So Schnookie was driving to work the other day listening to John Zorn’s version of “The Ballad of Hank McCain”, and had an amazing realization:
Dude, that song is about Devils fans! Especially Devils fans who just watched Game 3 of this series. Seriously —
No one knows better than a Devils fan after Game 3 of this series that life’s a filthy dirty game, very very hard to win.
No one knows better than a Devils fan after Game 3 of this series how to to disregard the pain, never, never let it in.
No one knows better than a Devils fan after Game 3 of this series that a man who thinks he’s free knocks his head against a wall.
No one knows better than a Devils fan after Game 3 of this series just how bitter it would be to be beaten after all (by Clemmer).
No one knows better than a Devils fan after Game 3 of this series that they’d get him all the same, and they made him pay the price.
Of course, no one knows better than a Devils fan after any Devils game that when all is said and done, that’s the only way to live.
We meant to put up a post about this before Game 4 made it sort of irrelevant, but we’re lazy. The point remains, though, that losing playoff games to Scott Clemmensen is a sort of pain that only Devils fans know, and only Ennio Morricone can put into music appropriately.
