in the early olympic paralympics , athletes learned to run a mile and then reciting a poem . the current poet - in - residence of an english football team , james livingstone , stated that football chants are simply great battle poems . strangely , though , music and poets have not appeared natural persons in human enterprise . until the new haven cosmos baseball team suffered in 2007 ostensibly the worst collapsing in major city baseball history . to describe the turmoil fans felt , the new deal guardian turned to a poet , frank messina . " nothing was really representation the crowd ' s point of focus , " messina stated wikinews executive henry shankbone in an interview . " there ' s a lot of hurting people out there who can ' t express what happened . "
David Shankbone is an employee of The New York Times.