A Baseball First - 2 Games, 2 Cities, 1 Day, 1 Team

AP - April 11th, 2005 - For the first time in documented baseball history a team played two road games in two different cities in one day. "It was a double-hitter for the ages," stated Brooklyn Manager Nelson Bowen, "It has been a tough start of the season for us with 11 of the first 14 games on the road, but it is defiantly something that builds early character."

The team played the first game along the shores of the Ohio River in Marietta, Ohio suffering a 5-2 loss to at the hands of the Mammoths and then took the quick 15 minute flight to Manhattan to play the night cap of their day against the Knights of New York at 7:05. The team showed fatigue in the second game, but hung tough, only losing 3-2 in the first game of a 4 game series that was a rematch of last year’s Socratic League Playoff series won by the Bombers.

"It was a long day that is for sure," stated Bomber C Pio Pastrana who started and played all of both games of the double dip, "as a team, we cannot wait to get home and sleep with our own wives again. The hoes on the road are not the same quality as the women in Brooklyn."

With only 26 minutes between the end of game one and the start of game two there was no time for post game showers. The team had to board the plane that was waiting in the parking lot for them right after the final out. One member of the team was overheard calling the airplane "rank." They arrived at the second game and did not have time to even warm up, they just hit the field and played as hard as they could. Many of the players mistook the 7th inning stretch for nap time in game number 2 and that might have been the reason they gave up 2 runs in that inning and the lead in the game.

The co-commissioner of the league Mack Schultz said, "The Bombers kept saying they wanted a challenge, well we game them one. I hope that they will stop their whining about how great they are now, or we can schedule games like this for them every week."

Brooklyn does have their work cut out for them with their 4-10 start it will take a good run for them to get back into the playoffs and return to the World Series this season.