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MVP -- Most Valuable Parody

What is the best overall parody in the CPF Parody Contest?

"I've Looked at Mazz from Both Sides Now" - Yancy Street Gang	1 votes
"Grounded Out" - Sharpie	2 votes
"I Wonder About Eddie B." ("Don't Know Much") - Yancy Street Gang	0 votes
"I Am McDowell" - Sharpie	1 votes
"Take a Walk from the Wild Guy" - Rockin' Doc	2 votes
"Maggsie Mae" - Edgy DC	0 votes
"Pedro Is the Guy Dwarves Climb On" - Yancy Street Gang	3 votes
"A Catcher Named Choo Choo" - Willets Point	0 votes
"Catcher" - Sharpie	1 votes
"October Pain" - metsmarathon	1 votes
"Dae's Oddity" - Johnny Dickshot	0 votes
"Bonilla's at the Plate" - Seawolf	0 votes
"Big Bad John" - Rockin' Doc	0 votes
"Hurt and Likely Bruised" - Edgy DC	0 votes
"Score Rod Gaspar" - KC	0 votes
"Izzy" - Scarlet Knight	0 votes
"I Think It's Don Grant Now" - Yancy Street Gang	2 votes
"Up on the Hill and Far Away" - Willet's Point	0 votes
"Estes Lament" - Seawolf	2 votes
"Don't Pitch" - holychicken	0 votes
"Mookie" - Yancy Street Gang	0 votes
"Life During '93-Time" - sharpie	1 votes
"Harrelson Is Too Slight (for Fighting)" - Rockin' Doc	1 votes

Jazz Radio DJ Dec 21 2005 10:32 AM

The first annual Most Valuable Parody award presented by WARM-FM Jazz Radio voted on by you the listeners.

Willets Point Dec 21 2005 10:42 AM

I voted for "I Am McDowell." My top five are: "I Am McDowell" - Sharpie "Dae's Oddity" - Johnny Dickshot "Pedro Is the Guy Dwarves Climb On" - Yancy Street Gang "Catcher" - Sharpie "I Think It's Don Grant Now" - Yancy Street Gang I also really liked my own "Up on the Hill and Far Away"

Edgy DC Dec 21 2005 10:44 AM

Sharpie is already dividiing his own support. He may go home empty twice now.

Willets Point Dec 21 2005 10:47 AM

Now Yancy is split.

Edgy DC Dec 21 2005 10:52 AM

Three Yancys and three sharpies have support.

Willets Point Dec 21 2005 10:55 AM

Obviously the right contestants made it to the finals.

Yancy Street Gang Dec 21 2005 10:56 AM

I don't expect any runaway winners in this vote. Right now "Don Grant" has two votes (one of them mine) and five other songs have one each.

seawolf17 Dec 21 2005 10:57 AM

Is it obnoxious to vote for yourself? Well, too late.

Johnny Dickshot Dec 21 2005 10:59 AM

"Grounded Out" got my vote. Subcategory: Best Title 1. Dae's Oddity 2. Harrelson is too Slight (For Fighting) 3. Hurt and Likely Bruised

Edgy DC Dec 21 2005 11:02 AM

That begs another poll, not limited to winners either.

MFS62 Dec 21 2005 11:59 AM

]"Pedro Is the Guy Dwarves Climb On" It takes a twisted mind to come up with something like that. That's a good thing, and gets my vote any day. Later

holychicken Dec 21 2005 12:19 PM

]It takes a twisted mind to come up with something like that. That's a good thing, and gets my vote any day. I second that.

Valadius Dec 21 2005 02:40 PM

"Back in '64" doesn't even get considered? Come on, now.

Jazz Radio DJ Dec 21 2005 02:46 PM

Sorry Val, only winners can be considered for MVP. We may have to have a second round of voting in which the top 5 vote-getters in this poll are ranked Schaeffer style.

