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Freshen up your Jim Edmonds haikus

A marvelous pennant race in the National League Central got even better this morning when former Cardinals, Cubs, and Brewers outfielder Jim Edmonds joined the Cincinnati Reds in time for a three-game series in Cincy between the Redbirds and the Redlegs. For some pouty Cards fans, Jim's post-Cards trip through the home team clubhouses of the Central Division is uniform jersey heresy, but I think it's clear now that Jim just likes to play for these particular teams so that he can return often to St. Louis, where he still makes a home, and where his downtown restaurant is crying out for more hands-on supervision. And besides, he can't be blamed for being traded to Cincinnati from Milwaukee, even if he's not crying himself to sleep over the transaction.

I call your attention back to a spring evening two years ago when Edmonds joined the rival Cubs. That night, a few of us found time to offer up some Jim Edmonds-related haikus in tribute.

Mine were all swiped from source material online...

Fists pumped in the air
Walk-off home run in Game Six
Oh, the memories

Dive, young Jimmy, Dive
Gliding swan-like through the air
Wearing your half-shirt


But pal David Levenhagen, a Cubs fan, gave us some originals...

Jim is now a Cub
If he's not a total flub
He will have my lub

Cubs fans are fickle
If Jim doesn't impress us
July, he'll be home


And Brother Aaron, a Reds fan, gave us...

Cubs won in oh-eight
Now it's two thousand and eight
Everybody's dead

...which is kind of fun if not really Jim Edmonds-related. I'll bet he's regretting this one now though...

Famous for his glove
Jim had a gift for making
Easy plays look hard


Time to crank up the haiku machine again. How about...?

Reds' Jocketty plots
To capture the division
With Cardinals ghosts

Rolen, now Edmonds?
Walt's "Cards" plan makes sense, but for
Jason Isringhausen

Jim's comeback tour shifts
At least the colors are right
It's the Cubs I hate.

posted by CM @ 8:54 PM