Ch 69
4.
“sorry.”
Lee Jin-yong, who came out of the supervisor’s office with an apology, let out a long sigh with the sound of the door closing.
Kim Jin-ho looked at him like that and said, looking at him.
– You bastard.
“Why?”
– Do you have any problem with the bastard saying that you are a torai?
“It can be a little bit like that when you’re in the mood.”
Along with the words, Jinyong Lee chewed the cud once again in his mind about today’s spectacular day.
Bench clearing, striking out 11 batters in a row, diamond roulette… The memories that were absolutely ecstatic started to turn into a bad feeling the moment we got to the interview scene.
“Sheesh, did I know? You shouldn’t shout so suddenly during the broadcast.”
The climax of that bad feeling was the moment when Jinyong Lee suddenly shouted out cheers.
– Hey, bastard, shouldn’t someone teach you that? It’s common sense not to do weird things during the broadcast, common sense!
Broadcasting is dealing with an unspecified number of people, so there shouldn’t be anything sudden.
Of course, if someone suddenly made a nonsensical noise during an interview, it was a broadcast accident.
– I thought you were going to buy it someday! I knew it!
Even at the sound of heavy rain from Jin-yong Lee, announcer Seo-young was surprised and chirped! There was even a scream and the surprised PD ended the interview abruptly, creating an atmosphere as if an accident had really occurred.
Even if it wasn’t an accident, it was an accident.
“Ugh.”
Jinyong Lee let out another long sigh and took out his smartphone.
Then, he immediately touched his article that appeared on the main page of the baseball section of the portal site.
First of all, I checked the comments.
The comments that received the most sympathy were revealed.
– You bastard again.
– You crazy bastard.
– Crazy asshole, you bastard.
Normal comments were not seen, and Lee Jin-yong’s expression naturally frowned.
– Whoa!
Of course, Kim Jin-ho’s expression brightened.
– After all, the eyes of all people are the same, the same! Isn’t that right, you crazy bastard, you bastard Jinyong Lee?
“Shut up.”
– I don’t want to shut up, you crazy little bastard?
“Ah, really.”
Jinyong Lee scrolled up with a grudge and began to read the article slowly.
At that moment, Jinyong Lee said as if he had found something.
“It’s the second time I’ve had an accident like this.”
– A broadcast accident?
At that, Jinho Kim said with a laugh.
– It’s not the first time you’ve been a kid like you? What the hell was there again? huh? is that kid i know?
“Do you think it’s someone you know?”
– who?
“·······This broadcast accident is the second since the late Kim Jin-ho, who participated in the 2000 Sydney Olympics 17 years ago, said abusive language during an interview.”
While talking, Jin-yong Lee looked at Jin-ho Kim, and Jin-ho Kim said, avoiding Jin-yong Lee’s gaze.
– It’s a broadcast accident, it’s just that I was screaming because I was in a good mood, and then something similar came out… You know, I lived in America for a while, didn’t I?
“It’s such a messy world, isn’t it? It’s prickly, it’s prickly.”
– Hey, the skill was better this time than that. Let’s see.
Jinyong Lee nodded at those words.
It was a sign of compromise, and Lee Jin-yong immediately brought out two new incomes.
[Ball Master]
– Make one of your A-rank pitches into Master Rank.
[iron man]
– Skill Rating: None
– Skill Effect: Skills can be used without consuming HP.
– The iron man effect is applied up to 9 innings.
As soon as he saw the income he took out, Jinyong Lee’s heart started beating again. I started to get excited.
It was so right.
– Damn it, seeing this suddenly makes me feel bad again.
That’s why this harvest was so great.
– Even if you say that the ball master is like that, the ironman skill is completely fraudulent, right?
First of all, the ironman skill was a skill beyond imagination for Lee Jin-yong, who was struggling with physical strength.
– You really just eat it raw, eat it raw!
If you receive the iron man effect, there will be no additional stamina consumed when using the Rising Fastball or Plantation Battle.
“Isn’t one magical inning less effective?”
Of course, because the iron man effect and the magic one inning effect overlap effectively, the one inning magic skill became meaningless because of the iron man skill.
– That’s disgusting.
But it wasn’t even a matter of concern.
From now on, Jinyong Lee will use 9 innings of magic instead of 1 inning of magic.
It wasn’t a matter of sleeping and complaining.
Moreover, Jinyong Lee now has a new weapon that cannot be compared with this.
“More than that, two-seam and splitter, which one would you like to master?”
ball master.
It was literally an item that raised one pitch to Master Rank or S Rank.
In addition, Jinyong Lee’s current A-rank pitches are a two-seam fastball and a split-finger fastball.
