A Couple O' Mainers

During the summer, when the Texas Rangers killed the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, it was quite the story around baseball. Gary Thorne calls the Orioles' games for the local TV station, and not too many days after the game Matty, my personal biographer, and I were in the Baltimore area, and thought we'd look him up to see what he thought about the game.

"Hey, you went to UMaine," Matty said before I had a chance to speak.

"I did, you too?"

"Oh yeah."

And that was it:

"You think them Sox are gonna win it awl this yeeah?"

"Well, I hope they gonnew. Ya knhoe, you can nevah count out them damn Yankees though."

"Ayaht. You can't get theyah from heyah."