You captivate with foibles and mistakes both great and small
You captivate with slip-ups and you cannot hit the ball
You dazzle us with errors and unyielding resolve
To make sure that effectiveness you seldom do involve
There was a time months long ago I thought that I would like
To watch a team that at its peak is stronger than the Reich
But with the constant losing there's a truth that I have found
That when a team is bad both joy and merriment abound
I know it might sound funny to the people back northeast
And even in Los Angeles they think we're getting fleeced
"Last place," they say, "would make me want to follow other things
And focus on activities that sweet September brings"
But I find losing comfortable, and in its warm embrace
The memories of Ottawa I'm able to erase
It's freeing when you have your expectations set so low
I couldn't give a crap about another lousy throw
There's humor in incompetence and laughs in being weak
There's always something funny in a ten-game losing streak
Perhaps the fans of winning teams will never understand
But comedy runs rampant with a team so poorly manned
Yet bad teams aren't for everyone, I'll certainly admit
You're free to choose your favorite team just as you would see fit
I guess what I am saying could be written simply thus:
Leaving winning to the winners and the losing up to us.
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Fucking rec'd 8,000 times.
Phil Hatzenbuehler - May 8, 2008
Man, I tell ya.
This team may be heading down the road of failure but this place will still be awesome if not more so.
ThundaPC - May 8, 2008
I may stop watching the games but I won't stop reading LL
ColeFitz - May 8, 2008
I have stopped watching,
but I spend like 6 hours a day here.
Llewdor - May 8, 2008
Lookout Landing definitely has the stronger franchise
Alex B - May 8, 2008
A tip:
more poetry and you’ll be a shoo-in with Anne.
JI - May 8, 2008
Is that completely original?
If so, amazing.
VanillaGorilla - May 8, 2008
I found LL just a year and a half ago, so I haven't really been here for the awful times.
I’m excited.
Teej - May 8, 2008
Ironically this poem is made of absolute win
Nick S - May 8, 2008
jeff, you're my hero
royalcurve - May 8, 2008
I propose an all-poetry day across SBN
Or at least an AL West rhyme-off.
(My latest A’s-centric offering here).
monkeyball - May 8, 2008
You forget that HH is the AL west.
JI - May 8, 2008
Roses are red, violets are blue
poo
Jeff Sullivan - May 8, 2008
Come on.
Something’s gotta rhyme with “panther.”
Poppy - May 8, 2008
Iverthon?
monkeyball - May 8, 2008
Rev is a ... Morrissey fan.
No. Really.
monkeyball - May 8, 2008
Happy Felix Day, everyone
seattlebruin - May 8, 2008
Wow.
I’m so disheartened that I totally forgot we still had Felix Days to look forward to.
Teej - May 8, 2008
I believe I'm the first person to post that today
and it’s 4:46 on the day of a 7:10 Felix Day start
seattlebruin - May 8, 2008
Truth.
I’ve long said that there’s entertainment to be found in both success and failure. The only truly boring quality is mediocrity. If the Mariners manage to lose 100 games this year, they’ll be awful, deplorable, despicable—but they won’t be boring.
zagreusmd - May 8, 2008
Last year somehow we had it both ways.
We flirted with contention, had mediocre underpinnings, and saw some of the worst baseball ever played in the form of HoRam and Reefer Jaw.
Llewdor - May 8, 2008
Positively
reminiscent of Calvin and Hobbes.
I don’t think I can give a better review than that.
jimmimoose - May 8, 2008
Ode to Losing
Jeff Clement = Day off
Lopez = DH
Willie Boom-Boom = 2B
Vidro = Back Spasms.
ThundaPC - May 8, 2008
Odour of Losing
Carlos Silva
Alex B - May 8, 2008
Yuck.
BrianL - May 8, 2008
Oh, and good thing we kept Miguel Cairo
ThundaPC - May 8, 2008
This is simply brilliant.
- An Orioles fan
math_geek - May 8, 2008
Ugh...
The Mariners have gotten so bad that even the newspapers here in Honolulu are featuring articles about how craptastic the team is playing. You know it’s time to revamp when a city that doesn’t have a professional sports team within a 2,000+ mile radius is discussing the ineptitude of your team…
schismatix - May 8, 2008
This team may be horrid
But this post is pure gold.
These last few years have been different from the early 90’s and late 80’s, when I first started watching baseball. Back then, we were bad, but I didn’t know what good was.
Now I have a taste for it, and this team is hard to watch. Yet, I find things to enjoy. Felix days, Wlad whiffing 60% of the time, Clement doing the same (so far) with less power, Ichiro and King Beltre.
I love baseball.
AtomicGarden - May 8, 2008
Never leave us Jeff.
Goose - May 8, 2008
M's website
One of the headlines on the M’s website says, “Seattle seeking third straight victory over Texas”.
(What rhymes with Texas?)
ryanhealy - May 8, 2008
Sex-us?
Lexus?
Diatribe - May 8, 2008
solar plexes?
jimmimoose - May 8, 2008
I feel like
LL just wouldn’t be have fun in the Mariners had a great team run by a strong front office
mariners124m - May 8, 2008
be as fun
not have fun
sorry
mariners124m - May 8, 2008
also
if the
not in the
I have a 102 fever I apologize
mariners124m - May 8, 2008
Well done sir.
As a lifelong fan of the WSU Cougars, Seattle Seahawks, Sonics and Mariners now living in the Northeast, I often get the “huh?” look when I try to explain to all of the bandwagon Patriots and Red Sox fans why I continue to support franchises and a college (except for WSU basketball this last year) that continually disappoint year after year, when I could be rooting for a winner instead.
Being a fan of these teams just makes me appreciate their occasional successes even more, way more than the joy being felt by someone who has only been a fan of the Tom Brady Patriots.
In that sense, I’d like to think of myself as a better person.
Or a total sucker.
kzuudj - May 9, 2008
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