In an effort to spice this up, I'm going to try to do a quick scouting report on one player from each team as I play them.
The
Barbaric Yawps (23780), which I’m told are a type of primitive feral dog rumored to have stalked the plains of Mongolia, took on the Jests last Tuesday night in a relative thriller. After crushing defeats of 25 and 15 points, the Jests narrowed the gap to 10 points. At this rate we are comfortable projecting that we will beat the Yawps sometime before we colonize Mars, possibly even this decade.
As mentioned above, if I can muster up the effort to continue this going forward, I'll try to do previews, but in this case we’ll dwell on the past and talk a little bit about one player who has been a particular nuisance,
Manuel Prado del Rey (23833166). In the three aforementioned games
(85576250),
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(78998102), MPR has led all scorers with 77 points or 25.7 ppg. You’d think we’d put a body on him by now but alas. The best we could muster was holding him to a pedestrian 17 points in season 3.
Manuel Prado del Rey was acquired by the Yawps in season 25 for an impressive $973k. Since then he has been a spectacularly average player, scoring 12.4, 14.0, 13.0, 13.6, 14.5, 12.8 and 9.1 points per game each season. Despite this, he still remains a thorn in the Jests side.
But there is more to MPR than just basketball and his inability to grow an even hairline. His last name, Prado del Rey makes his Spanish heritage clear, and actually translates to
Meadow of the King. It is also the name of a city in the Cadiz province of Spain where his great, great, great, great grandfather ruled over the local populace. Since then, and through many generations of keeping it in the family, with brothers marrying sisters, cousins, and even the occasional aunt, the family’s reign started to crumble, forcing Manuel to set out and seek his fortune elsewhere, leading him into the welcome arms of the Yawps.