A Prayer For Spring
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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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?
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 >
And the chargers are actually good
by TheVanillaGorilla on Feb 28, 2010 6:44 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.
Yeah, but Dawgs by Nature does very well.
by dgcambridge on Feb 28, 2010 11:58 PM EST up reply actions

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