OOC: For the course of this WBC I will be RPing interchangeably between this documentary about the end of a chapter involving two longtime Grim Reapers and baseball legends, and a separate, somewhat superhero-esque TWGS season that I had been RPing since the WCQ92 about what caused complicated geographic positioning of Quebec and Shingoryeo's dual-region status. Hope you will enjoy it.
Primary reference material:Memoires d'Athletes - Do Or Die, the 2038 story of Quebecois HS Baseball's Greatest Match
Other reference materials: RPs from WBC 53 (Theo and Myeong-Shin's story with Haley's song, a Grim Reapers' anthem), TWGS Season Two 'Auld Lang Syne' (involves the story of the narrator)
A slow, dramatic title sequence shows up with a rhythm guitar playing from the background. Montages of various Quebecois domestic sports leagues laminate. It begins with footballers arguing and brawling in the middle of the Shingoryeoite Superclassic pitting the dark-blue jerseys of Montreal Koreana and CSKA Quebec, before proceeding to the courtside duel between legendary basketball rivals Riley Jeon-Keane on centre and Allison the point guard. We would then shift to the montage of the old, 1960s match between Calaniens de Songak and Kingston Knights in the grey.
Those historic images then shift into something more contemporary, with a two-dozen Grim Reapers rushing the field after the final out was recorded on Game 5 of the WBC 54 third-place series. The baseballers and the members of the coaching staff would blast champagne at each other, before lifting their manager, Choe Bong-Hak, up into the air, which is then followed by the images of memorable scenes between their two retired numbers, third-baseman Heo Myeong-Shin and outfielder Theo-Alexandre Pinson. Those images show their time in Cassadaigua, the QBO, and then high school where the duo had played as rivals and would come to walk off for one last time.
At last, the massive signage 'For the Last Time: HP-Jeon (HP전), the stories of 2057 Quebec Series' comes up, putting the documentary's one-minute intro to a close.
Narrator: The Autumn of 2057 is best remembered as the final of many chapters drawn by the HP Duo of Quebecois baseball, who are often considered to be the two greatest baseball players to have ever played with Quebec and Shingoryeo. Now we look into the memories and the stories of the 2057 Quebec Series, as the Kingston Tigers and the Montevicio Dodgers would face each other for the first time since 1988.
This documentary will provide the coverage of the days leading up to, during, and after the series that's considered to be one of the greatest Quebec Series ever played. We will see the past and the present interchange as the players and the coaches of the two historic franchises, who are stylistically contrasting to each other, and how it reflects into the very Quebec Series. By doing so, 'For the Last Time' hopes to deliver an engaging portrait of Quebecois baseball that is in its golden age.
'Nervous? Am I?' answers Theo-Alexandre Pinson, tall, grizzled first baseman of the Montevicio Dodgers answering a question at the pre-series media conference. 'If I were nervous I would not have even crossed the Hyeolhae (Quebeco-Korean term for Blood Sea that separates northern Anaia and southern Rushmore -e.d.-) at age 28. Or joining the Dodgers when it was time to come home.'
Theo-Alexandre Pinson's entering his third season with the Montevicio Dodgers, where he is in the final year of a three-year, $63 million NSD (21 million Quebecois pounds) contract. The 37-year-old is nothing new to the travel, having won two Quebec Series with Saguenay Lions over a decade ago, but even then he is feeling slight tension around his face and neck. The pressure of being on what could be the last of five Quebec Series, combined with one trip to the Dagan Series, is certainly there, even as he had promised to go on as long as possible in his career.
'What about you, Myeong-Shin? As with Theo here, you are no stranger to the Quebec Series, but you have made it clear that this, or next year, could be your last one as a baseball player. Do you feel any bit nervous about it?' Same journalist, a twenty-two-year-old male on his first serious business trip since his hiring about two months ago, asks Heo Myeong-Shin, the longtime captain of Kingston Tigers and formerly the Quebecois national baseball team. He had earlier asked the same question to Theo-Alexandre.
'Mmmm,' Myeong-Shin takes a bit longer to answer. Unlike Theo, the Tigers' hot corner is bit more careful with his words. 'I know that the narrative revolves around me and Theo. It goes back two decades - High school, college, and even in Cassadaigua. Is it a matter of coincidence? I believe not - and that's made possible because we worked to best each other. Of course, there will come one time when I'll retire and he will still go on, but that's respective choices we make in our lives and legends remain legends that way.'
'Wish I could say it like he does,' Theo adds a comment, causing everybody including Myeong-Shin to chuckle. The nature of their friendship goes back, all the way to their mothers' friendship dating back to their Queen's College days in the early-2010s. Since starting baseball, they, alongside the likes of Samuel Carlini-Mwambutsya, Kevin Buchanan, and Horace Choo, came to define a golden generation of talent who emerged in the early Taewha era of Quebecois baseball. Now, with Choo retiring after a lengthy carrier at the Llamaphant Pro Baseball, Carlini-Mwambutsya on a slowdown phase of his career, what could be their last-ever postseason duel is the one that drives the sporting narrative in Quebec and Shingoryeo. The one that began over twenty years ago.
