A Prayer For Spring

by afh4 on Feb 26, 2010 9:37 PM EST in Events

Oh, give us pleasure in the hitters to-day; 
And give us not to think so far away
As the mid-July doldrums; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.

Oh, give us pleasure in the pitchers, tall,
Like major leaguers now, like ghosts by fall;
And make us happy in the happy UTs,
Donald dilating round the batting tees.

And make us happy in Raffy P's darting pitch
That suddenly across the plate does twitch,
The manager that thrusts in with pre-shaped bill,
And still shines with a not yet "Cleveland'd" will.

For this is love and nothing else is love,
That which is reserved for Grady of glove,
To princely Asdrubal who shall not wilt,
Their's the only expectations we dare imagine fulfill'd.

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Photo from P-D, Chuck Crow.

A pologies to Frost.

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Nicely done and thank you

I could really use an oscillation overthruster

by stuart dean on Feb 27, 2010 7:50 AM EST reply actions

Mayakovsky Rebukes Frost!
At once I smeared the map of Arizona
By pouring pitchers and catchers from a tumbler;
I formed Chief Wahoo’s jagged cheekbones
Atop the crest of his pearly whites.
I read the summons of fresh youth
on a scrap of sabermetric patter.
So could you
take
a drainpipe franchise
and play a nocturne on a whim?

by YoDaddyWags on Feb 27, 2010 1:13 PM EST reply actions

I feel that anyone stumbling across this website could only conclude that anyone here must be slightly unhinged. They would probably be right. This is a good place.

by TheVanillaGorilla on Feb 28, 2010 12:10 PM EST reply actions 1 recs

Checked the Chargers’ SBN site a couple hours ago to see if anyone had any names of who they were getting from the Lions and everything there had between 0-3 comments. I said to myself how awesome we must be here.

< / guy who wants LaPorta to play 150 games in LF >

by westbrook on Feb 28, 2010 6:09 PM EST up reply actions

And the chargers are actually good

by TheVanillaGorilla on Feb 28, 2010 6:44 PM EST up reply actions

except their starting running back is Mike Tolbert

< / guy who wants LaPorta to play 150 games in LF >

by westbrook on Feb 28, 2010 7:39 PM EST up reply actions

Baseball sites are almost all more active than football, especially blogs. Baseball lends itself to a lot of analysis and discourse.

by Jay on Feb 28, 2010 10:00 PM EST up reply actions

Yeah, I’ve found this to be true as well.

< / guy who wants LaPorta to play 150 games in LF >

by westbrook on Feb 28, 2010 10:49 PM EST up reply actions

Yeah, but Dawgs by Nature does very well.

by dgcambridge on Feb 28, 2010 11:58 PM EST up reply actions

Definitely. I think Cleveland just has a really rich sport culture – you couple a good fanbase with great writing/mods (like the four here or rufio, Pokorny, buckeyebrad@DBN) and the blog takes off.

by joeee on Mar 1, 2010 12:14 AM EST up reply actions

Unless its Mile High Report, which is like a well-trod mySpace page for the Broncos.

STBNL

by emd2k3 on Mar 1, 2010 1:48 PM EST up reply actions

And a scintillating treatise on Ketchup.

I could really use an oscillation overthruster

by stuart dean on Mar 1, 2010 8:04 PM EST up reply actions

Anyone else think Shelley Duncan could fit nicely into our lineup as a right hander off the bench? The Branyan signing would seem to rule out that possibility, though…

by APV on Feb 28, 2010 8:07 PM EST reply actions