by Francis Ferry, NLN baseball beat writer November 8, 2032: Aurora, Colorado – On March 21, 1993 Robert Smith, a part-time longshoreman in Baltimore, and his with Raquelle gave birth to their lone child. Randall Smith – who hadn’t aged far before family began calling him Randy. Nearly four months later, to the day, on […]
Ray D. Enzé, NLN baseball blogger November 7, 2032: Ashville, North Carolina – PEBA Commissioner ‘Harry’ Castle responded harshly in response to comments made by the ‘still carrying the new car smell’, ‘newly minted’ PEBA Players Union president, Brandon Johnson. Johnson, a long-time minor leaguer in the Crystal Lake system, who played in 539 games […]
November 2, 2032: Little Bay, Montserrat – Will Topham pulled the sheet of paper from his breast pocket and unfolded it, staring at the message on it. He smirked at the salutation – ‘Your Brother’. Right… Brother my ass. Clueless bastard. Thieving bastard. Selfish bastard. Why, Dad? The GM of the Borealis looked out over […]
by Francis Ferry, NLN baseball beat writer August 2, 2032: Aurora, Colorado – Brian Clark was drafted 5-years ago by the Borealis, 76th overall in the 2027 draft (36-pitchers would be drafted ahead of him, including current Aurora reliever Paul de Kook) – a young man from Bishop Moore HS, tall and lean (much as […]
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by Francis Ferry, NLN baseball beat writer June 8, 2032: Ashland, North Carolina – Drafts are living, breathing things – not static and predictable. There are drafts that are chalked full of talent and those that are so talent poor that after four picks, it’s time to throw darts. Teams went into the 2032 draft […]
by Francis Ferry, NLN baseball beat writer June 9, 2031: Asheville, North Carolina – This may look a whole lot like it’s a case of ‘Ground Hog Day’ – and that’s not a good thing, but on the first day of the 2031 draft, the Borealis looked to have pulled from the 2030 draft playbook: […]
by Francis Ferry, NLN baseball beat writer February 27, 2031: Mokule’ia, O’ahu, Hawaii – It didn’t take long after the end of Aurora’s failed PEC run when Michel Provost announced his retirement from baseball on November 2nd. After leaving Aurora after the 2028 season that was lost due to a torn flexor tendon in his […]
by Francis Ferry, NLN baseball beat writer October 26, 2030: Charleston, West Virginia – Now I get why PEBA Commissioner ‘Harry’ Castle brought me to Boone last week. Why he needed to be so darned secretive beats me, but now that I know what I was looking at, I can tell you, it’ll be a […]
by Francis Ferry, NLN baseball beat writer October 15, 2030: Asheville, NC – Shortly after the Borealis dispatched Crystal Lake and jumped a plane for the Land of the Rising Sun, I was invited by PEBA Commissioner ‘Harry’ Castle to come to his office at PEBA HQ, in Asheville, to discuss new plans that the […]
