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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
We would stagger the lines.<\/p>\n
Jean would start: “Keep it goin’ Dougie Fresh” – holding the note …
\nThen I would join in …
\nThen Siobhan …
\nThen Bren …<\/p>\n
Staggering the pitches as well – each one of us climbing up the scale. We sounded SO FECKIN’ RETARDED.<\/p>\n
And then boom. Major major play by Dougie Fresh. We went insane. For a good 20 minutes.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
In order to truly express our insanity.<\/p>\n
Keep it goin’ Dougie Fresh ………………………………………………<\/p>\n
all together now ….<\/p>\n
Keep it goin’ Dougie Fresh
\nKeep it goin’ Dougie Fresh
\nKeep it goin’ Dougie Fresh
\nKeep it goin’ Dougie Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh<\/p>\n
WHAP! Outta the park.<\/p>\n
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<\/i>.<\/p>\n
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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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