Thursday, October 16, 2014

America's Pastime


No, it's not football. The current Major League baseball playoffs are underway and every game has been closely contested and exciting. This may render the upcoming World Series as anti-climactic.
The Baltimore Orioles  - down three games to none - are facing elimination so for all my friends in Maryland I am reciting the final stanza of that famous poem "Casey at the Bat":
-Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright - the band is playing somewhere - and somewhere hearts are light. And somewhere men are laughing - and somewhere children shout - but there is no joy in Mudville - mighty Casey has struck out.
tjs

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