Torpedo

Torpedo

lovers and ball bats

lips meeting at the sweet spot

home runs on a sofa field

rounding the bases

together

erin-cilberto

4/4/25

Reviews

[Kelly Scheppers]

Love baseball!! Your analogy of it sweeps me off my feet, J. Hope all is well my friend!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, Kelly...Having been a kid in NY during the fifties with all three teams there, collecting baseball cards and living a couple miles from Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds....hard not to be a fan....I was never any good playing it. But I was good at collecting baseball cards...and saw Mickey Mantle at Yankee Stadium during his MVP years.

[Kelly Scheppers]

That's so cool. Do you still have the baseball cards? Nothing says "New York" like a visit to Yankee Stadium!

[Dylan Macadham]

Love this! Hits it outa the park :)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you, Dylan.
j.

[Renata]

I used to play softball so I know that sweet spot is very hard to find. So, too, is the sweet spot of romance that enables those home runs to be hit.
Most of the time lovers end up hitting each other with verbal ball bats instead of having fun on the sofa field.
An impressive metaphor and I can relate to it in both contexts.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I appreciate your response to this piece, Renata...it was feeling pretty ignored.
I do love baseball but was never good at playing it. I am sure you were a good softball player. I grew up in the Bronx, my early years in the fifties...had the Dodgers, Giants and Yanks all there...Willie, Mickey and the Duke...so How could I not be a fan?