Ah, look at all the long relievers
Ah, look at all the long relievers
Stephen Nogosek [1]
Picks up his glove in the pen
And he starts to get warm
Buck likes his form
Waiting since Sunday [2]
Stretching in back with the pack
Of the arms seldom used
Tries to stay loose
All the long relievers
Patience is their key
All the long relievers
The score is eight to three
Megill didn’t have it
Getting lit up by the Nats
Who swung bats with no fear
They kicked his rear
Then Trevor Williams [3]
Holding the fort in a sport
Where pitchers don’t hit
Thus pinch-hitters sit
All the long relievers
Their job’s to mop up frames
All the long relievers
To get us through these games
Ah, look [4] at all the long relievers
Guys never once considered Seavers
Stephen Nogosek
Waxes his ’stache
Soon he jogs through the gate to the mound
He’ll stick around
Throwing three innings
Keeping it close to avail
That would fail to appear
No comeback here [5]
All the long relievers
Whose roster stays are brief
Options make them yo-yos
We’ll see Steve in a week
The latest episode of National League Town takes us to a time before the Beatles, welcoming as its first-ever guest Dave Bagdade, author of the all-new revised edition of A Year in Mudville: The Full Story of Casey Stengel and the Original Mets. Listen to the show [6] on your trip back to Syracuse or wherever you might be headed.