The Dugout
By Jon - 4-23-07
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**OnlineHost** You have entered the Fenway Park Bullpen chatroom.

WrightChaseForAStar: Man, I'm freaking out. I've pitched above A ball like five times and I'm supposed to start at Fenway?

pr0ff3ss0r_f4rnsw0rth: have no fear the golden oldy kyle farnsworth has pitcht above two balls since 1983

WrightChaseForAStar: I'd appreciate any advice you have to give me.

/throws changeup

Everyone says that's my best pitch. I think I'll be relying on it.

pr0ff3ss0r_f4rnsw0rth: pfff i could throw my great great grandma faster than that an shes dead, grow a dick flat-hat

WrightChaseForAStar: But changeups aren't supposed to be fast!

pr0ff3ss0r_f4rnsw0rth: quit balderdashin or etcht in my monument park plaque will be me cracken yer molars o'er my fucken kneecap

WrightChaseForAStar: /sigh

all right fine

**OnlineHost** Chase Wright has thrown a 91 MPH changeup.

pr0ff3ss0r_f4rnsw0rth: /thrusts crotch, throws directionless haymakers

**OnlineHost** Later, in the top of the third inning...

WrightChaseForAStar: /looks in dugout

pr0ff3ss0r_f4rnsw0rth: /points, throws imaginary head against knee

WrightChaseForAStar: gulp

/throws

**OnlineHost** MannyTheTorpedoes wants to directly connect.

**OnlineHost** MannyTheTorpedoes has now directly connected.

MannyThe Torpedoes:

MannyThe Torpedoes: /hits ball over Green Monster, plods around bases and back to dugout

hey guys gues wha i foun out

MyNameIsSlimJD : Yes. We know. The bases are like pillows.

MannyThe Torpedoes: noooo i foun out soming els, i figure out a basbal! !!

MannyThe Torpedoes: you don hav to swing at bad pitches you shoud oly swing at a good pitches

if is a good pitch swing har an you hit a rountriber

MyNameIsSlimJD : Manny, it's not that simple. You've got to worry about sabermetric principles and all that.

MannyThe Torpedoes: if a saber met me id get cut in a bely tell rick to skedadal

rememer wha i said

MyNameIsSlimJD : Hmm. All right.

**OnlineHost** MyNameIsSlimJD wants to directly connect.

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MyNameIsSlimJD :

/home run

LowellAndBehold: i'll be damned

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LowellAndBehold:

/home run

tekWar: all right good pitch good pitch good pitch

**OnlineHost** tekWar wants to directly connect.

**OnlineHost** tekWar has now directly connected.

tekWar:

/home run

MyNameIsSlimJD : Holy shit, Manny. Four home runs in a row! Do you realize what this means?

MannyThe Torpedoes: /picks bubble gum out of hair

MyNameIsSlimJD : It means you've figured out the game of baseball! It's so simple! Swing at good pitches and don't swing at bad pitches!

MyNameIsSlimJD : Listen, this is huge for us. Monumental. Meet us outside the stadium later tonight.

MannyThe Torpedoes: ogay

/stops trying to pick bubble gum out of hair; starts chewing hair

**OnlineHost** You have entered the Outside Fenway Park chatroom.

MannyThe Torpedoes: you guys havin a coogout

tekWar: /throws entire personal collection of Bill James books into massive bonfire

You could say so. All our previous knowledge of baseball is irrelevant. It's all walks and home runs from here on out.

LowellAndBehold: yep

/heaves computer monitor displaying baseball-reference.com into bonfire

MyNameIsSlimJD : And it's all because of you, Manny.

/detaches prosthetic leg, throws into bonfire

ohhhh shit needed that

pr0ff3ss0r_f4rnsw0rth: well now whats cooken in this microwave oven custom bitchen delivery

LowellAndBehold: Oh. Farnsworth, right? It's late, don't you have a hotel to be at?

pr0ff3ss0r_f4rnsw0rth: kyle farnsworth doesnt sleep he goes around looken for towering infernoes, too bad he has never criet

LowellAndBehold: Listen, you shouldn't be here, but I guess we don't have a choice. We discovered the singular truth of the game of baseball that will send it collapsing like a house of cards.

LowellAndBehold: It's such dangerous information that we've vowed not to use it for personal benefit, in order to protect this game that we love.

LowellAndBehold: For decades, analysts, mathematicians, and physicists have reached for the knowledge we now grasp. And I will tell you if you promise not to

pr0ff3ss0r_f4rnsw0rth: nerd alert

/gives atomic wedgie

LowellAndBehold: OW OW OWWWW

MannyThe Torpedoes: manny seeing fanny