Why Do Baseball Players Spit? Poem by Sidi Mahtrow

Is it for a dry mouth?
If tha's the cause
Then there's more to the truth
That they fear the knife that falls.

When their performance is
Less than they were paid to do?
Haps, something's amiss
And they haven't a clue?

But, my suspicion is, they
Are trying to look masculine
In the game's lopsided fray,
And it's an easy line.

Like growing stubble
On chin and cheek
A testosterone fable
Suggesting they're strong, not weak.

Regardless of the what's and why's
One has to wonder if they even try
To avoid stepping where others before them came
And covered the field with man-made slime.