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No-No Denver, Not This Year
10/16/2080
Al Vincent
Staff Writer
The Denver clubhouse was quieter than it’s ever been after their latest postseason failure. After taking Tucson to the wire and forcing a Game 7 in their first round postseason matchup, they knew that getting past Tucson ace Cleveland Lauria would be a very difficult task. Little did they realize just how difficult it would be.
Lauria no-hit Denver, striking out nine and walking none, and Tucson rolled to a 10-0 victory. Tomas Sato, whose .190 AVG in the series bore a stark contrast to his .346 regular season mark, had this to say: “Absolutely embarrassing. Sure, Cleveland’s a great pitcher, one of the best in the game today. But for us to get no hit?! In Game 7?! There’s just no excuse for it. That was just an embarrassing display of baseball that we put on.”
The normally even-keeled John Wilkerson conducted an enraged language class in his office following the game: “Every bleeping year it’s something bleeping new! One bleeping year it’s a bleeping injury! Another bleeping year we run into some bleeping red-hot team! The bleeping bats go bleeping cold! The bleeping pitchers can’t hit the bleeping side of a bleeping barn, and when they do hit the bleeping barn, the bleeping barn blasts the bleeping ball into kingdom bleeping come! And now this bleep?! A bleeping no-hitter?! BLEEP! We are going to win this bleeping thing next year and that’s final!”
Whew! That pretty much brings the backstory to a close, bringing us to the present season of 2081. I'll do a discussion of the current construction of the Denver roster next. The pace from here on out will likely be much slower. I don't normally play each game out (except in September) but I may do a little bit more of that now for the purposes of this.
I hope that the backstory has done a good job of setting the stage for a team continually frustrated in the postseason and given an idea of where this Denver team has come from.
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