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NL Central 2011 Haiku Predictions

By Stuart Shea

CHICAGO CUBS
Oh, Michael Quade—
Lead us up Mt. Zambrano
But slowly, slowly.

CINCINNATI REDS
Aroldis Chapman
Fast as a spring tornado
Wilder than berries.

HOUSTON ASTROS
Blooms on orange tree:
Figueroa? Barmes? Hall?
’nother sour batch.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS
Are you ribbing me?
Zack out for all of April?
I hate basketball.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES
Youth must have its day.
Better that green kids err than
Jeromy Burnitz.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS
Albert? No Albert?
Rumors expand and contract
About new contracts.

 

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One of the Good Guys!

by Don Nelson

Ron Santo was one of the greatest Cubs
All-Star with steady glove, you had few flubs
You had fun every day playing the game
How can you not be in the Hall of Fame?

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Ron Santo, RIP

by Jim Siergey

They called Ernie Banks “Mister Cub”
but Santo could sure be his sub
He bled Cubbie Blue
(They never came through)
For Ronnie, ah, that was the rub

Jim often posts under the pseudonym Norm Knott  at LimerWrecks.

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…Maybe

By James Finn Garner and Stuart Shea

Chicago Cub Xavier Nady
Fouled off a ball that injured a lady.
At her hospital bed,
He told her with dread,
“I should have laid offa that pitch, maybe.”