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Basketball in Canada

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Sports / July 2, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Driving south on Ontario Highway 49
there was a sign on the left pointing
to the birthplace of basketball's inventor
About a mile down a narrow road
a small wooden house on the left
In the yard a paved rectangle
a basketball hoop and some balls
There have been 
great teams and dynasties 
that height and talent kept me from
But here on a sunny Sunday 
I played James Naismith one on one

James Naismith – Inventor of the game of basketball

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Man Cave

Audio Recordings / tagged Football, Games, Sports / February 13, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Since the sun 
can be blinding at times
and women intense as well

Man must turn as Plato says 
and take a little time to watch 
shadows and sports upon the wall

In honor of Super Bowl LVI; is this really the year of the tiger? 

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Shooting a Raven in Golf

Audio Recordings / tagged Birds, Humor, Sports / January 18, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Never mind your birdies and eagles and such 
what do you call a perfect drive 
on the first at Banff Springs 
that a big black bird beaks up and swifts away

He might drop the ball in the hole flying by 
or you mighta had a rifle in. your bag that day 

the scoring would, or should, come out the same
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Dante’s 9th Inning Stretch

Audio Recordings / tagged Baseball, Regret, Sports / October 16, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
In life there are errors
errors and regrets
and then there is baseball

The ball off the end of the glove
the errant throw, any errant throw
The running into the other fielder and the ball dropping between
The not being willing to run into the other fielder and the ball dropping between
The not tagging up at third 
The easy dribble down the first base line
and knees that won't let you bend to pick 
The ball that was called a strike
the strike that was called a ball
For Catholics there's Purgatory
with constant replay of regret
For baseball fans there's late October to forever

In sympathy with the 2021 Toronto Blue Jays – Best team in baseball not in the playoffs

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World Series 2016

Uncategorized / tagged Baseball, Sports / August 11, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
(for Herman Nelson)

There are 108 stitches on a baseball
There are 108 beads on a Hindu Mala

To win the world series 
you need to win 4 out of 7
9 innings X 3 outs X 4 games = 108

The diameter of the sun times 108
is the distance from the sun to the earth
The diameter of the moon times 108
is the distance from the moon to the earth

The Cubs haven't won since 1908
and are about to run out 
of beads to pray on and stitches to count

But nobody remembers for sure
the number of turns in the horn of the goat
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