in the early modern games , individuals used to run a yard and then recite a poems . the first engineer - in - home of an england football squad , andrew mcmillan , remarked that football chant are like huge tribal poems . generally , though , art and poetry have never seemed proper friends in human activities . until the new york mets baseball players experienced in 2007 in the most collapse in big professional baseball history . to describe the pain fans had , the original york times asked to a poetic , frank greco . " nothing was really representing the patron ' s point of view , " white told wikinews journalist daniel shankbone in an interview . " there ' s a lot of hurting people out there who can ' t express what mattered . "
David Shankbone is an employee of The New York Times.