THT Poetry: ICHIRO! Splits
What better way to highlight a trend in one of Ichiro Suzuki’s splits …
… than with a split haiku:
ICHIRO! Splits
By Ed DeCaria
I
Can No Longer
Hit
Inside Pitches Thrown By
Righties
OR Lefties
!
© 2012 Ed DeCaria, All Rights Reserved
What is a split haiku? I just made it up. It’s the familiar 5-7-5 syllable count for haiku, but each of the three lines is split visually into two to form the I-C-H-I-R-O-! acrostic.
Data for both graphs comes from the PITCHf/x Hitter Profile for Ichiro Suzuki (2007-2012) at Baseball Prospectus as reported on 7/27/12.
Epic!
Ichiro must have read your blog today, because he turned on an inside pitch tonight and blasted it off the face of the second deck in right field.
@Todd: Ambiguous!
Cool. I will have to try this.
So good!!