[Ed. note: I really didn’t want to recap last night’s game. The fiery hatred that the Braves offense feels toward Shelby Miller’s win total continues unabated, as the Braves scored their single run (a Jonny Gomes solo shot!) two innings after Miller left the game. There really isn’t much to say about a game when the offense got three hits. So I won’t! Now, please enjoy Blazon’s latest…]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerihew
…read this first please, it’s the easiest way to get a grasp on what’s happening and it isn’t long…plus there are several actual examples to find and enjoy…
so here’s what this is about…over the last year or two we’ve been moderately successful in incorporating verse into this baseball board from time to time…there have been limericks(5 lines, strict rules) and parodies of many sorts, most recently the 14-line sonnet which featured in the shoot-out last month on the fourth…also song parodies…all this is great and will continue hopefully…
what we’re trying to do now is encourage more people to participate, to have fun doing so and to make us all laugh…fun is a good secondary component on a board like ours which by its nature tends to be dominated by numerology, passion, anguish and pain (W/L record). And the Clerihew is so slight, so short it can be inserted anywhere, any time into a thread without disrupting it or necessarily requiring a response. And once we get the hang of it I bet the average time needed to write one is less than 10 minutes. As we move along and get more comfortable with the format there might be Clerihew threads on off days and if interest has warranted a Clerihew Competition say every quarter. Whatever is or is not wanted.
Here’s why it’s so easy to make one. 4 lines only, rhyme AABB, and forced rhymes are encouraged particularly if they sound funny…as for meter pretty much anything goes in line length specially the last line. That structure very much suits the original intent, to be biographical(see Wiki). So as Braves fan put your player on line 1 and go from there…or any other way you like, there really are no rules.
I have it on good authority that once this is posted on Monday’s off day our worthy Leader, who got a head start on the Wiki page, will post the first Clerihew. Rather like the ceremonial first pitch. I can vouch it came in comfortably and quickly. So please, everyone have a go, let’s see what happens. (Needless to say this thread is not exclusive to this project, use it for whatever, as normal.)
Mark Lemke’s voice
Shows the paradox of choice
To TV he is not suited
But the radio can’t be muted
Chip Carey
Unlike Harry
Couldn’t call it
As he saw it
Shelby Miller is bound to snap,
every time Fredi tips his cap,
The Braves all hit like palookas,
let’s hope Shelby can’t find any bazookas.
Two Perezes named William
First trimester were killin’em
But as they gestated,
Their ERA inflated
great stuff guys, keep ’em coming!
diminutive our pleasure cycle
though now we have both Steve and Michael
plenty on the waiver wire
but clearly our deepest need, a heavenly choir.
Nick Swisher
Fields like a pisher;
It may seem I pick a nit
But he also cannot hit
our new first baseman, he’s a charmer
born, some say, in Alabamer
first a dazzling double play
but hold it! then a somewhat botched o-lay!
damian moss & kerry ligtenberg’s sideburns
took thin, swooping, sweeping wide turns
in middle & high school it was abundantly clear
the surest way to look cool was to encourage growth past the ear.
a few days old, but Hector-O may join the Braves in two weeks:
http://fantasynews.cbssports.com/fantasybaseball/update/25263156/hector-olivera-hamstring-could-join-braves-in-two-weeks-per-gm
for what it is worth
Adonis and Hector
we had called our classical sector
but now we know both are from Havana
we had best adopt a more inquiring manner.
Yanis Varoufakis
was stylish, but caused a fracas
the Greeks DFA’ed him into the Achelous
so he’s available, over 30, and could probably hit eighth for us
@9..
Hector O,
please say it ain’t so
you’re not really thirty
you can tell us, let the Dodgers get shirty!
NB…elusive rhymes that escape you are best addressed by recourse to one of the many rhyming sites online like http://rhymezone.com/?loc=bar no shame attached, i’m up there 10 times a day!
