Tuesday, September 5, 2017

It's Baseball -- Not a Spelling Bee



Red Sox Used Apple Watches to Help Steal Signs Against Yankees  
headline in the NYTimes


The Red Sox and the Yankees know each other’s signals well.
So why should anyone at all be yelling “What the hell?”
All is fair in love and war, and doubleheaders too --
The scruples of a coach are just as straight as a corkscrew.

In baseball cheating fair and square is what it’s all about.
Ev’rybody knows this, from the rookie to the scout.
The game is byzantine and skewed, beloved by the fans --
Skullduggery is part of any manager’s big plans.

So I suggest we send a team or two on tour abroad,
To stump those foreign diplomats by going fraud-to-fraud.
Any coach that’s worth his salt, according to the lore,

Can come up with a scheme to scrap a treaty or a war!

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