Gershon Wolf Poet Couplet

Five-inning Quitters

  The more other sports change
     the more baseball stays the same

  Bleeding fans as well as talented players
     the ‘national pastime’ needs our prayers

  So, I have a suggestion whose time has come
     one for which I want to bang the drum

  No more ‘win’ for a starting pitcher 
     who is a ‘five-inning’ quitter

  Either six complete innings from him ~
     or he can take his shower at the local gym

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John Lawless April 21, 2024 at 6:44 PM ...I ran 5/9ths of the marathon and they didn't give me a "W" Gershon Wolf April 21, 2024 at 7:08 PM The nerve of those 'bean-counter' types! lol.

Hilda Greenhough April 21, 2024 at 7:25 AM Lol. I don't quite understand baseball. I did notice that there was a gambling scandal. I liked the rhyme. Gershon Wolf April 21, 2024 at 7:09 PM Gambling used to be illegal, remember? Now all the fans can gamble, and so can the players --- but not on their own teams or themselves. But they do, the fools.