A Disappointed Former Baseball Writer's Last Shout

How can I get mad at Major League Baseball?

It’s like a friend or a lover that decided to gossip about you en route to stabbing you in the back. While you tell said person to cease and desist, they continue doing it. Somehow it got back to you that the behavior has not stopped. In the end, there was no choice but to end the relationship.

The only difference with my relationship with Major League Baseball was that the [insert word here] was out in the open. Everyone knew what the Commissioner’s Office, the ball clubs, several managers and a good number of the players were doing. You followed their Tweets, blogs, Facebook updates and their coverage in the media. 

A Poem - Perhaps the Reason Why I'm Still Single

Originally Written in Early 2005

There will be no “good-night” tonight

No “I love you,” or salutations

Such as “honey” or “sweetie” or “darling”

There will no longer be a need

Or a want…or, a desire

To share a common space

Clothed or naked, tonight

Tomorrow or…evermore!

There will no longer be a trust

Or, an understanding…or, a care

As to how things were, or will ever be

There will never be a time, a place

Or, a meal shared together

A movie, a ballgame

Even time with our friends

Either yours or mine

There will be no more lies

No more excuses or aversions

To my issues as you play out yours!

There will be no more tolerance

To your so-called love for me

You say you love me

I did, and then you blew it!

Now leave me alone!