BASEBALL HAIKU

My friend Andy Anderson got started on a kick writing haiku about baseball a couple of seasons back, and he promptly got a few of us hooked on this silly pastime. What better way to comment on our favorite All-American sport than with unrhymed Japanese lyric poetry? For the record, Andy is a Phillies fan, so he has a lot of spare time in October to come up with stuff like this. Here are a couple of Andy's latest:

Kerry Wood - Bad Ass
Throw cheese, buckle knees, hit like Babe
And your wife is hot.

George, your team is shit
Johan Santana kills you
More lefites up, bitch

(It should be noted that Andy wrote this one before the Yankees kicked Santana's ass in Game 4 of the ALDS)

and our friend Dan Mulvihill penned this gem:

Here comes B-H Kim
Leading Oakland by a run
Tie game, deja vu

This was one of my latest forays into the field (so to speak):

Boston scores and scores
but the bullpen is shit
every game four hours?

Okay, the bullpen has held up the last few days...but we'll see...don't underestimate the power of poetry!

Here are a couple more:

Nick Johnson grounds out
where has his mighty stroke gone?
at least draw some walks

Smiling David O.
"Cookie Monster" sure does fit
he has googly eyes

Pudge held the ball tight
San Francisco is bereft
Marlins celebrate

Okay amateur poets and baseball freaks...let's see if you can come up with any.