Selected Haikus About the Chicago Cubs
For those of you who don't know, haikus are an elegant but simple type of poetry that originated from Japanese culture. The most common structure for these poems are three lines -- the first containing five syllables, the second containing seven, and the third containing five. 5-7-5. It's easy.
Usually haikus are about nature, so I decided to write a few of mine about cubs.
Poem #1:
Don't worry, Cubs fans
Nomar Garciaparra
The wild-card is theirs
Poem #2:
Houston Astros suck
Six and a half games behind
Not impossible
Poem #3:
Two thousand and three
Someone should have killed Bartman
Sigh, wait till next year
Poem #4:
Kerry Wood is good
if he pitches from the 'pen
Gagne incarnate
Poem #5:
Man, I miss Steve Stone
Kasper needs signature phrase
Kind of like: "He gone!"
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Worst team, dollar for dollar, in all of baseball. Dusty needs to go. Fuck this.
can't hit, pitch, or field
no one can lead off for them
give it up, cubs fans
Leave Bartman alone. Did he cause the infield error that inning, too?
No, but if Alou catches that foul ball, there would have been no double-play situation for Gonzo to mess up on.
Remember, if Alou catches that ball, Luis Castillo doesn't get walked on the following pitch. Juan Pierre doesn't advance to third base, and Pudge doesn't hit that run-scoring line drive which would ultimately open the floodgates. If Alou catches that ball, there would have been 2 outs and the entire dynamic of that inning would have changed. The game situation would have been totally different.
I think anyone that thinks Bartman wasn't responsible for the Cubs giving up those 8 runs doesn't really understand baseball.
Sure, Bartman's a good man, a lifelong Cubs fan who used to fly down to Arizona in the spring with his family to watch spring training, a Little League coach... but what he did was unforgivable to Cubdom. May God have mercy on his soul.
So the Marlins won the series in 6 games, huh?
Oh, I know baseball and I know that he wasn't on the field.
"Miguel Cabrera hit a ground ball to Alex Gonzalez, who uncharacteristically fumbled the ball. Had Gonzalez fielded the ball properly, the Cubs could have ended the half-inning with a double play."
He's a scapegoat, simple as that. Just admit the Cubs choked harder than any baseball team in history that inning.
why do you get to go to 2 games? i want to go. i haven't gone this year. this is not a haikue. but i can't stop talking like this. after reading your poems.