@11…
amazin’, still trying to work it all out, great stuff…is this guy real or a product of your fertile imagination? Does he play baseball? You cannot rhyme is with as unless of course his last name is pronounced Var-who-fak-ass…if he’s imaginary you can insist this is the way it’s going to be…if real we’re going to need proof..
and what is the Achelous, please? Something by Aeschylus?
you are taking us into uncharted waters – exactly what we need, thank you!
CB Bucknor
Has no luck nor
Skill at calling
Things baseballing
Mark Wohlers
Like novice bowlers
Threw few strikes from his mitts
That turkey Jim Leyritz!
Eric Gregg
Should have to beg
From his prison cell
In the depths of hell
Kent Hrbek
Is probably Czech
He hit like a hacker
And played first like a linebacker
Hart on strikeouts
Said, “We don’t like outs”
He aimed at hitters ears from lips
Pitchers overheard, inflated FIPs
Yoenis Cespedes, it seems
Hits the market in Winter, ’15;
In left field, he’ll look nice,
And he won’t cost a pick — just like Atlanta’s next ace, David Price.
@8
ambitious and good
@11
see 13
@14
jonathan that is very good…all that it lacks, as do many here including most of mine, is the element of whimsy…whatever that is, it’s elusive…i would suggest, very tentatively, 10 has it for example at least to a degree, self deprecation – we have made a silly mistake by assuming they were Greek…please disagree if you will!
@16 and 17
see above
Whimsy is for the whimsical.
If you can be whimsical about Eric Gregg or Kent Hrbek you deserve to join them in hell.
Lord Peter Wimsey is pretty cool, though.
from dictionary.com
WHIMSY
capricious humor or disposition; extravagant, fanciful, or excessively playful expression:
a play with lots of whimsy.
2.
an odd or fanciful notion.
3.
anything odd or fanciful; a product of playful or capricious fancy:
a whimsy from an otherwise thoughtful writer.
OK, should have done this earlier, my bad…it seems i have been overstating the case for self deprecation as the primary source of humor(a British vice)..
the definitions above give us many alternative targets to reach for..
capricious
fanciful
odd
extravagant
playful
hope this helps ..and encourages!
Charlie Leibrandt
Had a curve that could slant
A hanger to Puckett
F***it F****it F****it F***it
@21…
disagree…the name per se is not enough…nor is any name per se impossible to find a whimsical element about…some a lot easier than others, obviously…
but that’s just me, i had never heard the word Clerihew a month ago.
@23
Fredi Gonzales
escaped the Federales
but when,again, he calls for a bunt
we shriek ‘ Sit down, you silly old ****.’
A British word in very common usage there, least of all anatomically, much more often between men, socially…as in, here – ‘John, you old sonofabitch, great to see you’.. incidentally unlike its pale American equivalent it’s a real word, a thousand years old, pre Chaucer.
Donnie Veal
Had an excess of zeal
Unencumbered by doubt
Everything he threw got hit out.
the much admired Pascual Perez
has GPS, or so he sez
now exits fall apace
provided he’s told, quite soon, we’ll be in another place.
@26…
Alex, i feel threatened!
Robert Fick
Could barely hit a lick
But while he couldn’t touch the hooks,
He made up for it in looks.
how about a friendly contest, say at the top of the hour, where someone on line who has been following not posting, comes up with a Braves name not hitherto used here today.
Then anyone/everyone who wants to has to write a Clerihew about that person within a 30 minute period…multiple entries encouraged…that way we all start from the same base, zero…some of mine came from storage over the last week for example, unfair advantage..
any takers/thoughts??
@29
Robert Frick
we remember as a hick
did he not interfere
with what we hold dear?
hope i’m right on this one, have a vague memory..
I’m assuming you’re referring to this incident! http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2003/news/story?id=1631185
@29…
‘touch the hooks’?? some slang to do with hitting?
please explain
@32
thank you…the memory holds good then.
what must clearly be faced
was profanity laced
the dear Mr Frick
we can reasonably call a prick.
