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 Hey, it’s the playoffs, you gotta bring your ‘A’-game, right? You’re up, David Murphy of the Daily News:
WHEN IT CAME time to choose a title for his novella about two migrant workers during the Great Depression, John Steinbeck turned to a quotation penned by 18th-century poet Robert Burns.
The best-laid plans of mice and men oft go awry.
A half-century later, a similar epigraph might be attached to the book on Dodgers slugger Manny Ramirez.
A strong opening salvo, referencing a piece of classic literature. Not sure if that can be topped, even, but let’s see what Todd Zolecki has for us:
The Phillies have heard a little something about a championship drought in Philadelphia.
It is something like 25 years or 250.
It is just 25 - not too long considering the Earth is between several thousand and 4.5 billion years old, depending on whom you ask - though it certainly feels longer.
I stand corrected! The origin of the universe reference easily parries Of Mice and Men. This round goes to Zolecki, but, really, strong work by everyone today.
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