Reviving the Art of Baseball Doggerel
This season the Cubbies are ghastly.
The team’s overpaid something vastly.
.    Against ne’er -do-well clubs,
.    these error-prone schlubs
are beaten so bad they’ll end lastly.
The Cub fan deserves our attention.
Their club’s always out of contention.
.    Yet they patiently cheer
.    as they wait til next year.
What they need is a team intervention.
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Check out the rest of Hilary’s rhyme and illustration work at LimerWrecks.
“It’s a dump, Wrigley Field.” — Peter Gammons, radio interview
Peter Gammons is
A prep-school fool–uncool tool
Well past his sell date
.
Doug Davis throws nothing but junk,
Zambrano acts like a punk,
.   And Quade the boss
.   Looks like he’s lost–
Another Cubs’ season is sunk.
Are Ricketts and Hendry still believing
While fans in the bleachers are grieving?
.   ‘Cause the team on the field
.   Is again getting killed.
Who can blame Ron Santo for leaving????
That angry young Cub named Zambrano
Takes aim at team mano-a-mano.
.     Their Triple-A game
.       Fills Carlos with shame
And his rage will not wait till next anno.
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Hilary Barta handles his rage by posting limericks every day at LimerWrecks.
In response to Jim Siergey’s “Age-Old, New Age Question”:
When hearing the Cubs greatest hits
this listener’s dumped in the pits.
The discs sadly spin
a “What could have been!”
a record an earplug befits.