Now that the World Series has been wrapped up before being struck by an East Coast blizzard, BARDBALL will put away the pine tar and the rhyming dictionary until spring training.  Thank you all for a terrific season — our best so far!

Thank you to all our regular readers.  And thank you to our contributors for their great submissions, about this year’s winners and losers, ancient players, doomed domes, and the joy of watching kids play ball in the sandlot.  It’s been a real pleasure to receive and disseminate such wonderful work.  We’ve also gotten some readers and writers connected, just like they show in all those Microsoft commercials, and that can only make our country better.

So now it’s off to the Hot Stove League.  We hope you’ll come back again in the spring,  as BARDBALL once again tries to capture the entire 2010 season in verse and song.  So long, everybody!

by Stephen Jones

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Fans blue-covered waves
Crested with white confetti
Their cheers an ocean

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by Sid Yiddish

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A 27th title
A 27th crown
I don’t believe it,
Did those Yankees buy it off like the 2003 Florida Marlins?

What’s a little extra cash between friends?
What’s a little stash hidden, what’s a little trash talk, just coz other teams didn’t win?

Blame it on the Yankees.
Since 2001 have been buying players black-market style, just to satisfy the fans.

Blame it on the Yankees
When A-Rod takes steroids
Blame it on the Yankees
When umpires look the other way
Blame it on the Yankees
When a new stadium was built and cost a ton
Blame it on the Yankees
When the new yarns are spun

Blame it on the Yankees
When the old legends mysteriously disappeared
Blame it on the Yankees
When they played on our worst fears
Blame it on the Yankees
When the Phillies lost hard
Blame it on the Yankees
When they caught the fans off-guard
Blame it on the Yankees
When they pulled hits out of thin air
Blame it on the Yankees
When they won the World Series fair and square

Blame it on the Yankees
Blame it on the Yankees

Because they always will.
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Posted 11/11/2009