Galaxy Gas 2063.01 - One_eyed Jack
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2025 10:02 am
After spending the last two weeks of regular season and the playoffs recovering from eye surgery, the Valencia GM still is not seeing much from his left eye but knows it is time for him to hit the offseason grindstone.
With his one good eye, if you can call it that as he still needs cataract surgery in that eye but it is getting postponed until the retina detachment recovery completes its course, he mulls over his options for the next leg of his rebuild.
He looks over the items that have accumulated on his desk during his visual hiatus and sees a makeshift card from the players made of the Jack of Spades, one of the two one-eyed Jacks in a standard deck of cards.
Trying to figure out a way to make the team better, his first idea is to see if he can get some of the players on the Pacific winning Sacramento Mad Popes. After all, the worst player on the Popes is probably a candidate to be in the upper tier of a rebuilding Stars’ squad.
Greathouse hits the speaker to his admin’s desk and summons his assistant Mona Lotts. The following is a transcript of that conversation.
G: “Mona, could you get me Shoeless from Sacramento please?”
M: “There is no Shoeless showing up in Sacramento.”
G: “What?!? How can there be no Shoeless in Sacramento? Try his personal cell phone.”
M: “His message says he switched teams with Ben.”
G: “Why in the world would he move to Boise? He has a perennial Pacific winning team, He must have wanted to move to Boise so his team could have more taters.”
M: "You have got the wrong Ben. He is moving to Brooklyn, not Boise."
G: “Wow. I wonder if he would include the Brooklyn Bridge in a trade? Just a minute, I have to go to the bathroom and take a Pope.”
Ten minutes later ...
G: “I'm back. Since those two teams are in a state of flux, can you get me in touch with Omaha?”
M: “Well … Omaha isn’t in Omaha anymore”
G: “How can Omaha not be in Omaha anymore?”
M: “I saw a news letter that the GM is moving to Rocky Mountain.”
G: “ Now Niles is in Rocky Mountain?
M: “No, they are in Cleveland.”
G: “Cleveland! What in the Nashville is going on over there?”
M: “Actually, they are in a suburb of Cleveland – Brooks Park. The Commish would not allow them to be named Cleveland because the Commish did not want a negative light put on the league by having any association with Watson.”
G “What does a former second baseman have to do with Cleveland?”
M: “Not What’s On, but Watson.”
G: “Oh, That reminds me, schedule me for a massage.”
G: “Does that mean Rocky Mountain stays in Denver?”
M: “No, Rocky Mountain is the new Omaha.”
G: “Holy Oysters!! – Still not sure I have all of this straight, I may need both eyes to figure this one out.”
M: “I doubt if that will help sir.”
Brief Pause ...
M: "Sir, I have someone named Morris on line 2. Should I patch him in?"