Wisdom must be received to be owned and it usually comes on the wings of painful experience. The absence of innate wisdom in human beings is one of the major reasons we have written contracts between people.
A Baseball Christmas Contractual Wisdom
by Bill McCurdy
(Reading meter & tune for each verse below work with the first stanza in “The 12 Days of Christmas” repeated continuously.)
On the first day of Christmas, the Astros signed for free,
A kid who’d never hit successfully!
They sent him down to Greeneville, where he learned capably,
And moved up to the Valley Cats, Tri-C!
As a Tri-City Valley Cat, he learned to hit the curve,
And other throws that rise, fall, split, or swerve!
Next year moved on to Quad Cities, but never to demand it,
He just went out and led the River Bandits!
He stayed short-term at Lancaster, and really hit the books,
His next stop up, the Corpus Christi Hooks!
The warm Gulf breeze did please him, as the scouts got in their gawks,
Next big jump, the Okla-C Redhawks!
The Redhawks saw “The Kid” shake out – his full potential form,
Achieving to the sky – became his norm!
By now, the kid was five-tool-class, in all the ways that count,
And people praised the Astros talent fount!
At season’s end, he rested, awaiting glorious spring,
When he could finally do his Astros thing!
A guy who hits for power, and batting average too,
Was on the way to Houston, with speed, too!
Before our man could get there, he played some flag football,
Destroying both his knees in one bad fall!
And the moral for the Astros, is slightly old, but true:
Make them sign what they can, and cannot, do!
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