Installment Four - Trouble Near the Alley

As we return to the post-draft drinking portion of the evening, the subject of Keith has finally been broached and Mike finds out from one of the Three Tequila Musketeers that Keith is no longer working at the dealership and realized that he had stiffed him for the entry fee money. Mike wasn’t worried about the entry fee, since it wasn’t really his money anyway. It was more Keith’s occasional lapses of simmering rage that had him concerned.

“I gotta be honest. He was kind of freaking me out.”

“What do you mean?”

“I don’t know, the way he would look at people, I don’t know. Never mind.”

“Don’t worry about him. He seems to have all his issues worked out.”

“As long as Doug isn’t the commissioner anymore, everything’s fine”, Ron, the most drunken of the Musketeers, quipped, much to his own amusement.

“Doug’s the commissioner? The guy in dry-dock?”, Mike finally asked?

“Duane told you he was drying out? Dude, that’s not right. He is in rehab, but its for an assault. Somebody mugged him when he was going back to his car after bowling. Pretty weird deal. It’s not like its in a bad neighborhood or anything, but you never know, I guess. ”

“So did he piss someone off in the bar or what?”

Despite the rather sobering subject matter, Ron still found that question amusing. “Doug’s about as likely to piss someone off in a bar as Edward Kennedy is to turn down a free drink.”

Don, the one who Mike originally asked the question to, ignored Ron’s rather oblique and dated joke attempt and continued. “They don’t really know who did it at this point. He was in a coma for a few days and what he thinks he remembers doesn’t make much sense. He has a nice car. Someone probably figured he had money. Here’s one for Doug”, lifting his glass.

“To Doug”, as if they really needed another reason to drink.

“So we just call you for roster moves and line-up changes?”

“Yeah, the times and stuff are on your rule sheet.”

"This one guy I know, his whole league is run on the internet.”

“That will never catch on. It’s too expensive and slow.”

So is this setting up suspicion that Keith may have been involved in Doug’s attack or is that a little too on the nose?

Has there been enough clues as to what year this story takes place?

Or didn’t you realize that you would have to look for clues rather than just have the author tell you it was 1998?

Why did the editor answer one question with the next one? Doesn’t that take the fun out reading these?

You mean you actually think these are fun? Don’t we have a high opinion of ourselves?

You’re starting to piss me off you overpaid hack.

But I’m the editor and always get the last word.

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Originally appeared in RABEFL News - Volume 14, Week 4

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