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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=531021" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>2008: It Still Bugs Me It's No Longer Green</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For those of you who were not reading<br>The 'San Francisco Chronicle' back when<br>The sports section was printed<br>On green newsprint</div><div style="margin:10px 0">- - - you may not see the loss as I do</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They throw us old readers a bone<br>They still call it 'The Sporting Green'<br>Sometimes printing the heading in green<br>onn white newsprint - BFD </div><div style="margin:10px 0">- - - if you know what I mean</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They said the cost of green newsprint<br>Had gotten too high<br>So had the ballplayers' salaries<br>But they weren't all replaced with white rookies</div><div style="margin:10px 0">- - - if ya know what I mean</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Every morning Mon. to Sat. - - - there it was<br>Green and ready to be<br>Pulled out from the other sections<br>I might look at later</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Regardless of how big the paper was<br>How they folded it<br>I could always put my hands on <br>Last night's final scores and today's schedules</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It tucked neatly into my back pocket<br>So on my first break<br>I could read about <br>Some of the other games</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You could tell who in the shop<br>Played the ponies<br>Their attention was on <br>Yesterday's results and payouts</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Constantly checking and rechecking<br>Before it was time<br>To turn in their betting slips to Mary-the-Book<br>On the loading dock</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No live racing on your iPhone<br>Not even Watch-and-Wager<br>At the fairgrounds back then<br>To get your bets down</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You had write them down<br>Hand the slips to Mary-the-Book and wait<br>You knew the guys who had other bookies<br>You'd find them in the phone booth calling their's in</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That's another thing I'm not happy about<br>Seeing gone - - - phone booths made calls private<br>Close the door you could cuss cry call your girlfriend<br>No one - - - not even your wife had to know</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now I have to search all through the 'Chron'<br>To find Sports - It's is 'wrapped around'<br>Want-ads Business Style or some other crap<br>They say that saves money too</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Talk about not saving something<br>Bay Meadows is gone<br>Had it's last horse race<br>Gonna be condos business parks and </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Apartments with the latest designs above retail<br>High density communal living<br>You can bet somebody's go'na make a buck<br>Environmentally green unlike how they now view horse shit</div><div style="margin:10px 0">- - - if you know what I mean</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nature's noblest beast<br>Along with bovines and their gas<br>Are no longer considered <br>Environmentally friendly</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We now live with computer wagering<br>Attendance at tracks is down<br>Mary is out of a job<br>Circulation at the paper is down too</div><div style="margin:10px 0">- - - you may not sense the loss</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's like your seventy percent<br>Partially clogged artery<br>It's still functioning right now but wait <br>'Til the day it hits ya</div><div style="margin:10px 0">- - - if ya know what I mean</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Tom+J.+Mariani">Tom J. Mariani</a><div class=q>
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The 'San Francisco Chronicle' back when
The sports section was printed
On green newsprint

- - - you may not see the loss as I do

They throw us old readers a bone
They still call it 'The Sporting Green'
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