The First Pirates
From PiedPipersHouseOfPong
(Revised 1/6/08)
Those who look at spin Pirates as Blackbeard and Captain Kidd
Think of pong balls that contact the table and then appear to skid.
Are these the real Pirates as the loopers and hitters would so curse?
Or rather is the whole thing just turned around and it's the reverse?
Why complain that long pips have created the unfair plays,
When it was a sponge rubber Pirate who foiled the Glory Days.
The pure chess-like defensive strokes of the hardbat domain
Fell to the sponge rubber spin Pirates and no longer remain.
Gone are the days when audiences saw ball flight in slow motion.
So then who really started all of this "junk rubber" commotion?
Sponge Pirate Satoh made severe spins turning balls into a blur.
Pips players around the world soon were found less than secure.
Long bygone are the days when crowds could follow the ball.
Miraculous defensive shots raised audience cheers in the hall.
The Choppers of the hardbat time were the best of the retrievers.
But now to counteract sponge comes the new long pips deceivers.
Old age and treachery can and will prevail against youth and skill
If the Ponger has such insidious equipment and a tenacious will.
Yet who first used treachery just like evil Pirates on the high seas?
Classic Hardbatters told spinny spongers, "We should ban these".
Today it’s long pips that require sponge players to pause and think.
Finally there is some ironic justice - to return a loop with a dink.
Captain Long Pips grins as “nothingness” makes them whiff and blink.
Pavlovian Power Pongers find their armor has an Achilles-heel kink.
A Collaboration of Captain Long Pips and the Pied Piper of Pong