"Surfin' Bird" meets "The Monster Mash"

I'm studying Latin a week now and I feel like a barbarian before the gates of Rome with the centurions raining down boulders and burning pitch. First you must acknowledge your own stupidity, then surrender to the feeling of helplessness. Then, attack Rome single-handedly.

Everybody's heard about the Bird!
It was a Graveyard Smash!
The Bird Bird Bird, The Monster Mash

So my buddies the White Sox are heading for the post-season. I see portents of doom before me. What bodes this?