases and Pat Zachry crippled
Mazzilli's tight ass made them Jokers not Kings
But these were a few of my favorite things

[G-Fafif]

Deferring payments to Bobby Bonilla
Relieving then starting the callow Mejia
Darren Reed's power that lit up those springs
These are a few of my favorite things

[soupcan]

When Benitez
Blew a 'big' save
I felt very sad
And then I'd remember our friend Mel Rojas
And I wouldn't feel so bad.

[Centerfield]

Dough, the reason that Glavine came...
Rey, the worst guy in the world...
Me, a word, that Rickey should learn...
Fah, a long long way to hit...
Seo, we traded him away...to
LA, where Fred's team plays today...
Tee, what our guys need to hit...
Which willl bring us back to dough, dough, dough, dough...

[Centerfield]

Avi.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

dying.

[G-Fafif]

That April I wasted on typing Mientkiewicz
Just when I had learned how to spell Gary Rajsich
As many Bob Millers as World Series rings
These are a few of my favorite things

[Frayed Knot]

David Wright strike-outs that offend the senses
Jose hitting pop-ups while he swings for the fences
Free agent pitchers with their arms in a sling
These are a few of my least favorite things

[Guest Edgy DC]

When my job sucks
Life has no yucks
Feel like I've been had
I just close my eyes and recall Mr. Met
And things ain't particularly bad

[G-Fafif]

Pedro Martinez, emerged from the DL
That de Roulet lady eventu'lly did sell
Sky King's occasional successful swings
These are a few of my favorite things

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Brad Clontz wild pitches bringing home Melvin Mora
Grand slamming singles from Robin Ventura
Steve Phillips suspended because of his flings
These are some more of my favorite things

[G-Fafif]

Recaps so happy and books that are put in
Kozy Shack named the Mets' official puddin'
This new GM search that spawns speculatings
These are a few of my favorite things

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

When John Sterling
Says the Yanks win
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember Steinbrenner is dead
And then I don't feel so bad

[Centerfield]

Lots of good stuff in the Sound of Music soundtrack. Lonely Goatherd:

Minaya puppet:
"Ollie Perez, you've lost your control
Double-A, Double-A, Double-A for you."

Ollie Puppet:
"It's in my contract, I ain't goin' down to
Double-A, Double-A, Double-A, fuck you!"

[MFS62]

Centerfield wrote: Lots of good stuff in the Sound of Music soundtrack. Lonely Goatherd:

And

The stands are alive
From the hits of Duda.
That one won't come down
For a thousand years.

The stands are alive
From the hits of Duda
Reducing their pitching staffs
to tears.

Later

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Parking lot brew-has with ex-Yankee newbies
Tarasco and Roberts not hiding their doobies
13-4 losses, with scads of "battling,"
These aren't a few of my favorite things

[Guest Edgy DC]

In Binghamton he scraped his knee
We feared he had a a tear
He took a liner off his ass
We fainted then with fear
For every single pimple
Must get the utmost care
We shake with terrorr when he hails a cabbie

We don't want him filled with shrapnel
His talent is so real
8ut our trainers can't do everything
The fans they always squeal
I hate to have to say it
He's not built like Kanehl
I don't want him at the mercy of a cabbie

But a bullpen job could cut the risk in half!
Put him on the big league staff! (Ha-ha!)

How do you use a prospect like Mejia?
How do you keep a stallion in his stall?
An elbow pop, an MRI, then see ya!
Perhaps we shouldn't pitch the guy at all!

The worst thing that pitcher does is pitching
How do you make the writers understand?
Life is fraught with risk
And just like Dougie Sisk
He'll maybe never be as good as PLANNED!

Oh, how do you use a prospect like Mejia?
Hold your breath and check his thyroid gland!

[Centerfield]

Great, great stuff.

After lunch I was going to wonder how you solve a problem like Bonilla.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Schoeneweiss, Schoeneweiss
Every evening we need thee
Cancer fright, a dead wife
None of these these things can defeat he
Buckets of dough we gave you to throw
Throw with dough forever
Schoeneweis, Schoeneweiss
Met lefthander forever

[Guest Edgy DC]

This is my friend, 'Bucket. He'll go there. He's not afraid to go there.

[Centerfield]

Wow. This is my favorite thread since we compared Karate Kid chicks.

[Frayed Knot]

You waited Met fans for a year like that
For fate to turn to your side
Your team until then was the league doormat
�Til Cashen made them bona fide

Bon-a-fide

Straw was eighteen, Hernandez was seventeen
Baby, those were the days
Wally and Lenny setting the table
Making their pitchers pay

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Doc was sixteen, nailing down seventeen
Oh, how his profile rose
His hurling was hot-- though not so as Scott--
And all with a "runny" nose!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Find us a Cashen
Search high and low
Call down ev'ry Daniels,
Hahn and DiPoto

Find us a Cashen
to wipe clean O's sins
Those cheap tabloid hack jobs
Disappear with wins

A guy that can deal
Our overpaid shits
A man who can draft
Something better than Schlitz

Find me a Cashen
Get me a mensch
Squeeze us out a diamond
Or don't you dare unclench

[Gwreck]

So long, Omar, auf Wiedersehen, good night
So glad to see you go and leave our sight
So long, Jerry, take Oliver and Luis with you too
Adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu

[Centerfield]

It's official. CPF = As gay as Tony Randall.