Reviving the Art of Baseball Doggerel
Or a division in a fragment. A dream.
In Wrigley Field did Quintana
A string of stately innings hurl,
Where Bryant a salami dinged
And El Mago did his magic things
To sweep the oft-accursed Birds.
Yea, twice from left field’s fertile ground
did Zobrist strike a Cardinal down:
Rizzo, Bote, Albert brought their lumber
Redbird fans were too shell-shocked to weep
The Cubs at last have woken from their slumber
And gained first place with a welcome sweep.
A Cards fan, I
These playoffs
I decry
The Rockies collapse,
Cleveland implodes,
The Braves, too young,
NY and Boston hung.
Oh, now wait,
Two nights went right,
Oct. 1st and 2nd…
Good night
Out trotted the skipper, Stubby Clapp
giving Dakota Hudson the hook.
From a minor league mound straight up to
Busch, now the kid’s a Cardinals rook!
Cards prospect Dakota Hudson gets taken out of the game so he can go to the Majors
In Chicago it’s Crosstown Classic time!
A weekend to fumble for a rhyme
For rebuild, for potential,
For prospects and run differential;
To remember Grace, Sweet Lou and Buerhle,
To have an excuse to start drinking early,
To recall when Barrett and AJ flashed fists,
And for the North Side to see the South Side exists.
A foul tip in the ol’ concertina
Has now clipped the Cards’ catcher Molina
A clout to the junk
Knocked him out for the month
But won’t flip Yadi’s stat to “Latina”