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Summer Daze.... |
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CMGrimm Senior Member
since 2000-02-14
Posts 685USA 
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The roar of the crowd drowns out the cries of the vendors peddling popcorn peanuts and soft-pretzels... The quick crack of a bat brings back old memories of barn lot pick-up games.. of being the littlest kid.. of being picked last... and of good times when the games started... As the players make their way around the bases I catch my mind wandering back to those simpler times... when the worst thing in the world was an error...and the best thing was a clean fast double play with one away and runners at first and third. I look at the crowd around me... I see fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, grandsons and grandfathers... and I realize how important this game really used to be..... Never be a carbon copy of anybody...make your own impressions. - ANON. |
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MagnoliaBlue Member
since 2000-05-12
Posts 367 |
Oh Yes! I remember BaseBall! I got to sit up in the announcers booth while my uncle and his team played. Wow....that place spawned many a story, poems, jokes, laughs... in the background while that wonderful game went on out in front of me on the field! Thanks for the read... and for stirring up memories!!  MagnoliaBlue Pay a visit to: http://cyberageadventures.com You will love it! "A poem is just an expression of my life and heart."*CJB* ~*My Skipper Jim, I love you! Your Lady June*~ |
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Honeybee Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-26
Posts 5372Ontario, CANADA |
Chris: A very nostalgic poem! Well written and an excellent point at the end. It's true that in many ways professional baseball has lost it's seriousness and innocence. Instead of the old days, when baseball was played "for the love of the game," it is now more "for the love of the money and fame." I'm only 21, but even I realize this fact. I love this poem because I absolutely love baseball, watching it on TV or going to home games at the skydome in Toronto. Toronto Blue Jays #1, Shawn Green is still the best, most talented baseball player ever (and it sure doesn't hurt that he has a nice butt in that uniform - *evil grin,* sorry I'm a woman, I notice these things, I just had to say it) Thanks for the read. Do you have a fav. team and/or player?Take care, Melissa Honeybee [This message has been edited by Melissa Honeybee (edited 06-12-2000).] |
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CMGrimm Senior Member
since 2000-02-14
Posts 685USA |
Thanks for the responses Magnolia and honey-Bee.. and yes I have a fav team and player... (LaRue County Youth Team) CUBS... and my favorite player is my nephew ZACK.. If you ever get tired of watching the same old ball game played by over-payed, over-drugged, over-appreciated college drop-outs..(not all are but most) just drop by the local parks and recreation center and watch our local youth battle it out and give it their all for nothing more than the thrill and the sounds and the excitement and love that truly is baseball.... (sorry to come down on pro-sports like this but I just can't believe what this game has come to over the last several years...) chris Never be a carbon copy of anybody...make your own impressions. - ANON. |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
WOW, have you ever captured the moment and packed it full of a personal message. Sometimes everyone is so wrapped up in contracts, salaries, and player trades that they forget the real sprit of the game or what it used to be anyway. Nice one Chris |
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wayoutwalt Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 4870TEXAS (it's all big) |
i love that last stanza yuh they still come even tho it sux yuh real good job here |
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Kit McCallum
Administrator
Member Laureate
since 2000-04-30
Posts 14774Ontario, Canada |
There's nothing like a good old fashioned game of baseball! Lovely tribute to the game Chris ... thanks for the memories of the "good old days"!!! Best wishes, /Kit |
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CMGrimm Senior Member
since 2000-02-14
Posts 685USA |
Thanks Ruth, walt, and kit. I have spent alot of time at the ballpark lately...lol. chris Never be a carbon copy of anybody...make your own impressions. - ANON. |
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