A “hook” is a curveball; I honestly don’t remember whether he had specific trouble with breaking stuff, but after a very good start to the season (.302/.367/.488 through July 31), he completely vanished the last couple of months of the season, batting .195/.264/.266 as a stone-gloved first baseman for the final 54 games of the season.
And he was no looker, either.
(It’s “Fick,” though. No r.)
@23 – Excellent. But man does it bring back some BAD memories.
35…
i knew a hook was a curveball but…i guess it was that particular word association that didn’t register, thanks for explaining…
so i take it we have no takers for the friendly contest as per @30?
too much too soon, likely…but i would like to thank everyone who has contributed, it’s been a terrific response.
A Brave in Milwaukee and Atlanta was Hank Aaron.
As a player we was better than a fair ‘un.
The eventual truth
Was he hit more home runs than Ruth.
Good old Tom Glavine
is a guy great to have in
your dugout in his stirrups, or in dress socks
in the press box.
Wilson Betemit
Would often get a hit
But it cut him down to si-ez
When we traded him for Danys Baez.
Andy Marte
Was reason to Parte
Sadness when he got traded
Turned to joy when he faded
Melky Cabrera
Marks Braves bygone era
Got him for Vazques
Aimed forward, threw back-ses
Jose Constanza
Made me guzzle Mylanta
His glorified bunting
Hastened offseason hunting
Dale Murphy
Not Astro Turfy
Waits for the call
From the hall
Bob Horner
Played hot corner
Like my game of chess —
A mess
Biff Pocoroba
Didn’t hit in Octoba
Braves teams way back when
Were fishing by then
Rafael Ramirez
Sucked
@45: To be fair, Biff did pinch hit for Phil Niekro on October 9, 1982 and grounded out to 2nd.
Gerald Perry
Quite contrary
How did his SLG grow?
Well, it really didn’t. So…
Joe Torre
Quite a story
Caught and managed in Atlanta
But in The Bronx he was Santa
Peterson Thomas Orr
The Canadian Thor
Pitchers mound he couldn’t clear
Striking ball with Mjolnir
Tony LaRussa
Like John Philip Sousa
Would toot his own horn
Wish he’d never been born
Tommy Lasorda
Nine years north of the borda
When he got to LA
His mouth led the way
@46
Raffy Ramires
was never quite sure where ‘here’ is
eyes closed when he threw
there, sadly, was the occasional boo.
Andres Thomas
Brought shame upon us
Worst ever to bat
With an ‘A’ on his hat
Kenshin Kawakami
Drove the Braves barmy
His talents were mere
So they made him disappear
Remember Craig Kimbrel?
Made batters stand still
“Come back,” she said.
“You left your ID in Buckhead.”
Twin Bills, thrown in the mix
To solidify rotation spots five and six
Their early victories had us so thankful
Until they both took one off the ankle
Kenshin you say?
I remember that day
Frank Wren, a cold soul
Disappeared him down the memory hole
John Burkett
Used to work at
Candlestick Park
We signed him for a lark
Jaret Wright
Day and night
Had to get TJ
Night and day
Chipper Jones
Bought some drones
O’er Hooters doth it fly
What a swell guy
Larry Wayne
Made House of Pain
Out of New York’s Shea
He named his son that way
Corky Miller
Lineup killer
Horrible hitter but no clubhouse cancer
Looked less like a player and more like a hamster
Jesus Sucre
Pursued filthy luc-re
But his stats didn’t please us
So long to Sweet Jesus
Otis Nixon, one classy bloke
Sped around the bases, his nose full of coke
Catchers rarely caught him, but the playoffs he’d miss
Cuz the league found his secret in a sample of piss
Dodgers promoted Peraza for tonight’s game. He’s starting at 2b.
