{"id":1503,"date":"2010-09-29T23:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T03:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2010-09-30T02:16:32","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T06:16:32","slug":"let-there-be-music-and-some-wins-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2010\/09\/29\/let-there-be-music-and-some-wins-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Let There Be Music – And Some Wins, Please"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mentioned on Twitter the other day<\/a> that I was working on something special in my secret lair.\u00a0 Here it is, in honour of the 2010-2011 Toronto Maple Leafs’ season:\u00a0 The Toronto Maple Leafs Song<\/span><\/span>. (Update<\/strong> 1:12 a.m.<\/strong>: I’ve been trying on and off all night to post a link to the .mp3 file on this blog, but WordPress wants me to learn new swear words instead.\u00a0 So here’s a link to my Tumblr<\/a>, which apparently has somewhat more delicate ears. )<\/p>\n

I can’t believe I have spent as much time as I did over the last few days working on this thing.\u00a0 With Furious G on the way in about eight weeks’ time now, and a busy early 2011 ahead of me work-wise, I have a feeling that the fooling-about time I’ve managed to scrape together over the past couple of evenings may well be the last opportunity I’ll have for a while to focus on ridiculous projects, but I hope everybody in the Barilkosphere enjoys it. If nothing else, have sympathy for the brave men of The Execrables – my PPP Phantasy Puck Team sacrificed their season in the name of this little project. I just couldn’t drag myself away from the production process long enough to pay any attention at all to the fantasy draft, and the autodrafter ended up selecting such luminaries for me as “Marc Savard and his head full of Jell-O”.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it all started when I was fooling around, rhyming “Caputi” with “Verbeauty” (the nickname some folks at Pension Plan Puppets<\/a> have for Kris Versteeg).\u00a0\u00a0 Before too long, I ended up going Adam Sandler on the Leafs’ lineup.<\/p>\n

Enjoy, I hope it gives you a laugh or two.<\/p>\n

<\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

Here are the lyrics, in case anyone is interested:<\/p>\n

THE TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS SONG<\/strong><\/p>\n

Toronto is the centre of the world
\nMaybe not, but it\u2019s where the Leaf flag gets unfurled
\nOur teams have missed the playoffs for many, many years
\nBut this group of Leaf players is tops with the Barilkosphere.<\/p>\n

‘Cause we\u2019ve got filthy Phil Kessel, he\u2019s Tyler Bozak\u2019s wing
\nKulie and Grabbo just keep on attacking
\nMonster and Jiggy will prove your offence lacking
\nWhile Colton Orr and Komisarek will give you a shellacking
\nColby Armstrong has a job cause Matt Stajan was sent packing
\nLet\u2019s hope we\u2019ll all be cheering wins instead of Prozac-ing<\/p>\n

We might not still be playing, when May turns into June
\nBut that’s okay we’ll draft our way to the top
\n(Wait, what?) Too soon!<\/p>\n

Tomas Kaberle makes cross-ice pass like you won’t believe
\nStill some folks dream of draft picks that we might receive
\nBut I say to keep him, he’s talented and handsome
\nHe better be – he’s passing to John Mitchell and Christian Hanson!
\nFrancois Beauchemin, Luca Caputi
\nNobody dangles like Kadri and Verbeauty!
\nDion Phaneuf will do his Captain\u2019s duty
\nAnd ladies tell me that Luke Schenn looks good in a suit-y
\nMueller, Blacker and Aulie all seem like good recruitys
\nIan White\u2019s moustache is gone now but we\u2019ve got Mike Brown\u2019s fu manchu-ty<\/p>\n

It might not be so bad, now that Toskala’s gone
\nForget about the last few years, and help me sing this song:<\/p>\n

I like Gunnarson’s acuity, hope Sjostrom stays here too-ity
\nJeff Finger’s large annuity makes him a Marlie in perpetuity.
\nLet there be no ambiguity, show the Leafs that you are true-ity
\nHabs fans have no clue-ity, and Sens fans are sniffing glue-ity
\nSupport your Toronto Maple Leafs, with all your ingenuity
\nEngage in promiscuity, if you can find someone who’ll do it-y
\nJust be sure there’s continuity, in your support for white and blue-ity.<\/p>\n

Put on your white and blue
\nMake some noise and ballyhoo
\nEven if you speak Urdu
\nAnd haven’t watched hockey hitherto
\nPlan to use a big kazoo
\nJust be sure you follow through
\nBang a chair with a wooden shoe
\nMake some noise for the white and blue
\nAnd
\nGo
\nLeafs
\nGo!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I mentioned on Twitter the other day that I was working on something special in my secret lair. Here it is, in honour of the 2010-2011 Toronto Maple Leafs’ season: The Toronto Maple Leafs Song. (Update 1:12 a.m.: I’ve been trying on and off all night to post a link to the .mp3 file on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1008,941,972,943,885,825,5,916,11,998,884,21],"tags":[1198,1105,1101,1002,934,786,1238,935,1003,864,795,1104,1102,542,936,1103,787,1100,863,1235,1233,1106,1219,1156,867],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}