Worst to First to Worst

Worst to first, now worst again...  The Sox are in a slide

And, if you're a Boston fan, it's been a bumpy ride.

Like a roller coaster getting stuck up on the track,

Red Sox lost key players and have, clearly, felt their lack.

Add the fact the bottom of the line-up cannot hit;

That does not help out the Red Sox' cause a single bit.

Almost everyone, it seems, is in a hitting slump.

Now that we're 11 back, there's players that we'll dump.

Rumor has it Peavy's leaving - maybe Stephen Drew.

Hard to guess, exactly, what Ben Cherington will do.

Normally I'd worry that a rhyme from me's a jinx

But things can't get any worse...  This Red Sox season stinks.

Boston Red Sox Fans Are Weird.

What?

Red Sox are advancing 'cause, last night, we beat the Rays.

Don't know who we're playing next; the Tigers or the A's.

All we know is we'll be here at home and better rested.

Fans have hopes so high right now, we ought'a be arrested.

Saturday is game one in the A.L. pennant chase.

Either way, whichever team the Red Sox have to face,

They will feel the Fenway Faithful - many with a beard...

Proving to the nation that, up here, we're kinda weird.

I make no predictions 'cause I want the Sox to win.

I don't want to jinx the team before the games begin.

When I write a rhyme about my teams they tend to lose.

You would not take chances either, were you in my shoes.

Cursed?

The Patriots offense was all wet yesterday. (Photo/AP)

Patriots are 4 and 1; the Sox are 2 and oh.

One team hopes to sweep their series; one team's plagued with woe.

One team is on fire while the other team is damp.

Patriots are struggling; the Sox could be the Champ.

Brady threw no touchdowns yesterday which broke his streak.

52 games in a row; at least one every week...

'though I'm sure that Danny Amendola's very nice,

There's no Joe Montana if you don't have Jerry Rice.

Red Sox are at Tropicana Field to play the Rays

But, though they're more fun to write a rhyme about these days,

I am being very careful - watching what I say -

Just in case my rhyming is affecting how they play.

When I rhymed, extensively, about the Sox last year

They performed so badly that I had begun to fear

I might be responsible - incurred the sports gods' wrath -

And there is no fury like the kind the sports gods hath.

Maybe I should stick to politics and government

'though, the more I think about it, look at how that went.

Maybe Dr. Seussilitis really is a curse...

When I write a rhyme about something it's gotten worse.