Crownrifico fans protest White Flag Deal

Hiram Bothorn Stadium in the 1st inning(left)

Same stadium in the top of the 3rd (right)






The San Juan Crownrificos fan club has declared a white out. They plan to show up in all white for their next game, stay through the 1st inning and then leave en masse. The vitriol of this response comes as a shockto 'rifico owner wang35.

San Juan dealt staff ace Phil Martin, a 4-time All-star, 20-game winner last season all while just 2 games out of the division lead and with a clear lead in the wild card race. As outrageous as this action sounds, the fans might have lived with it. After all, the 'rificos got back two major league ready players with high upsides in Pedro Zurbaran and Dennis Wan. But, to move a player of Phil Martin's caliber to chief rival, three-time world series champ, Mexico City, who sat just behind the 'rificos is inexcusable to the fandom.

"BENEDICT ARNOLD!", proclaimed the sign from one fan who pledged never to return to Hiram Birthorn Stadium as long as wang35 controlled the team. wang stuck to his guns. "Listen, we've had injury problems and there was no way we were going to win with Phil. I'd rather get two top players that risk losing him in free agency and get draft picks or worse back for him. " Still, fans could think only of the fabeled White Flag trade made by the Chicago White Sox. Nobody remembers that Keith Foulke turned into a great closer (that Mike Caruso smoked WAY too much weed), or the Wilson Alvarez never really did much after that season. They only remember an owner giving up on a team that had a chance. Chances don't come around all that often and these fans will not soon forget.

Bulldogs shock Crownrificos

Despite dire reports in the press and rumors of clubhouse tension, the upstart Burlington Bulldogs shocked the San Juan Crownrificos in the 1st round of the playoffs, taking 3 straight after a game one loss at home.

In game two the dogs got 7 shutout innings from Footsie Wall and held on very a 3-2 win as closer Mateo Mairena finished up.

Game 3 saw a return to San Juan. Everyone expected a blow-out victory, but Burlington had a secret weapon. 21-year old Alfonso Ramirez is from San Luis Potosi, Mexico but has 304 cousins that live in Puerto Rico! Turns out that one of them is the head groundskeeper's assistant. He
"forgot" to mow the lawn for a week and Ramirez threw 6 stellar innings relying on ground balls to slow the 'Rifico attack.

Then, in game 4, the Dogs jumped on Cy Young candidate Phil Martin. Martin, a Japanese citizen and son of a GI stationed in Okinawa decided to revive his tradition of eating pre-game sushi. Martin never lost a game in the Japanese league after sushi from his favorite restaurant. Since reviving the tradition in Rochester in season 6 and had gone 3-1 with 2 complete games in 6 starts after eating 3 Underground Dragon Rolls from this place. San Juan ain't Rochester and the photo at the left is the "dragon roll" from Paco's Sushi in San Juan. Needless to say, 8 runs and countless dry heaves later, the Crownrifico season was over and the Bulldogs were off to play the Bandejos.