Jack Murphy has played for the Seattle Select squad for the past three years, well by that I mean he has had to settle for the Seattle Select squad. In his heart, he has always wanted to play for Magnolia, and has cried himself to sleep after every tryout with MBC. He had spent so much time begging to be a member of the MBC team that I finally broke down and relented to allow him to play for us and be with his friends.
It got so bad this year that he offered to join as just the bat boy. He was crushed when I told him that we already had Robby "Smeagle" Salle, and that Smeagle was perhaps the greatest bat boy in the game today, and don't even get me started on his hound dog techniques of chasing down foul balls. As Jack sat there teary eyed I finally saw just how much it would mean to him to play for us and finally agreed to take him on as a full fledged player. He insisted that he wanted to at least carry the equipment to and from every practice and game, but I drew the line and told him to just try his best to pretend to be a full fledged member of the team.
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