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PITTSBURGH (Jul. 16, 2007): The owners of the OEL all sighed with relief today when they learned that Pittsburgh acquired starting pitcher Chad Gomez from New York in exchange for three prospects. “The guy has been bugging our front office for months now,” said one exasperated anonymous executive. “Thank goodness someone finally gave him a starting pitcher. It was taking up way too much of my time to swat away his repetitive trade offers.”

Other front office executives seemed to echo the sentiment. This reporter heard from numerous front offices, all of who were highly annoyed by Pisces Owner/GM Mack Shultz’s continuous entreaties. “He just doesn’t understand the word ‘no,’” said another anonymous source. “He was finally reduced to begging and groveling. It was pathetic. We gave him a cookie and he finally slunk away. I think it was a snickerdoodle that did the trick.”

The entire league cheered Eric Lent of the Knights for not only shutting Shultz up, but getting three quality prospects in the process. The Knights added AAA IF Freddie Val, AAA outfielder John Whitener, and short-season A-ball starting pitcher Sadakuno Shibata. All three are seen as strong contributors to New York’s future.

Meanwhile, Gomez and his 5.04 ERA is expected to be easily replaced by AAA studs Chuck Finger and Robert Mahone, most likely the former. The marketing arm of the Knights organization is reportedly thrilled at the prospect of being able to finally give their fans the Finger they so richly deserve.

Finally, the first trade near the trade deadline has been completed as the Brooklyn Bombers and the Cairo Leveemen have swapped players.  Helping Cairo rebuild its farm system and giving the Bombers some OF power.  The swap sends 3 prospects to Cairo and the OF bat of RF David White to Brooklyn. 

The first place Bombers have not been living up to their name as they have been struggling to hit the long bomb.   With only 55 HR this season they have managed to hit the second lowest total of any team in the Over Educated League.   Opposing pitchers have been heard laughing on their way into The Drop Zone knowing that they are not going to be hit around.  White has 17 HR (just 38 less than the entire Bomber team) 48 RBI and even 25 SB with only 3 CS.

Heading to Cairo is the young first baseman Robert Ramsey who has already seen time at the ML level and will be the next great 1B for the Leveemen.  He should find his way into the starting lineup relatively soon.  Catcher Sixto Marciano and former first round draft pick RF Don Perkins will also be part of the rebuilding effort in Cairo. 

To complete the trade the Bombers are also getting $4M in cash from the war chest that Cairo has accumulated and a 4th round pick in the 2008 draft.

The rumors had been circulating the New York burrow for weeks now that management was in talks to get Tory ‘Tornado’ Chavez from the Leveemen, but when talks broke down last week, the idea was floated to make White a Bomber.  After some back and forth the package was completed just in time for the commissioner to come back to work his vacation of a few months.  The rumor is that he has some sort of virus effecting his downloads, but inside sources tell us that he really just needed some time off and would make up any old excuse to get it.

With just over one week until the trade deadline we will see if this move sparks any others in the Socratic League as they try to keep pace with the Bombers as time is running out to load up for the playoff run.