[Nagoo81]

Count me in - I have my membership fee ready to transfer.

But first, let me tell you about myself.

I am out of Philadelphia now, where I am a full time defined benefits analyst. What most people don't know is that I was originally born in a small farming community on the outskirts of Chicago, Illinois. I was raised there and spent much of my youth playing baseball in the corn fields with his friends.

When I was a freshman in high school, I managed to make the JV baseball team, and was one of the best pitchers. After many successful games, the head coach took notice and bumped me up to Varsity. Sadly, in my first game on the Varsity team, I was hit in the shoulder with the ball and was sent to the hospital.

My shoulder was badly damaged and the doctors needed to operate. They spent hours working on my shoulder and finally finished, claiming the surgery was a success. However, there was one slight problem. For some reason, the procedure left several tendons in my arm extremely taught, and it had some strange side effects.

One day while I was at a Cubs game with some friends, I caught a foul ball in the bleachers. Rather than hold on to it, tradition states that if it's a ball from the opposing team, you should throw it back. It was at this time that I noticed the strange condition of my arm that allowed me to throw the ball with incredible strength. This new found ability was noticed by the Cubs manager, and I was quickly signed up, making me the youngest pitcher in league history.

My incredible arm carried the then last place Cubs all the way to first, and I got to play in the World Series. But a problem arose in game 7 of the series versus the Yankees. With the lead at stake in the last inning, I was one out away from winning the series for the team. It was at this time though that my arm let out on me and he could no longer throw the heat. I managed to get the first two strikes through some hijinks and wacky trickery, but the third one would prove to be most difficult. I was lost and didn't know what to do, until suddenly he got some help from the stands. My mother was watching me, and with a smile, told me to float it. I took her advice and floated the ball across the plate, getting the third strike, and making the Cubs the Worlds Series Champions.

After that season, no longer being able to throw hard, I gave up professional baseball and pursued poker. The rest as they say, is history.

Most of my life may appear to resemble the plot from the hit movie "Rookie of the Year", but you would be mistaken.

- "Nageux"