Now, scoring is actually quite scientific.
It's best to begin (when away from the Internet) with an old Oscar Williams anthology.
For example
Robert Bridges is pitching:
"I love all beauteous things,
I seek and adore them;
God hath no better praise,
And man in his hasty days
Is honoured for them."
to Thomas Hardy
who swings!
Yes; quaint and curious war is!
You shoot a fellow down
You'd treat if met where any bar is,
Or help to half-a-crown."
Obviously a home run.
And so on.
Or...
Auden on the mound:
A ragged urchin, aimless and alone,
Loitered about that vacancy; a bird
Flew up to safety from his well-aimed stone:
That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third,
Were axioms to him, who’d never heard
Of any world where promises were kept,
Or one could weep because another wept.
Against every damn pomo poet championed by, for example, Coach Ron Silliman.
And, obviously, a grand slam for Auden.
joe green <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 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!
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