The Dugout
By Jon - 9-25-06
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**OnlineHost** You have entered the Colorado Rockies' clubhouse chatroom.
Hurdlewax: Vinny, you've meant a lot to this franchise over the years.
CastillaBallot: thanks coach
Hurdlewax: I'll remember you for always having a hairstyle that was fashionable exactly one decade ago. Although...it's 2006, you're a little late for the bowl cut.

CastillaBallot: oh jeez it's 2006?

/stomps on m-frame Oakleys, puts on wraparound Oakleys

Hurdlewax: You were best known, though, for hitting 40 home runs a year throughout the mid-90s. If you were to play for any other team that translates to 13 home runs, a bloop double, and maybe a hug from your mom.
Hurdlewax: So as a measure of tribute, we've declared today "Vinny Castilla Day".
CastillaBallot: i don't know what to say!
Hurdlewax: Well to be honest, Vinny, neither did we. That's why we've asked indie music sensation Sufjan Stevens to stop by the clubhouse and sing for us!
  **OnlineHost** SufjanSuccotash has entered the chatroom.
SufjanSuccotash: hey guys thanks for having me for "vinny castilla day", sounds ripe for the kitschin' to me
SufjanSuccotash: this song is called "vinny castilla day", off my upcoming album "colorado is colo-radical!" !
CastillaBallot: yaaaaay

SufjanSuccotash: /strums banjo

oh my gooohhhddddd

SufjanSuccotash: oh my gohhh-eee-yohhhd


ooooo-oooooooo-oooooooh

SufjanSuccotash: /says "ooooooooh"; rattles tambourine for 8 minutes

SufjanSuccotash: /deep breath

denvervailcoloradosprings
broncosrockiesnuggets
rockymountains
glorious STATE! glorious STATE!

/plays triangle with feet

CastillaBallot: is this song even about me

SufjanSuccotash: i'm getting to it

SufjanSuccotash: /plays ukekele with violin bow

/sings

it was vinny castilla day, the giant man of the rocky mountains, shoulders broad

CastillaBallot: oh this is the good part i bet

SufjanSuccotash: aaaaaand then my sort-of girlfriend died of cancer and was hit by a train at the same time and everybody cannot find jobs and god is a jerk but i am a christian for irony's sake ooooooooooooooooh

CastillaBallot: could you just play "happy birthday" or something

SufjanSuccotash: /bangs on snare drum with two didgeridoos