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Video With a Catchy Tune to Inspire Red Sox Courtesy of a Watertown Grad

The Red Sox closer Koji Uehara inspired the song.

A Tufts University singing group put together a song dedicated to the Red Sox and the team's closer - UUU-EEE - Uehara. 

The Tufts Jackson Jills, the oldest women's a capella group at the college, recorded the song and made the video in an all-nighter according to a story on WBZ-TV. The video, called "Closin' With Koji," and was directed and produced by Watertown native Jake Hellman. 

They hoped to have the video played at Fenway Park, but it has not happened. You can check out out on YouTube


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