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Now, about that stupid thing on Coco Crisp’s neck …

The Dugout

	SoggyInMilk: nah, it’s called a surface piercing. Look /

	SoggyInMilk: so yeah, I did it on purpose
	ATimeToCahill: oh wow ok i thought you got into a bb gun fight on a team with your dad but then he shot you in the neck and revealed it was every man for himself
	SoggyInMilk: for the last f**king time that is not what happened
	ATimeToCahill: yeah but see what I thought was-
	OnlyThePenningtonManShallPass: now that we know it’s not a horrid growth, I guess my only question is "why is this a thing you did in real life"
	SoggyInMilk: well because it’s b.a. first of all
	SoggyInMilk: second of all, I wanted something metal in my neck, and it was either this or swallowing a fork
	SoggyInMilk: I thought to myself "everybody else has earrings, nose rings, eyebrow rings, tongue rings, belly button rings, cock rings corset piercings cranial drillings septum bones and jax arms, what else can I do?"
	SoggyInMilk: so I stuck in a needle in a part of me that would cause me to die and jammed a Hungry Hungry Hippo food in there
	ATimeToCahill: is it forever
	SoggyInMilk: the tattoo part is, yeah
	SoggyInMilk: the piercing will eventually be pushed out as the body rejects a foreign object, leaving me with a neck blemish surrounded by crosshairs
	ATimeToCahill: cool
	OnlyThePenningtonManShallPass: yeah then maybe you can be a spokesman for ProActiv
	SoggyInMilk: I tried piercing my hair but it kept falling out
	SoggyInMilk: shut up
	DontMatterToDeJesus: one time I got a splinter in my hand and it hurt, but girls started noticing me, trying to help me, so I kept it in and drew a bunch of tribal around it
	JemileJemazel: i thank it look good
	SoggyInMilk: thanks, man
	JemileJemazel: also thank my hands is rocketships
	ATimeToCahill: so your body rejects it because its not spost to be there, and pushes it out in time
	SoggyInMilk: right, exactly
	ATimeToCahill: so it’s like doodoo
	SoggyInMilk: argh, no, not like doodoo think of it like Terrell Owens
	OnlyThePenningtonManShallPass: so exactly like doodoo?
	DontMatterToDeJesus: stop saying doodoo we are adults, just say sh**
	DontMatterToDeJesus: wait, why is that weird sh sh shsh shirt sh-it sh shshsh
	DontMatterToDeJesus: what’s going on, how long has this been like this?
	SoggyInMilk: if we wanna keep getting paid, we gotta say "doodoo"
	ATimeToCahill: we get paid?
	OnlyThePenningtonManShallPass: so what’s next for Coco Crisp? Gonna get that batting average up over .270?
	SoggyInMilk: nah I was probably gonna think of a funny way to wear my pants
	SoggyInMilk: you think if I put my left leg in the right leg hole and let the left pant flap in the breeze they’d give me a blurb on Yahoo Sports
	ATimeToCahill: def, that doodoo would be hilare
	OnlyThePenningtonManShallPass: what if we buckled down and played hard though August, and got back into second place?
	SoggyInMilk: why would anybody write about that
	DontMatterToDeJesus: sh**

The Dugout: Crooked Neck Club

The Dugout

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