“Keep It Goin’, Doug E. Fresh….”

Insanity is when you and your brother and your 2 sisters truly believe that singing “Keep it goin’, Doug-e Fresh” over and over and over in goofy 4 part harmony actually caused Mirabelli to hit that 3-run homer last week.

We were so bored with that particular game – it was 200 degrees that day, every player was drenched in sweat, they all looked vaguely ill and floppy, they made errors, they flopped around – even the hits seemed heat-exhausted. It was contagious. We were kinda bored. So bored that when Dougie Fresh (Jean’s nickname for him) came up to bat, we could barely get interested in it. We figured he would hit a tired little hit like everybody else, and stagger to first through the muggy heat like everybody else … same ol’ same ol’. Jean began to lazily and indifferently sing “Keep it goin’ Dougie Fresh” – then someone else joined in – and another – and another … (Well, to be fair. Melody did NOT sing. She kept her sanity.) We finished our first chorus and stopped singing. Dougie was still at bat. We all knew we were insane. We couldn’t really look at each other. Melody, flipping through her magazine, said, “I am so going to tell everybody about this.” At the exact same moment I was saying, “We must never speak of this again.” Two seconds went by of silence, and then we all started singing again.

We would stagger the lines.

Jean would start: “Keep it goin’ Dougie Fresh” – holding the note …
Then I would join in …
Then Siobhan …
Then Bren …

Staggering the pitches as well – each one of us climbing up the scale. We sounded SO FECKIN’ RETARDED.

And then boom. Major major play by Dougie Fresh. We went insane. For a good 20 minutes.

And “Keep it goin’, Dougie Fresh” has now entered the Family Lexicon. Don’t even think that we all will not be singing “Keep it goin’ Dougie Fresh” for the rest of the summer. And summers beyond.

How ’bout Big Papi stealing a base?? hahahahahahaha THAT WAS SO AWESOME. I especially loved the shots of Manny and Youk in the dugout, laughing hysterically, and cheering, and shouting, “Save the base!” Genius. I could not get enough of that footage.

It was a really Red Sox heavy week. A couple years when we all went on vacation it was in the middle of the All Star break (yaaaaaaaaaawn – nobody gives a shit) – so it was good to have some real games.

In order to truly express our insanity.

Keep it goin’ Dougie Fresh ………………………………………………

all together now ….

Keep it goin’ Dougie Fresh
Keep it goin’ Dougie Fresh
Keep it goin’ Dougie Fresh
Keep it goin’ Dougie Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh

WHAP! Outta the park.

Oh, and also when we all were holding the note together – we would then all, as one, go up half a key. Like the Buffalo Bills do in The Music Man.

Seriously. We sounded like halfwits. But hey. Dougie Fresh could feel our lackadaisacal belief in him (uhm: wasn’t that ball four??? I think everybody thought that was ball four) … and it gave him strength to go on!

This entry was posted in Personal and tagged , . Bookmark the permalink.

13 Responses to “Keep It Goin’, Doug E. Fresh….”

  1. red says:

    hahahaha I wish the nickname would catch on thru Red Sox Nation. I love it.

    Did you see the picture of Ortiz with the second base, Siobhan? He did end up taking it – so so funny.

  2. chuck in maine says:

    Doug E. Fresh and the get Fresh crew. CLASSIC! Reminds me of Whoudini, Grand Master Flash, Boogie Down Productions…parachute pants, carboard dance floors, bandanas wrapped around your legs, Addidas, and the double tape deck boom box.

    Funny though…I don’t think of Doug M. Who knows you may have started a trend.

  3. mere says:

    were you in a tableau around the piano?

  4. red says:

    hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

  5. Wutzizname says:

    Tell me you got this on Tape, or video, or something.

  6. red says:

    There is no evidence. Except for the fact that I have just now blurted it out onto the Internet.

  7. red says:

    Oh – and no. None of us were drunk.

  8. red says:

    Oh, and about the longevity of “Dougie Fresh” … we are STILL saying “DAUBACH” in this kind of robotic voice – imitating how much the announcers LOVED to say his name – they really got into it – and repeated his name as often as possible.

    “DauBACH … DAU-BACH … BrianDAUBACH …”

    That was from … 4 years ago? 5?

    We will never stop.

    Keep it goin’, Dougie Fresh.

  9. JFH says:

    Um… I’m completely lost… how didd said player get that nickname?… Wouldn’t “Dougie Vogue” be more appropriate?

  10. Kerry says:

    I now command you to continue singing this song at every one of his at-bats. If it works, don’t stop. . .

    Love Kerry

    P.S. Can you come up with a song to stop Beckett from giving up some homers?

    P.P.S. Can you come up with a song to trade away Tavarez?

  11. Alex Nunez says:

    “Oh – and no. None of us were drunk.”

    For some reason, this troubles me…

  12. red says:

    kerry – hahahahahaha

Comments are closed.