An imperial looking King Leonidas gripped the podium as if trying to crush it. With biceps bulging and sword in hand he began to speak, “The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant, that few stood against many.” A puzzled yet nervous hush fell upon the reporters in the room. “Spartans never retreat! Spartans never surrender! Go spread the word,” the King resolved.
After an uncomfortably long silence, Joe Posnanski asked what tyrant Leonidas was speaking of. It was, of course, Larry Bowa, manager of the Wildlings. “Gather round! No retreat, no surrender; that is Spartan law. And by Spartan law we will stand and fight.”
Later, someone gathered the courage to ask a baseball related question, wondering how the offense would respond to playing in park that suppresses home runs by 80%. The King simply said, “Let every Spartan assembled know the truth of this. Let each among them search his own soul.” He ominously concluded, “and while you're at it, search your own.”
Sean S, owner of the Sparta Hoplites, was unsurprisingly unavailable for comments.
His lineup
CF – Richie Ashburn
3B – Chipper Jones
RF – Orator Shaffer
DH – Edgar Martinez
1B – Todd Helton
.C – Fred Carroll
LF – George Gore
2B – Lou Whitaker
SS – Rico Petrocelli
Rotation
SP1 – Greg Maddux
SP2 – Kevin Brown
SP3 – Jerry Reuss
SP4 – Frank Sullivan
SP5 – Warren Hacker
CL – Erick Gagne
SU L – Steve Howe
SU R – Bobby Jenks
A centralized Diamond Mind Baseball league, using every full time player from 1871 'till today.
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