Saturday, 5 December 2015 10:36 pm
The Not-So-Perfect Game
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deckardcanineThe team that never reaches first
Considers it the very worst,
As do its fans, but what about
The boringness of striking out?
The winners’ fans should hate it too.
The basemen and the fielders do,
I bet, because they can’t display
Their own bravado for the day.
The pitchers must be quite alone
In wishing to rejoice, not groan.
In short, a baseball “perfect game”
Could really use another name.
EDIT: This poem is inaccurate. I had read that a perfect game was a "no-hitter," which I assumed meant that no batter ever hits the ball, but it turns out that "hits" officially must result in runs or stolen bases. If you ask me, that makes even more deceptive baseball terminology. But still not as stupid as "ball."
Considers it the very worst,
As do its fans, but what about
The boringness of striking out?
The winners’ fans should hate it too.
The basemen and the fielders do,
I bet, because they can’t display
Their own bravado for the day.
The pitchers must be quite alone
In wishing to rejoice, not groan.
In short, a baseball “perfect game”
Could really use another name.
EDIT: This poem is inaccurate. I had read that a perfect game was a "no-hitter," which I assumed meant that no batter ever hits the ball, but it turns out that "hits" officially must result in runs or stolen bases. If you ask me, that makes even more deceptive baseball terminology. But still not as stupid as "ball."