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Nuka News Update
Reporting on the NWL and APL
by Evan Guy
7 May 2317
NWL Picks: Victory, Orange
The 2317 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. That was the same prediction a year ago but not the correct result.
Last season, Quartz defeated Victory in seven games in the 18th Nuka Series and then went on to the Dalton Farm Fog Crawlers of the Vim! League in seven games in the Season Pass Association Series.
PAM has Victory taking the North Bradberton Division by six games over Grape and finishing at 58-32. Also, Orange is expected to finish at 49-41, six games up on Orange and Quartz in the South Bradberton Division.
For top hitter picks, PAM again predicts that the Tourists' 1B Yorkie Tallsky will come out on top. Other contenders are Orange's 1B Doman Northsea, Victory's 2B Swayne Pringle, and Cherry's 1B Swamp Dantin. Dantin was the winner of then Nuka King Award two seasons ago. A-Train Gilmore, now of Egret in the CBO, was last season's winner.
Top pitcher pick for the 2317 Nuka Cannon Award starts with the Tourists' SP Allen Puckett. Other contenders include Grape's Orion Sapunxiu, the Cave Crickets' Lefty Alvarez, and Orange's Melvin Teacup. Lang Fittingroom of Quartz was the winner last season.
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Vim! View
News of the Vim! League and Its Affiliates
by Jimmy Gresham
7 May 2317
Vim! League Predicted to Have the Best Season Ever!
You know who is super duper extra wextra excited about the upcoming 2317 Vim! League season, the 17th season of the league? Me!!! Do you know why? Because this will be the best Vim! League season ever, far none! Seriously, it just gets better every year.
Last season was the best before and things were super competitive in the Vim! Series. In the end, the Dalton Farm Fog Crawlers beat the Acadia Acadians, 4 games to 2. The Fog Crawlers the went on to win the Season Pass Association Series, 4 to 3, over Quartz of the Nuka World League.
This season, PAM picks the Crawlers to repeat, which would extend their championships to six. Dalton Farm is first for most Vim! Series appearances (8) and championships (5). Echo Lake is second with three titles.
In the race for the Vim! MVP, won last season by Dalton Farm's Toppie Gunn (5th), PAM picks the Crabs' 1B Bobba Fette to win it. Other top contenders are 1B Mader Sierra of Far Harbor, and Dalton Farm's Tick Garrett and Gus Hangman. Fette won the Vim! MVP in 2312.
The Vim! Top Arm also has Fick Aragvsky of the Fog Crawlers sitting at the top. Three other contenders are Eden Meadow's Alex Ruder, Fisher Trout of Grand Hotel, and Acadia's Wearya Going. The Crawlers' Steady Mike Holmes won the award last season, his second. Going won it in 2314.