2052:PO - Monty Brewster’s Montré-Booster: The Hobbled, pts 1-3

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2052:PO - Monty Brewster’s Montré-Booster: The Hobbled, pts 1-3

Post by datom25 » Sun Nov 06, 2022 10:10 am

Monty Brewster’s Montré-Booster: The Hobbled, pts 1-3

The Geoghan Cup round pitted the Blazers de Montreal against the opponent they started the season against (for the record, with a 2-1 series win), the Atlantic City Gamblers. After a 93-win season, the league’s best rotation surely thought a title might be on the doorstep. Executif Coach Stan H. Stansman reminded us that the BBA playoffs are about the journey, not the destination, and the Blazers ensured that the journey there and back again would be as short as possible. Beleaguered GM Dog Action commented that he could “not think of a single trilogy as comparably bad as this one”.

Game 1: The Unexpected Turner

Wantaway star Thomas Turner, picked up in midseason from the Cougars, started game 1 despite the worst ERA of all Montreal’s rotation (“they picked him up for games like these”, muttered Inkster, before softly muttering “the scouts say he’s great”). For a while it looked like a good decision, until Turner gave up 6 runs (five of them with two outs) in the 5th and 6th inning which was enough to seal the deal.


Game 2: Battle of the Five Homers

A packed expectant crowd were treated to a first inning grand slam as Pitcher of the Year Candidate Bill Mills got hit around the park. The Blazers also hit some home runs – Lance Nash and Bill McKinley both rocketed two each – but utterly failed to get someone on base first, leaving the final score 8-4 and the Blazers one game away from elimination.


Game 3: The Desolation of the Bullpen

This time the Blazers actually looked like winning with a 4-0 lead late, having chased Carlo Flores after five, until Inkster unexplainably left ”Ringo” Ralph Boyd in to give up a homer, a sacrifice fly, load the bases and then give up a grand slam in the eighth inning while closer/setup guys Max Birstall and Toby Bundy looked on confused. As if to add salt to the wound, the Gamblers then threw on their ace relievers to shut the game down, as, you know, one would normally do. At least Inkster brought Birstall in for the ninth.




And so on to 2053, with nothing but broken hearts, and Bret Powers’ contract to show for it. Surely the once great franchise has suffered irrepairable damage, not to return for another ten years with a hastily plotted straight-to-streaming* miniseries?

Image Ralph Boyd, one Ringo to Rule Them All


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