museum mind

extreme weather is great
minus the flying objects that whack people in the head
and minus windshield factors that freeze people to death,
but if those two unfortunate realites can be avoided,
a good downpour can wash away all the used condoms and trash
or a legit snow storm covers it all up
and my mind forgets james shields being part of the royals new pitching staff
and remembers some older things that disappeared only for a while like
ellis valentine's throwing arm,
von joshua's name,
cecil cooper's crouch,
marc clear's jacked up stirrups,
chris bosio's temper,
or ryan raun's pinch hit homer from june of 2011
against florida.

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and as snow continues to dump on the northeast,
i still hear that sound of braun's "big fly."
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=15501147&topic_id=&c_id=mlb&tcid=vpp_copy_15501147&v=3

double speak baseball

the spice girls song "the lady is a vamp"
could easily be sung by the sex pistols.
it's the same with any song.
take any lyrics and
turn them into rage or sap.

words are empty.
it's us humans who give them so much meaning.
for crying out loud,
ooooogah boooogah worked for how many cave man years?
we're not that civilised.

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i grew up or grew down listening to bob uecker.
i grew all around and stopped believing so much in science
or numbers or fancy explanations
and settled in for a good story.
it didn't and still doesn't matter if it's true.
i'll take imagination over facts any day.

i  knew one person other than my grandpa
who used double talk to confuse prom queens
and that was bob uecker spinning  milwaukee brewer yarns,
but then i met whip willis.