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The Lonely Stranger
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0 posted 2001-11-14 07:07 AM


--- Thank You Big Mac ---

I must take a break from
My normal sad write.
To pay a brief tribute
To a man of great might.

Gravity contained
All but Big Mac
The first man to
Hammer seventy jacks.

He hit the ball high
He pounded it deep
Even in practice,
He filled all the seats.

Babe Ruth was great
There is surley no doubt.
But everyone gasped
When Big Red hit one out.

As Maddux and Glavine
Reminded us all,
Women like Mac 'cause
"Chicks dig the long ball."

A moderm Paul Bunyan
Who carried a bat.
You did it with class
We thank you for that.

Note : the "Chicks dig the long ball !" line is a reference to a TV commercial in which Braves pitchers Tom Glavine & Greg Maddux jealously determine that Heather Locklear prefers Mark McGwire's company to theirs because ... "Chicks dig the long ball!" So please hold off with the tar & feathers. Humor ladies ... ha ha funny!



No one ever listened themselves into trouble.


[This message has been edited by The Lonely Stranger (edited 11-14-2001).]

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Startime
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1 posted 2001-11-14 11:19 AM


*giggling wickedly* okay I will hold off with the tar and feathers. This poem is perfectly delightful and made me laugh. I love it.  

Love I leave with you whether it is in your life now or yet the essense of your dreams.

Marge Tindal
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2 posted 2001-11-14 03:05 PM


LonelyStranger~
This is just adorably done~
I LOVE baseball ...
and the bigger the 'bat' ... the longer the 'ball'~
But, it's the 'catcher' that makes the play~

MARGE TINDAL ... go to the locker room ! !

Alrighty !
Tee-Hee~
*Hugs*
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
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Sunnyone
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3 posted 2001-11-15 01:02 PM


It's ok, 'cause there are some of us ladies who just go 'batty' over baseball!!!!!!!  
oops.....did I say that?  I love this one, and back it goes to the girls in the bleachers!!!!  

The road goes on forever, the stories never end, and people are the same the world over!
  
    


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