Peraza to Tinseltown
He wants this trade to go down
As a stinker for the geriatrics
Hart, Scheurholz, and Maddux
So Peraza and Wood are both starters on a playoff team.
At least we got a guy that might play for us one day. Maybe.
Alex Wood
They say he once could
Whiff every other batter
Now his pitchers are fatter
Jose Peraza, never played for us
Joined the city of angels baseball chorus
Perhaps he will hit them a bunch of triples
His teammates will give him two purple nipples
Guy on MLB Network: “The Nationals aren’t playing well right now because they don’t smile enough and have enough fun.”
#ExpertAnalysis
John Schuerholz’s kid
Draft him twice, we did
The organization used to spin
Signings like this before Wren
David Justice
Used to bust his
Tail down the line
He played the game fine!
Ron Gant
His biceps made me pant
I knelt down to propose
He punched me in the nose!
Virgil, Ozzie
A catcher was he
Winfield bulldozie
still out like Posey
First try at this, be kind:
Fredi Gonzales
We regularly question his knowledge
His mound management we dreads
Leaves us scratching our heads.
Sluggish Sid Bream
Slowest man on the team
It’s fitting, don’t you see
Scoring the most famous run in history
Welcome back Michael Bourn
Hope you run a lot around the horn
Score some runs, play good D
Since you’re earning a really high fee
Kris Medlen is back in the big leagues and is pitching well in relief.
Jeff Blauser
A hitter with power
In contract years, strictly
Leaving fans awful prickly
As a child
I thought it wild
It didn’t sound quite right,
What do you mean, David Justice isn’t white?
75…
no need to be kind, welcome..
73…
Ronald Gant
the one thing he can’t
the opposite field?
it might as well be concealed.
misc…
Am just rewatching Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses(2000) The young Matt Damon is the splitting image of Freddy Freeman – why does no one mention this?
Freddy’s got it all to do
just carrying this motley crew
too often hacking when he’s hurt
digs another out the dirt.
Hrbosky the Mad
he tried hard to be bad
so very Hungarian
just a trifle contrarian.
Gene Garber
Safe harbor
when relieving
His motion? Deceiving.
Base. Ball.
Balls to the wall
Jonny Gomes doth play
The very right most way
AJP
A circuitous man, he
Except when he was drank
Then he was frank
..so now, sadly, we get to watch the Major League debut of Jose Peraza…in another uni, a hated name ..it feels almost criminal…all that work, the promise, the excitement in almost daily posts from the minors, the ranking he carried…
the romance, all gone…someone else is sleeping with the bride.
and why have they brought him up before we would have? service time an irrelevance with their resources? we are too protective of young talent when it is recognized as such. This past weekend a 16 year old schoolboy debuted against Arsenal in the Premier League at the hear of the defense. This year a 17 y. old Dutchman is in his second season in Formula One and has been on the podium with the world’s greatest drivers. The responsibility he was seen fit to carry so early every mile makes the steps to the Majors predictable. Which is the point, too predictable.
Remember, we are talking only about exceptional talent here. There is just one way to find out if it will work at the home office – get him up. And please don’t be cheap about it – service time is a total irrelevance, it costs, so what? is bigger meal money taken into account too?
don’t fall in love with a kid
whose talent just cannot be hid
new uni, new hat
and that my dear friends will be that.
Bruce Sutter just cashed another check
From a backloaded contract…what the heck
Maybe Hart will give him a call
Since he’s kinda sorta on the payroll
10.52
86 posts and a few more no doubt to come from the night owls and the early birds.
just want to say a big thank you to everyone who pitched in and did so well…everyone.
let’s do it again.
