Setting: A typical Seattle office. Nick and Pete, huge Mariners fans, discuss the latest move by GM Jerry Dipoto.
PP: The Big Apple? No, that’s what New York City is called. Oh, the Big Pastrami!
NN: The Big Pastrami? What are you talking about, Pete?
PP: New York has a lot of deli’s and James Paxton needs a new nickname to fit where he’s been traded.
NN: Come again?
PP: James Paxton was traded to the Yankees. Nick, you feeling okay?
NN: Trading away our poor-hitting backstop is one thing but our ace pitcher?