“Both have so many strengths that it hurts my head.”
The two pitches were clearly different in their characteristics.
“There is nothing like a two-seam for inducing a hitter, and there is nothing like a splitter for inducing a wasteful swing……”
I really like my mom and I like my dad.
– Jin Yong-ah.
Jin-ho Kim gladly gave advice to Jin-yong Lee, who was in such trouble.
– Let’s think rationally.
“Is it reasonable?”
– When do you think the item called Ball Master will come out again?
Jin-yong Lee answered Kim Jin-ho’s question after a short deliberation.
“It will be difficult to get out. Maybe it won’t come out all season.”
Diamond Roulette can be obtained only by consuming 100,000 points or leaving a record that will go down in history.
“You may not get it next season.”
It is not easy to obtain, and the probability of getting a ball master from the diamond roulette obtained in that way is less.
As Jinyong Lee said, you may not be able to get the ball master item this year or next year, maybe even the year after.
– right? But isn’t it too expensive to just use such an item here?
With a horse, Jin-ho Kim came up behind Jin-yong Lee and put his hands on his shoulders and said.
– Good two-seam, good splitter. But think about it. What kind of ball will you throw the most in your future baseball life? what do you think
“That would be a four-shim.”
– Yeah, unless you’re a knuckleballer, the most pitcher throws in his lifetime is the four-seam. And one more thing, there’s a slider.
“A slider?”
Jinyong’s eyes lit up.
– Aren’t you curious what the sliders in Master Rank look like?
“I’m curious.”
– right? Not to mention, the slider is all-around. In a sense, only the strengths of two-seam and splitter were combined. It induces batting, and also induces vain swings. is not it?
“Yes.”
– Well then, let’s see it in common sense. To 100 pitchers, if you were to select a change ball to make a master rank among the ball pitches excluding the four-seam, how many kids do you think would choose the slider?
“About sixty or seventy?”
In response to Jinyong Lee’s answer, Jinho Kim said with a smirk.
– And there’s a changeup.
“ah!”
– Jin Yong-ah, I admire a lot of pitchers, but there aren’t many who admit that I pitched better than myself. There’s one pitcher who admits that I’m really, really, really clear about pitching better than this bastard me.
“Pedro Martinez . . .”
– Yeah, not that human. What made him such a non-human human being?
“It’s a changeup.”
In response to that answer, Jinho Kim did not continue to speak.
Jin-yong Lee began to worry about Kim Jin-ho’s advice, and after that, he sighed.
“Kim Jin-ho’s advice is correct. It’s definitely not worth it now.”
– right?
Kim Jin-ho, who is rejoicing.
[The rank of the splitter has become the master rank.]
At that moment, Jinyong Lee immediately used his ball master skill on the splitter.
– uh? Jinyoung?
“Is that so?”
Jin-yong Lee said while looking at Jin-ho Kim with an absurd expression.
“Like last time, you keep selling drugs these days, so you have to say something that makes sense. What are you saving? It would be beneficial for anyone to use this and earn points right away.”
– Oh, really!
“If you want to sell drugs, sell them properly.”
Kim Jin-ho, who could not achieve what he wanted, shut his mouth tightly after those words, and Lee Jin-yong laughed at seeing such a Kim Jin-ho.
That’s how Jinyong Lee’s gorgeous Sunday ended.
5.
Daegu Stadium.
The place where the final match of the three-week match between the Ravens and the Angels took place was already in the climax of summer due to the heat of the crowd.
It was the third game in a situation where they had already exchanged 1 win and 1 loss, so the enthusiasm was even worse.
Even in the 7th inning, the score of both teams was 2-4, the difference between the Angels and the Ravens by 2 points.
“Two Ravens, give me two points somehow!”
“Angels, you bastards, stop it somehow! Stop it even by plucking your shoulders!”
The fans of both teams were really cheering against evil, and the coaching staff of both teams were constantly exchanging opinions, talking about a spear to pierce the opponent and a shield to block the spear.
Truly a place of writing.
There were only two types of people who watched the game with leisure in the field.
“Both teams fight very desperately.”
“Both teams have to somehow win to get into the ranking fight that will start in June.”
“Hey, it’s hard to compete for ranking in July. From then on, I will be busy maintaining the rankings.”
One class was journalists.
Those who do not need to be enthusiastic about winning or losing, just accept the results objectively.
“More than that, the Rangers have no money, and the power analysis team is very full. Did five people come here today alone?”
“Is it the owner’s policy? Saving about 230 million won as a player’s ransom and hiring three or four more power analysts. In fact, the results are coming out. The power analysis team is the best in the league.”
