This started because of a rainy Patriots Day. If the high school baseball game I was scheduled to cover that day had been played, then who knows? Maybe this annual display of dreadful poetry would never have existed.
Needing something to write that rainy April day, I came up with the idea of sports haiku, to succinctly discuss the sports issues of the day. A haiku is a three line poem. The first line is five syllables, the second seven syllables, and the third five again. It’s fun, for me at least, and I hope for you.
For me, the annual sports haiku column is a tradition like no other. Mostly because one would think I would have the common sense or basic decency to stop by now.
As always, sincerest apologies to the real poets out there bleeding on the page.
Gronk
Enjoy the time off
Come September, catch touchdowns
Retire? Not yet
Patriots Feud
Bill and Tom and Rob
Much ado about nothing?
Or dynasty end?
Brad Stevens
A basketball nerd
Coaching computer leading
Celtics, next level
Jayson Tatum
Baby-faced killer
Potential and kinetic
If only not Duke
Mookie Betts
Nobody better
Not Trout, not Stanton, not Judge
Nobody, I say!
Jackie Bradley, Jr.
So, so, so streaky
Catches everything, but bat
Naps, weeks at a time
High School Dunking
Silly, stupid rule
Enforced on whims, a relic
Let the kids play ball
High School Baseball Blowouts
Just throw strikes, they say
But easier said than done
Few varsity arms
Carson Smith
If you threw fastballs
As well as you toss your glove
Cy Young would await
Brad Marchand
Stop licking people
Too skilled to play like a punk
Instigate with goals
Justify
A Triple Crown horse?
Closing kick to win Derby
In the way, Belmont
Toronto Raptors
House of card, collapse
Under weight of LeBron’s stare
Crawl away meekly
LeBron James
A triple-double
In a thirteen point defeat
Empty calories
Jake DeBrusk
A scorer’s deft touch
Tough, gritty, perfect Bruin
Thirty goals coming
Tuukka Rask
Two U’s, two K’s, but
Good enough to win the Cup?
D breakdowns don’t help
My Friend Gary
Man, this Red Sox team
You would love the way they play
We miss ya, buddy
Travis Lazarczyk — 861-9242
Twitter: @TLazarczykMTM
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