2052:14 - Monty Brewster’s Montré-Booster: Captain, My (Ex-)Captain(s)

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2052:14 - Monty Brewster’s Montré-Booster: Captain, My (Ex-)Captain(s)

Post by datom25 » Thu Oct 06, 2022 1:59 pm

Monty Brewster’s Montré-Booster: Captain, My (Ex-)Captain(s)


Recently, the Blazers have been involved in what they call a trade, picking up Bret Powers, Thomas Turner and Bruce McKinley for a bunch of players including previous Team Captain Lance Harrison. Over the last few months, Montreal have built up a complex web of informers within the team dressing room designed to spit back critical chemistry-based information at crucial junctures like this. This meant:
Some players are upset that Lance Harrison has left the team, but the overall feeling in the room that is there are still more than a few capable captains to step in to fill the leadership that leaves with him.
This posed some complex questions for the Blazers management and RAMJACK-corporate-soldier Executif Coach Stan H Stansman. Most pertinently, which room was the overall feeling felt in, and is more than a few the equivalent of a bunch? A gaggle?

To make matters worse, mere millseconds later, the teletype revealed that Ex-Vice-Now-Captain Eric Wignes was traded in the same deal, prompting further comments from the inside man:
Some players are upset that Eric Wignes has left the team, but the overall feeling in the room that is there are still more than a few capable captains to step in to fill the leadership that leaves with him.
That settles it – it must be a bunch.

Nonetheless, RAMJACK doesn’t sit on it’s laurels, and GM Dog Action was tasked with signing a player to replace the void. Action googled ‘Captain’ on his shiny new Player Search 2.0*, and found himself a Jack Douglas. Douglas, a career .206 hitter with 300 ABs spread over four seasons, was last seen in the majors five years ago in Boise aged 27 (he’s 34 now); and hasn’t actually played any organised baseball in two years, having somehow been in the Baghdad and Twin Cities organisation but never mind any of that, the man is a leader. So speaketh the spy:
There have certainly been no complaints in the clubhouse about a lack of leadership , but that’s not stopping the players from singing the praises of newly-acquired Jack Douglas. They appreciate someone of his leadership joining the ballclub.
As Stansman remarked to Action, “the phrasing implies some sort of link between no complaints and singing praises, but it is difficult to parse what the link is”. Action grunted.

Doug Watts, a bench coach of average reputation, had this to say:
Jack Douglas runs the clubhouse. He’s a true captain for the team, and its certainly showing in how great the clubhouse is running. I can’t hear enough about how smoothly it’s going
“Does he mean he needs to hear more? Is this a French translation thing?”

Pressed further of the very nature of the team’s team chemistry, Watts said this:
Team Chemistry is ecstatic
What does that even mean? Is that good? Ecstatic chemistry sounds like the kind of thing that blew up the Heidenburg. Anyway, the Blazers organisation is now stuffed full of Captain personalities and all this is helpfully distracting from the fact that two one-thirds of the trade are currently sporting a 9.35 ERA and hitting .121 respectively.

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Jack Douglas, excellent Captain, terrible ballplayer


*Player Search 2.0, produced by RAMJACK Technology For Futures, bears no relation to Player Search 1.0, a product of the now disbanded RAMJACK Digital Monitoring team
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Re: 2052:14 - Monty Brewster’s Montré-Booster: Captain, My (Ex-)Captain(s)

Post by ae37jr » Fri Oct 07, 2022 4:21 am

datom25 wrote:
Thu Oct 06, 2022 1:59 pm


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Jack Douglas, excellent Captain, terrible ballplayer
Douglas currently has the highest slugging percentage in the BBA out of players with at least 10 at bats. Of course he has exactly 10 at bats, so take that for what it's worth.
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