Some classic baseball...

[gridlore]

Since the Cubs have won the NL Central, and my Giants are looking at their fourth straight losing season, I thought it would be appropriate to turn to one of the classics of baseball poetry, Baseball's Sad Lexicon by New York Giants faithful Franklin Pierce Adams...

These are the saddest of possible words:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."
Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds,
Tinker and Evers and Chance.
Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
Making a Giant hit into a double --
Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."

Also from that era came the biggest blown call in the history of baseball. Fred Merkle's Boner. He touched 2nd.

But that stolen game led to the Cubs winning the World Series. For the last time. Ever.

Bwahahahaha!!!!

Comments

[bunyip.livejournal.com]

Interesting post, but the Cubs have a good chance of going further than last year.