The other was none other than the power analysis team of the Gocheok Rangers, who came to analyze today’s game.
The reason why the Rangers’ power analysis team led a considerable number of people here and to Daegu Stadium was because of the Angels.
“Do you think Angels batters are getting better?”
“Aren’t the original ransom prices not normal? To be honest, looking at the ransom price and my career so far, I couldn’t understand the results so far.”
This weekend, the Angels were the team the Rangers welcomed at their home stadium, Gocheok Dome.
In addition, this power analysis team was one of the secrets to how Rangers achieved good results recently in the absence of strong support from large corporations, unlike other professional baseball teams.
“More than that, Park Junhyung, this guy is definitely a thing.”
The Rangers, who can’t do things like snatching big fish as free agents by paying more than billions of won by other clubs, had to somehow pursue low-cost, high-efficiency, and they were more expensive than others like Billy Bean, the former Oakland Athletics general manager. I could only survive if I had excellent analytical skills.
“He is not at the level where team leader Byun Byun was originally here. He’s a talented player who even flew in the major leagues.”
At the center of it was Oh Jae-woo, the leader of the Rangers’ power analysis team.
“Your team leader is also from the Major League, right?”
“Not everyone from the major leagues is Kim Jin-ho.”
Oh Jae-Woo.
He was also a scout and a power analyst in the major leagues, and was a man who grew thick there.
“Hey, isn’t the team leader from the Dodgers too?”
It was also not just a joke, he was a professional who made enough results in a prestigious club called the LA Dodgers and was treated like that.
“How many scouts and power analysts from the Dodgers are… it’s meaningless.”
In fact, he had no intention of coming to Korea.
Because he belongs to a prestigious club that can be respected just for working there, there was no reason for him to come to the Korean professional baseball stage, where he had no place to work or to be treated.
“But if you stayed there…”
“There is no if in baseball.”
If it wasn’t for his wife’s illness.
If he did, he would still be active as a scout or power analyst for a major league club.
Of course, as he said, there was no if in baseball and in life.
He was now the leader of the Rangers’ power analysis team, and his role was to provide the analyzed data to help the Rangers win the Rangers vs. Angels match starting tomorrow.
“Is Jinyong Lee the Angels starting tomorrow against us?”
And the first material of the analysis was Jin-yong Lee, who became a problem as a giraffe child of Korean professional baseball overnight.
“Yes.”
“He’s a great player.”
“Awesome.”
After starting on Sunday, he took a break for four days on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.
Above all, it was not at all strange that Jin-yong Lee, who had already clearly demonstrated his worth and skills to the world, now became the 4th starter of the Angels and appeared in the first match of three consecutive weekend matches against the Rangers.
“To pitch like that with that spec, distribution is distribution, but he is a really clever pitcher.”
However, the Rangers were not afraid of such Lee Jin-yong.
“Yeah, it’s amazing that those specs achieve that kind of performance.”
“Yes. To achieve such a result with that specification.”
Jinyong Lee, he was definitely great.
But to be honest, his greatness was never the greatness of the specs he had.
“In other words, it means that there is a fatal flaw in the lack of specifications.”
He throws an excellent change ball, has ball composition, has distribution, and has control, but in the end, the most basic specifications and speed of a pitcher he had were below the Korean professional baseball average.
“If you understand the style and the number of targets through that style, there is no reason why it cannot be defeated. That’s why the professional world is scary.”
If you can read Jinyong Lee’s changing ball, read his style, and predict the ball mix, there’s no reason why he couldn’t attack his ball at a pro level.
And now, the Rangers power analysis team had already finished analyzing it.
“If Jinyong Lee comes on the mound just like before the Titans, the match will be easier than I thought.”
“Of course it will come like that. Would you like to change your pitching style with 11 strikeouts in a row?”
Lee Jin-yong’s pitching style and how he would play against the Rangers had been predicted.
A person who came to the same conclusion as the Rangers’ power analysis team was now here, at Daegu Stadium.
– Jin Yong-ah.
“What nonsense are you going to say this time?”
– Bullshit? When did I lie to you?
“When I went to the bathroom a while ago, I was trying to go through the wall saying it was a women’s restroom across the street, but I couldn’t, so what did you say to me?”
– When did I?
“You want me to go closer to the wall?”
– You’re telling me to get close to the toilet because I’m peeing, how is that interpreted in that sense?
“Yeah, you will. So, what nonsense are you going to say this time?”
– Do you know Tom Glavine?
“Of course I do.”
– So can you throw like Tom Glavine?
“Yes?”
Jinho Kim.
He gave Lee Jin-yong a new task.
End