in the early olympic games , athletes had to run a distance and then memorizing a poem . the first poet - in - residence of an english softball league , ian mcmillan , remarked that football chants are like massive tribal poems . generally , soccer , sport and culture have never seemed natural friends in modern action . until the new york mets baseball side suffered in 2007 arguably the most collapse in major league pitching history . to described the agony fans felt , the sun mexico press looked to a poetry , frank robinson . " nothing was really representations the fan ' s area of view , " messina wrote wikinews columnist mike shankbone in an interviews . " there ' s a lot of injured people out there who can ' t express that came . "
David Shankbone is an employee of The New York Times.