The Dugout
By Nick - 1-9-07
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**Online Host** A choir of angels sing to the tune of Take Me Out To The Ballgame
BeCaminitillGoAway: checkmate
**RealLifeHost** That's not checkmate, my son. This isn't even chess. It's mancala.
BeCaminitillGoAway: im sorry lord. ive got a lot on my mind today.
**RealLifeHost** What troubles you?
BeCaminitillGoAway: today the votes are in on the hall of fame balloting. i know i made a lot of mistakes in my years there but i gave that game all i had. i guess i just hope people aren't so quick to forget how i made thir jaws drop.
**RealLifeHost** Why shouldn't they be? You openly admitted to breaking a very serious rule. Why should this not be weighed severely?
BeCaminitillGoAway: i did steroids because i wanted to. i made that decision well aware of the dangers i may have faced. and you know what it was decisions like that that cost me my life. but id do it again.
**RealLifeHost** But what of the pain? Your final days were bleak and hollow, devoid of love and twisted by drugs.
BeCaminitillGoAway: mere pain was something i was long used to by that point. what i endured in that life was all worth it.
**RealLifeHost** How is that? I can't imagine enjoying such vices.
BeCaminitillGoAway: because i was the best i could be. i did everything i could to become the best damn baseball player i could. few can say that about anything.
**RealLifeHost** You could have been so much more, Ken.
BeCaminitillGoAway: in your eyes sure but i never wanted to do anything but play ball and thats exactly what i did. i lived a dream and i wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
**RealLifeHost** I suppose I should be the one to tell you, then. You did not make the hall of fame.
BeCaminitillGoAway: well theres always next year right?
**RealLifeHost** I'm afraid not. You only received 0.4% of the votes. You've been stricken from the ballot.
BeCaminitillGoAway: jesus
**RealLifeHost** Ahem.
BeCaminitillGoAway: sorry
**RealLifeHost** Was it still worth it?
BeCaminitillGoAway: as upset as i am yes. i know in my heart that what i did was right for me and it doesn't matter what the public thinks. i did that for me.
**RealLifeHost** Then I'm happy for you.
BeCaminitillGoAway: hey youve got to tell me though. did mark get voted in?