2013 AL Central Prediction Haiku
By Stuart Shea
CHICAGO
No Sale, no pennant?
Can Beckham bend it foreward?
Is Konerko Dunn?
CLEVELAND
Re-seeding is hard.
Big contracts are easier.
80-82.
DETROIT
No closer, no stress?
Just win every game by five!
(Time for a Zantac.)
KANSAS CITY
The Wil to win “soon”
Has been supplanted by the
Will to win today.
MINNESOTA
Ten thousand lakes teem
With tears from ticket-holding
Twin fan Targetees.
Eighteen to Nine
By Barbara Gregorich
Basepaths clogged with Twins
Stacking runs in bins
White Sox nursing chins
Barbara is the author, among other books, of Jack and Larry: Jack Graney and Larry, the Cleveland Baseball Dog, a true story told in verse. You can get it from Amazon here.
“Please Don’t Call Them Twinkies” by Craig Finn & the Baseball Project
2012 AL Central Prediction Haiku
By Stuart Shea
CHICAGO WHITE SOX
With the mouth gone to
Sunnier climes, will the Sox
Be hung out to dry?
CLEVELAND INDIANS
“Is Grady injured?”
“Was there a Tuesday last week?”
Michael Brantley’s glad.
DETROIT TIGERS
27 games
Before Brandon Inge returns
To reclaim third base.
KANSAS CITY ROYALS
Those young hitters can’t
Overpower the smell of
Five pieces of meat.
MINNESOTA TWINS
Such a nice ballpark
And such nice people watching
Their nice, boring team.
A Long Winter in Twinkie Town
by James Finn Garner
Joe Mauer and Justin Morneau
Had miserable seasons, and so
. The Twins are now heading
. Into future rough sledding
In the land of the ice and the snow.
