Wednesday, May 18, 2005

T-shirt Snafu Adds to Gamers Woes

Here's another humor article that I wrote for the softball site:

Long Island, NY - Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse for the Gamers, news broke late Wednesday night that there was a mixup with the uniforms the team had ordered for their upcoming game against the Hurricanes.

In a week where the Gamers saw their manager, William Bezouska, get suspended for 10 games for posession of illegal performance enhancing drugs and had five of their starting players designated for assingment, the news of a uniform mishap was the last thing they needed. But that's exactly what they got.

And what they'll be getting are an order of tie dye women's small baby tees that say Gamers in large, obnoxious bubble letters.

After hearing of the flub, 1b Zac Nicholson said, "this is great, just great. Tie dye baby tees. It's not going to take long for everyone to start calling us the gayers."

Other players didn't sound so upset though. 2b Rob Rathbun said, "this may actually be a blessing in disguise. Now, Scotty and I can show off our guns."

What everyone wants to know though is who was responsible for this mixup.

Apparently it was a matter of miscommunication.

First Bezouska placed an order for navy blue shirts with Gamers on the front in white lettering. Then SS Rob Roll called up and changed the order to the color he can't live without, royal blue. Later on, LCF Brian Malfettone couldn't find anything to accessorize with the royal blue so he called and changed the order to light green with yellow lettering. With so many different orders being placed the designer at Baja Man got confused and mistakeningly thought that the team wanted tie dye shirts.

To remedy the situation, Bezouska acted quickly and placed another order. However, the new order does not come without strings attached.

"I got a good deal on some premade jersies," Bezouska said. "They were only $10. But our team name is now the Pig Fuckers."

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