Charleston Shoe Thieves/Beta/Season 23

👟 Charleston Shoe Thieves
Season 23
Dates	July 19, 2021 - July 25, 2021
← Previous	Season 22
Next →	Season 24
Results
Overall Record	57-42
Wins	67
Divine Favor	13
Division	2nd in Mild Low
League	3rd in Mild League
ILB Placement	9th overall
Roster Changes
Date Change Cause β23 26 - Blood Hamburger + Inky Rutledge 👟 Fax Machine β23 35 - Velasquez Alstott + Blood Hamburger 👟 Voicemail β23 45 - Tad Seeth + Vernon Shotwell 👟 Voicemail β23 81 - Rhys Rivera 🛠️ Phantom Thieves' Guild β23 84 Richardson Games Gunther O'Brian 👟 Reverb β23 90 - Gunther O'Brian + Orion Ultrabass 👟 Incineration β23 SC + Abbott Wright 💫 Falling Stars β23 EL - Bennett Takahashi 🌮 Blessing (🌮) Gachapon
Tidings
scoring play   👟 +  Under ReviewThis Team is Under Review...
Party Favors
Team Containment Crate   👟 +  ContainmentThis Player cannot spread Instability. See also: Glossary
Blessings
Gachapon   👟 - Bennett Takahashi

In Season β23 the Charleston Shoe Thieves finished second in Mild and won enough games to qualify for the postseason for the first time since Season 11.

Starting Roster

Lineup	Rotation
Simon Haley Conner Haley Tad Seeth Stu Trololol Oscar Dollie Jordan Hildebert Velasquez Alstott Esme Ramsey Agan Harrison Richardson Games	Gunther O'Brian Blood Hamburger Cornelius Games Snyder Briggs
Shadows
William Boone Oliver Hess Bennett Takahashi Vernon Shotwell 👥 Gallup Murphy Drosophila Fashion Inky Rutledge 👥 Badgerson Stromboli Tevin Melcon 👥 Carter Oconnor Rhys Rivera Donna Milicic 👥 Rodriguez Sunshine Simba Davis 👥 Donia Johnson Jorge Owens Dovydas Peeps

Season

Stadium Renovations

• 
  Antigraphene - 2,565,916 Coins Spent
  • The Shoe Thieves rebuilt the Fortifications of The Choux with Antigraphene.
  • The Choux gained the Antigraphene modification.
    • +  AntigrapheneFortifications are 5x more eDense than usual in this Ballpark.
• 
  Night + - 2,105,721 Coins Spent
  • The Choux will now have more Night.

Gifts

The Shoe Thieves were listed as top contributors to the Houston Spies with 10%.

• 
  Shoe Thieves received 2 Gifts! - 4,206,050 coins contributed
  • Top Contributors:
    • 🕵️ Spies - 28%
    • 🛠️ Mechanics - 13%
    • 🗣️ Moist Talkers - 11%
  • 
    Steel Chair Drop - Wishlist #1
    • Richardson Games dropped Slimy Smooth Socks.
      • - Slimy Smooth Socks
    • Richardson Games gained Charitable Steel Chair of Intelligence.
      • + Charitable Steel Chair of Intelligence
      • +  SteeledThis Player has Steeled themselves against incoming attacks.
      • Overall 23.8 -> 23.8 + 0.4
  • 
    Late to the Party, Team Edition - Wishlist #2
    • The Shoe Thieves are equipped with Late to the Party for the rest of the season!
      • +  Late to the PartyThis Team or Player will Overperform in the Lateseason.

Roster Changes

In Season 23, the Shoe Thieves experienced an incineration, a Reverb, a Fax, two Voicemails and a Thieves' Guild steal.

• On Day 26, Blood Hamburger was Shadow Faxed for Inky Rutledge.
  • This very same swap also happened exactly a season earlier, on Season 22 Day 26.
• On Day 35, Velasquez Alstott was Voicemailed for Blood Hamburger.
• On Day 45, Tad Seeth was Voicemailed for Vernon Shotwell.
• On Day 81, the Pillar's Phantom Thieves Guild stole Rhys Rivera from the Shoe Thieves' Shadows.
• On Day 84, several players were shuffled in the Reverb. This resulted in Richardson Games pitching and Gunther O'Brian batting.
  • The Reverb consisted of three exchanges, all involving Stu Trololol.
    • Stu Trololol -> , Gunther O'Brian ->
    • Stu Trololol -> , Snyder Briggs -> (this had no effect on positions or rotation order)
    • Stu Trololol -> , Richardson Games ->
• On Day 90, Gunther O'Brian was incinerated, replaced by Orion Ultrabass. Gunther had been turned Unstable on Day 88.
  • Agan Harrison, Esme Ramsey and Jordan Hildebert, who had all been turned Unstable, survived.

