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The NMCSL Softball Ticker
Week 3 News and Notes
St. Jude at PPC is one of the early games this week as the old rivals meet for the 479th time, which is an NMCSL Record. This morning, St. Jude's Craig Ambrosio told the NCMSL Weekly that Mike Stoner will be his starting pitcher for the contest. Stoner is a five time 20 game winner in the NMCSL and has won the Ross Mielke award (Best pitcher in the league) three times, so he will get the ball with at least a share of first place on the line. This was not good news for PPC’s Scott Sergent, who has never gotten a hit off Stoner in his career (0 for 68). “Will the league let me keep the ball if I should manage to luck out and get a hit on Saturday?” Sergent asked the press during the PPC workout at the Stadium last week.
Steve Forman needs just three more hits to break the all-time NMCSL record for most hits in the month of March. He also is currently in Los Angeles filming his hitting video series titled, “Four Hits with Forman” which is due to be out in video stores and online later in the season.
During Charlie Gray’s midweek press conference, he was asked what he did in the off season to stay in such great shape. “I worked at Sears. Sears sucks, let me tell you. I sold Lady Kenmores. Nasty…whoa, nasty job.”
Speaking of MVP, the ace of the staff, Terry Doyle, was talking to one of their rookies just called up from their minor league affiliate in Peachtree City. When the rookie asked what was on his chest he said, “Crisco.” Then he lifted up his jersey and said, “Bardol, and vagisil. Any one of them will give you another two to three inches drop on your curve ball. But if the umps are watching me close I will rub a little jalapeo up my nose, get it runnin', and if I need to load the ball up I just wipe my nose...”
When asked if the rain would hurt their team due to the layoff, DBC 2 coach Sammy Queen told ESPN’s Softball Gameday, “A good friend of mine once said, ‘Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and sometimes…it rains.' Think about that.”
DUMC 2’s Doug Horst had a unique situation in Week One. “My guys wanted to have some extra power before playing DBC 2 so they talked about sacrificing a live chicken in the dugout before the game. I told them we can’t have guys throwing up in the dugout, so I made them a compromise and got them a bucket of KFC Chicken instead. We might not have played well against DBC 2, but we sure had fun afterward.”
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