Sunday, February 26, 2006

Inferno?

The Scene: The Pirates pitchers return from Cincinnatti sometime April 9th. They go into the bullpen at PNC Park for the first time of 2006. They then notice a new sign hanging over the bullpen door. The first thing that jumps out at them is the faces of some of their former comrades, Kris Benson, Bobby Bradley, John Van Benschoten, and Kip Wells loom especially large while Oliver Perez and Sean Burnett notice their own faces in the corners. They wonder if the ghostly shadow faces are those of Dave Williams and Scott Saurbeck Then they notice the text, written in bold, red, block letters.

Through me the way into the suffering city,
Through me the way to the eternal pain,
Through me the way that runs among the lost.
Justice urged on my high artificer;
My maker was divine authority,
The highest wisdom, and the primal love.
Before me nothing but eternal things were made,
And I endure eternally.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.