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What Passes for Excitement

by James Finn Garner

They’re getting pumped in Motown
For the torrid Wild Card race!
If they rack up division wins,
They’ll surge up to second place

Enough to struggle in October
By God’s and Minnesota’s grace,
And clear the stench of summer
Unless they fall on their whiskered face.

 

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Hello, Goodbye

by James Finn Garner

Guardian Anthony Gose
Comes and goes
Goes and comes
Up and down I-71

Up to Cleveland
Down to Columbus
Too bad to keep
Too good to dump

Four times in a month
He’s been DFA’d,
Eerily close to Buddy Holly:
“Don’t Fade Away.”

 

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MLB All-Triple-X-Rated Team

1B   Jimmie Foxx
2B   Xavier Edwards
SS   Xander Bogaerts
3B   Ollie Sax

LF   Leovigildo Xiqués
CF   Xavier Paul
RF   Ox Eckhardt

C    Poindexter Williams

LHP   Xavier Cedeño

RHP   Xzavion Curry, Kanekoa Texeira, Axel Lindstrom

MGR   Dicta Johnson

Alex Bregman is very popular.