Charleston Shoe Thieves/Beta/Season 9

👟 Charleston Shoe Thieves
Season 9
Dates	October 5, 2020 - October 11, 2020
← Previous	Season 8
Next →	Season 10
Results
Overall Record	62-37
Divine Favor	13
Division	1st in Mild Low
League	1st in Mild League
ILB Placement	3rd overall
Roster Changes
Date Change Cause β09 99 + Conditional Yuniesky 👟 Postseason Birth β09 64 - Beasley Gloom + Jaylen Hotdogfingers 🗣️ Feedback
Blessings
Fifth Base Bubble   +  The Fifth BaseBallpark: Teams playing in this Ballpark must run five bases instead of four. Team: This Team must run five bases instead of four. See also: Glossary The Shame Bubble   +  Targeted ShameTeams with Targeted Shame will start with negative runs the game after being shamed. See also: Glossary

In Season β9 the Charleston Shoe Thieves finished 1st in the Mild League with their best regular season record to date. They won their first championship by defeating the Baltimore Crabs 3-2 in the ILB series.

The postseason was followed by the first occurence of Day X, during which the Shoe Thieves got defeated by THE SHELLED ONE'S PODS, getting cursed in the process.

Starting Roster

Lineup	Rotation
Hotbox Sato Richardson Games Velasquez Alstott Simon Haley Stu Trololol Sebastian Woodman Howell Franklin Esme Ramsey Blood Hamburger	Fitzgerald Wanderlust Gunther O'Brian Beasley Gloom Cornelius Games Snyder Briggs
Shadows Bench Bullpen William Boone Oliver Hess Bennett Takahashi Simba Davis Winnie Loser Carter Oconnor Rhys Rivera Rodriguez Sunshine Herring Winfield Donia Johnson Jorge Owens
Shadows were not visible on the website until Season β12.

Season

Roster Changes

In Season 9, the Shoe Thieves experienced a single feedback:

• On Day 64 Beasley Gloom was caught in the Feedback against the Moist Talkers, exchanged for Jaylen Hotdogfingers.

Upon qualifying for the postseason, the Shoe Thieves earned Conditional Yuniesky as a postseason birth.

Notable Games

• On Day 99, the last game of the regular season, the Shoe Thieves stole the #1 playoff spot by sweeping the Philly Pies, one of the three teams in the run for Ascension.
• On Day 106, the Shoe Thieves eliminated the Hades Tigers, one of the three teams in the run for Ascension.
• On Day 116, Stu Trololol hit a 3-run home run at the bottom of the 9th, Shaming the Baltimore Crabs and completing the reverse sweep. The Crabs were the last of three teams in the run for Ascension.
• On Day X, the Shoe Thieves faced THE SHELLED ONE'S PODS in a new boss battle event.

Postseason

The Charleston Shoe Thieves made the Postseason as the 1st seed in the Mild League.

Division Series vs. Hades Tigers

Day	Weather	Away Pitcher		Score	Home Pitcher
Day 103		Famous Owens	🐅	4 - 6	👟	Fitzgerald Wanderlust
Day 104		Mummy Melcon	🐅	1 - 2	👟	Gunther O'Brian
Day 105		Dunlap Figueroa	🐅	4 - 1	👟	Cornelius Games
Day 106		Snyder Briggs	👟	5 - 3	🐅	Famous Owens

The Shoe Thieves took the series 3 - 1 and advanced to the Semi-Finals.

Semi-Finals vs. Seattle Garages

Day	Weather	Away Pitcher		Score	Home Pitcher
Day 108		Ortiz Morse	🎸	1 - 5	👟	Fitzgerald Wanderlust
Day 109		Gunther O'Brian	👟	14 - 6	🎸	Lori Boston
Day 110		Betsy Trombone	🎸	5 - 4	👟	Jaylen Hotdogfingers
Day 111		Cornelius Games	👟	5 - 4	🎸	Tot Clark

The Shoe Thieves took the series 3 - 1 and advanced to the Finals.

Finals vs. Baltimore Crabs

Day	Weather	Away Pitcher		Score	Home Pitcher
Day 112		Adalberto Tosser	🦀	7 - 5	👟	Snyder Briggs
Day 113		Fitzgerald Wanderlust	👟	1 - 3	🦀	Finn James
Day 114		Brock Forbes	🦀	2 - 5	👟	Gunther O'Brian
Day 115		Jaylen Hotdogfingers	👟	5 - 2	🦀	Montgomery Bullock
Day 116		Adalberto Tosser	🦀	4 - 5	👟	Cornelius Games

The Shoe Thieves took the series 3 - 2 and became the Season 9 Internet Series Champions.

