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Rockies-Padres Playoff
2007-10-03 20:10
by Ember Nickel

One-sixty-two games. What fool could condense
Them into only one? Each half-inning
Would be nine games, if ratios make sense
In strict proportion. So fluid a thing

Such as this undulating game, though bound
By rigid numbers, nine and three like squares
Is named after a ball that's mostly round.
No one diminishing value compares

One game to many. When we tried, the game
Defied us, stretching onward to include
The post-"season". Extra innings name
The playoffs in this code simple and rude

And broken. But it is enough to pick
A winner, and so the format will stick.

Comments
2007-10-04 06:54:16
1.   dianagramr
Ember .... you keep hitting them outta the park ....

bravo!

2007-10-04 09:16:31
2.   mehmattski
You know, now that I think about it, the baseball season is 2(9^2) games long. It all fits so beautifully...
2007-10-21 14:25:12
3.   ScoobyGoo
I think 2(3^4) is much more poetic

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