Explanatory
Note:
Nick
Punto was released by the A’s on December 19th, 2014. No new news surfaced, until, on January 7th,
2015 it was reported he had signed a minor league contract with the
Diamondbacks. Yet on the fateful day of
February 20th, 2015, it was announced that he would not be attending
spring training, and would be sitting out the rest of the season, “to spend
time with his family”. Some believe that
this was simply Punto waiting to retire in order to collect the 2.75 million
dollars the A’s still owed him. But
that’s what he wants you to think. The
truth is, Nick Punto has some old scores, and he’s been fixin’ to settle them
for a while. Nick Punto is not “spending
time with his family”, he, along with one or more accomplices, are out there,
right now, and they’re hungry for revenge.
In the process, they might just save baseball. This is that story.
They were somewhere around Barstow
on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. Punto had smoked a
J to try and calm his nerves, but it wasn’t helping. The 77’ Firebird screamed across the
California desert. The thirsty V8 roared under the hood as the car accelerated to
over 90 mph. Nick Punto’s knuckles
whitened on the steering wheel. The air
screamed in through the opened window, and Punto was reminded of the time Elvis
Andrus dared him to touch Adrian Beltre’s head. The speedometer needle edged passed 100 mph,
but Punto kept his eyes fastened to the road, and his foot to the floor. Jason Bartlett suddenly snapped into consciousness
in the passenger seat.