It's like there's a party in my mouth, and the Internet's invited!

I hope you all haven't already seen this by now. It's a breakdown, using Sean Smith's WAR database, of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant softball team. Since so many of those players were old, ineffective, or just overrated at that time, the author picks his own super-team from 1992. Fun stuff.

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I just blew myself.

Yes, that's right.

by Mister Eff on Apr 11, 2010 1:18 PM EDT reply actions

Inspired!

You can read it in any tone you like.

by spants on Apr 11, 2010 1:33 PM EDT reply actions

Quite possibly the geekiest thing ever on the internet

Loved the comments

Lighten up, Francis - Sergeant Hulka

* sarcasm might be involved in this comment

by mattyfrommo on Apr 12, 2010 9:49 PM EDT reply actions

thanks for the heads-up on the comments

as we know, they are often the most entertaining aspect. like this:

“Speaking of Boggs… true story from a Brewer fan I sat in front of a couple of years ago:

It turns out the guy was a long-time season ticket holder. He used to have tix by the visitor’s on-deck cirlce. He said that when MIL was playing in the AL, the Rays were in town. Boggs was winding down his career with them at the time. The guy and his buddy kept heckling Boggs every time he was on deck by yelling out "Lord Palmerston!" in a Barney Gumble voice. Finally, late in the game, Boggs had enough . He turned to them, shook his bat, and yelled back, "Pitt the Elder!""

now, it turns out a commenter disputed the plausibility of this account, but things get mixed up, and anyway it’s a great story.

"Some days I feel like the hypotenuse in a love triangle; others as if my lucky number is pi."

by cardball on Apr 13, 2010 4:18 AM EDT up reply actions