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== Official League Records ==
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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' was a pitcher for the [[Boston Flowers]], was with the team from the {{BetaSeason|15#Election Results|@ elections}} until being [[Incineration|incinerated]] on {{BetaSeason|22}}, Day 19. Forbes previously played for the [[Baltimore Crabs]].
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During the [[Season 5#Election%20Results|Season 5 election]], Forbes received boosts in all ratings as well as a boost in baserunning as a part of the Crabs' ''Horde Hallucinations'' and ''Rollback Netcode'' blessings.
 
  
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On [[Season 6]], Day 1, Forbes was the first to be targeted by [[Blooddrain]], having half a star in batting stolen by [[Yellowstone Magic]] batter [[Annie Roland]].
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==Official League Records==
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Forbes joined the [[ILB]] as a pitcher for the [[Baltimore Crabs]] with {{BetaSeason|1|the Return of Blaseball}}.
  
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== History ==
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During the {{BetaSeason|5#Election Results|@ elections}}, Forbes received boosts in all ratings as a result of the {{BetaSeason|5#Blessings|'''Horde Hallucinations'''}} and {{BetaSeason|5#Blessings|'''Rollback Netcode'''}} blessings.
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{{Community Lore}}
 
  
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Forbes is best known for topping the ''Forbes'' list of Worst Blaseball Pitchers, as well as the list of Worst Pitchers Named Forbes. They are also known to be a stoner and prophet of the Olde One, their visions often beckoning the Great Crab Reckoning, though their gift of prophecy does not seem to aid their sporting ability and as such has not been ruled against. Brock Forbes frequently switches places with an assorted number of interdimensional counterparts.
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On {{BetaSeason|6}}, Day 1, Forbes's batting ability was siphoned by [[Yellowstone Magic]] lineup player [[Annie Roland]] in a game with [[Blooddrain]] weather, bringing it from {{Star Rating|1.5}} to {{Star Rating|1}}. Forbes was the first to be subject to Blooddrain's weather effects.
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=== Early Career ===
 
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Brock Forbes did not try out for the Baltimore Crabs, or any other blaseball team. They entered the Crabs' stadium under the influence of a "fat joint" according to eye witnesses and fell asleep in the dugout, a slumber which lasted five years.
 
  
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During a game, they were handed a blaseball bat and hat by [[Crab Scott]] and in response joined the pitching line up immediately. Forbes wanders on and off the field frequently, possibly due to their drug induced state or perhaps related to their visions. They succeed in letting go of a pitch two percent of the time.
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On {{BetaSeason|10#Day X|@, Day X}}, Forbes pitched against [[THE SHELLED ONE'S PODS]], and lost after a single hit. Forbes then gained the {{ModLink|Mild}} modification. Due to the Crabs' subsequent [[Ascension]], Forbes was absent from the ILB from the {{BetaSeason|10#Election Results|@ elections}} until the [[Ascension#Descension|Descension]].
  
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Brock selected the number 69 for themselves. When quizzed on the meaning of this number by ESPN (ExoSkeletal Player News), Brock simply chuckled and answered with "Oh, you know."
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During the {{BetaSeason|12#Election Results|@ elections}}, Forbes' defense was increased by {{Star Change|3.3|4.0}} as a result of the Crabs' {{BetaSeason|12#Blessings|'''The Rack'''}} blessing. Additionally, Forbes benefited from a {{Star Change|3.7|4.3}} increase to pitching as a result of the Firefighters' {{BetaSeason|12#Blessings|'''Tag Team Pitching'''}} blessing.
  
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=== Season 5 Playoffs : "The Brock Game" ===
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Forbes was traded to the [[Boston Flowers]] in exchange for [[Parker Parra]] during the {{BetaSeason|15#Election Results|@ elections}} via the Flowers' {{BetaSeason|15#Wills|'''Equivalent Exchange'''}} will.
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Brock is known for delivering an outstanding pitching from Game 2 of first round's Season 5 Playoffs, allowing only two points from the Moist Talkers after eleven innings and granting the Crabs their very first ever win in the post-season.
 
  
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== Interdimensional Time Share ==
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During the {{BetaSeason|17#Election Results|@ elections}}, Forbes' [[Player Attributes#Overpowerment|Overpowerment]] was increased and their [[Player Attributes#Unthwackability|Unthwackability]] was decreased as a result of the {{BetaSeason|17#Blessings|'''Grounded'''}} blessing.
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It is unknown exactly when Brock Forbes began sharing physical space with an unlimited number of interdimensional doubles, but it appears to have begun before Forbes' time with the Crabs.  
 
