Your game thread tonight emerges from the gorgeous rain forests of Costa Rica where your correspondent had fantasized he might manage a George Plimpton and stumble upon another Sydd Finch with a fastball breaking a hundred and ten and put him on a plane to Atlanta…no April Fool he, no S.I. in cahoots…failing that Panama is next stop down, maybe a closer would be easier to find…a few miles north is Nicaragua - Reagan/Contras/Ollie North – dear God, no wonder we love baseball…
So now to the Madoff stricken Mets int. al… see if you can spot the intruder who’s there for those nostalgic for what limericks were originally all about..
The Metropolitans are broke
Where Casey once could see the joke
Despair has settled in
For us a real win/win
Get Harvey for a pig, a poke.
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As Marvelous Marv once said to me
The secret to a ground ball be
The glove must brush the grass
But if you’re on your ass
You’ve quite disturbed the symmetry.
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Please take the contrarian view
With BJ at one eighty two
You‘ll see his potential
His problems tangential
His salary under review.
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A characteristic of love
So tender, the hand in the glove
Rewarding, redeeming
But really you’re scheming
You want it to end in a shove.
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It’s déjà vu! go grab a pen
The Evan Gattis theme again
Another phenom comes
But this one’s done his sums
He answers to the name of Wren
GO BRAVES!
Costa Rica, amazing place. Most bio-diversity in the world. I saw insects that kinda scared me because I had no idea what they were.
Try one of those jungle canopy tours—it’ll make you feel rather simian.
simian is the perfect word…
we did just that, scared, and loved it- at a combined age of 134…
the insects, yes, was fooled by one…a dozen of us on a boat in a muddy river photographing bats asleep in a vertical column un a dead trunk…look, i said, whats that brilliant green insect running all over them? the laser from another’s camera…
ububa, sorry i pre-empted your game thread..Alex had suggested if i had something to say on my ‘off day’ i post it a few hours before a game and title it a game thread…of course there is no way to know if someone else is doing the same thing! still, two are better than none, hopefully…yours was superb, mine whimsical, a good mix perhaps…
cheers!
Rank Player(age) dWAR Games dW/game dW162
1 Terry Turner (25) 5.4 147 0.036734694 5.951
2 Art Fletcher (32) 5.1 151 0.033774834 5.472
3 Mark Belanger (31) 4.9 152 0.032236842 5.222
4 Ozzie Smith+ (34) 4.7 155 0.030322581 4.912
5 Brooks Robinson+ (31) 4.5 162 0.027777778 4.500
Andrelton Simmons (23) 3.7 102 0.03627451 5.876