Norms Sign Two Avoid Forfeit

In a 12th hour like move, Brandon "Booty" Butorac reigned in 2 free agents to help the Norm's avert their first team forfeit in franchise history, signing Chad Nelson and Matt Hoese to 1-Day Contracts with team options for the remainder of the season.

"Booty just earned a stripe for 'chipping in during and off-field crisis,' stated Mookie Anderson, "That's one step closer to someday running the franchise."

According to scouting reports, and not yet confirmed "street cred" information, it is believed that one of the rookie signees plays OF, but is willing to play anywhere, is left handed, played RB for NDSU, and was rumored to be a steriod user. The other signee was a possible 3B canidate who once played for Hopkins, MN HS.

The Norms front office was just happy to get players on the line-up card for tonights game against the first place Gabriel Financial squad. At one point this morning, Head Coach Brent Anderson offered up this critical alert to all Norms Rostered players,

"Things are looking bad for players. Never thought I'd say this with a 20 man roster, but we just may have to forfeit tonight unless we scrounge up enough guys. We have NO players with any experience on the left side of the infield AND we play the team thats in 1st place. Anybody know anyone? If you do, its time to tap your resources. We need confirmations by 1ish or so."

He was immediately sent a note back from Mookie, stating, "No forfeitting, we'll go take it like men, and see what happens. This team has never forfeitted, and will not start now. I don't care if we are spanked red tonight, I will be there and I
will play SS if I have to."

For those who have never experienced a front-office player crisis like this, it may come as a surprise to learn that events like this are not uncommon.

"It think this is just a solid reminder on why it's fun to just be a player, and not have the BS responsibility of putting a team together," Stated Mookie, "It takes work, and trust that the players who sign up will actually show up. You are very lucky, very lucky as a manager if you have the same 10-12 guys showing up for 10-12 games every summer. It's rare, and the work that goes on behind the scenes to just put a roster together from week to week should NEVER go unnoticed."

So thanks to Booty and some front-office scrambling, the Norms should be able to field a healthy squad of 11 tonight.