The Port of Kings

[Guest Edgy DC]

The Kingsport Mets, home away from home of many of your new adoptees, open with a 7-5 win over the Johnson City Cardinals. The game featured a comeboack from a 4-0 deficit as starter Guillaume Leduc of Montreal battled back from a shakey start to go five, and also a homer from Tyler "Don't 'Art' Me" Howe.

http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9014749

Mike DiFelice and his charges: 1-0

[Guest Edgy DC]

Your Kingsport Mets

Coaching Staff
#�	Name�	Pos�	Bat�	Thw�	Ht�	Wt�	DOB�
9	Mike DiFelice	Manager	R	R	6' 2"	205	5/28/1969
2	Bobby Malek	Batting Coach	L	R	6' 3"	210	7/6/1981
30	Jonathan Hurst	Pitching Coach	R	R	6' 3"	175	10/20/1966
Pitchers
#�	Name�	Pos�	Bat�	Thw�	Ht�	Wt�	DOB�
5	Eduardo Aldama	P	R	R	6' 1"	175	12/23/1989
23	Travis Babin	P	R	R	6' 1"	205	12/2/1986
31	Julio Bello	P	L	R	6' 5"	175	10/16/1986
10	Thomas Chism	P	L	L	5' 10"	190	8/9/1988
29	Chris Hilliard	P	L	L	6' 0"	175	10/26/1987
17	Guillaume Leduc	P	R	R	6' 4"	192	7/28/1987
45	Oscar Melendez	P	R	R	6' 0"	170	9/15/1986
32	Brian Needham	P	R	R	6' 6"	185	9/21/1986
46	Armando Rodriguez	P	R	R	6' 2"	185	1/28/1988
35	Luis Rojas	P	R	R	5' 10"	185	7/29/1989
33	Zachary Rosenbaum	P	R	R	6' 4"	190	4/25/1987
19	Tim Smith	P	R	R	5' 11"	195	6/25/1986
43	Samuel Taveras	P	R	R	6' 2"	190	4/14/1989
40	Zachary Von Tersch	P	R	R	6' 4"	195	4/22/1988
15	Johnathan White	P	R	R	6' 1"	205	1/19/1988
Catchers
#�	Name�	Pos�	Bat�	Thw�	Ht�	Wt�	DOB�
--	Rogelio Del Campo	C	L	R	5' 11"	198	7/25/1986
12	John Freeman	C	L	R	6' 0"	190	8/24/1987
18	Tyler Howe	C	R	L	6' 1"	200	2/7/1986
7	Michael Moras	C	R	R	6' 1"	200	9/11/1985
Infielders
#�	Name�	Pos�	Bat�	Thw�	Ht�	Wt�	DOB�
34	Joseph Bonfe	3B	R	R	6' 4"	220	12/28/1987
27	Jeff Flagg	1B	R	R	6' 6"	246	11/7/1985
16	Alonzo Harris	2B	R	R	5' 11"	165	1/16/1989
24	Ryan Mollica	2B	L	R	6' 0"	185	2/25/1986
Outfielders
#�	Name�	Pos�	Bat�	Thw�	Ht�	Wt�	DOB�
--	Justin Garber	LF	R	R	6' 0"	190	12/3/1984
21	Ronald Harris	OF	L	L	6' 2"	205	2/19/1987
11	Evan LeBlanc	OF	R	R	6' 4"	218	9/9/1986
4	Cesar Puello	RF	R	R	6' 2"	195	4/1/1991
26	Pedro Zapata	CF	R	R	6' 4"	185	10/3/1987

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

This team's got a LOT of small-forwards/swingmen.

[Frayed Knot]

Malek was a former NYM draft pick. A speedy-type OFer who looked for a while like he was going to make it but I guess has moved on.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Limerickize your K-Mets

A catcher dude named Michael Moras
Hopes that he one day plays for us
To hit, catch and throw
Up here in the show
With a bonus drawn up by Scott Boras

Jeff Flagg is from Mississippi State
Where he hit just .288
He majored in gym
So he knows how to swim
But will his size translate at the plate?

A lefty here named Thomas Chism
Suffers not from gigantism
He's short and wears 10!
It's like Hampton again!
I hear he doctors the ball with his jism

[Benjamin Grimm]

There once was a catcher named Howe
With a familiar arch to his brow
He's no son of Art
But he can sure play the part
And he'll do so in Kingsport for now

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

From the good old DR, Julio Bello
He's a lanky, live-arm-ed young fellow;
Perhaps, with that name,
If burned out on the game,
He could bottle and sell limoncello.

[metirish]

A pitcher named Armando Rodriguez
who conjures up visions
of Rich and Benitez
like Rich wears number 46
I hope he pitches better than Benitez

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The hurler known as Von Tersch
Has a repetoire large and diverse
Fastball or curve?
Change-up or slurve
He can't decide which is worse


Have you met Eduardo Aldama
The reliever who never lacks drama
His fastball is scary
His slider is hairy
And his change could outdo Obama

[metirish]

Zachary Rosenbaum the 6'4" pitcher
who sounds like a
different kind of practitioner
hearts will go a flutter
when Rosenbaum toes the rubber
he'll give DeFelice angina

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The skinny young pitcher named Needham
Like a trained seal got people to see him
While his pitching was fine
The crowds waited in line
To see trainers just try and feed him

[Guest Edgy DC]

I looked up Von Tersch most querelously
He's named for Zachary Taylor --- seriously!
A lad of his age
With a Geocities page
Is heading towards Nerdsville, most perilously

[metirish]

These are great.....lots of laughs

[Guest Swan Swan H]

A pitcher named Giullaume Leduc
Heard from DeFelice frequent rebuke
On the mound he'd drop trou
And at night tip a cow
Yes, the guy was a bit of a kook

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

There was a young fielder Zapata
Played center the way a kid oughta
Although speedy as hell
Didn't dress near as well
His cravattes looked much more like shmattes

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

A scrappy vet named Mike DiFelice
Staved off unconditional release
By working with youth
And to tell you the truth
To make his pension complete

To keep investments from going to hell they
Made him work each night with Mike Pelfrey
They rewarded this work
With the super plum perk
Of making Kingsport very swell play

/throws down pen, quits poetry forever

[MFS62]

Lookin' like they could lead the league in guys named Zachary.

Later
EDITED for spelling.

[Frayed Knot]

="MFS62"]Lookin' like they could lead the league in guys named Zachaey.

Note to SJR: Typo alert ... let 'im have it!!!! ^

[MFS62]

Phew!
Fixed it.
Thanks, FK.
Wouldn't have wanted to incur the wrath of our friendly neighborhood member of the spelling police.

Later