The New York Mets, both past and present, are rife with dramatic potential, and Saturday night’s 20-inning war of attrition only fueled the fire. From our excellent Mets blog, Amazin’ Avenue, comes a poem credited to one Howard Megdal:
Mets-Cardinals War Of Attrition Inspires Poetry
↵↵While Johan the Great threw seven innings of zero
It would take thirteen more to establish the hero
It wouldn’t be Cora, though his catch astounded
He grasped hold of the ball while some lady he mounted
Takahashi in trouble, but sure had a yen
For stranding baserunners much better than Ken
Two strong from Mejia, two more from Valdes
While Cards strangely did what nonsense Tony says
On to the eighteenth, Lopez held Mets at Bay
(Shorthand for someone with no hits on the day)
In inning nineteen, a breakthrough against Mather
The Mets scored a run! And who would you rather
Than K-Rod come on, and lock down the game?
Apparently Pelfrey; K-Rod came up lame
And on to the 20th, Mather still on the mound
But Mets offense scored only once, ran aground
So enter Big Pelf, and it’s hard to believe
But Thursday’s starter came in Saturday to relieve
And Pelf got the save, making K-Rod the poseur
And now, the key question: is Big Pelf the closer?
↵↵The most remarkable achievement here is that someone recapped the game as a poem and managed to make it shorter than The Iliad.
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