NL Player of the Week

By Greg Simetz

A 29-year-old rook
Claimed off waiver’s wire
Has been tearing up pitchers
Setting Wrigley afire.

With the old-time name Frank
That sounds under-powered
He’s been putting up numbers
Like Franks Robinson and Howard.

Be it a game-winning slam
That set fans a-tingle
Or a headfirst slide into first
With a bizarre walk-off single.

He’s a real life Crash Davis
The longshot who paid
Taking out some of the sting
From Hoyer’s heartbreaking trades.

And though this year’s Cubs team
Will not win a ring
You can count on Schwindel
And his mighty sweet schwing!

 

The Newest Sad Lexicon

by James Finn Garner

I know three reasons Wrigleyville’s crying
And why for season tix no one’s applying
Character sells, sure, but who’s buying?

.     Rizzo and Baez and Bryant

Losing El Mago, our greatest since Whizzo,
Has driven some fans on the borderline schizo,
Hiding their heartache by cranking up Lizzo

.     Baez and Bryant and Rizzo

Watching a hoped-for dynasty die is
Bringing a tear to each diehard’s eye, as
The White Sox look to dominate Chi —

.     Bryant and Rizzo and Baez

 

Schwarbombs Away!

by Hilary Barta

Kyle Schwarber is not a Gold Glover
By candy machines he will hover
But when he connects
The baseball he wrecks
With power to knock off the cover.

The Little Bote that Could

by James Finn Garner

With full throat we
Sing of David Bote
Howl of a coyote
History-making rookie
Not a Don Quixote
Tweaked the devil’s goatee
Gave that ball a pokey
Became the Cubs’ new homey

Cow /kou/ n (Old English), see holy

 

What Makes Sammy Wan?

by Jim Siergey

For Cubbies he played out in right
And clobbered home runs out of sight
They say he was juiced
But, hey, what the deuce?
Whatever he took turned him white!