Upon qualifying for the postseason, the Shoe Thieves earned Slosh Gulp as a postseason birth.

Notable Games

• On Day 3, Agan Harrison was turned Unstable by Silvaire Roadhouse, and survived an Eclipse game on Day 5.
• On Day 19, former Shoe Thief Ren Hunter was turned Unstable by Silvaire Roadhouse, Ren was Voicemailed in the Pies' Shadows on Day 25, right before an Eclipse game Day 26.
• On Day 41, the Shoe Thieves Shadows Faxed the Boston Flowers' Wade Howe for Dunn Keyes, then Dunn Keyes for Jenkins Ingram in the same game. An Equal Sun homerun from Lenny Spruce made the game go to extra inning, resulting in a new record combined score of 24 to 21.9.
• On Day 92, Snyder Briggs pitched a perfect game.
  • This would be the very last perfect game of the Expansion Era.
• Between Day 103 and Day 105, Richardson Games broke their Charitable Steel Chair of Intelligence by protecting the Seattle Garages from Consumer attacks.

MVP Voting

See the main article on this topic: Idols#Season 23

Following Day 99, Gunther O'Brian was in 12th place on the Idol Board, and was among the 14 players to be named an MVP for the season.
Gunther gained the Ego+ modification.

• Gunther O'Brian +  Ego+This Player has a boosted Ego.

Postseason

The Charleston Shoe Thieves made the Overbracket as the 3rd seed in the Mild League.

Division Series vs. Seattle Garages

Day	Weather	Away Pitcher		Score	Home Pitcher
Day 103		Richardson Games	👟	2 - 14	🎸	Betsy Trombone
Day 104		Magi Ruiz	🎸	4 - -1	👟	Inky Rutledge
Day 105		Cornelius Games	👟	0 - 7	🎸	Castillo Turner

The Seattle Garages took the series 3 - 0. The Shoe Thieves were eliminated.

The ILB Semi-Centennial

This section is about outcomes of the event affecting the Charleston Shoe Thieves, for a complete page on the event see ILB Semi-Centennial.

Following Day 117, the Semi-Centennial took place.

Former Shoe Thieves Gunther O'Brian, Tillman Henderson and James Nolan were pulled from the Hall of Flame and given  ReturnedAt the end of each season, this Player has a chance of being called back to the Void.
See also: Glossary to join the Rising Stars. The team also featured former Shoe Thieves Jaylen Hotdogfingers, then playing for the Boston Flowers. The opposing team, the Vault Legends, featured Goodwin Morin, who had been vaulted as a member of the Charleston Shoe Thieves.

During the game, Jaylen Hotdogfingers was approached and collected by the Legends during inning 6. Jaylen was then Artificially Forged, getting permanently Vaulted and moving to the Vault Legends roster in the process.
Lōotcrates, who was commentating the game, reacted with the message:

"Jaylen Hotdogfingers
Protagonist
Antagonist"

The same thing happened to Tillman Henderson during the 12th inning.
Lōotcrates reacted with a direct reference to the Noise-Cancelling Headphones from the Season 10 Elections.

"Tillman Henderson
Noise-Cancelling Headphones
Render One Immune to Criticism"

After the explosion of Sun(Sun) in the 29th inning, the event was cancelled and the game immediately ended.

Members of the Rising Stars who weren't active in the ILB when they joined were randomly redistributed:

• Abbott Wright, Pre-History player for the Oregon Psychics, fell to the Charleston Shoe Thieves.
• Recently incinerated Gunther O’Brian fell to the San Francisco Lovers.
• James Nolan, Pre-History player for the Charleston Shoe Thieves, fell to the Seattle Garages.

All three of them kept their  Returned modification.

Election Outcomes

Party Favors

• Team Containment Crate passed with 651,721 Votes, 82% of all Decree Votes
  • The Shoe Thieves gained Containment.
    • +  Containment

Tidings

• scoring play
  • SHOE THIEVES UNDER REVIEW
    • +  Under Review

Blessings

• 
  Season 22: Gachapon blessed the LA Unlimited Tacos.
  • Bennett Takahashi was recruited by the Tacos.
    • 👟 - Bennett Takahashi, Shadows
    • 🌮 + Bennett Takahashi, Shadows
  • Bennett Takahashi entered the Shadows.
    • Combined 10.1 → 11.0
  • The Tacos had 3% of the Votes
    Highest Bidder - The Tigers with 27%
    2,702,609 votes were cast.
• 
  Season 8: Blind Date blessed the Mexico City Wild Wings.
  • The Lovers sent a player to the Wild Wings.
    • 💋 - Gunther O'Brian, Lineup
    • 🍗 + Gunther O'Brian, Lineup
  • The Wild Wings had 65% of the Votes
    They were the highest bidders.
    1,198,580 votes were cast.