Pre-Game Stuff

[ways_diamond]

There's a moment, before the game begins, when a baseball diamond may just be one of the most beautiful things on Earth . . . even if it's not, technically speaking, on any version of Earth.

In that moment, the grass is a lush and perfect checkerboard and chalk gleams in not-yet-smudged baselines and foul linesCastiel has built up a pitcher's

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[ever_noteful]

"And now," Meg continues, "we are honored to welcome Milliways Head Barman Michael J. Angelo"

-- hey, it's how he wanted his named given, and she has learned that lesson with the Captain Jack Sparrow thing --

"to throw out the first pitch."

[thursdays_angel]

Castiel is still puzzling over the song.

It's not what he's used to hearing at ball games. But then, this is Milliways.

At Mike the Barman steps onto the pitcher's mound, Castiel pulls his mask down and takes his place behind home plate.

[thursdays_angel]

Castiel has no idea what Mike the Barman is shaking his head at. And the pitch itself is, to his eyes, fairly unorthodox.

But it does serve its purpose. Castiel's glove closes easily around the ball.

The game has officially begun.

[ways_diamond]

Leading things off, for the Milliways Paradoxes, is number 75, the short stop, Sari Sumdac.