The Futility of Cheating
By Stuart Shea
Man in a white suit
Stealing signs for the Blue Jays
But they still don’t win.
Instant Replay
by Stephen Jones
Baseball & fallibility?
A sport of humanity
Of human error
Of endless furor
He’s safe! He’s out!
But baseball is not
An exercise in replay
Whatever current sway
Complained during
Winter month expectation
& lifetime dreaming
Caring more for passion
(More for argument
He’s safe! He’s out!)
Time To Tell . . . Or Not
by Stephen Jones
Roger Clemens says “I’ll walk”
to clustered eager media
leaving court prosecution balked
warned by a bench previous
Know the rules
don’t fudge the facts
just prove the act
(& steroids run to trivia
rupturing historia)
Now $10 Million of trial prep
taxpayer dollars up in smoke
Clemens amid hollers walks
backdoor to Cooperstown
The Dodgers May Be Bankrupt
by Stephen Jones
The Dodgers may be bankrupt
But the team is not Frank McCourt
Player personnel should not be
Argued part of personal finance
Or a sticking part of ugly divorce
But he’s twined off-the-field calamity
With baseball history
And proved successfully
Frank McCourt is truly
A “dodger” financially
Truth To Tell?
by Stephen Jones
Time to make amends
(I wish would’ve been said)
By Roger Clemens
(But I cannot judge)
There’s tangled arrogance
Supposed abuse & media rush
Posturing on the mound a stance
In court too to hush
By filed papers
By disclaimers
That a person is naive
Yet aware & conflictive
I thought this bare-knuckle
Bare-faced debacle
Would’ve been erased
By an all-forgiving fan base
But this coming legal sieve
Only wishes/draws attention
To media-flushed speculation
A barrel of brine to leave