Marcus Giles
Hit baseballs miles
But five foot and eight
That boy sure could rake
@13 – yeah, I was wondering if it was too much of a stretch. Yanis Varoufakis was Finance Minister of Greece under the new Tsipras gov’t this year, and kind of became a cult hero for being outspoken about opposing austerity measures asked for by the European Central Bank. he just resigned but it seemed from what I read that he had kind of been written out of things already, so I figured DFA’ing somebody into a river was as good as any other way (The Achelous is apparently a river in Greece). seems like he’d fit the front office’s MO (veteran presence, look for pitching locally but find hitters internationally, #grit, etc.)
Jonny Venters’ arm
Gave hitters cause for alarm
But his poor elbow tendon
Let his docs do major spendin’.
Simmons: Defense, King of
No one’s better with the glove
Runs, jumps, flys, throws
Runner’s out, estimation grows.
Simmons: Offense, every day
Guarantees a double play
Strike outs low, bad contact high
Has his true potential yet drawn nigh?
Buster Posey
As you well knowsy
A clownish lout
That fool was out!
Cameron Diaz
A name I can’t pronounce with as much ease as
I could before I heard of Matt Diaz
Who’s not as easy on the eyes as.
@89…i was teasin’, having a bit of fun! but thanks anyway for the explanation- i had vaguely remembered the name, now i know why, there was a long NY profile of him very recently..spread the net as wide as you like, no boundaries.
the swinging bunt
it doth affront
such mighty force
near miss of course.
Garcia, Adonis
what number your phone is?
we tribute must pay
to opposite field they just fly away.
Adonis Garcia
how long are you here?
just be sure that you stay
we’d like one of those ’bout every other day.
@85
his first hit
Peraza, a triple? you shouldn’t
they kept telling us that you couldn’t.
Put that ball in your case
how fickle, we’re saying to Mallex, replace.
@82
Jonathan…very, very close…delete ‘when’ ?? agree? tell me.
@ 48
Alex…close also but must call you on the AA rhyme – Perry/contrary- you likely disagree?
Also…interesting you chose to abbreviate slugging, why? that word in its full self would read better for me
your last line is great!
a hundred the tally
would Mac think that pally?
well, yes, he just might
but remind us we still haven’t got it quite right.
A 2007 left field tribute:
Willie Harris
Did Cairo prepare us
Hit 400 till June
But it’s the Braves’ way to swoon
Poor old Matt Diaz
Who as hard tried as?
Poorer for getting hit, but we’re richer
As Matty D. yelled “Get a clue!” at the pitcher
Christhian Martinez
Pitched in bathe-ball arenas
Say his name with a lisp
Ignore average with RISP
http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2015-08-10/andruw-jones-stats-braves-outfielder-comeback-defense-dale-murphy-war-wins-above-replacement
Thank you. Y’all do good work.
another debutant last night..i think he hunts ducks(what else rhymes?!)
the electric curving Kolby Allard
a hunter of the mighty mallard
3 mill in the bank, his debut all k’s
he’ll likely now suffer a plethora of praise.
Neck Cake’s
Neck breaks:
No more power,
just a permanent glower.
@98
blazon:
Amazin’
He nitpicks
But it sticks.
Agreed. (My favorite of my own efforts is still CB Bucknor, though)\By the way, if you want to set a real challenge: Double Dactyls
@106
looking up Double Dactyls…nit picking.
@106,
Heyward gone
Wayward on
St. Louis–
Quaint Judas
Your move, JonathanF.
85—The Dodgers called him up before we would have because their MLB second baseman got hurt and they need wins in 2015. He’ll be sent back down within the week, I expect, when Justin Turner comes off the DL.
It’s fair to question whether the Braves have properly assessed Peraza’s value, but there’s no conspiracy to what they were doing with him and are doing with their other young players.
@106
DD example on Wiki
Higgledy piggledy,
Benjamin Harrison,
Twenty-third president
Was, and, as such,
Served between Clevelands and
Save for this trivial
Idiosyncrasy,
Didn’t do much.
well, yes, sure. Let’s do a couple of hundred next off day. Good Lord.
Keith Lockhart
Somehow kept getting to start.