  
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Crabs fans tell conflicting tales of the origins of this "timeshare". Crabitat snack sellers have suggested that Forbes was a quarter short for a jumbo smoothie and a cosmic entity offered to pay the missing change in exchange for signing his blood on an interdimensional subletting agreement.  
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On {{BetaSeason|22}}, Day 19, Forbes was [[Incineration|incinerated]] and replaced by [[Backpatch Rolsenthal]].
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{{Community Lore}}
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Internet forums are often ablaze with rumors that Brock 's copious consumption of cannabis opened his mind to the cosmos and prepared his physical realm for occupation by other entities.
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It is a common legend among Maryland playground children that the Mother Crab itself gave Brock this role as a vanguard for the Great Crab Reckoning; ''Splorts Inundated'' instead suggested it was an out-of-the-box strategy by Crabs coach [[the Clawricle]].
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==Chants==
  
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Regardless of origins, Brock Forbes has been at various times perceived as a doper prophet, a swarm of sea shells, a horseshoe crab floating in Old Bay brackish water, a part-man part-lobster, and a visitor from an alien world who knows only the sport "baseball." The only things that these entities all share are the name "Brock Forbes," team loyalty for the Baltimore Crabs, jersey number 69, and current status as a two-and-a-half star pitcher.
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*"Can't stop the Brock"
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*"Brock our Rock"
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== Chants ==
 
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* "Can't stop the Brock"
 
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== In Literature ==
 
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Runolfio Peeper, the Crabs Poet Laureate, wrote the following ditty about Forbes:
 
  
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==In Literature==
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[[Runolfio Peeper]], the Crabs Poet Laureate, wrote the following ditty about Forbes:
  
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''A haze of smoke drifts from the pitcher’s mound''
 
''A haze of smoke drifts from the pitcher’s mound''
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''Where Brock (or “Fat Joint”) Forbes can now be found.''
 
''Where Brock (or “Fat Joint”) Forbes can now be found.''
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''All know performance boosting drugs are banned''
 
''All know performance boosting drugs are banned''
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''But drugs that make you worse? Those are just grand!''
 
''But drugs that make you worse? Those are just grand!''
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''In terms of blaseball rankings Brock is meager''
 
''In terms of blaseball rankings Brock is meager''
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''His bat is weak—his blunt is the big leaguer''
 
''His bat is weak—his blunt is the big leaguer''
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''Dazed and high, Brock often flunks his pitch''
 
''Dazed and high, Brock often flunks his pitch''
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''But measured by his chill Forbes is thrice rich.''
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''But measured by his chill Forbes is thrice rich.''
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==Trivia==
  
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== Trivia ==
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*Forbes can frequently be seen spacing out on the pitcher's mound before a pitch.
  
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* Brock can frequently be seen spacing out on the pitcher's mound before a pitch.
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==Fan Works==
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File:Brock Forbes - Goblin.jpg|Art by {{Twitter|name=glassgoblin}}
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File:Brock Forbes 2 - Goblin.png|Art by {{Twitter|name=glassgoblin}}
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File:Brock Forbes and Adalberto Tosser Wedding - Goblin.png|The wedding of Forbes and [[Adalberto Tosser]], art by {{Twitter|name=glassgoblin}}
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File:Brock Forbes - toasthaste.png|Art by [https://toasthaste-art.tumblr.com/ '''Toasthaste''']
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File:MiniBrock.png|Mini-Blaseballer by [https://miniblaseball.surge.sh/ '''@HetreaSky''']
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File:FQJRyvJXEAIw YZ.jpg|Brock Forbes linking arms with [[Dunn Keyes]] (right) by [https://twitter.com/glassgoblin/status/1508837254772375557 glassgoblin]
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File:Flowers Brock Forbes Portrait.jpg|Brock Forbes of the Boston Flowers by [https://twitter.com/glassgoblin/status/1508837254772375557 glassgoblin]
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Latest revision as of 23:29, 16 January 2023

Brock Forbes was a pitcher for the Boston Flowers, was with the team from the Season β15 elections until being incinerated on Season β22, Day 19. Forbes previously played for the Baltimore Crabs.

Official League Records

Forbes joined the ILB as a pitcher for the Baltimore Crabs with the Return of Blaseball.

During the Season β5 elections, Forbes received boosts in all ratings as a result of the Horde Hallucinations and Rollback Netcode blessings.

On Season β6, Day 1, Forbes's batting ability was siphoned by Yellowstone Magic lineup player Annie Roland in a game with Blooddrain weather, bringing it from to . Forbes was the first to be subject to Blooddrain's weather effects.

