Reviving the Art of Baseball Doggerel
Todd Frazier and Adam Eaton
Can’t step on a field today without greeting
Each other with yelps and chirps
And mumbles and sighs and razzes and burps.
“He started it,” they say when asked,
Though it stretches to a Chisox team in the past.
Their current squads yell, when they start to spume:
“We’re playing ball here–go get a room!”
Not so amazin’
A study in dysfunction
More like implodin’
Game 34: Brewers 3, Mets 1
Hader 6-out save
Causes heart attack in 9th
But comes through in end
Game 35: Brewers 2, Mets 2 in 18th
Mets tie it in 9th
Now we’ve gone twice that tonight
So much free baseball
Game 35: Brewers 4, Mets 3 Final
Mets take the late lead
But Braun walks off with 6th hit
Of this marathon
Game 36: Brewers 3, Mets 2
Davies and Yelich
Go deep pitching and hitting
To complete the sweep
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As the season ends and the playoffs loom,
Let us pause a sec and make some room
In our doggerel feed for those athletes
Who’re hanging up mitts and jocks and cleats.
The Jints will miss ol’ Hunter Pence
Of flaming beard and glare intense.
After so many seasons, Bartolo Colon
Will finally get to shower alone.
Minnesotans, pray to your higher power
For another guy even close to Mauer.
Now David Wright, Mets’ grand old man,
Will have to watch them choke from the stands.
With the Angels’ collapse, Mike Scioscia
Might do well inspecting for OSHA.
Chase Utley being out of the game
Frees me from trying to rhyme his name.
And with no regrets, let’s bid adieu
And good riddance to Chief Wahoo.
After the onslaught —
14 runs in 2 innings —
Citi Field empty