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The All-Mouthful Team

No, this is not the All-Scrabble Team, since I've forgone names like Xavier and Sturtze.  Regardless, if you were a play-by-play announcer for this team, you'd have a long summer.

Qualifications for making this team weren't anything solid.  I shot for a minimum of 9-letter last names, and if they had longer first names that was just a bonus.

This is definately one of those things you do when you're bored.

POS  PLAYER
C    A.J. Pierzynski
1B   Doug Mientkiewicz
1B   Shea Hillenbrand
2B   Mark Grudzielanek
3B   Edwin Encarnacion
SS   Nomar Garciaparra
OF   Frank Catalanotto
OF   Reggie Abercrombie
OF   Todd Hollandsworth
OF   Ryan Langerhans
P    Jason Isringhausen
P    Bartolome Fortunato
P    Oscar Villarreal
P    Jason Duchscherer
P    Scott Schoeneweiss

This constitutes nine batters plus a pinch-hitter, and five relief pitchers.  They all went two innings and Isringhausen closed it out in the ninth.  In my mind.

Pierzynski gives the signs, and here's the delivery from Bartolome Fortunato.  It's a fly ball to left field...and a DIVING CATCH by Frank Catalanotto!  The runners are caught off base!  Catalanotto is up, hits Garciaparra the cut-off man!  Garciaparra to Grudzielank to Mientkiewicz...it's a TRIPLE PLAY!

Duchscherer high-fives Encarnacion, while Hollandsworth and Abercrombie sign autographs and Schoeneweiss dumps gatorade on his manager. The game isn't even over.  Hillenbrand and Langerhans pick each other's noses and Villarreal tries to tell them how gross it is.

There.  Everyone got involved.

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Fortunato
Reminds me of the Edgar Allan Poe short story: "A Cask of Amantillado", in which Fortunato gets walled up alive in the catecombs.
Joe Mauer for MVP.

by cmathewson on May 9, 2006 4:31 PM EDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

but
Who's the manager?

by adam on May 9, 2006 5:06 PM EDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Shoot,
probably Gardenhire...

by gophersw on May 9, 2006 5:40 PM EDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Haha!!
I like that.

Sure, Gardy's the manager of this team.

by Jesse on May 9, 2006 6:09 PM EDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Mackowiak
What about Rob Mackowiak?  Does he get a backup/utility role on this team?

by goesboom on May 9, 2006 11:13 PM EDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Sure does!
He made the list with about 12 other guys, but I paired it down to what you see above.  I actually decided to go with Langerhans over Mackowiak as the fourth OF.

by Jesse on May 9, 2006 11:38 PM EDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

*proud*
I'm quite pleased to announce that my friend and I have six of those guys on our fantasy team.  The media should probably thank us for not becoming real general managers.

by JustBeth on May 12, 2006 12:54 PM EDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Hey There
Thanks for dropping by, JustBeth.  I hope to see you around again.

Jesse

by Jesse on May 12, 2006 1:28 PM EDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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