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The Dugout: In Which Kyle Farnsworth Consumes Red Bull

Aug 20, 2008 – 7:50 PM
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Jon Bois

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Despite the crackdown on performance-enhancing drugs, pitchers are throwing harder than ever. Eamonn recently passed along speculation that they're managing this thanks to, among other things, energy drinks.

So hey, let's give Kyle Farnsworth half a case of Red Bull and see what happens. This evening's Dugout is after the jump.

The Dugout

**OnlineHost** Welcome to Tigers Bullpen Chat!

pr0FF3ss0r_F4rnsw0rth: who carvt "buttfart" into this bench

what kind of knucklemind would write "buttfart" into a bench

TeachArmandoFish: Coach told me that was you, three years ago.

/opens beverage

pr0FF3ss0r_F4rnsw0rth: shut yer up, kyle "spectacular vernacular" farnsworth would never crudely knive such a thing

pr0FF3ss0r_F4rnsw0rth: what the buttfart are you drinken

TeachArmandoFish: Oh, this? Red Bull. I got a case.

It's supposed to make you throw harder.

pr0FF3ss0r_F4rnsw0rth: what a bunch of beverage, theres no way

TeachArmandoFish: Come on, try one.

/fishes can out of case

Come on. If you drink this, you are THE MAN. You want to be the man, right?

pr0FF3ss0r_F4rnsw0rth: well

yeah

/opens can, shoots contents down throat

pr0FF3ss0r_F4rnsw0rth: ugh

this tastes like duracell barf

TeachArmandoFish: Yeah, it doesn't taste all that great.

Now pick up a ball and throw. I'll clock it.

pr0FF3ss0r_F4rnsw0rth: /throws

**OnlineRadarGun**

106 MPH

pr0FF3ss0r_F4rnsw0rth: whoa

TeachArmandoFish: Whoa.

Okay, let's keep drinking.

pr0FF3ss0r_F4rnsw0rth: yeah

**OnlineHost** An hour later...

TeachArmandoFish: You want to write a novel? Let's write a novel. I've always wanted to write a novel. You want to help me write a novel? You want to write it for me?

pr0FF3ss0r_F4rnsw0rth: ok ok ok i'll be the ghostrider

/attempts to set own head on fire

**OnlineHost** An hour later...

TeachArmandoFish: Wow! We're really plowing through this! Six chapters in the books!

pr0FF3ss0r_F4rnsw0rth: ok so how does colonel gunpowder break the news to his superiors

TeachArmandoFish: Um

Umumumumummm

Telegram! He sends a telegram to the Chief of Staff!

pr0FF3ss0r_F4rnsw0rth: sorry about the failt mission to uruguay STOP i feel that this is the appropriate time to tell you ive been in league with the drug lords the whole time STOP i feel that we are at a precipice that we cannot dare back away from STOP we will make a new world, you and i STOP

TeachArmandoFish: I think there should be a sword in it. Make one of them have a sword.

pr0FF3ss0r_F4rnsw0rth: /unsteadily writes "sword" on blank side of season guide with trembling hand

**OnlineHost** An hour later...

**OnlineHost** Kyle Farnsworth and Armando Galarraga are slouched against a wall, surrounded by a dozen discarded Red Bull cans.

TeachArmandoFish: ugggh

pr0FF3ss0r_F4rnsw0rth: errrghhhh

TeachArmandoFish: god i've got a headache

pass me another red bull

pr0FF3ss0r_F4rnsw0rth:


TeachArmandoFish: oh my god, kyle, are you okay, you look dead

/pours Red Bull into mouth

pr0FF3ss0r_F4rnsw0rth: whuuuhhhUH

pr0FF3ss0r_F4rnsw0rth: why did you wake me i was having the most wonderful comatose

TeachArmandoFish: /shotguns another Red Bull

**OnlineHost** The next day...

GotMeOnMyKnees: Armando. I just got back from the bullpen. It's a mess. I demand an explanation.

TeachArmandoFish: Look, I'm sorry. We started drinking Red Bull, and...well, we didn't stop until the whole case was gone.

GotMeOnMyKnees: There are a bunch of 2x4s crudely nailed together. Someone took a Sharpie and wrote "WELCOME" on the pitching rubber.

GotMeOnMyKnees: There's a modest stock of health and beauty products nailed to one of the boards.

There's what appears to be a robot made out of Red Bull cans that is particularly unhelpful.

GotMeOnMyKnees: Were...were you attempting to construct a

TeachArmandoFish: a Rite Aid, yeah

...

about 18 cans in, we decided we wanted to start an enterprise and that the location was viable

TeachArmandoFish: i think, i really don't know

GotMeOnMyKnees: god

Well, where the hell is Kyle?

pr0FF3ss0r_F4rnsw0rth:


GotMeOnMyKnees: What's wrong with him?

TeachArmandoFish: I believe it's given him Wingdings.

pr0FF3ss0r_F4rnsw0rth:


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