MLB All-Beatles-Songs Team

By James Finn Garner, Jim Siergey and Stu Shea

1B   I am the Wally Joiner
2B   Steve Saxman
SS   Ketel Marte My Dear
3B   Ken Heltner Keltner

LF   Miguel Ma Belle Cabrera
CF   Oddibe Ob-La-Da McDowell
RF   Darryl Strawberry Fields

C     Donny Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

LHP   Jeff Little Help from My Friends, Vida Blue Jay Way, Hyun Jin Ryu Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
RHP   Brad Penny Lane, Ron Oh Darling, Austin Dear Pruitt, Here Comes the Sun-Woo Kim

MGR    All You Need is Torey Lovullo

Blake Snell

By James Finn Garner

Blake Snell
Still pitches quite well
But for that to sell,
You’d have to tell
GMs half-truths to quell
Their fear of wild spells
And early-game bombshells
Which the Cy Young didn’t dispel.

Now he’s in SF,
A place accustomed AF
To an up-and-down staff.
Let’s hope Melvin is deft
or it will be “exit, stage left.”

Respectable People

By Old Hoss Radbourn

No use in blinking
at the fact
that at that time the game was thought,
by respectable people,
to be only one degree above
grand larceny,
arson,
mayhem
and those who engaged in it were
beneath notice of
decent society.

Thanks to Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball.

MLB All-Counties-of-Ireland Team

1B   Wayne Tyrone
2B   Cavan Biggio
SS   Bunny Downs
3B   Jeter Downs

LF   Shane Mona[g]han
CF   Kerry Dineen
RF   Russ Derry

C     Corky Miller

LHP  Mike Kilkenny
RHP  Kerry Wood, Kerry Ligtenberg, Kerry Lacy, Kerry Taylor

MGR   Mayo Smith

Owner  Tom Monaghan

Mid-Spring Beat Up

by James Finn Garner

Can our boy Judge come out to play?
At noon our foursome tees up.
Sorry, fellas, not today,
He’s sorta mid-spring beat up.

That man Aaron is one hunk of thirst,
The girls at the club wanna meet up.
No no, ladies, training comes first,
He’s a bit mid-spring beat up.

At the hotel, the maids are asking,
Can Judge ever put the seat up?
Bending over? That’s multitasking
For someone mid-spring beat up.

Should I renew my season seats,
Watch my savings get eat up?
Baseball gives your pains surcease
‘Til you get mid-spring beat up.