Comments on: dear jose, please drop a mixtape soon. thx, mkj http://maura.com/archives/70 now with permalinks. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:22:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: reeshard http://maura.com/archives/70#comment-3206 reeshard Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:49:19 +0000 http://maura.com/archives/70#comment-3206 "our team our time" is greatly underrated. not only is it embarrassingly catchy (i can still recall the tune a year later, now), but it SIMULTANEOUSLY introduces you to the players on the team and teaches you the rules of baseball ("pedro martinez will strike you out"). the fact that it was put together by a veteran of the paradise garage, gives it a connection to NYC history, and, to top everything off, the awkward rapping makes you feel embarrassed to be a mets fan, which establishes a connection to the history of mets fans. “our team our time” is greatly underrated. not only is it embarrassingly catchy (i can still recall the tune a year later, now), but it SIMULTANEOUSLY introduces you to the players on the team and teaches you the rules of baseball (”pedro martinez will strike you out”).

the fact that it was put together by a veteran of the paradise garage, gives it a connection to NYC history, and, to top everything off, the awkward rapping makes you feel embarrassed to be a mets fan, which establishes a connection to the history of mets fans.

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