He obviously had the pictures of Bobby
And then left them in the Turner Field lobby.
@110: My favorite (for obvious reasons)
Higgledy Piggledy
Yale University
Gave up misogyny
Opened its door
Extracurricular
Heterosexual
Coeducational
Fun is in store.
Opening Day Rick Mahler
Peerless shutout nailer
Strike zones with junk, he’d kiss ‘em
May he rest in peace, I miss him
@109
Stu..
my paranoia re Peraza prefers any conspiracy theory, please don’t derail me with the facts…
a triple! still can’t get over it…
@112
aaahhh….beginning to get it…WMT
why ‘obvious’? Yaley? the quality of this particular effort? yours or someone elses?
@103 Yes, Braves, please retire #25. Andruw, I think, will always be my favorite Brave.
I wish there were as many clips online of Andruw playing defense in his heyday as there are of Andrelton, but I have to be content with the few there are. This is the catch I think about when I think of him:
And as many times as Andruw over swung and struck out, he also did this for us:
Good times.
I thought my undergraduate predilections were well known on this site by now.
Ryan Lavarnway
Succeeds his own darn way
But makes much less moola
Than a lot of other college graduates who used to chant Boola Boola.
113—If it makes you feel any better, the “triple” was a bloop single that skipped past Harper. Showed off the speed we knew about, but don’t be fooled (or saddened) by the bump in SLG!
@116
my bad…it’s somewhere late in the eighth decade that certain types of memory betray ..like was it Frick or Fick!
now, that DD was yours, right? I am beginning to like it very much and thinking baseball for it…what do you think? it’s complexity might be offputting at first, you could never have a thread like this all DD, but what if we got Alex to go along with a mix next time? what would happen i think would be a great majority of Clerihews with the occasional DD – which would be no bad thing, have a break etc.
i never chanted Boola Boola.
@117
Stu, you’ve saved my day…i was imagining of course a vicious line drive to the top of the wall in right, this is much more like it..i got to see what i believe must have been his second AB on a MLB extract when he grounded weakly to second – shades of you-know-who but from the other side..this too did not hurt.
I definitely did not write it.
The complexity is daunting — that’s why I made it a challenge.
I am, in general, an advocate of spontaneous creativity over scheduled creativity, so as far as I’m concerned, people can write whatever they want whenever.
Looks like Kolby Allard made his debut yesterday. He started, but only pitched one inning. Struck out all three batters he faced.
Made my day: http://www.sbnation.com/2015/7/30/9075991/jonathan-papelbon-drew-storen-i-put-on-my-robe-and-slider-grip
@120
understood but…look at the number of postings in the last 24 hours…and the number of different people who posted…that would not have happened i suggest if it were ‘unscheduled creativity’, your term…would you agree?
back to the DD…how about, just for fun, you and i and anyone else who wants to start working now offline on their first ever baseball DD which we can all mix in with the Clerihews next off day or whenever Alex wants it?
One more Clerihew:
Charlie O’Brien
Heart, mane of lion
Hit a measley two bucks
Caught a fifth for Maddux
@124
John…thank you for your, many, excellent contributions. Don’t wait for the next off day, slide then in, one at a time. That’s one of the stated aims of all this.
Gene Weingarten had a double dactyl column many, many moons ago: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR2006080100809.html
I’d be very happy to bring them in on another off day thread.
Yet clerihews
Are easy to use
I’d prefer a low bar
For AAR!
You’re welcome, sir. This has been great fun.
JohnWDB
Never heard of a Clerihew last Tuesdee
Now that he writes ’em
He thinks that he likes ’em
@126
Alex…
thanks for that great link, most helpful…and it ends BTW with a marvelous limerick which make others look pallid…everyone, go read it if you’d like to see a proper limerick…
regarding your attached Clerihew i repeat what i said last night, you are becoming a real threat, ha! In particular the self deprecation in the last couplet qualifies for the whimsy check, a status many still seek.
