by Stephen Jones
“Robinson Cano is at the plate . . .”
And suddenly the television commentators
start gushing like hushed golf idolaters
with “Oohs & Ahhs!”, mechanics “telestrated”,
picked at, praised, exalted:
head, eyes, hands, legs, torso, knees,
hips combined . . . all his anatomy
& he becomes temporarily
a Colossus of baseball mythology
. . . and all the while I keep hearing
Puck from the dugout saying
“You can observe a lot by just watching”
Thanks again, Steve. But wasn’t “Puck from the dugout” the great and inimitable Yogi? Of course, Yogi also said “I didn’t say everything that they said I said” and “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.”