Day X

See the main article on Day X#Season 9.

Immediately following the Shoe Thieves' victory on Day 116, The Shelled One challenged them to a new Boss Battle event against its newly formed team, THE SHELLED ONE'S PODS. Both teams had a health bar measuring their Team Spirit. Typical Blaseball game events, like fouls, strikes, and outs, were used to deal Damage to a team's Spirit. The Shoe Thieves were playing as the Home Team.

Day	Weather	Away Pitcher		Score	Home Pitcher
Day X	Various	Axel Trololol	🥜	3 - 1	👟	Jaylen Hotdogfingers

The only run from the Shoe Thieves was a sacrifice fly from Velasquez Alstott at the bottom of the 1st inning, with Richardson Games scoring. The game ended early when, at the top of the 6th inning, Jessica Telephone hit a homerun which depleted all of the remaining Shoe Thieves' Team Spirit.

The Shoe Thieves were defeated and gained +  FlinchHitters with Flinch cannot swing until a strike has been thrown in the At Bat. to the entire lineup, and +  MildPitchers with Mild have a chance of throwing a Mild Pitch.
The pitch is automatically a ball and all baserunners will advance. to their entire rotation. Due to this event, the Shoe Thieves have never won the final game of a postseason, which would normally be impossible for a team with a championship title.

Election Outcomes

Decrees

• Forecast: Birds passed with 304,585 Votes, 52% of all Decree Votes
  • EMERGENCY ALERT
  • SEVERE MURMURATION WARNING IN THIS AREA
    • Jaylen Hotdogfingers is now a Friend of Crows!
      • +  Friend of CrowsIn Birds weather, pitchers with Friend of Crows will encourage the Birds to attack hitters.
        The crows will attack a hitter, resulting in an automatic out.
• Forecast: Blooddrain passed with 71,178 Votes, 12% of all Decree Votes
  • EMERGENCY ALERT
  • SEVERE BLOODDRAIN WARNING IN THIS AREA
    • Richardson Games is now a Siphon!
      • +  SiphonSiphons will steal blood more often in Blooddrain and use it in more ways.
• Forecast: Eclipse passed with 63,314 Votes, 11% of all Decree Votes
  • EMERGENCY ALERT
  • SEVERE SOLAR ECLIPSE WARNING
    • Velasquez Alstott is now a Fire Eater!
      • +  Fire EaterFire Eaters swallow fire instead of being incinerated.

Blessings

The Shoe Thieves received no blessings, but were affected by two other blessings, gaining +  The Fifth Base and +  Targeted Shame:

• Fifth Base Bubble blessed the Baltimore Crabs.
  
  • The Fifth Base Bubble protects the Wild High.
  • Fifth Base on the Houston Spies!
  • Fifth Base on the Boston Flowers!
  • Fifth Base on the Miami Dale!
  • Fifth Base on the Hellmouth Sunbeams!
  • Fifth Base on the Unlimited Tacos!
  • Fifth Base on the Hades Tigers!
  • Fifth Base on the Canada Moist Talkers!
  • Fifth Base on the Seattle Garages!
  • Fifth Base on the Dallas Steaks!
  • Fifth Base on the New York Millennials!
  • Fifth Base on the Kansas City Breath Mints!
  • Fifth Base on the Hawai'i Fridays!
  • Fifth Base on the Philly Pies!
  • Fifth Base on the Charleston Shoe Thieves!
  • Fifth Base on the Yellowstone Magic!
  • The Crabs had 24% of the votes. The Hades Tigers were the highest bidder with 24% of the votes. 481,520 votes were cast.
• The Shame Bubble blessed the Boston Flowers.
  
  • The Shame Bubble protects the Wild Low.
  • Shame on the San Francisco Lovers!
  • Shame on the Baltimore Crabs!
  • Shame on the Mexico City Wild Wings!
  • Shame on the Chicago Firefighters!
  • Shame on the Breckenridge Jazz Hands!
  • Shame on the Hades Tigers!
  • Shame on the Canada Moist Talkers!
  • Shame on the Seattle Garages!
  • Shame on the Dallas Steaks!
  • Shame on the New York Millennials!
  • Shame on the Kansas City Breath Mints!
  • Shame on the Hawai'i Fridays!
  • Shame on the Philly Pies!
  • Shame on the Charleston Shoe Thieves!
  • Shame on the Yellowstone Magic!
  • The Flowers had 7% of the votes. The Charleston Shoe Thieves were the highest bidders with 21% of the vote. 88,408 votes were cast.