A Rookie In The Baseball Team Is Too Good [EN]: Chapter 36

The New Recruit of the Baseball Team is Too Good – Episode 36

Chapter 11: Can I Trust Him? (3)

Jimmy Morris, the foreign pitcher the KH Cannons ambitiously recruited this season.

When Ji-seop first encountered him, he read Morris’s inner thoughts as follows:

[Damn, these annoying guys are here.]

Up until this point, Ji-seop thought, ‘Well, I guess he could feel that way.’

A pitcher in bad condition, a pitcher suffering from insomnia, and as a result, a pitcher who collapsed spectacularly in today’s game.

If Ji-seop were Jimmy Morris, he wouldn’t want to talk to the team staff either.

So, he was planning to just say a quick hello and leave, but—

‘……Hmm?’

The inner thoughts of Jimmy Morris that followed.

[But suddenly replacing the personal translator… Are these guys noticing something?]

Noticing something.

Noticing something.

The moment Ji-seop heard this, he had no choice but to change his course of action.

‘This guy… there’s something going on.’

It can’t be helped if he gets on his bad side a little.

It can’t be helped if he looks a little crazy.

‘Instead of dragging it out… it’s better to find out what this guy is hiding here.’

With that thought, Ji-seop ‘slipped’ his foot into the doorway that was just starting to close.

“Are you crazy? Why are you suddenly doing this?!”

Jimmy Morris shouted at Ji-seop.

But since this level of reaction was within expectations, Ji-seop didn’t even raise an eyebrow and opened his mouth.

“I’m just curious. What kind of fun things are you doing that you’re trying to rush in like this?”

“Are you really crazy?! What fun things are you talking about!”

“Why don’t you just tell me? It might be a big help for smooth translation.”

“Is this guy completely nuts?!”

It was the very next moment that a flustered Jimmy Morris roughly shoved Ji-seop’s shoulder.

As Ji-seop’s body ‘teetered’ slightly backward, Jimmy Morris glared and said.

“You damn bastard, I’m going to formally complain to the front office tomorrow! Where did you find such a crazy guy to be a translator….”

The door slammed shut with a ‘thud’.

It was right after that that Go Chang-deok, who had been ‘uh-bub-uh’ in the sudden situation, approached Ji-seop.

“Hey, Ji-seop! Are you okay?!”

“Yes, I’m fine.”

As Ji-seop nodded, Go Chang-deok made a dumbfounded expression.

“Hey, I was so surprised I thought my heart was going to jump out! Why did you suddenly block Jimmy Morris’s room?”

“Well…”

Of course, he couldn’t say that he had read Jimmy Morris’s mind, so Ji-seop made up an excuse.

“I could see inside the room a little.”

“Inside the room?”

Go Chang-deok tilted his head.

“I couldn’t see anything at all… Was it visible from where you were standing, Ji-seop?”

“Yes, so I wanted to find out what Jimmy Morris was doing…”

“Still, man.”

Go Chang-deok slapped Ji-seop on the back.

“How can you try to enter the room of someone you just met today? Americans are very sensitive about that kind of thing.”

“Hehe, that’s true, but…”

As Ji-seop got up with a strange smile, Go Chang-deok studied his expression and asked.

“So… did you happen to see anything?”

“I don’t know about anything else, but there was one thing that caught my eye.”

To be exact, it was the result of reading Jimmy Morris’s mind.

Ji-seop told Go Chang-deok the information he had obtained with difficulty.

“Have you ever heard of ‘Twin Power’?”

“Twin Power?”

“Yes.”

Ji-seop nodded.

“It seemed like the logo ‘Twin Power’ was on Jimmy Morris’s computer screen.”

“You saw that in that short moment?! Seriously, what are you…”

While clicking his tongue, Go Chang-deok took out his cell phone, saying, “Just a moment.”

Ji-seop was watching Go Chang-deok while recalling Jimmy Morris’s inner thoughts from a little while ago.

‘He said it was time to go into Twin Power, right?’

That was Jimmy Morris’s inner thought that suddenly came to him when Ji-seop asked, ‘What are you doing?’

‘Judging by the ‘Power’ thing, it seems like an online game…’

If so, does that mean Jimmy Morris is addicted to online games?

Could it be that he couldn’t sleep on time because he was playing online games, and this led to a decline in his condition?

‘Well, he had headphones around his neck, and it’s not uncommon for players to ruin their condition by playing online games…’

How long was he lost in thought?

Ji-seop turned his head at Go Chang-deok’s voice, ‘Oh!’

“Did you find it?”

“Yeah.”

Go Chang-deok continued.

“To be exact, it was ‘Twitch-Power’, not ‘Twin Power’. That’s why it took me a while to find it.”

“Twitch-Power?”

It seems there was a slight error because it was the inner thoughts of an American.

Ji-seop asked Go Chang-deok again.

“So, what is that ‘Twitch-Power’? Is it an online game?”

“No, it’s not a game…”

Go Chang-deok held up his cell phone.

“It’s a personal internet broadcasting site.”

“Internet broadcasting?”

“Yeah.”

Go Chang-deok shook his head.

“Morris, that bastard… it seems like he’s been doing internet broadcasts every night?”

Got him, this guy.

Go Chang-deok had exactly that expression.

* * *

“Wait a minute.”

Go Chang-deok, who had returned to his lodgings, moved like a fish that had found water [acted freely and comfortably].

“Usually, when Americans broadcast, it’s mostly on YouTube or Twitch… Jimmy Morris seems to be stuck in a very minor place.”

Tapping.

