RoughRiders Weekly

By Kurmazh the Atrocious
Rohan Weekly

ROHAN - The RoughRiders find themselves in first place in the Goblin Division, stretching their lead over last years conference champs, the Valinor Vandals, to three games. The way they have won these games shows how this team is really starting to gel early in the season. "Yeah, were not leading the league in any statisical categories, right now, just the most important statisitcal category, wins. It's a long season though, so I just hope these guys can keep playing as well as they have," the dimunitive skipper of the RoughRiders told reporters at a recent press conference. He then promptly spit off to the side of the podium and rubbed his mouth with the back of his arm before trodding off.

RoughRiders of the Week
It seems every week a new team member is stepping up his play to lift the RoughRiders to victory this week, the bullpen really sounded off with several stellar performances by Meli Orcmaker and Rinak Kidneyraper who both collected a pair of wins in outstanding relief performances this past week.

Pitching Changes
Vral Spikekiller, the skilled veteran has been relegated to spot starter and mopup relief in favor of Libur Irontearer, a 28 yaar old free agent acquisition. Vral had a less than stellar season in 2003 with only 9 wins and 14 losses and a 4.76 ERA for Palantir, he started slow this year as well losing his only three decisions and registering an 8.64 ERA. Irontearer who was acquired from the Lonely Mountain Losers, now the BuckleBerry Fairies, had an impressive 17 and 6 season. Early in the year he was put in the position of spot starter and mop up due to the great depth on the Rohan staff. The dwarf would get his chance and take advantage of this opprotunity, allowing only 2 runs in 13 innings of work and grabbing a win against Misty Mountain and garnering Player of The Game honors.

When Vral was aksed how he felt to be bumped back to spot starter status he had this to say, "Well, O'course I'm a bit upset about it. Hey, I ain't the boss, the wee feller is the boss and he said to give the stunty a chance, I just want to help dis team win, and I gets paid to do that, if it means I gots to be a spot starter, than so be it!"

Other Notes
Posco Sackville is Day to Day with a bruised cheekbone he recieved after getting hit by a pitch during a road game against Dul Guldur. The team was happy that the rookie phenom was not hurt more seriously by the wayward pitch and tensions ran high after the rookie shortstop went down.
"We wuz all holdin' our breath when we saw little Posco fall down, but we all sighed when the little feller got up and trotted down to first. He's a tuff little guy," said Posco's team mate and friend Wilo Toothkicker.

There was some concern that there would be retaliation, but the RoughRiders took the high road. "I'm not gonna take a cheap shot at another team, it's not worth the chance of ending some guys career over a lost temper," team manager Baggins said, before spitting and wiping his mouth with his sleeve.

Posted at October 2, 2003 11:19 AM | more from Ravenhill