Smith's Patience

I apologize for yet another song so shortly after the previous one, but this offseason has been rather slow for Twins fans. Jack Steal from Fanatic Jack Talks Twins is clearly frustrated by the lack of activity, when it feels like every other team around the Twins is working to improve their own teams. He’s drawing the ire from other people due to his impatience, but it’s hard to remain patient when there are several holes to fill and Bill Smith doesn’t seem to show any concern about filling any of those. Hell, a Joe Mauer contract extension is probably what everyone wants, but as far as we know, the Twins and Mauer aren’t even discussing it at the moment. So, while I do not have a funny yet bogus story as a background to this song (because the story is practically entirely truthful), I do have a song anyway. To Audioslave’s “Like A Stone,” I give you a song about Bill Smith and sitting tight until Spring Training:

Bill Smith, “By The Phone”

On a lazy afternoon of a day full of dreariness

By a freeway, my office, I have sat here for ages

Take your time, I can stay, waiting for the ringing phone

And if you’re good, we’ll lay to rest the charades of this show

My clubhouse, you long to be

Day by day, patiently

I wait for you here, by the phone

I wait for you here, come home

And in my desk chair, I will scoff at the Yanks and the Angels

Like a wise man, to anyone that will hear me ’til seven

In a place, your agent, pitched for me to sign you so

My infield’s filled, the lineup’s set, but I stalled him ’til dawn

My clubhouse, you long to be

Week by week, patiently

I wait for you here, by the phone

I wait for you here, come home, come home

And on I wait, even when days have gone

And I sit here composed, got ’til spring to be wrong

For all that I rest, waiting for so long

Take my offer or you should move on, go on

My clubhouse, you long to be

Month by month, patiently

I wait for you here, by the phone

I wait for you here, come home, come home

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