Good morning baseball fans!
The San Francisco Giants are off today, with the Chicago Cubs coming to town tomorrow to begin a weekend series.
In the meantime, I thought we could have some fun with a creative writing prompt. Because sometimes, reality just doesn’t make a lot of sense and it’s more fun to make up silly reasons for things. You know, things like the Giants’ inconsistent offensive capabilities.
So today’s creative writing prompt (which you are all encouraged to participate in down in the
comments) is to come up with an explanation for this, but wrong answers only.
I’ll go first. My theory is that Buster Posey attended a farmer’s market with his family during the offseason, and this is what happened.
While his wife and children peruse the produce, Posey’s eye catches on a stand advertising rare and unique treasures. A wisp of an elderly woman sits behind the tables laden with strange and somewhat unnerving items.
She catches his eye and beckons him over, where she begins to pull out a dusty velvet box from underneath the tables.
“I know what you’re looking for, young man,” she insists, nodding to herself, as she pushes the box towards Posey. “Take a look.”
He gives her an appraising look, then carefully opens the box to reveal an amulet. The amulet looks suspiciously like one of his World Series Championship rings, but wrong somehow.
“This grants the wearer the power to make one wish and have it come true,” she says quietly. “I can see in your eyes that you’re looking for something, something that has eluded you for years. Take it.”
Posey looks at the woman dubiously. But she insists, and he figures that it can’t hurt.
Hours later, his puts the amulet on in the privacy of his own home once his family has gone to bed. He thinks to himself, “I wish my team would score more runs this season.”
There’s a flash of light and a burst of heat where the amulet rests on his chest. He finds the experience unsettling in a way he cannot articulate, but shrugs it off and goes to bed and promptly forgets the entire thing.
Months later, as the Giants teeter between scoring 19 runs and being incapable of overcoming the smallest deficits, he has a jolt of panic as he remembers the encounter and his wish.
He digs out the amulet from his bedside table to take a closer look. Only then does he realize that while he first believed it to hold a resemblance to one of his own World Series rings, it was actually one of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ rings.
He gasps, and races to his car, determined to return it to the woman who gave it to him. He scours the farmer’s market, looking for her. He finally spots her in the back and sprints in her direction but she sees him coming and begins cackling. As he approaches, she changes form before his very eyes, transforming into Dave Roberts.
Posey gasps and falls short, giving Roberts the chance to throw a smoke bomb and disappear into the crowd.
End scene.
Your turn! Give me your best, wrong answer to the cause of the Giants’ offensive inconsistencies this season down in the comments.
