By James Finn Garner
I can be in the outfield and play every day.
I don’t want to DH.
I don’t feel like a baseball player
when I DH.
I don’t know how to be a leader that I am
from the bench.
I can’t be a vocal leader.
I can’t talk to guys from the bench
because
I don’t feel right about it.
A voice whispers, But you agreed to come to the Tigers knowing you would DH.
I
understood that,
but in my mind
I’m not going to
accept that.
That’s my role,
but I don’t have to
accept it
or
like it.
Taken from quotes in a Boston Globe interview, 8/11/08
Posted 8/25/08
Posted on 08/25/08
Published in Detroit Tigers, Free Verse, James Finn Garner, Players | Link to this poem | 1 Comment
Baseball Poetry, Courtesy of Sheff : The Daily Fungo | A Detroit Tigers Blogazine wrote,
[...] friends at Bardball.com recently posted some contemporary verse spoken by His Eloquence, Gary Sheffield. Here’s a taste: I can be in the outfield and play [...]
Link | September 3rd, 2008 at 5:33 pm