As part of our season preview, FanHouse asked bloggers from around the internet to write a poem previewing their team's upcoming season in a series entitled MLB Poetry Previews. It's like high school English class, except about baseball!
Today's entry is provided by Braves blogger Martin Gandy of Talking Chop. Martin hopes that the return of certain players from the Braves' past will provide an excellent present and future:
Come back to us Mike Hampton
make us forget that you were ever injured once, twice, thrice
is there anything left in your elbow now that its been diced
Come back to us Tom Glavine
so strange was the orange and blue
how disappointing you might be at the age of 42
Come back to us Javy Lopez
you had retirement in your sights
now you'll ride the pine behind McCann most nights
Come back to us NL East crown
we drankith from your teat for so long
now we're like an addict Jones'in for our next hit of your championship bong