On Season β10, Day X, Forbes pitched against THE SHELLED ONE'S PODS, and lost after a single hit. Forbes then gained the Mild modification. Due to the Crabs' subsequent Ascension, Forbes was absent from the ILB from the Season β10 elections until the Descension.

During the Season β12 elections, Forbes' defense was increased by 3.3 → 4.0 as a result of the Crabs' The Rack blessing. Additionally, Forbes benefited from a 3.7 → 4.3 increase to pitching as a result of the Firefighters' Tag Team Pitching blessing.

Forbes was traded to the Boston Flowers in exchange for Parker Parra during the Season β15 elections via the Flowers' Equivalent Exchange will.

During the Season β17 elections, Forbes' Overpowerment was increased and their Unthwackability was decreased as a result of the Grounded blessing.

On Season β22, Day 19, Forbes was incinerated and replaced by Backpatch Rolsenthal.

COMMUNITY REPORTS
The remainder of this article contains lore created collaboratively by the Blaseball community.

Box of Brock Forbes Files

Dust billows as the file box lands on the table. While many archives in the Interdimensional Rumor Mill are unified in some way, this... definitely isn’t one of them. The accompanying Rumor Registry explains all of the contents... wherever it is... but for now you grab the folder labelled IF-182.43 and start reading...

Dimensional Anomaly Gang

Brock Forbes, Sutton Dreamy, and Parker Parra found shared connection with one another as anomalous beings on the team.

Brock and Parker share a love of abstract higher maths, particularly topology. They once explained to other Crabs that, while Brock lies on every parallel universe at once, Parker intersects this universe from outside of the multiverse, making them essentially perpendicular to one another. Nobody is sure if this is supposed to be a weird math joke or something, so they laugh just in case.

Brock and Sutton don't have too much in common, but Brock feels a particular need to make sure she's doing well, in part because she was manifested by Combs Duende who was one of their closest friends. Sutton can enjoy Brock's company, but it has not been confirmed as to whether this is because she cannot read his dreamscape at all which makes him a mystery, whether their interdimensional time share renders them immune to her self-diagnosed dream parasitism, or whether she can actually perceive Brock's psyche more clearly than anyone but his mother ever could and therefore is able to navigate all of the psychological and emotional barriers they've put up. They enjoy sitting around and zoning out together, nobody has actually confirmed if Sutton is high or sober during these chillouts.

Passing the Torch

In season 13 when the Crabs returned from The Big Leagues, they called up Jacoby Podcast from the shadows; recruiting them to the Crabs rotation. Podcast was quick to see Forbes as a mentor, both in play and outside the diamond. The two of them had similar pitching styles and Forbes was quick to explain the finer points of his plays when Podcast asked. The two fell into a comfortable routine of communication and practice, with Forbes being understanding of Podcast’s competitive nature and tendency to lay face down in the outfield when things weren’t going their way.

In season 16 after a tumultuous election, Forbes was now playing for the Boston Flowers and Podcast playing for the Ohio Worms. Forbes quickly realized just how much that relationship meant to him, and was quick to miss the firecracker of a pitcher that was Jacoby Podcast. Podcast was not receptive to attempts to reach out, with cries of being abandoned in Ohio despite reminders from other Worms that this was a regular outcome of the election. On Season 16 day 47 Forbes was able to force a reunion between the two when they played against one another in The Wormhole. The game went into extra innings, with Podcast letting up two home runs in the top of the 14th to end the game.

They refused to speak to Forbes afterwards.

After a reverb of the Flower’s rotation, Forbes was given another opportunity to pitch against his student on day 75. The game once again went into extra innings, with the Worms being shamed with 2 runs in the bottom of the 10th. This time when Podcast attempted to snub their mentor, Forbes simply applied their considerable experience in martial combat to immobilize Podcast while he talked about his feelings. It is not clear what was said in The Garden but in the weeks since the two have been seen hesitantly meeting up when not in games to practice together.

When speaking of the relationship Forbes has been quoted as saying “It’ll be nice to have a legacy that is more than betrayal.’’

Chants

  • "Can't stop the Brock"
  • "Brock our Rock"

In Literature

Runolfio Peeper, the Crabs Poet Laureate, wrote the following ditty about Forbes:

A haze of smoke drifts from the pitcher’s mound
Where Brock (or “Fat Joint”) Forbes can now be found.
All know performance boosting drugs are banned
But drugs that make you worse? Those are just grand!

In terms of blaseball rankings Brock is meager
His bat is weak—his blunt is the big leaguer
Dazed and high, Brock often flunks his pitch
But measured by his chill Forbes is thrice rich.

Trivia

  • Forbes can frequently be seen spacing out on the pitcher's mound before a pitch.

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