Local kid makes good
popcorn. Or at least he once sold Kernels Piping Hot All-you-can-cook Microwave Popcorn You Can Bring to the Game for Free as a vender at formerly-named Edward Murphy Memorial Stadium (now the Kum & Go Pleasure Palace Kourtyard).
DOMINGO PINTO grew up in one of the alleyways that border the stadium in downtown Des Moines. He applied for the team's Pick-Me-Up-I'm-Not-Drunk Program and worked at the stadium three years. He went on to Pabst Blue Ribbons college ball, where he still wasn't drunk, and this year he was the team's triple crown winner (.330-19-60), and he also had a 26-game consecutive hit streak, which is more than half the season.
Pinto, named after the horse not the bean, has had tough luck, or bad coaching, as twice he "detrimentally completed training to improve his defense at third base," and once only "unsuccessfully completed [the same] training."
"He's gonna turn that around," AGM Juan Costa said. "We don't know what those borachos were doing in St Louis, but in the DM Development Center, you don't get beer until you get better."