Bronson Arroyo still hearts Boston
Posted by [URL="http://blog.masslive.com/redsoxmonster/about.html"]Dan Lamothe, Red Sox Monster[/URL] January 09, 2008 00:22AM
Categories: Red Sox ghosts
Perhaps you remember this cat to my right. He's Bronson Arroyo, and while he was a pretty solid pitcher for the Red Sox, he also was always that guy who insists on singing at every family gathering, picnic, party or ice cream social he attends.
It's important to remember, though, that he definitely got jobbed a bit by the Red Sox. Seemingly moments after taking a hometown discount to sign a contract with the Sox, he was shipped to the Cincinnati Reds for Wily Mo Pena, muncher of baseball bats and keeper of MySpace profiles.
Anyway, long-hair was back in Boston on Sunday night, singing up a storm as usual. Thing is, Bostonist sends word that he made a pretty specific plea calling for a return, as it were:
As it turns out, Bronson's hair is a little longer these days, and his backing band is a whole lot larger. Bronson decided against playing guitar on Sunday night, but he did demonstrate a larger selection of songs to cover, with The Fray making appearances alongside the Pearl Jam covers with which anyone who owns "Covers the Bases" is familiar (it was a Christmas gift, thank you). But near the end of Bronson's set, he threw a zinger into the music: a cover of Augustana's 2007 summer ballad "Boston." And what did the guy do, knowing that former GM Theo Epstein was watching from the backstage wings?
Dude totally modified the lyrics, making what one could view as either a nostalgic gesture toward the old crowd or, as we'd like to think, a plea for his old job!
"I think I need to get back to Boston," he sings. (We couldn't hear the next couple of lines because some of the women of the crowd were freaking out) "I need to get out of Cincinnati, I think I need the Olde Towne to fill my heart again."
I'm totally with Bostonist on the way they interpreted this. Thing is, last time I checked, the Sox already have as many as six starting pitcher candidates for 2008...Dude totally modified the lyrics, making what one could view as either a nostalgic gesture toward the old crowd or, as we'd like to think, a plea for his old job!
"I think I need to get back to Boston," he sings. (We couldn't hear the next couple of lines because some of the women of the crowd were freaking out) "I need to get out of Cincinnati, I think I need the Olde Towne to fill my heart again."
