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Nuka News Update
Reporting on the NWL and APL
by Evan Guy
1 May 2316
NWL Picks: Victory, Orange
The 2316 season is upon us! PAM has predicted that the Victory Cave Crickets and Orange Tourists will win their respective divisions and meet in the Nuka Series.
Last season, Cherry defeated Grape in six games in the Nuka Series and then went on to defeat the Far Harbor Ghoul Whales of the Vim! League to win the Season Pass Association Series in six games. The Cave Crickets finished tied for 3rd place, and the Tourists finished in second place.
PAM has Victory taking the North Bradberton Division by five games over Quantum and finishing at 49-41. Also, Orange is expected to finish at 49-41, edging both the Ghoulrillas and Dark by two games in what is expected to be a tight South Bradberton Division.
For top hitter picks, PAM predicts that the Tourists' 1B Yorkie Tallsky will come out on top. Other contenders are Cherry's Genius Jerry Kordic, Tick Garrett, Swamp Dantin, and Everlast Barron, and Victory's A-Train Gilmore. Dantin was the winner of last season's Nuka King Award.
Top pitcher picks start with a pair of Ghoulrillas in Fick Aragvsky and Chris Montgomery. Other contenders include the Nukalurks' Shady Sand and Tumble Viera, Grape's Kory DiLeva, and Wild's Blasphemy Perez. Quartz's Chris Yao won the Nuka Cannon Award last season. Montgomery won it in 2314.
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Vim! View
News of the Vim! League and Its Affiliates
by Jimmy Gresham
1 May 2316
Vim! League Predicted to Have the Best Season Ever!
You know who is super duper extra wextra excited about the upcoming 2316 Vim! League season, the 16th season of the league? Me!!! Do you know why? Because this will be the best Vim! League season ever, far none!
Last season was the best before and things were super competitive in the Vim! Series. In the end, the Far Harbor Ghoul Whales won it all, defeating the Dalton Farm Fog Crawlers, 4 games to 3. Unfortunately, the Gwhales lost in the Season Pass Association Series to Cherry of the Nuka World League.
This season, PAM has a surprise pick to be the Vim! League's best: the Cranberry Island Hermit Crabs. The Crabs are the only team in the league that has not been to a Vim! Series nor won a championship. At the beginning of the Vim! League, there were two other teams: the Brooke's Head Behemoths and Rayburn Point Patcheyes. Neither won a championship, but both played in the Vim! Series. The Behemoths were in the first one in 2301, losing to Far Harbor, 4-0. The Patcheyes lost to the Crawlers in 2303, 4 games to 2. Both teams were dissolved in 2304 and became Mount Desert Island League affiliates of the teams that defeated them in the ViM! Series.
PAM also picked Dalton Farm to repeat as champions in the Fog Division. In 2315, their division title was their first since 2308. The Crawlers last won a title in 2306, the last of four-straight titles. Dalton Farm is tied with the Gwhales for most Vim! Series appearances (7) and leads in the most championships (4). Echo Lake is second with three titles.
In the race for the Vim! MVP, won last season by Dalton Farm's Toppie Gunn (4th), PAM picks two Far Harbor players to battle at the top. 1B Mader Sierra and 3B Hazmatt Zuniga are the top hitters predicted, while the Crabs' 1B Bobba Fette, Eden Meadows' 1B Geecee Metal, and Acadian's Tuppy Ayon are expected to compete. Zuniga won the award in back-to-back seasons in 2313 and 2314. Fette won the Vim! MVP in 2312.
The Vim! Top Arm also has a Ghoul Whale at the top, so why are they not the picks to repeat a title? In any case, the expected 2316 winner is the Gwhales' Kap Kooke. Other contenders include the Crawlers' Steady Mike Holmes and Phil Cecil, National Park's Darma Mollema, and the Acadians' Wearya Going. Cecil won the award last season, his second. Going won it in 2314, Holmes won it in 2313, and Kooke won it in 2312.