December 6, 2020: Buenos Aires, Argentina – A routine vacation junket turned abruptly into a potential PR disaster after Lupin Cliffhanger owner Paul Walker was caught on video slamming his general manager, Ron Collins. “The man can’t hit a budget with a friggin’ Howitzer!” he said. This is not the first time that Walker has created a bit of a furor during the weeks prior to the league’s winter meetings, having encountered a mysterious car accident back in 2016.

Walker, an enigmatic 37 year-old who hails from Bakersfield, California, made his money the old fashioned way (in the stock market). He is a man bigger than life, and a man known to wade into deep waters without a lifeline. He played football at Harvard, and at 6’1”, 275, he can still fill a room.

In the video, Walker is seen dancing the electric slide with a line of women, sipping drinks, and holding court at the bar. When someone asks about the Cliff Hanger’s chances in the PEBA, he suddenly turns angry, and says “We’ll be fine if the head lug nut I’ve got in the GM seat can just spend what I give him.” He then suggests that he’s never trusted Collins, and that he “ought to put a PI on his ass to see what he actually does all day.”

The video seems to suggest this tirade may have been prompted by news that Collins wants, once again, to build more value into the Castle of Cagliostro, the team’s ballpark. “Five thousand seats! Five thousand seats! Heck’s bells, man, didn’t we just put five-thousand frickin’ seats in last year?” Walker says, amid raucous laughter, upturned drinks, and dour shaking of heads.

Collins did not answer his phone when this reporter called for a response. It is understood that he’s engaged with his staff in preparing for the upcoming meetings—a session that will be vital for the team as it moves into its first season of international play. Members of his staff, however, were not reticent to respond, albeit “off the record.”

“Walker is a dirt bag,” one said. “There’s a reason Konopka left,” another added.

The facts of the matter are these: the Lupin club rebuilt their ballpark in the spring, brought fans into that ballpark in record-breaking fashion, won the Neo-Tokyo Cup with legendary performances throughout the organization, and—while Collins did break Paul Walker’s arbitrary “budget,” the team’s performance put something over $31M directly into the pocketbooks of that same Paul Walker.

Yet here we have one of the richest men in the world prancing around Argentina with a bevy of hotties and slamming the leader of the staff who made this happen.

One thinks we may not have heard the end of this.