Peck out a quick (or not in my case) fictitious MLB story that someone may actually believe - for ex. -

The 1899 Cleveland Spiders were well on their way to becoming the worst team to ever dawn a Major League uniform. In August of that season, in desperation, the team management announced to all local businessman that a hefty reward would be paid to them if they came up with young, strong and athletic men to try out for the team. Not long after, Pettibone Abernathy, a local railroad entrepeneur, sent Horzglob Divorgniczek, a young immigrant working for him, originally from the tiny Russian satellite country of Moronia, to the Cleveland ballfields for a tryout. Divorgniczek's 6'4" 290 lb. build were impressive enough, but when he belted 6 consecutive balls over the 590 foot center field fence in batting practice, manager Slappy "Slappyslaps" Slapperton signed him immediately. Divorgniczek, for reasons unknown to him, remained on the bench the majority of the season, eventhough the losses kept piling up for the hapless Spiders. On the final day of the season, Sept. 21st, the Spiders were facing Cy Young and the St. Louis Cardinals in the 17th inning of a scoreless battle, with Young pitching in his freakish 1,133rd inning of the year. Manager Slapperton had run out of players to send to the plate. He had no choice but to send the European behemoth who he had realized early on could not hit any ball thrown to him more than 40 miles an hour. On the first pitch thrown to him from the dazed, misty-eyed, rubber-armed Young, Divorgniczek blasted one over St. Louis center fielder Winky McShasty an estimated 650 feet for the game winner. In the extreme, unfamiliar game-winning hysteria, the Spiders all came barreling out of the dugout to mob young Horzglob at the plate, tragically trampelling him to death in seconds. Today in Moronia, every Sept. 21st is still a national holiday - Horzglob Day, and every morning of the year the young Moronian school children say the "Pledge of Divorgniczek" in his honor. Or something.

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02-07-03, 06:53 PM
sonnet26
Poetry is more my thing...and not about sports, LOL. Just read your story: Very well done...I got quite a chuckle. Thanks

02-08-03, 08:50 AM
Yankees15
2003 World Series Opens.

Kansas City, MO....In game 1 of the 2003 Fall Classic, The Royals belted out 15 hits en route to a 9-0 win over the Montreal Expos.

Kansas City made the Series by defeating the Detroit Tigers in the divisional series, and then disposing of the pitching challenged Texas Rangers in the ALCS.

Montreal's journey to the Series was by way of San Juan, PR. They first defeated the Mets, winners of 118 games during the regular season, in what is considered to be the biggest upset in Major League Post-Season history. In the NLCS, the Team from north/south of the border bounced the mighty San Diego padres, 4 games to 0.

Tomorrow, in a rare weekday afternoon Series game, Mid-season comeback pitcher David Cone, who sported a 12-2 mark during the regular season, goes up against Roger Clemons. Clemons was acquired for the stretch from the last place New York Yankees. He has dedicated this post-season to former boss George Steinbrenner, who is recovering from a massive stroke suffered while firing, releasing and/or trading everyone involved with the Yankees organization.

Game three will be played in San Juan after two days off. One for travel, and one for clearing the heightened security checkpoints at the San Juan airport.

02-08-03, 11:50 AM
dogspit
Darryl Strawberry is back in the game.
Despite all his recent setbacks, Darryl
Strawberry has made his triumphant
return to professional baseball. The
former major league slugger, who led
the National League in homeruns in
1988, has been hired by the Chunichi
Dragons of the NPB Central League in
Japan. Strawberry, who hit .345 and
belted 62 homeruns in the Japanese
spring league, will anchor a Chunichi
team which has been ransacked by
American Major League teams looking
for the next Ichiro Suzuki. Details
of Strawberry's contract were not
released but it is generally believed
the southpaw will be making around
75,000,000¥ (just over $600,000 U.S.).

02-09-03, 10:30 PM
niccincoogol
Those are hilarious. Royals in the WS, man what a fantasy. And Straw, oh brother, always fun to tap out a little nonsense, eh?

Sonnet - I can't believe you dug that old post out of the rusty vaults - had a few frosties when I posted that one way back, and figured noone would touch it EVER. Thanks for continuing the silly MLB story chain.
02-10-03, 03:40 PM
BobLaz
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 2003 BASEBALL SEASON:

The season starts out innocently enough--with the low-keyed beauty Courtney Love singing the National Anthem at the Dodgers' home opener--and O.J. Simpson being honored for his contribution to humanity. Denny McLain throws out the first ball--proudly showing off his newly-washed prison stripes.

As the season progresses, Daryl Strawberry gets into a MAJOR beef with his former manager Joe Torre-- about the Yankees' skipper's continued abuse of cocaine. Pitcher David Wells sticks up for Torre--noting that if he himself can succesfully stay away from fried food over the last decade, then Torre can hopefully avoid cocaine for a few months.

During their playoff series with the Devil Rays, the Royals introduce former, marginal player George Brett--who happened to be in the ballpark that day--saying that "King George" has SURPRISINGLY been voted the 15th best Royal of all-time..behind the following:

Pat Sheridan, Felix Jose, Ross Jones, Rance Mulliniks, Tony Solaita, Brent Mayne, Onix Concepcion, Cliff Pastornicky, Joe Zdeb, Luis Silverio, Steve Hammond, Mendy Lopez, Buddy Biancalana, and Sal Fasano.

However, Brett argues that Brad Wellman was overlooked and should have been ahead of him--but calms down when Devil Rays manager Lou Piniella tells him that being angry and/or animated is a useless, unnatural act.

In the World Series, the Expos take on the Royals in a no-brainer/expected match-up. The Royals win the Series 4 games to 3--in the most exciting Fall Classic of all-time--which prompts 44-year old spectator Ricky Henderson to remark, "Wow, this game is EASY--I think I'll play another 10 years!"

02-12-03, 12:54 PM
dogspit
Ted-sicle brings $4,000,000 on e-Bay.
The Fleer Trading Card Co. paid
$4,000,000 for the frozen corpse of
Ted Williams in an online auction
last night. Fleer has announced that
they will cut the body into several
thousand small pieces which will be
made into chase cards for their 2003
baseball card set. Retail price on
the boxes will be around $1000 with
buyers having better than a 1 : 20000
chance of getting a piece of the
"Splendid Splinter".
In related news, rival Pacific Trading
Card Company announced that they have
signed a tentative deal with the estate
of Babe Ruth to exhume his corpse in order
to produce a line of collectible cards
containing bone segments.

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