All-Star Clerihews #4 — Clerihews Must Die

Mike Moustakas
Shakes air-maracas
When he sets his phone to play
“Not Fade Away.”

Anthony Rendon
Is bad to the bone
A little George Thoroughgood
Puts him in a killer mood.

George Springer
Is adroit with dingers
And often later
Brings more taters.

Hunter Pence
Is still intense
But has learned to be discrete
In the Texas heat.

Best of Frenemies

By James Finn Garner

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!”

 

The Little Bote that Could

by James Finn Garner

With full throat we
Sing of David Bote
Howl of a coyote
History-making rookie
Not a Don Quixote
Tweaked the devil’s goatee
Gave that ball a pokey
Became the Cubs’ new homey

Cow /kou/ n (Old English), see holy