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The Dugout: Kansas City Royals Spring Training 2011

Feb 23, 2011 – 5:10 PM
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Brandon Stroud

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The Kansas City Royals no longer have Kyle Farnsworth or Sidney Ponson on their roster, so it takes a while for me to come up with jokes about them. Where do I make them curse? Where do I imply that they are forest creatures?

Thankfully, Joakim Soria is trying to get rid of his 'Mexecutioner' because of its negative connotations and because somebody seriously gave a grown man the nickname "The Mexican Executioner" in 2011. If you can't make a joke about a guy being unhappy with the nickname "The Mexecutioner," you should not be employed as a sports comedy writer.

With that in mind, read one of the last episodes of The Dugout before I am no longer employed as a sports comedy writer. It follows. Check back in a couple of weeks, where I make awesome baseball jokes to my guests at the Olive Garden.

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The Dugout

**Online Host**
Welcome to the Kansas City Royals Spring Training 2011 Chatroom!

JoakimBackKotter: Can you guys help me? I need a new nickname.
KilaTofu: what? aw c'mon, what's wrong with the "mexicutioner?"
AsGoodAsItGetz: Oh hell yeah, bro, you're ass is about to get MEXICUTED!!
JoakimBackKotter: it has a negative connotation, especially with all the drug gang violence in Mexico these days
JoakimBackKotter: also it makes me sound like I'm a specialist at executing Mexicans
AsGoodAsItGetz: put in a pinch hitter for Freddy Sandoval, because the ninth inning is going to be a MEXECUTION, GANG STYLE
KilaTofu: how about the Mexecutive Officer!
ChinesePhonebook: fired from his position for mextreme mexecutive decisions and a mexcessive abuse of power
KilaTofu: The Mexistentialist!
ChinesePhonebook: pioneer in a philosophy that places emphasis on individual freedom, choice and Mexistence
KilaTofu: every moment you've ever lived has prepared you for THIS TACO
JoakimBackKotter: yeah honestly it would be better if you could leave the fact that I'm Mexican out of the nickname
JoakimBackKotter: better yet, just call me by my first name
KilaTofu: "Dead Man Joakim!"
AsGoodAsItGetz: viciously murdered when a rival Juarez ball club Mexacted revenge!
ChinesePhonebook: the Mexpeditor! he speeds up the game when the other lazy mexicans have slowed it down
JoakimBackKotter: oh come on
KilaTofu: I'm sorry, we really shouldn't be making these jokes at your Mexpense
ChinesePhonebook: yeah you shouldn't be known for your nationality, but for your Mexpertise on the pitching mound
KilaTofu: lol yeah your Mexploits are known all across the league
JoakimBackKotter: look, just forget it, forget I asked
KilaTofu: no, no, we're sorry, we want to help, really.
AsGoodAsItGetz: yeah man we're just messing with you, what kind of nickname did you have in mind?

JoakimBackKotter: I don't know, something harmless, like

I don't know, how about "Scooter"

KilaTofu: You want us to call you Scooter?
AsGoodAsItGetz: like a... like a Mexican scooter?
ChinesePhonebook: that would be tough, you've got to give me some time to go home and research Mexican scooters online so I can give you a good nickname, you can't expect me to just pull a joke out of thin air like that
KilaTofu: Yeah, there's no way I'm Mextemporaneous enough to do that
AsGoodAsItGetz: ohhhhhhhhhh hahahaha
JoakimBackKotter: Nope, that's it, I'm done, done forever
KilaTofu: Come back! We did Mexactly what you asked!
KilaTofu: there is no way a few jokes can Mextinguish your hopes!
ChinesePhonebook: JAOKIM SORIA THE LAZY MEXICAN PITCHER!!!!
**Online Host**
Welcome to the Mars Spring Training 2011 Chatroom!

PECOTA: /contemplates the very nature of human reproduction specificity and probability

/the distant rumble of a motorcycle can be heard

PECOTA: THE TIME! OF THE SEASON DRAWS NEAR! I MUST! RETURN TO THE KANSAS CITY ROYALS!
PECOTA: BUT FIRST! I MUST SEE HOW THEY ARE DOING! /teleports in a copy of the Sporting News from Earth
PECOTA: /flips through the pages, doesn't really focus on anything

PECOTA: /flips

/flips

PECOTA: IF ONLY THIS NEWS! PAPER WERE A WEBSITE!

PECOTA: /lets newspaper fall to the red sands at his feet

/checks The Huffington Post for all the latest gossip about Joakim Soria

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