Rey Ordonez: The Song

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I had a great session DJing at turntable with some powerpop fans last night, when it somehow came to be about baseball, and someone played a Kate Jacobs song called "Rey Ordonez." I fell out of my chair in awe of its Metliness, I think there's even a sample of Howie Rose at the tail end.

It's actually a new song despite the seeming "old" references, about a traveling band tuning in Mets games from the road. It's perfect! You can stream it on Kate's website

http://www.katejacobsmusic.com/www.katejacobsmusic.com/home_game.html

The lyrics are:

Rey Ordonez Jose Visciano Carlos Baerga Rey Ordonez Bobby Bonilla Edgardo Alfonso they were our friends on the radio in the dark van and the tired band looks out the window at the white line and the black sky and it�s midnight and it�s outta here he�s running home we�re fifty-seven miles from San Antonio out in Queens back home at Shea they�re playing under lights that make the night look like the day leaning on the window i see a million stars I�m making up my next life feel the city�s dim glow I wonder where you are we�re staying with Scotty�s ex-wife and it�s outta here he�s running home we�re 16 miles outside of San Antonio out in Queens back home at Shea they�re playing under lights that make the night look like the day Jose Visciano Carlos Baerga Rey Ordonez Bobby Bonilla Edgardo Alfonso they were our friends on the radio in the dark van and it�s midnight he�s running home and it�s midnight in the dark van and the tired band looks out the window and it�s outta here and it�s midnight and it�s midnight he�s running home

You've obviously got to buy all her albums NOW!!!!

[Guest Edgy DC]

[Guest Edgy DC]

It's amazin'.

[Willets Point]

As I said on turntable.fm, "It's a power pop song about a player with no power or pop."

[Guest Edgy DC]

It's funny how this team may have been more Latino before Omar took over, but the snorting contempt followed his ascendency.

[stevejrogers]

Edgy DC wrote: It's funny how this team may have been more Latino before Omar took over, but the snorting contempt followed his ascendency.

It's also funny that the Mets were printing Spanish versions of the yearbook going back to 1988 and were doing the ethnic weeks as far back as the late 1990s. Yet the narrative is that it started once Omar was hired.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Agreed with that. They were radio broadcasting in Spanish in their first season in 1962!

[A Boy Named Seo]

'it's outta here, he's running home' is her -ex? cause, man, it's probably not literal abt Ordonez, right? I mean he did hit 1 that year.

Awesome song. Need to be 'her fan' and never sign into TT.fm again anyway. Like that place, just always seem to miss u guys.

[G-Fafif]

Stunningly beautiful. Great find. And the second song to celebrate an underloved era.

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