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Thursday, 06 April 2006

Baseball fever... I have no life.  Here's your 2006 All-Authoritarian-sounding-names fantasy baseball team, starting with the hitters:

  • c           Ramón "Fidel" Castro                          Cuba/Mets
  • 1b         Sean "William" Casey                          CIA/Reds
  • 2b         Bill "Gus" Hall                                     Communists/Brewers
  • ss         Juan "Alvaro" Uribe                             Colombia/White Sox
  • 3b         Wes "Jesse" Helms                             North Carolina/Marlins
  • of          Endy "Hugo" Chávez                           Venezuela/Mets
  • of          Trot "Richard" Nixon                           Whittier/Red Sox
  • of          Andruw "Jim" Jones                            Guyana/Braves
  • dh         Randy "Ne" Winn                                Burma/Giants

Your pitchers: 

  • p          Bartolo "Cristobal" Colón                     1492/Angels
  • p          Livan "Maximiliano" Hernandez             El Salvador/Nationals
  • p          Victor "José Eduardo dos" Santos         Brazil/Pirates
  • p          Rafael "Pedro" Santana                       Dominican Republic/Angels
  • p          Matt "Mark of" Cain                             Garden of Eden/Giants

And your coach, of course (yes, he's still playing, but he's old enough) can only be:

  • coach     Julio "Francisco" Franco                       Spain/Mets

Statistics to be provided by the "Jorge Serrano" Elias Sports Bureau, Guatemala/MLB.


 
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