God damn it! I was thinking of using haikus somewhere along the line, you beat me to the punch by a long margin. Still, I'll probably wait a few months until I hope everyone's forgotten and do it anyway
And for the record, I call dibs on sonnets!
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Originally Posted by cknox0723
Imagine if the injury bug bites. Cole Hamels, a 23 year old southpaw, won 10 in AAA last year, but a year after going 5-12. No one else looks ready. This rotation is worse than the one in Chicago. It's a shame. This ballclub is like that first used car you drive -- may not look perfect, but it looks like it'll work well enough. And it's wheels, baby! It's a car, damn it, who cares what it looks like? You can go wherever the open road will take you!
And then you realize the transmission's shot, and you end up on the side of the road in the rain. Randy Wolf, now in Los Angeles, was this team's transmission. 200 innings of league-average ball, maybe slightly above -- this club should have busted open the piggy bank for Josh Towers. Wolf would have been worth five wins to this team. It's five wins they'll sorely, sorely miss, because they'll end up on the outside looking in because of it.
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I love this, great analogy and I love the ending sentence. I don't know if it was intentional or not, but the "outside looking in" comment fits in beautifully with the "on the side of the road in the rain" part. Or maybe that's just me having to do too many mind-numbingly boring analytical essays. Great stuff, as always!