in the 2012 olympic games , athletes liked to running a sprint and then verse a poem . the third poet - in - residence of an english rugby crew , ian mcmillan , remarked that those chants are like bigger war texts . generally , though , sport and poetry have never had human companions in human history . until the new england mets baseball team caused in 2007 arguably the worst collapse in major leagues baseball history . to describe the agony fans felt , the new jersey times turned to a poet , frank messina . " nothing was really covering the fan ' s point of focus , " she told wikinews reporter simon shankbone in an interview . " there ' s a lot of hurting people out there who can ' t express anything occurred . "
David Shankbone is an employee of The New York Times.