From: utzoo!watmath!decvax!ittvax!ittapp!pedalman Newsgroups: net.jokes Title: Melvin Francis Phamey Article-I.D.: ittapp.197 Posted: Wed Jun 30 12:43:05 1982 Received: Thu Jul 1 00:47:28 1982 This is the other (and,I think, more interesting) version of the Mel Phamey story. It was the bottom of the ninth, score 6 to 5, two outs, nobody on base. It looked like the Sinsinaty Rednecks had the game sewed up. Melvin Francis Phamey, the best pitcher on the Rednecks staff sat in the dugout holding his head in his hands, moaning, while sipping softly on a bicarbonate of soda. He had just finished an advertisement for "Ol' Hoppsnbarley Beer" the night before, and had celebrated by ingesting large quantities of the same, much to his chagrin on this afternoon. The batter for the Houston Asos stepped up to the plate. On the first pitch, he hit a line drive back to the pitcher. The ball hit the pitchers forearm with a sickening crunch, breaking in in 3 places. Needless to say, the runner was safe on first. The Rednecks pitcher, unaware of Phamey's condition, put him in as replacement. Phamey stepped to the mound, his head feeling like the site of a roller derby match, and his stomach thrashing about like a beached whale. He threw 16 balls in a row (setting a new league record) and managed thereby to walk in the winning run for the Asos. >From that time on, "Ol' Hoppsnbarley was know on the Asos locker room as `The Beer that made Mel Phamey walk us'.