Limerick Friday LXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXII: R.I.P. Yogi Berra, Plus A Coupla Hidden TV Gems

A Yankee legend before his times

The king of funny one-lines

At a great cost

Baseball has lost

A treasure of many different kinds

Pack has won three straight

Against who is up for debate

An embarrassing schedule so far

Has left the door ajar

To wonder exactly who is State

Banshee screams on a major stage

Is it all part of ‘roid rage?

With a customary lack of class

Serena Williams beat at the pass

Can we all now just turn the page?

Outcoached in every game

A franchise without any shame

Joe Philbin passed his sell-by date

Exasperation turning to hate

Players change, but results stay the same

“Under the Dome” has jumped the shark

“Whispers” surprisingly good on a lark

“Fear the Walking Dead” unique at first

But for actual action it does thirst

TV picks have been pretty stark

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Limerick Friday LXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXII: The Deflatriots Bitch-Slap Goodell, Plus Matt Harvey May Not Escape From New York

Brady skated away scot-free

With an overturned guilty plea

A win for the rules dodger

A loss for the inept Roger

Cheating pays, can’t you see?

Armed with a beer and a quip

I shot every round from the hip

Instincts behind a fantasy draft

After yet another lottery shaft

Solid roster with which I can whip

Refugees escaping terror

As their lives get even barer

The coming border war

Is at our doorstep for sure

The question is can we be fairer

I’ll just say it, by gawd

The ‘Fins have a respectable squad

Optimism abounds down south

After years of getting punched in the mouth

Rare ground for this fanbase to trod

The king of Queens, he was

Swept up in the Mets buzz

‘Til he really stepped in it

Unveiling an innings limit

Now Harvey’s public enemy #1, cuz

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Limerick Friday LXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXI: 10 Years Gone, A Sobering Retrospective Of Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans

A decade’s gone by

Since heartbreak came from the sky

Katrina reduced to smithereens

Until I saw New Orleans

I never knew a city could cry

Amidst the strewn rubble

Urban legend did bubble

Who blew the levees

And sank all the Chevys

And heaped trouble on trouble

For rumors, it was hard to blame

The natives who braved the rain

By their own government, ignored

Please help just a little, they implored

One of many Bush stains of shame

But they propped up the Superdome

At least the Saints could have a home

With football love sated

Our memories slowly faded

But the city struggled on alone

Yet Po’boys survived the storm

Jumbalaya still served warm

And the music still marched

With Hurricanes for the parched

New Orleans lives on with a new norm

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