Cubs win! It’s big-boy time! It’s also time for Ben Zobrist to dominate the news cycle. I chose what I saw as the the best-of the numerous articles concerning his debut at South Bend and the chain reaction that event sets in motion. There are also some other things. While we’re all young, how about a few words concerning robot umpires, from my friend (poet extraordinaire) Frank Coffman, who was kind enough to write them for us?
CaseBot at the RoBat
(with apologies to Ernest Lawrence Thayer)
by Frank Coffman
The outlook wasn’t LED Lights for the Mudville nine that day:
The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play,
And when Cooney’s Robot died at first, and Barrow’s did the same,
A virtual silence fell upon the patrons of the game.