Archive for October, 2009
RSVP Red Sox Fan
by Stephen Jones
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You had your chance
But blew it – at home
The arrogance of bats
Not yours but swinging
Against you &
Your own play proof
A winter to compose
To refurbish to retool
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Posted 10/14/2009
Hometown Park
by Doug Fahrendorff
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I pause to visit
The ballpark in my hometown
The infield covered by a tarp
Of red and orange tinged leaves
Nature as groundskeeper
Heralding the coming of winter
I recall spring days at school
Baseball every recess
The field seemed gigantic then
Less imposing now
After fifty years
Memories are still clear
My infatuation with baseball began here
I turn the collar of my jacket
Against the October wind
And contemplate change.
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Posted 10/13/2009
Baseball’s October Play
by Stephen Jones
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Variable Fall
White-washed now for bat & glove
For fields one last time
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Posted 10/12/2009
A Poem for Carl Pavano
by Hart Seely
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He’ll break out in some rare disease,
That turns his arm to cottage cheese,
A fungus will infect his rod,
If there’s indeed a Yankee God.
He’ll give up six runs in the first,
And go from being bad to worst,
He’ll feel the heat of our Jihad,
If there’s indeed a Yankee God.
And if there is no Man upstairs,
No one to hear our heartfelt prayers,
He still shall face a long hard slide,
If there’s one ounce of Yankee pride.
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For more of Hart’s tasteful insights into the national pastime, visit It Is High, It Is Far, It Is…caught.
Posted 10/9/2009
Goodnight and Good Luck
By Stuart Shea
It’s the last day of the season,
The end of the road for 22 teams.
And the last day in the majors for a lot of guys…
we just don’t know who, yet.
Many big-league careers will end today.
The 24-year-old prospect who’ll tear up a knee in winter ball,
The 30-year-old marginal regular who’ll go to Japan to cash in,
The 33-year-old situational reliever who can’t get anyone out,
The 36-year-old backup catcher who’ll get cut next spring and retire.
Let’s tip our hat to the as-yet unknown who will exeunt omnes,
Because baseball is about them just as much
as it is about Manny and Dice-K and Greinke and C.C.
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Posted 10/6/2009
