User:Paesano

The Wikipedia user Paesano is owner, general manager and field manager of the Florida Kitchen Sinks, the greatest team of all-time in the World Tour Ptp/Dynasty League baseball league.

The Sinks have won the National Pennant in each season of the league, and two of the three World Series in the league's history. In 1999 the team fell one game short of beginning a World Series trifecta, losing to the Toronto Yankees despite taking a 3-0 Series lead.

The team dominated the league the following season, running away with the National League by 20 games after sneaking into the World Series by 1 game in 1999. For the 2000-2003 season, Larry Walker rebounded from a season as a veritable black hole in the lineup, batting a league record .349 with 46 home runs and 136 rbi. Sammy Sosa set league records with 64 home runs and 152 rbi. Three pitchers won 20 games--Cy Young award winner John Smoltz (24-8, 2.85), putative ace and World Series MVP Randy Johnson (20-16, 3.35, 2-0 in the Series) and third starter Javier Vazquez (20-8, 4.29). John Wetteland returned from the 1997-1999 World Series team (along with Walker, Smoltz and Tom Glavine) to save 46 games and win 8 with a 2.02 era.

After winning a thrilling seven-game World Series against the upstart New York Felines (led by Pedro Martinez, Roberto Alomar and Derek Jeter), the Sinks returned with a weakened lineup and an aging rotation in 2003-2006. Despite a surging Montreal Fake Bronx Bomber team that completely retooled during the season, and compiled a roster remarkably based on the record-setting '00-'03 Sinks, the '03-'06 Sinks pulled off another league pennant. On the final day of the season, they beat the expansion Baltimore Ripkens in a make-up game behind Kevin Appier's 19th win. Appier (19-8, 3.31) was perhaps the team's most consistent starter, bolstering a rotation that included Cy Young winner Randy Johnson (22-14, 3.49, NL record 472 so) and surprise swing man Jason Marquis (13-10, 3.61 in 23 starts and 28 relief appearances). Smoltz foundered at times in the closer role (6-7, 4.28, 22 saves in 25 opportunities), and will return to the rotation in 2006-whenever.

Amazingly, despite facing a powerful Felines team that won 110 games during the regular season, the Sinks enjoyed the handiest World Series in league history, dispatching the repeat AL champs in 6 games. Shawn Green, a midseason pickup who hit 35 homers in 95 games, and Sean Casey, who led the team in batting at .326 in a platoon role with Albert Pujols (who was traded for Green), Jeff Cirillo and Scott Rolen, spurred an offense that was once again led in the regular season by Walker and Sosa. Walker batted .325-26-99, scoring 122 runs, while Sosa again led the league in power categories, batting a career high .311 to go with 48 homers and 129 rbi.

The Sinks are in a rebuilding phase in 2006-whenever. Walker returns for his fourth and final season, and Smoltz and Johnson, off to difficult starts at the top of the rotation (1-4, 4.54 and 2-4, 6.26, respectively), may have their last shot at another title.

Indeed, with Sosa gone and Walker in decline, the new face of the franchise may be Miguel Cabrera (.278, 2 hr, 22 rbi in the first month of the season).

Whatever the outcome in 2006-whenever, the Sinks are clearly the greatest team of all time. Their three pennants and .587 winning percentage at the start of 2006-whenever put them at the top of the league.