The Ballad of Nyjer Morgan
By Stuart Shea
Nyjer Morgan? What a jerk,
Putting catchers out of work.
Doesn’t get on base a lot,
Doesn’t use the speed he’s got.
Doesn’t understand the game,
Hasn’t got an ounce of shame,
Fighting with obnoxious fans,
Tossing baseballs in the stands.
The silver lining to this song?
He won’t be here for very long.
With Love and Ancient Cautions: From a Wood Fan to a Strasburg Fan
By Joe Moag
Unto He!
Unto He, the new rookie,
He with an arm fit to hoist Zeus’ bolt,
Fit to slay our past; fit to redeem our degradations.
Unto He, our welcomed savior!
A reprieve from years of ill, from years of doubt,
From years of lowness.
Unto He, the Lifter!
Unto He, the Changer!
Unto He, the Future!
Unto He, Alleviator of this state
Of prolonged exile, of overdue vengeance,
Of our just and righteous payback!
Unto He we place this proof
That our faith, traveled across orphanage and dismissal,
Our Faith, that thing
Which steeled our resolve
To simply stay in the game long enough,
Has borne fruit! It has brought
Him, here, to Us.
No light as bright as this has ever shone, only to
Fall away in wreckage through the dimming of life’s cold onslaughts and hurly-burl!
Immortals don’t flinch, or suffer, or miss their mark – they shine!
Our wait itself is the toil and testament to the surety of this!
This Game and its Gods, who sit high and low,
Sworn sacred to the mischief in their souls
Could never be jealous enough
To make this foreseen future, this deserved fate,
Fall short.
Posted 6/27/10
The Stephen Strasburg Fallout (A Reflection)
by Stephen Jones
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From the much-anticipated debut
Standing on a mound of dirt
To voicing Letterman’s “Top 10″
Standing on a mound of media
Only days apart quite a “change up”
Perhaps more so & swifter
Than the time he spent between pitches
(The umpire asking him to “slow down”)
From baseball’s eager expectation
From its projection of possibilities
& into media’s spotlight attention
In history 14Ks still outweigh a Top 10
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Posted 6/14/10
National League East 2010 Haiku Forecasts
By Stuart Shea
BRAVES
No Glavine. No Smoltz.
“Chipper” Jones no longer is.
Where has my youth gone?
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MARLINS
If a ball club plays
In an empty stadium
Does anyone hear?
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METS
A pleasant spring, but
No Reyes of sun for the Mets.
FBI? Thyroid?
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PHILLIES
Is this an old team?
Well, 18 of them were born
Before Reagan’s years.
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NATIONALS
As Strasbourg links France
and Germany, Steve Strasburg
spans Nats’ talent gap.
Posted 4/4/10
3 Nationals Haiku
Thanks to the commenters at the blog Federal Baseball:
Odalis Perez,
Nats’ left-handed soft-tosser.
Ryan Howard’s bat.
by E Chigliak
ryan zimmerman
decent face of the franchise
the body needs work
by VA SLIM
The Nats suck so much
Poem writing is more fun
Strasburg will save us
by ROSCOEtheNATSfan
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Posted 6/25/2009
