that looks like a line drive down the line for extra bases, joe...
--
Bob Marcacci
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do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
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> From: joe green <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 19:31:35 -0800
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Baseball and Poetry -- Pick Your Fantasy Team Now Will trade
>
> Now, the actual game of Fantasy Poetry Baseball works something like this:
>
> Five poets on a team. Nobody can have Shakespeare.
>
> Nine innings but only one out per team per inning.
>
> Pitcher against batter.
>
> The pitcher pitches when a line chosen randomly from one of his or her poems
> is thrown to the batter. The batter swings with a line chosen randomly from
> one of his/her poems.
>
> A board certified qualified expert such as myself or the Pleasant Reviewer
> makes the call. One strike and the batter is out and the other team gets to
> bat.
>
>
> For example, Eliot is on the mound.
>
> The pitch
>
> "Garlic and sapphires in the mid clot the bedded axle tree."
>
> He's pitching to Whitman who swings with:
>
> from "A Locomotive in Winter"
>
> "Fierce-throated beauty!
> Roll through my chant with all thy lawless music,thy swinging lamps at night,
> Thy madly-whistled laughter, echoing, rumbling like an earthquake, rousing
> all,"
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> (we will say a "line" is a certain unit of sense.)
>
> Now. that's a damn fine Eliot line. It would normally put any batter out but
> T.S. is pitching to Whitman..
>
> now
>
> balance the relative strengths here and Whitman hits a line drive past the
> third baseman and has a single!
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