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November 23, 2002
Ring Ring
"Hello?"
"Hey Jack is this you?"
"Yeah, so..... did I get the job?"
"Yes. Congratulations on being the new coach for the Louisiana State University Tigers!"

June 26, 2004
"Woohoo! Yeeeeaaaahhh!!!!"
"Coach, congratulations on back-to-back national titles."
"Thank you very much."
"How did you guys secure this championship?"
"Man, we just used our topnotch pitching to shut them down in the 3 game set."
"How do you feel about your team heading into next season?"
"We should be good with a lot of our guys coming back, but time will tell."

December 14, 2004
Dear Jack Richardson,

Hello, this is Hank Steinbrenner, a co-owner of the New York Yankees. We will be hiring a new GM in a few weeks and we believe it will be you. You have shown that you can be a champion right from the beginning and that is what we like here in the Bronx.

December 23, 2004
"Today I am here to announce I will be leaving LSU to take on a job in the MLB as a GM. I have been told I will more than likely get a job very soon."

January 3rd, 2005
The Yankees have signed a GM and it wasn't Jack Richardson.

February 20, 2005
Jack Richardson does not receive a GM spot like he said. Now he isn't a GM or coach anywhere.

December 12, 2007
BREAKING NEWS: The MLB will be adding 2 new clubs to make 16 teams in each league. The Astros will move to the AL West and 1 expansion team will be in the AL and one will be in the NL. Both expansion teams are rumored to play in the AL East and NL East.

January 5, 2008
Ring Ring.....

This was weird. The phone never rings anymore. Nobody has taken me seriously since I last won that title with LSU. Now nobody cares that I can be a GM in the MLB even with my accomplishments.

I finally got off my couch and checked the number. I was surprised to see it was a number I didn't know.

"Hello?"
"Hey Jack, what's up?"
"Nothing...."
"Do you know the MLB is adding 2 expansion teams to the league?"
"Obviously cause all I do now is sit and watch MLB Network. And by the way who are you?"
"I'm the new owner of the Louisville Lions."
"What team is that?"
"One of the new expansion teams."
"So why are you calling?"
"I want you to be my team's first GM."

This year will now start a new era in the MLB...............

Damn it Merluzzi!

lol i had to do it

Ahhhhh, the sweet smell of the new office building of the Louisville Lions smelled of coffee.

"Mister Richardson, your office is down the hall and 4 doors to the right."
"Thank you."

I walked down to my office which had a 2 desks, 2 computers (3 if you count the laptop I brought), a coffee machine, a dry erase board and a 50 inch flat screen TV. I sat down in my new spiny chair and started looking through the files. I saw the players that we were looking at for our team and our new coaching staff. Since we are a new team we were allowed to take 20 prospects from any teams we chose and the rest of our 40 man roster will be free agents. A moment later a few men came into my office.

"Hello", one of them said.
"Hey, who are you?", I asked.
"I am Sam Pound, the teams pitching coach said a large white man."
"My name is Kevin Johnson and I'm our teams hitting coach."
"The names Pat Pete. I'm the field manager."
"So I'm guessing you guys are here so we can talk about the players we would like to have on our team?"
"Yes that is correct.", said Sam Pound.
"Okay, I was looking through some of the reports and some guys that caught my eye were Zac Mercer, Kale Danish and Demetrius Jones."
"I believe Mercer can be a great asset to our pitching rotation, but he lacks control and he doesn't throw very hard.", said Sam Pound.
"Well that's something that you would need to work on with him if we bring him to the club. Do you think we should bring him aboard?
"Yes, I do.", said Sam Pound.
"Okay, 1 player down 39 more to go."

The 4 men talked for many hours until they chose the team. The team will look like this:

SP Zach Mercer
SP Fernando Cruz
SP Jerd Potenza
SP Randy Landry
SP Damian Jerome
RP Mo Lorenzo
RP Carlos Sanhueza
RP Chad Palmer
RP Connor Gomez
RP Kyle Davis
CP Marty Stone

C Chris Donaldson
1B Demetrius Jones
2B Dong-Sun Kim
3B Sam Jenkins
SS Kevin Jacobs
LF JaMichael Wild
CF Kale Danish
RF Jake Smith

BU Humberto Quintero
BU Great Blanco
BU Jayson Nix
BU Justin Ruggiano
BU Charlton Jimerson
BU Great White

AAA Great Reyes
AAA Adam Melhuse
AAA Joe Dillon
AAA Kyle Snyder
AAA Kirk Sarloos
AAA Fernando Hernandez
AAA Enrique Gonzalez

You just had to use Sam Pound, didn't you?

since i saw that video I just can't stop using him in all of these logs

BREAKING NEWS: The 2 expansion teams are the Syracuse Gunmen and the Louisville Lions. The new divisions will look like this:

AL East
Yankees
Orioles
Rays
Blu Jays
Red Sox
Gunmen

AL Central
Tigers
Royals
Twins
Indians
White Sox

AL West
Angels
Rangers
Athletics
Mariners
Astros

NL East
Mets
Braves
Nationals
Marlins
Phillies
Lions

NL Central
Cardinals
Brewers
Cubs
Pirates
Reds

NL West
Dodgers
Giants
Rockies
Diamondbacks
Padres

Lions (0-0) vs (0-0) Mets

Zach Mercer (0-0) vs (0-0) Johan Santana



Wild 2-5 1RBI 0SO
D.Jones 0-4 1BB
Kim 2-5 1RBI 1R 1SO
Jacobs 2-4
Jenkins 2-4
Danish 1-4
Smith 1-4 1RBI
Donaldson 3-4
__ Ruggiano 1R
Mercer 1-1
__ Sanhueza 1-2


Mercer (L,0-1) 6 2/3 2SO 4ER 5.40ERA
Sanhueza 2 1/3 1ER 3.86ERA

Lions 2-4 @ 4-2 Mets

Fernando Cruz (0-1, 14.70 ERA) vs Johan Santana (1-0, 2.35 ERA)



Wild 1-5, 1 R, .267 AVG
Jones 2-5 1 R, .226 AVG
Kim 3-5, 2 RBI, .333 AVG
Jacobs 1-5, .357 AVG
Jenkins 0-4, 1 BB, .269 AVG
Danish 0-4, .269 AVG
Smith 0-4, .240 AVG
Donaldson 1-4, .370 AVG
Cruz 1-3, .500 AVG
___Gomez 0-1, .200 AVG

Cruz 7 IP, 1 SO, 0 ER, 5.06 ERA
Gomez 2 IP, 2 SO, 1 ER, 10.4 ERA
Lorenzo (W 1-0) 1 IP, 0.00 ERA
Stone (S, 1) 1 IP, 0.00 ERA