An Alliance too far

After helping the London Underground to a franchise high wins total and breezing through a sweep of the Division Series the Underground pitching staff finally ran out of gas. All season long the batters tanked it and resorted to trying to hit everything out of the park and all season long the pitching staff bailed […]

London sweep into the 2019 Alliance Tournament

October 8th, 2019 : London, England Maybe the Presses pre-season prediction’s of doom and disaster for the PEBA’s only European franchise were based on the look of their offence which was becoming increasingly free swinging and ill-disciplined at the plate.  But unfortunately they didn’t take a peep in their artillery room. There they would have found […]

Enter the Mound

September 14th, 2019 : London, England   It was a long hard opening week sitting in the London bullpen waiting for my chance. Sure I learnt a lot listening to the tales from a major league bullpen and marvelled at how much better my fellow relievers looked when they warmed up but it wasn’t the […]

Mr Pérez ? Your cup of coffee’s here

August 31st, 2019: Worcester, Massachusetts   My name is Juan Pérez and this could well be the most exciting day of my life so far. I was born in San Miguel De Allende in Mexico 24 years ago and today I am aboard a bus bound for Manchester on the far side of Boston. I […]

Winning is Great but Repeating is where it’s at

Sunday, March 17th 2019   It’s peaceful in my office but I can still hear the excited chatter down the corridor as another school party passes through the visitor centre admiring the centrepiece display of the 2018 Planetary Extreme Championship trophy. Slowly I turn back to the myriads of organisational charts spread out all over […]