in the early national period , athletes learned to run a minute and then recite a verse . the first poet - in - exile of an english athletics team , alex macdonald , remarked that football chants are like huge tribal poems . generally , sport , science and music have ever seemed natural companions in human enterprise . until the north york mets baseball team committed in 2007 considered the worst collapse in major leagues baseball history . to describe the anguish fans felt , the new york times turned to a poetry , frank greco . " neither was really representing the public ' s point of focus , " messina warned wikinews ceo david shankbone in an episode . " there ' s a lot of evil people out there who can ' t communicate what happen . "
David Shankbone is an employee of The New York Times.