June 11, 2003
SHAKESPEARE AT THE PLATE
One of the coolest finds on the Web I've had the pleasure of making the past month or so is The Humbug Journal: Blog of the Score Bard.
It's a place that goes beyond the normal realm of brainless baseball banter or sports talk schlock.
These people still talk about the events of the day on the baseball field. They just use verse to do so. There's everything from Haiku to Free Verse to Limericks.
Take this bit of poetry by a recent contributor, who talks about the corking of Sammy Sosa's bat:
Let us go then, you and I
and follow this tedious argument
Of insidious intent
And lead you to an overwhelming question . . .
Oh, do not ask, "Were they all cork?"
It makes you sound just like a dork.
On the web, the people come to chat
Talking of Sammy Sosa's bat.
Pretty cool, eh?