Pitchers should be allowed to regroup and batters to step out and prepare for the pitch. This whole idea of speeding up the game seems to me to be a way of shrinking the time between commercials. This is in addition to any baseball interpretation one might wish to put on it. The title comes from the fact that Morgan wore #14 and they’re his lines, while this is also an English sonnet and 14 lines long. The ideas are his, the words are mine and if there’s any mistake in my poetic translation, charge me with the error. I think you should be honest with the fansĭISCLAIMER: This is based on Morgan Ensberg’s latest blog about Bud Selig and “pace of game”. You could give them more tosses, I suppose. Who needs that long to take his warmup throws.Īnd sometimes, it’s two minutes and a half, You told the public we’re not fast enough,Īnd said the “pace of game” is much too slow. It’s how the game is funded, we all know. The sponsors want that time to sell their stuff, Yet, you don’t wish to have that fact revealedīecause of what the fans might think of you. They take two minutes when we take the field,Īnd when we come back to the dugout, too. To learn how to play the league, go to the Rookie Handbook on the league forum and check it out.

And if it were a real team, this might be the sort of reason why it was going down that way. But many players are under-performing their ability ratings. They aren’t the worst team in the league or even in their division. This sonnet is about that team, which is the Cancun Horror. I have four players, one of whom is on a team that’s struggling.

This will sound lame, but I’m in a baseball role-playing league. So this is just a guess as to what this sort of thing is like. The team can only function well if we all give our best. We know that we can’t fix it quick, but we can make a start.Įach one of us must step it up and not wait for the rest. It wasn’t any one of us, but we each had a part. It took a good long time before the problem could be found. With blame and fingerpointing and excuses all around The pitchers said it’s not their fault, although they have the ball. The catchers said the pitchers wouldn’t throw the pitch they’d call. The infield blamed the catchers, ’cause they told them what to do. The outfield blamed the infield, ’cause they let some balls get through. Then talked about the reasons why the home team couldn’t win. We closed the door and locked it, to make sure no one got in. We didn’t want to air our dirty laundry for a crowd. We had a little meeting, only players were allowed.

Baseball sonnet with iambic pentameter