Six Word Stories
2006-10-25 10:09
The six-word-story meme is making its way across the web. Let’s play with it.
Paint a baseball image with six words. I’ll start.
Zito curve. Palmeiro frozen. Inning over.
Your turn.
The six-word-story meme is making its way across the web. Let’s play with it.
Paint a baseball image with six words. I’ll start.
Zito curve. Palmeiro frozen. Inning over.
Your turn.
1. Cold drizzle; mud clings to cleats.
2. Marichal's shoe points out a cloud.
3. Beltran caught looking. Game. Set. Season.
4. mmmmmmm.... baseball. kill flanders kill flanders
5. It ain't over 'til it's over.
(All credit to one Lawrence Peter Berra.)
6. Carpenter uses tools. Cages the Tigers.
7. i don't understand the rules.
8. Leyland and LaRussa. Laverne and Surly.
9. unmoderated, that is only five words.
Use six words to paint something.
It's kind of like a haiku.
We want to see a picture.
Make a scene come to life.
Draw a simple, clear, vivid image.
Make something beautiful because it's beautiful.
10. i tried to make a joke.
hey, that was six words. hooray!
11. Curved and straight, the pitcher's blade.
12. So close, yet so foul. Ugh!
13. Alex Rodriguez gets blamed for everything.
14. A-Rod's meme's only have 5 words.
Big Papi's meme's all have 8.
15. "Karim Garcia? Who is Karim Garcia?"
16. At the wall, he leaps... He Gone!
17. 16 oops...
18. He's at the wall... He Gone!
19. 16 17
Chyll Will attempts meme. Fails miserably.
20. 19 That's just the Mystique of Meme...
21. Number 1/8. One walk. Career over.
22. 20
Funny. I thought that was me....
23. What?
We...
A-Rod...
Jeter...
Rivera...
Crap!
24. A Luis Gonzalez bloop. Dynasty over.
25. Thanks for saving the game, Sliced!
26. 24
I liked The A-Team better anyways...
27. Bucky goes deep! New England weeps.
28. Who irons their hat? honestly! who?
29. Bigger than his game, Sal's 'stache.
30. Smudge or no, Kenny Rogers deals.
31. Bud, Don save baseball? Go figure.
32. This is just like headline writing.
33. THESE STORIES SHOULD LOOK LIKE THIS
34. We want captions, not headlines, people!
35. Gets through Buckner! Here comes Knight...
36. Six to four to three. Yippee!
37. I mean, HONESTLY! Irons his HAT!!!
38. Thirty teams try. One team succeeds.
39. Scorned and neutered, Macha went away.
40. THREE-RUN HOME RUN JOE CARTER...
41. Is the gyroball real? Commence bidding!
42. Deus Ditat, but fasten your seatbelt.
43. Everyday pain. My slider was nasty.
--David
44. McGwire breaks record. Maris rolls over.
45. Neutered? He needs a new agent.
46. Mantle was better than Mays. Discuss.
47. Not much can make chess look speedy.
(Sorry...I just love chess allegories.)
48. Kent, Drew, Martin, Anderson...then Nomar!
49. Sister: Mets. Father: Tigers. Dad wins.
50. Bonds sticks needle...splash,splash,splash
51. Eighth inning. Bartman. Gonzalez. Cubs lose.
52. Go the distance. Ease his pain.
53. Baseball been berry good to me.
54. From the college realms:
At the plate, Harold Baines Junior.
55. Carlos, meet Mike. Mike, Carlos. Enjoy.
56. Mel Allen: "How often it is..."
57. Don't play with fire, Ugeth Urbina!
58. Pujols crushes ball, Astros, Lidge's career.
59. "In the year of the improbable..."
60. "...Don't believe what I just saw"
61. A-Rod, Jeter dugout donnybrook. A-Rod gone.
62. "The art of fiction is dead."
(All credit should go to Red Smith.)
63. Kent out at home. Drew, too.
64. 63
winner ... we have a winner!
65. Grounder to the mound. Oh no!
66. Cubs Win! Cubs Win! Holy Cow!
thanks to the late Harry Caray (and yes they do, at least 50 times a year)
67. And we'll see you tomorrow night.....
68. ... at the wall, we are tied!
69. Bored Yankee fans post many stories.
70. Pavano injures brain thinking of story.