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'.