Not as exciting perhaps as Kolby Allard, but our 2nd pick (#28 overall), Mike Soroka, has struck out 20 in his first 18 innings against 4 walks, while opponents have hit .169. Those two, Austin Riley and Lucas Herbert were our top 4 picks.
http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&player_id=647336#/career/R/pitching/2015/ALL
(this won’t win an award, but just b/c he hasn’t been represented yet)
Andres Galarraga
like a hero from a saga
would take heaters in at his hands
and send them screaming to the center-field stands.
Fred McGriff
Didn’t whiff
‘Cept on trade daze
Caused press box blaze
Rico Brogna
We’d barely known ya
When your contract expired
You’d already retired
Ryan Klesko
Played baseball al fresco
Except when we’d roam
To a game in a dome
Carlos Quentin
Made no dent in
His hire meant
Retirement
Upton (Melvin)
Took a page from Lord Kelvin
Started out hero
asymptotically approached zero
Dammit, so good
Brian Snitker
Waved home quicker
Than he thought about throw in
Windmill Snitker was blowin’
Tommy Hanson
Less buntin’, more dancin’
Squeeze Hinske, said Fredi
Whiff did he, Hinsk deady
or should 135 read:
Upton (Melvin)
Took a page from Lord Kelvin
While a Ray, a hero
A Brave, absolute zero
Upton (Justin)
We placed our trust in
He hit but could not avoid a schism
Because Melvin required an exorcism.
Upton the Elder
Like an iron welder
His bat made sparks fly
Except in May, June, and July
EDIT: Nevermind, this is exactly backwards
Upton the Younger
Our offense has hungered
For power in his place
Since he was traded for Jace
Let us peer into the mind of Fredi
That empty, cavernous, echoing head-y
Though his brain ain’t thought equipping
Muscle memory handles all cap tipping
Gonzalez (Fredi)
Tipped his cap @ 143
He didn’t understand your Clerihew
Nonetheless he still tipped his cap @ you
Ahem! A topical double dactyl:
Little Peraza was
Sent to the Dodgers cuz
That’s all that John Hart does:
Trade folks away.
BUT
C-prospect Peterson,
Not quite two meters, done
turned on a heater one
fine August day.
Literally laughing out loud, several times.
Eric Gregg, Kenshin Kawakami, and yesterday’s Michael Bourn have been my favorites.
144 got me.
krussell’s “Rafael Ramirez” at 46 has been the one to make me laugh the most
At least we’re not the team in New York
Who, even if dead and stuck with a fork,
Will still be paying Bonilla each year
A cool million dollars with the shed of a tear.
Double-y Dactyly
Jose con-Stanza had
Just been called Up and he
Bunted a Hit
Frediot Said he would
Play the hot Hand so he
Started him Daily–seemed
Never he’d Quit
I love this bar.
145 @ 151
Jonathan, you have seniority with these, how did they do? did i miss any?
thanks to everyone who posted…great turn out, hope you all had fun.
Cameron Maybin just made the most athletic out I’ve ever seen
The Jace/Andrelton DP combo is so incredibly smooth.
I wasn’t at my computer at the time, but that was a pretty awful send by Bo Porter back in the first. Almost Snitker-like.
I’m at the ole Trop for this short two game set cheering on our Barves.
Stupid Perez.
Good God, what a stupid-assed call that was! The throw came from the mound area and hit him in the goddamned foot! What in the hell could Perez’s position in relation to the running lane possibly have to do with that? And he had a foot in the running lane, anyway! What a damned joke!
Ok, BJ and Lord Kelvin got to me. LoL. Kudos JohnWDB.
Can we go back to playing Miami?
Alex, please check your e-mail.
Well, first game wasn’t very good for the visiting squad. Hopefully I’ll have better luck with home plate seats tomorrow night. Or maybe I’m just bad luck.
Williams Perez with the complete game loss.
Recapped.