This Will Get Baseball Fans Through the Next Month -3

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One day soon, but not soon enough,
Weary of the vapid sitcoms
And offensive commercials
We will grab the clicker
And summon the Grand Kabuki
Of baseball.

A jittery old pitcher
Scuffing at the mound.
A kid we don’t know, pinch-hitting
For the first time in the majors.
Mutual insecurities
Banging up against each other.

We will be transfixed by this duel between strangers
And we will dump Carmelo chucking it up,
And snowboarders, and bad movies,
The stupidity of 800 channels.

As my friend Ford writes,
Sitting out the winter in coastal Virginia,  
Reading Blake, waiting for AA ball:  
Hang in there.