This is a test post to see how the critically acclaimed webcomic-slash-absurdist sports blog The Dugout would look on a WithLeather template. As these paragraphs are also placeholders (standing in for where the informative, context-setting introductory blurbs would go) I will use this space to list off my goals for this project: 1) Treat the Internet like the Old West, 2) get paid to type a bunch of curse words, including as many unedited F-words as I can sneak in, 3) come up with horrible pun screen names for players nobody has ever heard of.
Below is the chatroom itself, with everything uploaded to WL and ready to go. Hopefully this works, and I don’t have to start drawing this sh** in MS Paint.
The Dugout
**Online Host** | |
 | JetersNeverProsper: So, did you hear the one about AOL CEO Tim Armstrong? |
 | pr0FF3ss0r_F4rnsw0rth: no |
| pr0FF3ss0r_F4rnsw0rth: wait, the guy from rancid |
| JetersNeverProsper: More or less. No, okay, so, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong walks into a bar, sits down, has a drink. |
| JetersNeverProsper: Finishes the drink, orders another. Throws that one down, orders another. And another, and another. |
| JetersNeverProsper: He orders another drink, the bartender looks at him kinda funny and is all, "don’t you think you should lay off?" |
| JetersNeverProsper: Armstrong says "you’re right," stands up, fires 900 employees |
 | WordUpThome: LOL |
| JetersNeverProsper: then he sells the bar to Arianna Huffington. |
| pr0FF3ss0r_F4rnsw0rth: wow is that bar still in busyness |
| JetersNeverProsper: yeah, it’s still in business, but they don’t serve drinks, they just tell you what’s being served at every other bar |
| JetersNeverProsper: and you have to walk through like 15 doorways before you actually get into the building. |
| pr0FF3ss0r_F4rnsw0rth: that sounds great as gravy hey jimboe u wanna go have some kyleweisers at the ol huffpo |
| WordUpThome: NO I ONLY DRINK FROM THE BLEACHER REPORT BAR |
| JetersNeverProsper: Bleacher Report has a bar? |
| WordUpThome: YES THEY SERVE HALF AN OUNCE OF LIQUOR EVERY 45 MINUTES |
| WordUpThome: THE DRINKS SUCK, BUT THE PORTIONS ARE FANTASTIC |
Photos link to player info. WordUpThome.com
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Fuck and yes!
/HEY GUYS THIS IS JI
AOL? More like… not very smart at… money.
(Glad you’re back, bud.)
Ooooo juicy Dugout
THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE
Let it all out
YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!!
Fantastic. Glad this might survive.
YES!
Kudos for leading off with Farnsy making a Rancid reference.
also YAY THE DUGOUT IS BACK WOO WHEEEE
i definitely wouldn’t have come here if it wasn’t for the dugout coming to WL. I’m gonna go click around this website 1 million times.
STEAK GROWS ON DA MEAT TREE!!!
*puts on fake mustache*
Why hello, good sir, I enjoy this piece very much!
The bartender at the Bleacher Report bar just tells you who throughout history has enjoyed the drink you just ordered.
Yay Dugout!
THE DUGOUT IS BACK! Thank you Uproxx, you have made my life.
Finally, I can take my head out of the oven.
Awesome! An auspicious beginning!
/welcome back chant
I hear the Bleacher Report bar has a new bartender who’s going to start serving better drinks soon, but it’s a process, really, he swears
So this is good.
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I HAVE AN ERECTION
The Bleacher Report steals recipes from all the other bars in town, but somehow still screws up the food.
Congrats on the new gig, Swandive!
This makes me so happy.
Have never visited WithLeather before. Will now visit WithLeather daily. Because of one Mr. Brandon Stroud and El Dugout.
F*** yeah!
*wanders in, confused*
Have you seen my baseball?
hahahahahah I AM FUCKING EXCITED NOW
I find this post to be inaccurate, as Mr. Farnsworth is on record as having not had a drink in over two years. /obligatoryguythatdoesn’tgetit
Love it. Don’t ever leave me again, Dugout.
With Leather, THANK YOU. I’ll be back regularly, and I even signed up for your Daily Breakdown Thing, all because you brought on the talented Mr. Stroud. F*** YES.
I want to go on the record and say that I am ‘liking’ WithLeather on Facebook simply because they now host The Dugout. I hope they keep them coming.
So much pressure now to produce top quality dick jokes.
Dugout supremacy!!
You can tell Andy G is excited because he is making the excited hands. I am also making the excited hands. How much money can I send to the withleather team to bribe them into keeping the Dugout forever?
Man, I don’t know. For a test post this didn’t seem to gather much reaction.
Ah How I’ve missed the philosophical musings of Jim Thome
Life is worth living again.
Fucking love it. Good to have you back.
Because of El Dugouto I’ll now be visiting this site every day.
I will also be visiting this place with extreme frequency now that it has The Dugout.
I am now sufficiently hype.
i liked the time you made a pun out of a guy’s name, do that again
PECOTA: FORSOOTH! IT! HAS RETURNED!
By the way, I’m officially taking requests for any subjects I might’ve missed during the hiatus. Other than Kendry Morales, of course, because that shit was hilarious.
YESSSS More Dugout please!
TWINZ DUG0UT PLZ
good news all around
Just added With Leather to my Google Reader so I don’t miss anything.
Brandon: the Zach Greinke injury, though you kinda already touched on it in another piece here.
Any day with Jimbo is a good day.
Welcome back, buddy. It’s been too long.
/checks watch
Okay, so it’s probably not been too long. But welcome back anyway.
Congrats and amazing work. You never fail to make me laugh. Thank you WithLeather. Thank you.
Welcome back. And don’t ever leave me again! The Dugout is the Finnegan’s Wake of our time; absolutely brilliant!
/plays spies
YAY! Long Live the Dugout!
e’beisbol <3
I am particularly excited that you found a new home in time to take advantage of the single best Dugout-ized team ever: the Rays. Such potential.
OK, I had never gone on Facebook for any reason until B told me that was where I could find updates. It made today a very good day indeed. Great to have you back, and if you mean it about the F-bombs, my life will be complete. I don’t think the prof ever really felt at home on the last site.
Pay that man a lot of money to crank these out every day
Yes! The return of The Dugout!
Same here, never even heard of with leather. Now they are my one-stop shop for all things PECOTA.
Dugoooooooooout!!!!! I love you The Dugout. This makes me so very very happy.
I’m gonna be on WithLeather all the fucking time because of The Dugout. ALL THE FUCKING TIME.
i am so so glad to hear MLB in its unedited, curse-filled glory… been too long
I am a withleather fan if they keep the Dugout coming. Ok, let me be the one vote to have the Pirates Spring Training next! I vote for Pedro.
I will also love With Leather as long as With Leather has Mr. Stroud’s Dugout chat room up in it.