HahnSolo Dec 21 2005 02:51 PM

]"Back in '64" doesn't even get considered? Come on, now. Valadius, if it's any consolation, I spent about a week humming "long before HoJo, he was our mojo" to myself.

Yancy Street Gang Dec 21 2005 02:59 PM

Now we have Pedro at 3, Grounded Out and Don Grant at 2, and seven 1's.

Valadius Dec 21 2005 04:20 PM

Thanks Hahn, that does make me feel better.

Zvon Dec 21 2005 05:20 PM

is this an all time list? Sorry for the newbie question but I do have a hard time keeping up with all that goes on here. On top of that, Im a slow reader and an even slower typer. ;(

Edgy DC Dec 21 2005 07:02 PM

These are the winners from this year's contest. They should all, in theory, be viewable in the parody sub-forum.

Zvon Dec 21 2005 11:26 PM

......so isnt voting on this again a little redundant? I mean,...isnt that what you were doing in the actual contest? Wasnt it a playoff tree kind of thing? Or this is the thread that decides the big winner. Sometimes I wish this board was in book form so I could read it away from the PC. lol

Edgy DC Dec 21 2005 11:39 PM

Voting the best parody is akin to voting the MVP. It rewards a solitary individual performance within the context of the pursuit of the cmhampionship, but doesn't negate the championship. And, in that sense, JRDJ named it well.

Centerfield Dec 22 2005 12:36 PM

It may not have won, but "An Orsulak Game" is probably my favorite parody in four years of this contest.

Edgy DC Dec 22 2005 12:56 PM

I just looked at it. I like it better now than when I had just after I lost. But it still lacks a strong ending. I'm disappointed to have lost, but not bitter, like I was (and still kind of am) about "It's the End of My Arm and I know It" losing to "The Innings Man" in year two. Ugh.

Yancy Street Gang Dec 22 2005 01:14 PM

The Orsulak-Bressoud battle is one they'll be talking about for a long time. While there weren't any rounds that I knew I would win, that's the only one where I expected to lose. My copout song beating your Orsulak entry was the biggest upset, and it was a turning point for the whole contest.

Edgy DC Dec 22 2005 02:45 PM

You're aw-shucksin' again here. It wasn't a copout. Yeah, writing a theme essay about not having a theme to write an essay about is the oldest frosh English trick in the book, it's also been used with distinction in such notable essays as Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own." No reason it can't similarly be used in a song parody. Best idea? No. But you executed. You executed me.

Elster88 Dec 22 2005 02:48 PM

The amount of stroking that is done by someone for someone else's ego is amazing. You all wrote great parodies. Don't any of you have some narcissitic rage? Somebody step up and admit that you personally did a good job, I'm begging you.

Yancy Street Gang Dec 22 2005 02:50 PM

Okay. I loved two of my songs, liked two others, and was dissatisfied with one. So I felt positive about 80% of my entries.

Willets Point Dec 22 2005 03:02 PM

I thought my Benny Agbayani song was the best I wrote and that it would have beat almost anything but "I Am McDowell". I'm also quite fond of my other two parodies.

Johnny Dickshot Dec 22 2005 03:10 PM

I called a press conference to express my disbelief that the "Guy Said Kevin Baez" parody wasn't found so brilliantly genius it ended the contest then and there and subsequently fried half the servers on the East Coast in a hotlinking frenzy. On the other hand, its opponent was funny too.

Centerfield Dec 22 2005 03:15 PM

I'll be honest, I thought for sure "Scenes from Todd Hundley's Career" was a winner. But the minute I saw "I think it's Don Grant Now" I knew I was in trouble.

Yancy Street Gang Dec 22 2005 03:23 PM

Thanks, CF. I really felt like I had a winner when I finished "I Think It's Don Grant Now." When that song, which is probably the best I'll ever do, won so narrowly, I realized how difficult this game can be.

Edgy DC Dec 22 2005 03:35 PM

Bow before "Magsie Mae," you jealous wretches.

Valadius Dec 22 2005 07:24 PM

For my first time in this thing, I think I did a pretty good job.