Reviving the Art of Baseball Doggerel
BREWERS
Forecast for ’14?
Lots of Braun but little brain.
Enjoy fourth place, guys.
CARDINALS
Yadier Molina—
Buster Posey before the
new Buster Posey.
CUBS
Huh. “Wait til next year”
From a franchise managed by
Weekly profit/loss.
PIRATES
There’s one more Hurdle:
Convert iron not to steel
But to a trophy.
REDS
Time for a Price change—
It was getting Dusty there.
Maybe they’ll win now.
BRAVES
Upton up and down?
Uggla ugly or upward?
Freddie a Free Man?
MARLINS
Now that everyone
Has left the stadium, the
Rebuild can begin.
METS
A farewell to arms—
No Harvey, no Mejia?
And one fat Colon.
NATIONALS
Welcome, Matt Williams!
Now that you’re here, it’s assumed
You’ll win right away.
PHILLIES
Old men, broken down,
Troll the green fields of the town,
Searching for what’s gone.
Winter’s been raw as a campout in Banff.
Your new basement walls are moldy and damp.
Your drapes caught fire from a knocked over lamp—
Relax!
Pitchers and catchers are reporting to camp.
Your check-writing hand’s developed a cramp,
Your bills are all due and you ain’t got a stamp,
Creditors cling to your neck like a clamp—
Smile!
Pitchers and catchers are reporting to camp.
Your yard now faces a new freeway ramp.
Your son is engaged to a gold-digging tramp.
Your “guitar hero” neighbor’s just bought a new amp—
Life is good!
Pitchers and catchers are reporting to camp.
First posted 2/13/2008
The base: a place of welcome respite along the glorious route of transit when home is behind you til home once again. With each venture off base there is the aim, goal and plan: the next bag to reach and then beyond until back to where it all began.
Leave and stop off where there is time to rest til you score the object of the quest. Each beckons to you, made of whatever materials offered in the venue.
Sandlots see torn cardboard pieces serving as the diamond’s pointy places. At other times and spaces, bags or pillows will do.
On dirt field scratched boxes in the soil will serve as base and works of practical art.
Living room? Rocking chair for first, then sofa for second, roam on to third at the love seat til returning to the old shirt where the trip did start.
On the city street, front bumper of the Ford serves first, then on to the manhole cover in the street, a place for defender and runner to meet. Fire pump as third will do great, til returning to the sewer that served as the plate.
There and back and midst trip adventures to be sure: leads to take and tag ups to make. A good jump and then mad dash and slide are made with pick offs to evade. On such a path of an uncertain journey, on base is a nice place to be.