This Week's Doggerel
The whole 2025 World Series (almost), in verse!
October 25, 2025
World Series Game One
by Fred Lovato
Up north in Hogtown
Sixth inning run explosion
Blue Jays get huge win
Fred is Bardball’s overseas correspondent, based in Okinawa.
October 26, 2025
Escaping Canada Alive
by James Finn Garner
When the Dodgers had to get back their mojo
And not look like overpaid bozos,
Deliver a statement
And get off the pavement,
They got one from Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
October 26, 2025
Hang It in the Louvre
by Fred Lovato
Going the distance
Yamamoto stifles Jays
pitches masterpiece
October 27, 2025
The Dodger Dog Song
by @saxboybilly18
THE DODGER DOG SONG #DODGERS #LA #LETSGOBUCS
Bill Stiteler has become a viral hit in Pittsburgh and beyond with his hilarious videos. Follow him on Twitter at @saxboybilly18.
October 28, 2025
World Series Game Three
by Fred Lovato
At Chavez Ravine
extra innings marathon
ends in Blue Jays’ tears
October 28, 2025
En-Eye-En-(Ohtan)Eee
by Dr. Rajesh C. Oza
1. Nine is a beautiful number.
2. Nine months for a baby to enter the world.
3. Nine is a symbol of perfection.
4. 2025: 2 + 0 + 2 + 5 = 9.
5. Game 3 of this year’s World Series went 18 innings;
6. That’s two extraordinary nine-inning games.
7. Shohei reached base a record nine times:
8. Four hits (two homers and two doubles);
9. Five walks (four by I+N+T+E+N+T+I+O+N).
October 28, 2025
Walk on the Wild Side
by Greg Simetz
The Jays had a plan they thought bonny
Not to pitch to the star called Ohtani
Four times they said “walk”
Shohei did not squawk
‘Cuz by midnight he was getting quite yawny
October 29, 2025
World Series Game Four
by Fred Lovato
Yesterday’s tough loss
motivation for Blue Jays
Series now even
October 29, 2025
The (Possible) Cremation of John Schneider
by James Finn Garner
With apologies to Robert W. Service
There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the people who hunt for seals
The Nunavit trails have their secret tales
Of an inn where Toronto fans squeal.
The Arctic sights have seen queer sights
But the queerest they ever did see
Was an 18-inning World Series game
And 9 times on base for Ohtani.
October 30, 2025
Trey Bien
by Fred Lovato
Tinseltown, Game 5
Blue Jays rookie strikes out 12
sets Series record
October 30, 2025
Vlad to the Bone
by James Finn Garner
No one dares pitch to Vladdy Guerrero
He’s got more respect than the bravest torero
Wielding more power
Than the CN Tower
And a swing with more juice than Bolero.
October 31, 2025
MLB All-Halloween Team
1B Candy LaChance
2B Pumpkinsie Green
SS Sandy Malomar
3B Chris Spooker
LF Mummy Ramirez
CF Trik Speaker
RF Vlampire Guerrero
C Earl Battey
LHP Randy Wolfman, Baby Ruth
RHP Trevor BOOOOer, Black Catfish Hunter, Ricky Bones
MGR Treat Speaker
October 31, 2025
Some Halloween Backchat
by James Finn Garner
The Dodgers have to dodge some black cats
As they scramble in search of their bats
Not to mention their defensive stats,
Which they should bury under their hats.
As witches and goblins and rats
Convene on Lake Ontario flats,
Brewing victory potions in vats,
Cheering the witches’ Sabbats,
And hoisting some ice-cold Labatt’s,
LA’s current aristocrats
Must stop playing like cowpats
Or the Jays will earn all the congrats
And strut around in high hats,
The game’s newest plutocrats
After a Canadian coup d’état.
October 31, 2025
World Series Game Six
by Fred Lovato
On Hallowe’en night
strange game ending double play
means no treats for Jays