The Dugout
By Jon - 1-24-07
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**OnlineHost** You have entered the Atlanta Braves chatroom.

SchuerholzInCharge: Time for your annual review, Mike.

O_Captain_Mike_Hampton: /silence

SchuerholzInCharge: Mike? Hello? I'm talking to you.

O_Captain_Mike_Hampton: /silence

SchuerholzInCharge: Oh, right.

/feeds $100 bill into mouth

O_Captain_Mike_Hampton:

/PC startup noises

Oh hello, Mr. Schuerholz!

SchuerholzInCharge: Mike, I'm glad we finally have a chance to sit down and talk.

SchuerholzInCharge: Thanks to the obscenely huge and disproportionate salary of yours we inherited from the Rockies, we ended up paying you $14,475,185 last year. That's the seventh-highest in baseball. You were paid more than Albert Pujols.

SchuerholzInCharge: That's ridiculous on its own. Even if you had played a full season, that divides out to half a million dollars per game.

O_Captain_Mike_Hampton: Yeah, when the Rockies offered that deal they structured it around the idea that I'd get $10,000 for every time I was able to throw the ball without it drifting straight into the heavens like a balloon let go by a careless child at a county fair.

SchuerholzInCharge: Well, here's the problem, Mike. You didn't play a single game.

O_Captain_Mike_Hampton:

Well you know, that's a good pointbzzzzz*boop!*

SchuerholzInCharge: /sigh

/feeds $5 bill into mouth

O_Captain_Mike_Hampton: /spits out

SchuerholzInCharge: Damn it.

/re-inserts $5 bill face-up

O_Captain_Mike_Hampton:

voooOOOOOP

/Max Headroom noises, etc

SchuerholzInCharge: I brought you here to help me fill out the ledger. I need to figure out exactly what I was paying you for.

O_Captain_Mike_Hampton: Well, I usually piss four or five times a day, so there's that.

SchuerholzInCharge: Okay, got it. How many shits would you say you took?

O_Captain_Mike_Hampton: Once every five days or so. I tried my best to stick with my normal pitching schedule.

SchuerholzInCharge: Number of hours you spent in your home trying to stand up a mostly-empty can of Coke on its diagonal while our pitching rotation faltered and doomed us to our first losing record since Axl Rose was culturally relevant?

O_Captain_Mike_Hampton: probably about 700

SchuerholzInCharge: All right, thank you.

O_Captain_Mike_Hampton: i spilled so much drink that you would not believe how much drink i spilled

SchuerholzInCharge: If I may.

/deposits two cents

SchuerholzInCharge: I know you probably had a great time last year, but it's time to think about your team. Your arm's fully recovered from surgery and if our team's going to bounce back this year, you're going to have to return to top form.

SchuerholzInCharge: Mike.

Mike, are you listening?

O_Captain_Mike_Hampton: /silence

SchuerholzInCharge: SON OF A BITCH

O_Captain_Mike_Hampton:

CONTINUE?
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O_Captain_Mike_Hampton:

GAME OVER

O_Captain_Mike_Hampton:

WINNERS DON'T USE DRUGS