tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676591017018865408.post8334090293672462037..comments2024-03-24T03:21:40.629-04:00Comments on The Greedy Pinstripes: Game Thread: New York Yankees vs. Kansas City Royals 5/25Daniel Burchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04212584396848733519noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676591017018865408.post-57532485336372675192015-05-25T15:41:29.413-04:002015-05-25T15:41:29.413-04:00The Charge of the Light Brigade...( Substitute the...The Charge of the Light Brigade...( Substitute the word 'Yankees'...for Brigade )<br />By Lord Alfred Tennyson...on Dec 9th..1854.<br />( The first, fifth, and sixth verse')<br /><br /> Half a league, half a league,<br />Half a league onward,<br />All in the valley of Death<br />Rode the six hundred.<br />"Forward, the Light Brigade!<br />"Charge for the guns!" he said:<br />Into the valley of Death<br />Rode the six hundred.<br /><br />Cannon to right of them,<br />Cannon to left of them,<br />Cannon behind them<br />Volley'd and thunder'd;<br />Storm'd at with shot and shell,<br />While horse and hero fell,<br />They that had fought so well<br />Came thro' the jaws of Death<br />Back from the mouth of Hell,<br />All that was left of them,<br />Left of six hundred.<br /><br />When can their glory fade?<br />O the wild charge they made!<br />All the world wondered.<br />Honor the charge they made,<br />Honor the Light Brigade,<br />Noble six hundred.<br /><br />Copied from Poems of Alfred Tennyson,<br />J. E. Tilton and Company, Boston, 1870<br /><br />A strategic blunder by the English Army, resulting in the destruction of a fine<br />mounted military force.<br />I compare what happened in 1854, to what I see on the field today.<br /><br />No disrespect to those fine Light Horseman.patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00008211991899947734noreply@blogger.com