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that looks like a line drive down the line for extra bases, joe... -- Bob Marcacci We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer > 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," > > > (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! > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Looking for earth-friendly autos? > Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center.