Today in the CBO
News and Notes - Reports from around the Commonwealth
by Nat Wright-Kowalski
5 March 2297 – Shaw Looking to Change Name
Uranium fever may be a reality of the fallout, but name change fever has seemed to take hold. In the latest news involving a team changing its name, the Shaw High School Knuckle Punchers are on the clock.
The Knuckle Punchers, also called Shaw HS, plans to drop the high school portion of their name. That is right now, though it cannot be official without petitioning at the correct time during the offseason. The name will officially change for the 2298 season, but the team no longer wants to be defined by the location of its stadium. The team is in the process of changing its marketing to start using its settlement location, Roxbury, rather than Shaw HS, a high school that was named after a Union general from a war over 400 years ago. The Knuckle Punchers have also released media files mentioning the Roxbury name as part of its stadium, which will officially be known at Atomatoys Stadium at Roxbury.
The team will feature some changes to its circle logo and will also change its road jersey to drop the “HS” from it.
Roxbury is the name of the pre-war town, and Nate Howard has been pushing for that name to come back from his days in the 21st century. By the Knuckle Punchers featuring the name of Roxbury, perhaps more teams will identify the area as Roxbury rather than some of the surrounding sites like Shaw HS and West Roxbury Station.
8 March 2297 – Nuka World to be Site of Baseball League
Nuka-Cola founder John-Caleb Bradberton announced today through a press release to Publick Occurrences, Diamond City Radio, Atom Cats Radio, and WRVR that there will be professional baseball in and around Nuka World.
Bradberton said the league would be entirely owned by him as an independent league of eight teams all based on flavors of Nuka-Cola: Cherry, Dark, Grape, Orange, Quantum, Quartz, Victory, and Wild.
The league is still working on building decent talent so that not all players will leave for the CBO. Also, Bradberton is working to increase security in the area and build good ballparks for the teams. He stated through the release that the league is planned to start playing ball in 2399.
10 March 2297 – Shoemaker Making Progress
Fairline Hill Estates manager David Meatcook said one player stood out to him more than any other at recent practices. Rookie catcher Tyler Shoemaker.
“The kid’s been hitting well, catching well,” Meatcook said. “Hell, even running well for a big galoot.”
Meatcook said that Shoemaker has been taking in all instruction and then performing.
“We’re going to try to give him a look during the tournament. One thing is for sure. He’s going to dominate at Eastlake if that’s where he’s going to play.”
Shoemaker, the 4th-round pick of the Yao Guai, number 82 overall in the 2296 Rookie Draft, did not have many expectations. He said, “I know what the scouting reports said. Can’t handle a full workload. Can’t adapt to the CBO game. Questionable work ethic. OK. Nice report. Let me prove them all wrong.”
11 March 2297 – Accident at Construction Site Leaves Knuckle Puncher Injured
Shaw Knuckle Punchers catcher Dirt Potter had unfortunate luck as he was touring a construction site just outside The Slog.
Because of more demand from the ghoul population to live in or near The Slog due to the CBO baseball team’s success, there was a lot of construction going on in the area. Although there were signs warning of the danger, the younger members of the community and visiting players ignored those warnings to check out the public housing being built. That is when a portion of the structure collapsed, pinning Potter underneath the rubble.
A construction crew removed enough rubble to remove Potter from the wreckage, but it appeared Potter suffered a crushed spine. He was airlifted to Medford Memorial Hospital where they hope to stabilize him.
The Institute has some capabilities of repairing parts of the human body through their synth technology. Knuckle Punchers team trainer Alex Trujillo said that the team had been in contact with the Institute and they would send members of its Robotics and BioScience divisions to Medford Memorial to analyze Potter’s injuries.
“He’s out,” Knuckle Punchers manager Squatty O’Sullivan said in disgust. “He might be out for good. I guess we’ll see what the Institute can do for him, but he ain’t smelling the field in ’97.”
O’Sullivan expressed his dismay on players doing something stupid before the tournament.
“We’re trying to turn this ship around from the disaster that was last season,” O'Sullivan said. “I can teach baseball. I don’t know if I can teach smarts. Maybe the whole team will learn.”
Ace pitcher and team captain Brad Westing said the team would rally around Potter in the Battle for the North tournament. “We’re going to win this for Dirt.”