Peter Gammons: The Mitchell Report Song - Exhibitionist
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Gammons - Treading Dangerously Close To Kuff & The Buttheads For Lyrical Insight
Published 1/8/2008 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
(not, we should stress, B.C. Gilbert)
A new one from singer-songwriter / fledgling baseball scribe Peter Gammons, as transcribed by the Boston Globe’s Geoff Edgers.
THE MITCHELL REPORT
I was a Winnipeg Goldeye for two grand a year
Riding high pollutin’ buses to Shaumburg, Illinois
I weighed one sixty three, batted two eighty five
Supporting three kids in Topeka and two ex-wives
Workin’ winter midnights, dreamed of getting jacked
Tryin’ to hit the ball to the ...
Peter Gammons: The Mitchell Report Song
Published 1/8/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Peter Gammons: The Mitchell Report Song Shades of Ramblin’ Jack Illegit! Andy Pettite’s apologized. Roger Clemens has sued. And Peter Gammons has written a song. He performed it at Sunday night’s “Hot Stove, Cool Music” event. We’ve got the lyrics: Chorus Canseco told Mitchell while on the Exxon Valdez ‘I can make you millions, help you throw 93 ‘Bob Heise’d been Jim Rice if he knew what I know’ And there’s never been a low as low as Canseco.” Thanks to ...
Peter Gammons: Rock Star
Published 1/8/2008 by Pat Lackey at FanHouse
... related headline." Last weekend at the annual "Hot Stove/Cool Music" event to benefit Theo Epstein's charity, Gammons got on stage to play his guitar and sing. That's not unusual, because he does it every year. But this year, he wrote and performed a song about the Mitchell Report. Here's the chorus: ...
Peter Gammons Rocking Out The Mitchell Report Blues [Mitchell Report]
Published 1/8/2008 by Leitch at Deadspin
... Apparently, Gammons played at a charity concert the other night and performed a song he wrote about the Mitchell Report and steroids. A tasty excerpt: ...
THT Daily: The HoF Clears a Seat
Published 1/9/2008 by THT Staff at The Hardball Times
... - If the writers' strike keeps up, Letterman can always turn to minor-league Top 10 lists. The Mitchell Report Song - Peter Gammons brings out his inner troubadour. THT Links represents the best efforts of our editors in scouring the various tubes of the interweb for both relevant and irrelevant news items. If you have happened upon a story that we have overlooked or wish to give feedback of any sort, please notify us at . Do you have a general question or comment for one of THT's writers? Send it in to ...
Does Bronson Want To Come Back To Boston?
Published 1/9/2008 by Ian at SOX & Dawgs
... http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6732328266441465611
Even Peter Gammons, who also performed, got into the act writing a song about the Mitchell Report.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1008695642587328723 ...



