Sports Poet Dave Ochs

Death and Baseball

Tonight

I watched the Yankees

until the seventh inning.

They were winning

one to nothing

when I left

and by now

the game

is over

and in the event

they lost

and I found out

I’d be sad.

So maybe it’s better

not to know

which makes me wonder

what if death

was kept a secret.

Wouldn’t

life be much happier

if we didn’t know

of the inevitable end

of our existence;

our ceasing to be?

But what if

the Yankees won?

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And in the Gulf Coast League CHRIS WHITE burst out of a 1-for-16 slump Friday to bang a triple and single for three RBI. His average is now .222.

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