The Dugout
By B - 6-18-07
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SamPer_Fi: All right Terry, it's the 8th and we're down 4-6. Nick Markakis is on second base, Miguel Tejada is at the plate. The count is 3 balls, 0 strikes, and there are no outs. What do we do?

MisterCrowley: I think we should be aggressive. Hit and run. Send Markakis to third on contact and if Miggy hits the ball far enough, we're only a run down and we've still got no outs.

SamPer_Fi: what are you, illiterate

MisterCrowley: /lowers head
/wipes forehead slowly with palm

what do you think we should do

SamPer_Fi: Tejada is getting cocky at the plate, we don't need someone with confidence swinging at the ball with runners in scoring position. Put in Eider Torres.

MisterCrowley: but we've only got one Torres on the team

SamPer_Fi: Okay, he'll be fine. He's batting negative .007 with runners in scoring position. Plus, he's in the minor leagues, so he'll have to drive here, and that will give us a long time out.

MisterCrowley: so you're saying that for every 1,000 at bats, Eider Torres gets zero hits and gives up seven hits for the other team?

SamPer_Fi: wait, did you just see Nicky cough?

/covers eyes with hands

There, he did it again

SamPer_Fi: Take him out. We need a pinch runner. Bring in a pinch runner! Eider Torres! Get in and pinch run!

MisterCrowley: You can't put Eider Torres in to pinch run, you just put him in to pinch hit. And he's not even here yet. You're talking to the bat rack.

SamPer_Fi: Ramon Hernandez, get in there!

MisterCrowley: Ramon Hernandez isn't here either. He's on the DL with a groin contusion from repeatedly punching his own dick, per your instruction.

SamPer_Fi: What a peckerhead! How about Ron Santo?

MisterCrowley: Ron Santo doesn't play for us, he doesn't play for anybody. He played for Chicago in the seventies. His battle against diabetes was the subject of a documentary, entitled This Old Cub.

SamPer_Fi: He can't come in to pinch run?

MisterCrowley: He has had both of his legs amputated below the knee as a result of said diabetes.

SamPer_Fi: He can't come in to pinch run?

MisterCrowley: what, do you want me to tie a bullrope around his waist and ask Dave Dravecky to drag him around the bases?

SamPer_Fi: Who the fuck is Dave Dravecky? DRAVECKY! WHERE ARE YOU?

/glances around wildly

Dravecky, I'm calling your name, raise your hand! Get in the game, you're helping Santo pinch run!

MisterCrowley: /closes eyes

MisterCrowley: /walks to clubhouse telephone
/dials old rotary

SamPer_Fi: /squints eyes

Why is the game stopped? Why are you all standing around? What's going on?

MichaelTehader: you just took off your pants and tossed them onto the field. frankly everyone is a bit perturbed

SamPer_Fi: What, no I didn't

/looks down at underwear

shit, I did

SamPer_Fi: Oh, God! My own penis reminds me! Crowley, when the next inning starts, give Eider Torres a stack of hundred dollar bills and send him in to pitch.

SamPer_Fi: Yes, Eider Torres is the new key player in our Billionaire's Club Bullpen of d00m and f34r!

Crowley!

SamPer_Fi: Crowley! Where the hell are you?

MisterCrowley: /hangs up phone

I can't do that, Sam, I'm a hitting coach. And guess what? You can't do it either. You're fiiiiireeeeeddd!!

SamPer_Fi: What! Says who!

MisterCrowley: Sorry, I just got off the phone with Pete Angelos. I told him you were Persian.

Sorry, Sam! /blows into party favor

SamPer_Fi: This is a big mistake! You'll never find someone to do the things I did for this team! It'll be a long, arduous search into the DEPTHS OF HELLL
girardi_and_cola: hey guys what's going on on this team
MisterCrowley: Sorry again, Sam, we've already found your replacement.
MisterCrowley: everyone please welcome skeletor
HelterSkeletor: hee hee hee hee! FOOLS!
girardi_and_cola: oh, sorry, i'll just be over here sitting quietly if you need me for anything
MichaelTehader: son of a bitch orioles i swear to god