Tales from the bus leagues Vol. 2

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Welcome back to tales from the bus leagues. In volume 2, we'll be looking at another one of Rusty Knale's many stories involving his time in the North American bus leagues.

 

        In this installment, we'll be looking back on Rusty's final season with the St. Louis Pirates, the season before this season.

 

Rusty and the rest of the Pirates were on a road trip, going from St. Louis to North Carolina to play the Raleigh Quakers, another bus league team. Rusty was the captain of the team, and he took a couple of the rookies aside.

 

 

"Ok. Listen here. Now is perfect time for prank. Here's what we do: we put tape on everyone's skates to throw them off. Got it? Then we get into the real stuff"

 

Rusty chuckled in anticipation. One of the rookies, Tyler Brant, spoke up.

 

"Hey, Rusty, I have an idea for our big prank."

 

"Yeh? What is it, Branty?"

 

"I think we should put the tape on their skates, like you said. But I think we should hide all the helmets in the back of the bus and replace them with little girl bike helmets"

 

Rusty grinned.

 

"Great idea, Branty. But we have to wear bike helmets too so we're not SUS"

 

"Yeah, of course. Let's get to it."

 

They sent the youngest rookie, a guy named Ron Cooke, into the back of the bus to put tape on all the sticks. Rusty, Brant, and the two other rookies stood guard. After about ten seconds, Cooke came back out sweating like crazy. 

 

"Rusty! Rusty! There's a guy from the Quakers back there! He's sabotaging all our stuff! Come and help me!"

 

So Rusty, Brant, and the two other rookies burst into the room while Cooke hung back. The prank team was greeted by an ice cold bucket of Pepsi each. Furious, they opened their eyes to the sight of the rest of the team holding empty buckets and laughing. Cooke was laughing too. He was dry as the desert. He must have been in on it. One of the other vets who has orchestrated the whole thing spoke up.

 

"Ha! We sure gotcha there, didn't we, boys?"

 

The team roared. The vet slapped Rusty on the back. 

 

"Looks like you have a sticky couple of hours before we get to the hotel" he chuckled. 

 

 

 

What followed was a massive victory for the Pirates over the Quakers, 9-0, mainly because Rusty chose to take out his anger on the Quakers.

 

 

 

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