in the early baseball days , athletes used to run a mile and then prayers a hymn . the first poet - in - residence of an english wrestling team , andrew mcmillan , wrote that many chants are like huge tribal poetry . generally , music , sport and poetry have only seemed natural companions in human life . until the newer york mets hockey crew sustained in 2007 arguably the worst collapse in major league basketball music . to identify the anguish fans felt , the new york times turned to a poet , frank sicily . " nowhere was really representing the fan ' s point of view , " it warned wikinews reporter david shankbone in an interview . " there ' s a lot of dead people out there who can ' t express what happened . "
David Shankbone is an employee of The New York Times.