I noticed a subtle change found on the Angels' tentative 2005 schedule, posted
on the team's website? The Los Angeles Dodgers are listed as "LAD" and not
"LA". Inching, perhaps, toward the day when the Angels will be listed as "LAA"
and not "ANA"???

For now, a poem to help tide us through the off season:


The Tigers



by William Flake



Tigers! Tigers, fighting bright

In the ballparks of the night.

Your pitching’s fair, your field adroit,

So why no pennants for Detroit?



You blaze around the A. L. parks

With bats that fairly give off sparks.

But when they total up the score

You’ve lost again to Baltimore.



You start out brave with each new year;

With stalwart hearts you know no fear.

Then, from on high, while sitting pretty,

You blow four games at Kansas City.



The Cleveland Indians go to work;

They beat you good, so does New York.

When Oakland adds a crushing blow

All’s you can cry is “Look out below!”



Before the season’s finally done

You’ve been outplayed by old Boston.

Amid the heated pennant race

You fight to stay out of last place.



Tigers! Tigers, fighting bright

In the ballparks of the night.

Some day the fans will get their fill

And move the team to Louisville!




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