"Un-four-gettable: Pitcher Hits for Cycle"

[Déjà Bru]

There was an eye-opening headline in my league news today: "Un-four-gettable: Pitcher Hits for Cycle"



Really? I don't have anybody like "Shotime" in my league and besides, the league is all-DH. Why would BNN refer to a "pitcher" accomplishing the feat?

My excitement quickly ebbed when I opened the article. The man's name is Pitcher.



"We better get the pitcher out of there."

"But boss, he's a home run away from a cycle. He just might do it!"

"Not him, you moron. The guy standing on the mound and holding the ball."

"Wow, I keep getting confused. Let's make up a nickname for Ed. How about 'Batter'? I can hear it now: "Now coming to bat, the first baseman, 'Batter' Pitcher. 'Batter' Pitcher, number 13."

[Pdubya64]

Hey Bru... is it just me or are you like some Baseball Magnet for all these edge-case anomalies the game has?

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Pdubya64

Hey Bru... is it just me or are you like some Baseball Magnet for all these edge-case anomalies the game has?

We've all seen strange stuff in this game (that's a compliment, not a criticism); I just enjoy "bringing it to the fore-um" more than most!

[OutS|der]

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

There was an eye-opening headline in my league news today: "Un-four-gettable: Pitcher Hits for Cycle"

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Really? I don't have anybody like "Shotime" in my league and besides, the league is all-DH. Why would BNN refer to a "pitcher" accomplishing the feat?

My excitement quickly ebbed when I opened the article. The man's name is Pitcher.

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"We better get the pitcher out of there."

"But boss, he's a home run away from a cycle. He just might do it!"

"Not him, you moron. The guy standing on the mound and holding the ball."

"Wow, I keep getting confused. Let's make up a nickname for Ed. How about 'Batter'? I can hear it now: "Now coming to bat, the first baseman, 'Batter' Pitcher. 'Batter' Pitcher, number 13."

Hey Pitcher Pitcher is the perfect nickname for him

[Hooray Saturday]

obviously his nickname should be "Belly Itcher"

cause he's not a pitcher!

[billyray1984]

The Rockies in one of my old sims drafted a guy named Dave Moron. He had the event where he retired to go play football so the headline read something like "Moron chooses football career, passes on baseball".

[eauhomme]

Could happen. The Mariners used to have a prospect named Scott Pitcher.

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by eauhomme

Could happen. The Mariners used to have a prospect named Scott Pitcher.

Ah, but was he a pitcher? Else, he could have been confused and bollixed up on the team's depth charts.

"The manager has not used this pitcher(/Pitcher) at all; the stats report says zero innings pitched by him during all of spring training. The manager ought to know; this pitcher(/Pitcher) must be awful. Cut him."

Manager, a few days later:

"Say boss, what happened to my new starting third baseman? You know, the guy named Pitcher? He was coming along great and then he just disappeared."

[eauhomme]

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

Ah, but was he a pitcher? Else, he could have been confused and bollixed up on the team's depth charts."

Yes, actually, he was.


https://www.baseball-reference.com/r...d=pitche001sco

[reds1]

That is funny. And it reminded of one I came across many versions ago where a headline seemed to indicate that a player went AWOL.