It is high, it is far, it is... caught!: An Above Average Haiku Tuesday ~ This is NOT your Father's Post-Season Edition!

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Tuesday, October 1, 2024

An Above Average Haiku Tuesday ~ This is NOT your Father's Post-Season Edition!

Posted by AboveAverage at 11:04 AM

22 comments:

JM said...: An interesting take from a guy who writes for The Nation:

Elie Mystal
@ElieNYC

Now that Pete Rose is dead he should go into the Hall of Fame.
A: It was a *lifetime* ban.
B: It’s a museum.; October 1, 2024 at 11:17 AM
JM said...: Rose should be in the Hall, but the lifetime ban should be prominently featured. Maybe.; October 1, 2024 at 11:18 AM
JM said...: Pete Rose is dead now
He was a total jerk
Speak ill of the dead; October 1, 2024 at 11:18 AM
HoraceClarke66 said...: Bette Davis: "My mother told me only to speak good of the dead. Pete Rose is dead. Good."; October 1, 2024 at 11:24 AM
HoraceClarke66 said...: Hey, I kid, I kid. But I would keep him out. No, baseball does not have a morality clause for Cooperstown—even though the voters seems to be instituting one now. Or at least a nice guy clause. (Big Papi in, Manny out. WTF?)

But Rose violated the one big rule: don't bet on baseball. And that's a good rule. Even as manager, Rose might have ruined some young arm, just to win a bet...; October 1, 2024 at 11:26 AM
JM said...: Funny you mention Bette. A couple of days ago, I watched her on The Dick Cavett Show in 1971, which was fun. Then there was a clip of her on The Tonight Show a decade-plus later, and it was painful. She was skeletal, looked 100 years old, and must have been after her stroke. The contrast was incredible. She was around 60 on Cavett and in her early 70s on Carson.; October 1, 2024 at 11:27 AM
HoraceClarke66 said...: ...Does this make MLB and all pro sports complete hypocrites, considering their full-on embrace of gambling today? Of course it does! But when the authorities resort to gangster-like activity, the answer isn't to get rid of all laws—it's to stop the gangsterism.

Sports' gambling addiction is a major problem. We need to cure it. That won't change if we put Pete's corpse in Cooperstown—or, for that matter, the corpse of poor old Joe Jackson, who set a World Series record for hits while supposedly trying to fix the Series...; October 1, 2024 at 11:29 AM
JM said...: Maybe he doesn't get a plaque, but it's bizarre not to acknowledge what he achieved in the Hall, somewhere. Maybe there can be a special display case for Rose, Sosa, Bonds, McGwire, Clemens...all the ne'er-do-wells and why they are so.

Just a thought.; October 1, 2024 at 11:30 AM
HoraceClarke66 said...: ...One of our constant self-deceptions now is that we can somehow fix the past with some sort of "reparations." Nope. The dead are dead. All we can do is to make the present and the future as good as we can make it for everyone. That's a heavy-enough lift.; October 1, 2024 at 11:30 AM
JM said...: Joe goes into the special display, too. All the Black Sox, in fact.; October 1, 2024 at 11:31 AM
Copelius said...: Five is all we get
It takes eleven to win
Its all Cashman's fault; October 1, 2024 at 12:04 PM
AboveAverage said...: Pete Rose loved Schottzie
Shared a room whilst on the road
Until Marge found out; October 1, 2024 at 12:15 PM
DickAllen said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; October 1, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Doug K. said...: AA - really good Haiku to start us off; October 1, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Doug K. said...: Glad we do Haikus
Iambic pentameter
Is too difficult.; October 1, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Doug K. said...: That said, here's a Pete Rose themed limerick.

Pete Rose was a star for the Reds.
A tax cheat, he was jailed by the feds.
He bet on baseball
and got banned from the Hall.
No tears here... cause he made his own bed.; October 1, 2024 at 3:09 PM
JM said...: And Detroit is beating Houston 3-0 so far.; October 1, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Joe of AZ said...: And ofc an RBI contribution from a Yankee we gave up for a hill of beans...; October 1, 2024 at 3:50 PM
JM said...: It's the Yankees way, Joe!; October 1, 2024 at 4:30 PM
JM said...: Our old pal Caleb Ferguson came in for the Astros. He threw one pitch and they nailed a guy trying to steal second. End of inning.; October 1, 2024 at 4:58 PM
JM said...: Tigers' Foley working at blowing this save. It's like watching Holmes.; October 1, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Kevin said...: Papi was and still is a fake, and no doubt a steroid cheater. What were the voters thinking? Without the DH, he would have played possibly 4-5 years, then relegated to pinch-hitting duties. Yes, I know that the DH has been in the AL for over fifty years now. Ortiz and the other cheaters rob glory those who preceded them. That Ortiz was a player who laughed off being fat, out of shape, capable only a singular talent is.outrageous. Looking at what the play callers in the once hallowed halls of MLB have become it isn't crazy to believe that Papi was a marketing ploy to keep Dominicans interested.; October 2, 2024 at 3:07 AM

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