Reviving the Art of Baseball Doggerel
Early optimism
Of Brewer fans
Fades in the heat of mid-summer
Multiple problems emerge
Braun and Biogenesis
Eventual suspension
Injuries to key players
Starting pitching meltdown
Bright spots in a lost season
Segura and Gomez
Exceed expectations
Lucroy and Aoki
Steady contributors
Still defeats pile up
Last place
Early draft pick seems assured
Teams future
Shrouded in questions
Is Haiku foolish?
For the national pastime?
Heavens, I hope not.
NL West
Arizona
Nice guys finish last
Crabby managers do win
They still need pitching
Los Angeles
Is money the key?
It can bring in the big names
No, it’s the scouting
Colorado
Thin air skews his stats.
Is Todd a Hall of Famer?
No, probably not
San Francisco
We won it all twice…
With an absence of offense
Only even years
San Diego
A beautiful park
The only Hall of Famer
Is up in the booth
NL East
Atlanta
Fourteen in a row
Is not so impossible
It might start this year
Washington
First picks starting games
Davey says this is his last
A doormat no more
Philadelphia
A team on the rise
They are not now any more
We all miss Harry
New York
A small pantheon
But will be growing soon now
Matt Harvey’s a star
Miami
Was ever team
More worthy than its owner
To be in the Bigs?
NL Central
St. Louis
The league’s best record
They have birds on their jerseys
We all will miss Stan
Pittsburgh
A great tradition
Lives on in the memory of fans
Maybe the year’s here!
Cincinnati
Phillips is wondrous
The rest are outstanding too
It’s Dusty’s last year
Chicago
The city’s windy
Is anything more constant
Than fans’ apathy?
Milwaukee
Segura is great
John Axford is clean shaven
Nicest fans ever
D. Bruce Brown has posted daily trivia questions for Horsehide Trivia since 1997. He is also the president of the Bob Davids chapter of SABR.
Ryan’s Braun
is going,
going, gone.
Ryan Braun’s song not too sweet
now if PEDs holds true.
So much for amazing stats.
I’m just not amazed anymore,
maybe jaundiced . . . or just in wonder.
CHICAGO
A brand-new playpen?
That’s just a distraction for
Your crumbling bones.
CINCINNATI
As we get older
We learn to use our wisdom.
What’s Dusty’s excuse?
MILWAUKEE
I’d walk a mile for
A Gamel–a healthy one.
Now: power outage.
PITTSBURGH
Brand new calendar,
Same old days. Same old people.
Same old misery.
ST. LOUIS
Another spring, a
Young man in charge–well, young by
Managing standards…