Reviving the Art of Baseball Doggerel
If you would have told me
we were going to end up
flirting with the record,
I would have been
a little surprised.
Now if you would have told me
prior to the year
that we would have ended up
with over 100 losses,
105,
110,
I wouldn’t have been
as surprised.
When Leo the Lip tried to name
The five strongest bats in the game
He omitted Ted Klu
Hinted he lived in the zoo
Human being? He’s not quite the same.
When Hall of Fame manager Leo Durocher was once asked by a writer to name five of the strongest players in baseball, he complied. However, when the writer pointed out that he’d left Ted Kluszewski off the list, Durocher huffed and said, “Kluszewski? I’m talking about human beings!” Happy 100th birthday, Big Klu!
Guardian Anthony Gose
Comes and goes
Goes and comes
Up and down I-71
Up to Cleveland
Down to Columbus
Too bad to keep
Too good to dump
Four times in a month
He’s been DFA’d,
Eerily close to Buddy Holly:
“Don’t Fade Away.”
1BÂ Â Jimmie Foxx
2BÂ Â Xavier Edwards
SSÂ Â Xander Bogaerts
3BÂ Â Ollie Sax
LF  Leovigildo Xiqués
CFÂ Â Xavier Paul
RFÂ Â Ox Eckhardt
CÂ Â Poindexter Williams
LHP  Xavier Cedeño
RHPÂ Â Xzavion Curry, Kanekoa Texeira, Axel Lindstrom
MGRÂ Â Dicta Johnson
Alex Bregman is very popular.