Baseball Toaster was unplugged on February 4, 2009.
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He worships Seattle-based dessert food:
"Thornton secretive cake."
Adrian Beltre cuts off other bread bins,
And darn never eats chicken.
Brilliantly Boone burps egg flour chunks,
Managing to eat it in bold haiku-
Winn hath wrought thy butter, Olivo eats bread:
"Thornton secretive cake."
There aren't really any hidden hints in the above text, but I left a couple elsewhere on the Toaster.
The repetition of that line caught my eye, and although the rhythm is not exactly that of the original poem, it still was enough to start my thoughts in that direction.
These are line-by-line anagrams of "Baseball's Sad Lexicon" aka "Tinker to Evers to Chance."
One thing that I learned doing this: the fourth line is has the word "and" instead of "to".
As for the rhythm being off, well...it was hard enough just coming up with anagrams.
Have you seen Ken in the same room with the Scorebard. Coincidence? I think not!
Tom
So the answer to your question is no (unless it's 42), and I don't think it's a coincidence either.
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