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Deadline Day!

By Stuart Shea

Deadline day is coming!
Whose lives will be uprooted?
What players will be traded
Like cargo to be scooted?

Will the Yankees snag a pitcher,
The Tigers a receiver?
The White Sox need a hitter,
The Dodgers a reliever.

The Diamondbacks are out to deal,
The Cubs would like to trade,
And Kansas City always wants
To trim payroll a shade.

Ted Lilly and Roy Oswalt,
Dan Haren and Dotel,
Dunn’s a done deal also
Once their clubs decide to sell.

So ship out all those veterans,
Young prospects for to grab,
’cause clubs in flag contention
Always have to take a stab.

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Superhero Night with the West Michigan Whitecaps

by James Finn Garner

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To augment the human-sized, foam-rubber eyeball footraces
(Sponsored by a local optometrist)
And the hot wieners bazooka’d into the crowd
(Brought to you by an insurance agency)
And the horrible-hued disco dance contest
(Courtesy of Q-107–“You Can’t Stop The Rock”),
The special events crew rented costumes
Of Captain America and The Hulk,
Complete with stitched-in muscles,
And waved and flexed and danced and clowned.

In between,
Pitchers strained,
Batters swung,
Fielders pounced,
Dreaming of the show.

Posted 7/19/10

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State Gold

by Todd Herges

On the occasion of my son winning the USSSA Nebraska state championship, U11 division

Winning it all bestows some

Pride
For all of the games well-played;

Satisfaction
For all the big metro team thumpings;

Excited hope
For next season and all that will follow
on the way to the show (for sure?);

Redemption
For past transgressions – especially the mental;

Medals
That will hang on hall of fame walls
until future days when all of them fall;

Memories
That will live as long
as the players and their parents and their kids.

Posted 7/18/10

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What the…?

by Bob Carlton
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the knuckle
ball wobble
s
a drunk
en fire fly
blinks here swing
there maybe
you hit it probably
.
not
.

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Posted 7/14/2010

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I Swear (About Baseball)

By Stephen Jones
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I swear with this July
with summer’s bending weather

nothing is written in stone
nothing written about steady teams
just now the “watch fors”
to surprise & old rivalries to spark

Baseball like a slow bullet
Has yet to target summer
.

Posted 7/9/10