Sports parodies can also be great poetry.
One from earlier today:
savannah blues
everyone this side of
the Rangers want
Rocco Baldelli
but because
the Devil Rays are not yet willing to concede
that their season is
roasted
Jon Daniels has been
also shopping for another bat
like
Hee-Seop Choi
Geronimo Gil
(whose
maturation
would be a good fit in
or
Jorge Piedra
And another:
forkball
Tim Purpura says
Mark McLemore
believes he is healthy after his
strained small intestine
and his
forkball is the best it's been
in years
and hopes
Fernando Nieve
can take the fourth spot
leaving the fifth hole to
Dan Wheeler
who may benefit from
barbers
It’s almost like Gammo studied Dub-C Williams…
Poems aside, sometimes the prose “reporting” this odd text-generator site comes up with can be intresting reading. It’s like an Oulipo machine. But not.
One example before I return to Infinite Jest*1:
· Initial looks have the Angels very pleased with Erick Aybar, who with his training regimen has made his forearm bigger and stronger, and can solidify the lineup if he can stop discussing his bat, and pitcher Scott Dunn, whose work with an insurance agent this offseason has given him a bit of a dogmatic presence.
· When Kip Wells was attacked by a carrot in one of the busiest movie theaters in
· Mike Adams, bruised lung, who used to, throw a watersmooth-silver fastball, and break onetwothreefourfive batsjustlikethat, heavens. He was a jittery man, and what i want to know is, how do you like your hero now,
· The Indians are continuing to try to work out some sort of deal with Mariners for Oswaldo Navarro, but talking to Bill Bavasi can be like talking to a snail at times, so they are now talking to the Yankees about a Shawn Chacon - Scott Sauerbeck deal.
*w/r/t Infinite Jest sometimes I feel the need to put in a footnote. Just because. Expect more posts on it and C. in the future, as I don’t want the project to go uncompleted Unfinished UNFILMABLE.
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