Chapter 36 – Episode 36. Mr. Rossby’s Friend?

‘Five! Okay! I remembered! It was Vesley! Poor Besley! Besley became a ghost too!’

As usual, when Rosby was practicing his swing against the pitchers he had faced, Rosby suddenly screamed to himself.

‘What bullshit are you talking about all of a sudden?’

What are you talking about? Has that man finally become senile?

‘A ghost following her! I was confused about who it was because she shed bloody tears, but I thought it was my friend Vesley!’

By that woman, are you referring to Chun So-yeong? Chun So-yeong was the only one Rosby called that woman.

‘Okay. The woman!’

‘By the way, who is Besley?’

‘Kids these days don’t know Ricky. It’s deplorable. You really don’t know Wesley Rickey?’

‘So what’s that, damn it.’

‘What?’

‘… No.’

I immediately turned on my cell phone and searched for Besley Ricky on Godmu Wiki, which contains all the information in the world.

‘Let’s see, Besley Ricky. Oh, is this guy a Hall of Fame inductee? Did you play some baseball?’

Hehe, if we were to evaluate Besley as a player, he was a terrible person.’

‘Then the director? Was he a great director who built a dynasty like Stengel?’

‘As a director, it was just that. He was the manager when I was playing for the Cardinals, but he was a trash man who couldn’t win a district championship even with me.’

‘… Then who is it?’

Not a player, not a manager.

‘He was the GM of the Cardinals. He left me in charge and moved to GM. In the end, the Cardinals’ no-win streak ended only after I became a player-manager. As a manager, it’s proof that I’m much betterhaha.’

So if you’re a GM, you’re the leader? Can such a person be inducted into the Hall of Fame? I quickly rummaged through Ricky’s entries. And right away I knew who this person was.

‘Ah! This is the man who recruited Jackie Robinson!’

The general manager who was the first to recruit a black player in the major leagues, which did not open the door to blacks. Jackie Robinson was the first black player in the major leagues, and his uniform number, number 42, was permanently removed from all major league clubs.

‘Somehow, I have to do this much for the captain to enter the Myeongjeon.’

‘That was his only flaw. Putting bastards like that on a sacred ballgame. I strongly opposed it, but I couldn’t break that friend’s stubbornness.’

It was also a racist Rosby-like remark. Knowing that a person named Ricky was such a famous person, I became a little more curious about this person.

‘Wow, is this person a great person? It was Ricky who created the MLB training system, right? They also make farm systems. Oh! Is this guy the first to introduce the Saber Matrix?’

‘Yes, many people said it was useless at the time, but I brought in an ink master and made it like a record.’

‘The farm system fosters famous players like Stan Musial and Dizzy Dean, and it’s amazing.’

‘Yes, Besley had a good eye for players. He used to brag about his player evaluation method to me as well.’

‘What is that?’

‘He didn’t even know that, was he playing baseball? I mean the 20-80 scale. Well, I didn’t expect anything like this to exist in the country of these monkeys from the beginning.’

‘What are you talking about! We use them too!’

It wasn’t used often in the KBA, but I’ve heard that from time to time major league scouts evaluate players with it.

Hehe, that would be a poor way to do it. Because the method I’m using now wasn’t Besley’s in the first place.’

‘Then what is it?’

‘Actually, I don’t understand everything Besley is saying. Because that friend was a genius who was so ahead of his time. It is the 20-80 scale that Campanis, who learned under Besley, made it easy for ordinary people to recognize. Ah, an idiot like you doesn’t even know who Campanis is.’

It seemed that Besley Ricky was a really great person to admit that Rosby was someone else. But who else is Campanis?

‘But what is it that such a person likes to follow Cheon So-young? Was he, like Mr. Rossby, a sex slave who liked women?’

‘It’s not a colorhehe. I just love all women equally. Anyway, I haven’t heard that he particularly likes women.’

‘Okay? Then why are you following me?’

‘Well? She seemed to have some money with her, maybe that’s why she was like that? Ever since she was alive, she’s never had money. Did she know that the reason she created the Saber Matrix or Palm System was all for money? Of course I don’t know. It is because there is no need to buy players in the minor leagues unnecessarily by reducing the salaries of players with Saber Matrix and appointing players directly raised in the farm systemhehe’

‘As expected, any great man has at least one flaw like that?’

When she revealed the money, it somehow seemed to break a little.

‘He tried to hit me too, so he ate the owner’s wife. So my salary has never been cuthehe.’

After all, Rossby is a madman.

‘Anyway, why did such a nobleman come all the way to this fucking land?’

‘How do I know that? For a moment.’

Then something flashed in my head.

‘Maybe he came here like Mr. Rossby?’

In fact, Rossby wasn’t even a ghost that deserved to be here. The same goes for the ghost Rosby claims to be Ricky. Maybe, like me, he went to America and was haunted by ghosts?

‘There is a possibility. If you listen to Besley, you’ll know, but I can’t ask how you’re like that. Okay. Find out why Besley is the way you are.’

