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MannyTheTorpedoes: /hits ball to outfield gap, plods into second

infiels so weird im glad i don have to play here

MannyTheTorpedoes: /rips second base out of ground, drops upside-down on dirt, uses as a Sit 'n' Spin

weeeeeeeeeee

Betanbreakfast: Manny, I'm generally not supposed to give you pointers, but remember to run to third base. See where Sexson is? You run there. I'm a shortstop. I don't have a base.

MannyTheTorpedoes: ??? where do you sleep at niht

Betanbreakfast: In my house, man. Infielders are real people too. We have homes and families and stuff to go home to.

Or at least, most of us do.

MannyTheTorpedoes: wher does yor mommy live

Betanbreakfast: She lives in Cuba, Manny. That's where I come from. I haven't seen her in years.

MannyTheTorpedoes: why not

Betanbreakfast: I defected illegally, Manny. I had to leave my impoverished, quasi-isolationist homeland by lashing together a raft and hoping that I'd reach American shore.

Betanbreakfast: Now I'm rich and famous and get to live better than almost anyone else in the world, but I wake up each morning knowing that I might not ever see my mother again.

Betanbreakfast: How screwed up is a world that works like that?

MannyTheTorpedoes: one tim i thoght i woud never see my mommy again but then she said peeg a boo

Betanbreakfast: What? Is this funny to you?

MannyTheTorpedoes: no i was sgared it loog like hands ate her face

Betanbreakfast: Just forget it.

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MannyTheTorpedoes: i thing yuniesky doesn like me

OrtizItThisOne: Why do you say that?

MannyTheTorpedoes: i tol him a scary story about hans ate my mommys face

will you go giv him a hug for me im to embaras

OrtizItThisOne: No, Manny. We're in the middle of a baseball game. It's just not done.

MannyTheTorpedoes: /deep breath

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

OrtizItThisOne: All right. All right! Next time I'm on base I'll hug him.

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OrtizItThisOne: /runs for second

Hey dude. I have been authorized to hug you on Manny's behalf.

Betanbreakfast: what

**OnlineHost** OrtizItThisOne wants to directly connect.

**OnlineHost** OrtizItThisOne is now directly connected.

OrtizItThisOne: /hug

Betanbreakfast: I...don't know what to say, really. But thank you. It means a lot.

MannyTheTorpedoes: /grins

manny being family