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ESPN chat with Steve Wynn of The Baseball Project: 11 am PT today 41

The Baseball Project (Steve Wynn, Pete Buck, et al) has a very Web 2.0 running-dog corporate-lackey new project: they’re rolling out approximately an album’s worth of new songs (Broadside Ballads) across various one-time interactive/online events (all the events and songs will be at ESPN). The first one is an ESPN chat with Steve Wynn at ...

F(il)K: Prints on the Mound 8

Drat! No luck embedding the video. [Original lyrics here.] With apologies to Leopold Bloom: Prints on the Mound Prints on the mound, prints on the mound Workin’ like a tool with yo’ prints on the mound Green ‘n gold in yo’ mouth Head turned, sighed, “A’s…”, plans hit the ground Call yourself a “Bloom”, cat? ...

F(il)K: I’m so glad that you’re here 15

[Original lyrics here] So, so you think you can call A strike from a ball Long flies from outs Can you play in right field? Or will you just flail? Like an EPIC FAIL? Do you think you can hit? And did they get you to trade Your homers for outs? Everybody agrees Your whiffs ...

Poor Jack Cust 12

[Original lyrics here.] I woke up this mornin’, There were tears in my bed. They cut a bat I really loved Signed Coco Fucking Crisp instead. VORP, VORP, They drove poor Jack Cust outta town. VORP, VORP, The AL strikeout crown. Sent him off to free agency Four million-dollar arbitra’. Chose the poor OPS behind ...

F(il)K: Bad Tipper 18

Sung to the tune of the Beatles’ “Day Tripper”. Got a good reason for taking gratuities out Not a good season, he’s taken gratuities out He was a bad tipper, some say stick it, yeah It took ’em so long to find out and they found out He’s a big teaser, he stiffed ’em half a ...

F(il)K: Pulling Muscles on DL 11

[Original lyrics here.] (Anyone else think Glenn Tillbrook from around the time of this video looks a lot like Michael Lewis?) Pulling Muscles on DL They do it down at Papago Park They’d do it on the Wii Fit Lazing about the bench all day-to-day, At night the Coli’s empty Squealing seagulls answer vendors’ cries ...

2009 FilKRAUT #1: Bat-Boppin’ Skills 11

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnjF1O4eH0&hl=en&fs=1] Bat-Boppin’ Skills [Original lyrics here.] Ooooh, you gonna drive me home tonight? Oooh, down 6-5 in bottom-9; Are you gonna swing and not strike out? Bat-boppin’ skills, You make the baserunners go ’round. [Continued after the jump.]