Coming up...Clovers?

By Jameson McStout

While controversy continues to swirl in the EHCC, the folks in Dublin see a silver lining through it all- the chance to finally add a baseball team to the city. With the departure of the ownership group in South Carolina, ironically the first city to defeat Dublin in an attempt to acquire a team, the Dublin staff has been given temporary control of the team. While this move is just for the remainder of the season, and Dubliners will have to deal with another application process, the management team gets a chance to prove itself in action.

It will be an interesting scene since Dublin will be employing the leagues only co-managers/GMs, Connor and Murphy MacManus. While the EHCC brain trust told the boys that they were only there to run the team, no moving the team, changing the name or colors, in a week and a half they have definitely left their mark.

Livan Hernandez, first to make a start under the MacManus's, noticed something very different about the Gatorade bottles. “Normally its the green stuff, so when I saw it was yellow I just figured those two liked the lemon flavor better, especially since they were constantly drinking the stuff. Turns out it wasn't Gatorade at all, straight Irish whiskey.”

That change has actually allowed the 9th place Wrens to play looser, and in some cases better, but occasionally at a cost. Last night Kevin Slowey took a swig before he took the mound. With each hit free inning he threw, he felt the need to repeat the process. After coming off the mound after the 7th, he tripped over the white line on his way to the dug out, took his shot, and made his way down the tunnel to use the bathroom. When it came time for him to take the mound in the 8th, he was nowhere to be found. A frantic search was made, but to no avail, and the bullpen was put in charge of keeping the no-hitter, which they promptly lost. He was found 2 hours after the game passed out in a laundry bin of dirty jock straps.

While they are in a near impossible spot in 9th place, 15 games out of 6th with only 3 weeks to play, you can notice a looser and more fun locker room. And even though they know the team will most likely be dissolved, the MacManus's are treating it like their own.