Chit, are you hitting the spot after all? But I was also curious. If the ghost was a ghost like Rossby, there was a possibility that Cheon So-young would have some kind of ability. For example, like me, I share my senses with ghosts. Of course, it might not have been.

‘But that woman, she’s a little hard to get close to?’

I asked if I had a boyfriend, but I was blacked out like a dog. Ah! I had a good idea.

‘That Ricky. You said she was bound by her chains while shedding tears of blood?’

‘Okay.’

‘How about saying I’m exorcising?’

‘Crazy bastard. Are you trying to kill my friend?’

‘Oh, Mr. Rosby had all her friends too. But nothing disappears. And she’s still dead anyway, isn’t she? I’m a ghost….’

When I asked that question, a fundamental question arose. Why did these humans become ghosts?

‘Do you want to know?’

‘Yes. I need to know something so I can deal with it. Then Mr. Rosby suddenly disappeared, to her surprise. She needs to be by my side until baseball is over.’

The type of pitch that Rossby tells us is like a drug. It didn’t matter when I lived without it, but once I got to know the taste, I couldn’t stop.

‘Oh, have you tried medicine?’

‘Are you crazy? They say our country is drug-free.’

Looking at the news these days, it didn’t seem like that, but the drug-free country would be right anyway. And I had no intention of doing drugs.

‘Okay. Don’t do drugs It’s not like I’ve seen one or two guys get ruined from being drunk.’

‘Why are you giving sane advice? Then again, it’s good to have sex in your mind. Is that what you mean?’

Rossby’s pattern was obvious.

‘You stupid monkey! You wouldn’t make a joke like that if you had come back from the war and watched those guys who were drinking drugs and playing baseball fall behind.’

‘……. Sorry.’

Why are you talking seriously….

‘Keuheum, that’s why I became a ghost….’

Rossby was the first to open his mouth, as if he could not stand the awkward atmosphere.

‘I don’t know the details of what happened. But there was something I desperately wanted right before I died.’

‘What was that?’

‘At the same time as me, the best right-handed hitter in history, there lived a monster called Babe Ruth. What I desperately wanted was to get over him. If I had passed him, he would have been able to fuck more women. If only he hadn’t been there, I would have wanted more women….’

From what I’ve seen, it seemed that the reason Rosby couldn’t get more girls was his personality, not his baseball skills, but he seemed to think it was because of his skills.

‘I have a feeling that if this resentment is resolved, I will be able to attain Buddhahood.’

Is that why you’re telling me to be the best second baseman in the major leagues? Anyway, if Rossby is like that, it could be that Ricky became a ghost for a similar reason.

‘By the way, isn’t Ricky considered the best general manager in the major leagues? He looked at the Godmu wiki and it said that.’

‘That friend, like me, had his own inferiority complex.’

How could this man make such a face? Rossby’s expression was different from usual, and somehow it looked emotional.

‘Anyway, you mean you don’t know right now? I have no choice but to find out step by step.’

Still, he knew that there was something in common between Cheon So-young and I, so he thought he could get closer to her.

*

“Maengho. Are you going to train there today?”

“Yes. The club gave permission, and it’s because the facilities there are better than schools.”

“I can’t help it.”

The school that elite athletes who have been preparing for sports since elementary school want to go to is, of course, Korea Physical Education High School. Although the baseball club was weak because it was just created, it was the number one school in the country in name and reality in other areas.

Excluding the few students in the advanced class who were knocked out of the competition, students who graduated from Hanche High School continue to live their lives as athletes in vocational leagues, professional leagues, or college athletics.

In addition, if the school has already decided the career path according to the characteristics of the students, there were often cases where they received training in the professional league or vocational league without going to school by submitting an employment report. This was especially true for individual sports.

I didn’t know if other schools were like that, but Korea Physical Education High School was like that.

Of course, not all students filed for employment. Usually, I used to finish the tournament together for the team members who worked hard for three years before graduation. In other words, the students who applied for employment were rookies who felt that the club needed special management.

… Like me now

Of course, training in a place with better facilities than a school was more efficient, and on top of that, it was much more efficient to do individual training alone than to train in line with guys who just don’t match the level.

“Still, we do team training together.”

“Okay, train well and come.”

“Yep.”

So now, a week after I was nominated, I was training in the training room run by SY Agency in the morning with the permission of the school. Of course, there were no classes in the morning because it was vacation, but it was the same at Hanche High that there was no vacation for the sports team.

And I liked the air-conditioned room rather than the scorching sun.

After I said goodbye to the coach and came out, the car sent by the SY agency was waiting for me as usual in front of the school.

“Uh? Today is….”

However, the person in the car was Cheon So-yeong, not an employee of the SY agency who always waited for me.

“It’s the weekend, and I’m here because I want to observe how our first pick is training. Doesn’t it matter?”

“… Absolutely.”

It goes without saying that riding a car with a woman is better than a dull guy, right?