It’s tradition on Opening Day:
The Prez puts the first ball in play,
But with his miniscule mitts,
The Donald just quits
And tweets, “Baseball’s for losers anyway.”
Bob Dylan and Bardball
All through spring training, it’s a Dylan Festival at Bardball. If you didn’t know the Nobel Laureate is a baseball fan — and I have no idea myself — you can believe it now, because how else could he have written so many songs that can be turned into forecasts for the upcoming season?
Bob Dylan’s 2017 Forecast: “Sucking in the Wind”
How many innings must Verlander pitch
to have them destroyed by the pen?
How many times must Miggy get on
to be left on the base by Upton?
How many weeks before Ausmus is canned–
that’s not an “if”, that’s a “when”
The answer, my friend, is 2017
When the Tigers will be sucking in the wind
How many balls will Martinez misjudge
and watch as they roll to the wall?
How many years will poor V-Mart DH
as his trot slows down to a crawl?
How many years must fans grumble and wince
before this team wins in the fall?
The answer, my friend, is 2017
When the Tigers will be sucking in the wind
Spitballing Stage Concepts for Alice Cooper 2017 Tour
- Video projections of Alice’s liver spots
- Alice learns to use SnapChat onstage
- A mean caddy (maybe a Cyclops!?) whistles while Alice lines up a putt
- During “School’s Out”, a bunch of teenagers treat Alice rudely at the CVS
- Alice realizes he should’ve kept all his vinyl
- Dancing car keys taunt Alice while he searches for them
- Eight-foot-tall “roughage monster”