Go Chang-deok typing on the laptop keyboard.

“I’ve never even heard of the name of the broadcasting site… but if I knew Morris was here, it wouldn’t be hard to find.”

And it must have been less than 30 seconds.

When Go Chang-deok muttered briefly, ‘Here it is,’ and tapped the laptop touchpad, a familiar voice to Ji-seop echoed in the room.

-Hey, brothers! Thanks for finding Jimmy’s channel! I’m broadcasting from Okinawa again today!

-If you trained during the day, shouldn’t you be resting now? Hey, isn’t it morning over there? I don’t want to hear that kind of nagging from you leisurely guys watching my broadcast from the morning! Hahaha!

-Where did we talk about yesterday? Ah, right! Vulcan Changeup! Then, shall we talk about how to throw a circle changeup today? Before that, those of you who haven’t pressed the subscribe button yet, go press it first!

It didn’t seem like he had been doing it for just a day or two.

Jimmy Morris’s appearance of proceeding with the broadcast while inducing ‘subscriptions’ and ‘sponsorships’ with a sly expression.

Go Chang-deok, who had been suffering from this guy, seemed to be swearing, ‘Ah, that crazy bastard.’

“Wow, in front of us, he pretends to be a sophisticated and sensitive guy from the major leagues… but on the broadcast, he’s a complete entertainer? A very professional entertainer?”

Go Chang-deok sighed ‘heavily’ and stared blankly at the laptop screen.

He turned his gaze to Ji-seop, who was looking around Jimmy Morris’s channel on his cell phone.

“Ji-seop, what are you going to do? Are you going to do it?”

“Yes? What?”

“What else, report what Morris is doing to the higher-ups.”

Go Chang-deok seemed to have already decided to give Jimmy Morris a ‘hammer blow’ [decisive strike].

“Hey, this is honestly hopeless.”

Go Chang-deok pointed to the laptop screen and continued.

“Look at this guy’s broadcast time. He’s been broadcasting every night from 11 PM to 3 AM the next day.”

“…….”

“And then what does he say to us? Insomnia? He can’t sleep properly, so his condition is deteriorating? Wow, how can he wear a human mask and say such lies?”

Go Chang-deok was about to call Cho Sung-beom, the head of the international business team, right away.

Ji-seop raised his hand, saying, “Wait a minute, wait a minute,” and calmed down the excited Go Chang-deok.

“Don’t get too worked up. Shouldn’t we think about it a little more calmly?”

“Calmly? No, how can I be calm in this situation?”

Go Chang-deok blew out his nose.

“Hey, this is completely ignoring us! It’s ignoring the Cannons, and it’s ignoring Korean baseball! We need to properly teach this guy a lesson!”

“Yes, honestly, I’m really angry too…”

Ji-seop, who had been staring intently at the cell phone screen until then, raised his head for the first time.

“But, hyung [older brother/friend], if we want to get a regular position, we have to recover this guy Morris’s condition.”

“……Hmm?”

When the words ‘regular position’ came out, Go Chang-deok ‘flinched’.

“Didn’t Cho Sung-beom say that? Jimmy Morris’s expulsion is almost a foregone conclusion.”

He said that the process of selecting a replacement foreign player had already begun.

Ji-seop and Go Chang-deok were just ‘lightly trying’ to recover Jimmy Morris’s condition while the work was in progress.

“In the current situation, even if we report about Jimmy Morris, it won’t be recognized as a great achievement.”

“Well, if you want to be picky, it could be used as a basis for not paying the remaining salary…”

Go Chang-deok clicked his tongue.

“From the perspective of the international business team or the operations team, who need a starting pitcher to put on the mound right away… it wouldn’t be that big of a deal.”

‘Hmm,’ Go Chang-deok crossed his arms.

“Then what do we do with this?”

Go Chang-deok looked at Ji-seop.

“Should we try blackmailing him? Showing this broadcast screen to Morris… and threatening to report it to the higher-ups if he doesn’t do it right!”

“Well, that seems like a method worth trying…”

Ji-seop scratched his chin.

“Actually, there’s one thing that’s bothering me right now.”

“A bothering thing?”

“Yes, I just found it while looking at Morris’s channel…”

Ji-seop touched the laptop touchpad and brought up Jimmy Morris’s broadcast list on the screen.

“Could you take a look at this?”

“Where?”

“There, in the middle of the screen, please look at the broadcast title uploaded on January 28th of this year.”

“January 28th is right before our first team’s spring camp starts… Huh?!”

Go Chang-deok widened his eyes and brought his face to the laptop screen.

“W-what is this? Goodbye Brothers… For a Moment?”

If you had to translate it, it would be [Subscribers, I bid you farewell for a moment].

The thumbnail uploaded on the broadcast list included Jimmy Morris’s face smiling brightly while holding a KH Cannons uniform.

“Then what? Even when he first joined our team… Jimmy Morris was planning to quit broadcasting?”

“I think so. And he actually did.”

Ji-seop pointed to the laptop screen.

“Jimmy Morris broadcasted ‘Goodbye for a moment’ or something on January 28th. And he resumed broadcasting on February 8th.”

“A week ago from now?”

“Yes.”

Ji-seop nodded.

“Jimmy Morris, who quit broadcasting while signing a contract with KH, suddenly resumed broadcasting a week ago.”

Between January 28th and February 8th.

Ji-seop mentioned again the period when Jimmy Morris stopped broadcasting.

“If we dig into what happened to Jimmy Morris during this period…”

Swish.

Ji-seop turned his gaze to Go Chang-deok.

“Don’t you think some useful information will come out?”