Joshua Watson
Joshua Watson is a pitcher for the Mexico City Wild Wings, and has been playing with the team since the Season 14 election. Watson previously played for the Baltimore Crabs, Chicago Firefighters, and Kansas City Breath Mints.
Official League Records
Watson joined the ILB at the beginning of Season 1 with the Baltimore Crabs.
During the Season 5 election, Watson received the Crabs' Horde Hallucinations and Rollback Netcode blessings. Watson was then traded to the Chicago Firefighters in exchange for Axel Trololol via the The Plan? Pitch from the Plate blessing. During that same election, Watson received the Katamari blessing as part of the Firefighters.
During the Season 7 election, Watson was traded to the Mexico City Wild Wings in exchange for Axel Cardenas via the Champs in the Making blessing.
During the Season 12 Elections, Watson was traded with Jessica Telephone to the Kansas City Breath Mints as a result of the will Plunder.
Watson was traded to the Mexico City Wild Wings in exchange for Eizabeth Guerra during the Season 14 elections via the Wild Wings' Exchange will.
On Season 17, Day 94, Watson became a pitcher due to Reverb.
History
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Watson was found dead in an elementary school in the year 2004. They resurrected themself in 2013, and had been playing for the Crabs since.
After Season 5, the Firefighters used their katamari blessing (dubbed Mother Blase) to roll Ocean City into Outer Chicago. Upon noticing this, Watson famously remarked "welp". To all accounts, they have embraced their title as the alderman of Chicago's newest suburb, going so far as to join the Firefighters as a batter.
When the Firefighters were ordered to trade three of their players back to the Mexico City Wild Wings at the end of the Season 7 Elections, Watson drew the short straw. While wondering how they would handle their mayoral resignation, they received an offer of legal representation in a bottle from rookie player Case Sports. Documents were shortly drafted up allowing Watson to rule in absentia from Mexico City, and the Wings spent a not-inconsiderable amount of their championship winnings renovating a nearby sewer outlet to have the necessary infrastructure to run a mayoral administration remotely. Watson has yet to figure out how the fax machine works.
Personal life
While currently living in a sewer outlet near the Xochimilco Ecological Park and Plant Market in Mexico City, Watson still maintains a bungalow under the boardwalk in Ocean City, where he is the mayor.
When asked to comment on their miraculous return to the blaseball pitch, Watson began to cry orange juice. Fans have interpreted this as perhaps a declaration of dislike for the Kansas City Breath Mints, but Watson has not confirmed this speculation.
Since resurrecting themself, Watson has only been able to consume five things; oyster crackers, boardwalk fries, Rita's Italian Ice, Natty Boh, and anything that has a ratio of 1:100 for item:Old Bay. The Mexico City Wild Wings have to prepare their food separate from Watson's, as the sheer volume of Old Bay in Watson's wing sauce tends to contaminate the other players' food.
After joining the Wild Wings, Joshua Watson, after taking a wrong turn on the way to the locker room, met Brock Watson. Their relationship blossomed as they continued to see each other, eventually sparking into romance. They are now married! Joshua has learned a lot about rocks from Brock.
Political career
Watson became the mayor of Ocean City in 2014. As mayor they personally disbanded the police, citing the former police chief's hatred of crabs as a major factor in said disbandment.
Controversies
Immediately after assuming the post of mayor, Watson punched Ocean City's then-police chief on live television. Watson has gone on record saying, "I do not regret it, I will not apologize."
In Season 5, Watson was sued by the Ocean City Hermit Crab Vendors' Union for stealing an unknown number of hermit crabs. It was speculated that this was accomplished by coming up through the cracks in the boardwalk. Watson won the lawsuit and continues to deny these allegations, although he refuses to explain where their hundreds of hermit crabs come from.
In Literature
Runolfio Peeper wrote the following poem, which was read at Watson's second inauguration as mayor:
Joshua Watson, beloved Mayor
Dead for seven years
And brought back by a prayer
Shed orange juice for tears
Returning to the field
Embraced by all their peers
Now they're usually concealed
Below the boardwalk’s entry
A neighborhood well-heeled
They live with the crabby gentry
Which for Watson’s elementary
Cheers
- "What, son?! Watson!"
- When Watson runs to a base, Crabs fans have been known to informatively chant, "Wat's on first/second/third!"
- "Elementary? My dear Watson!", in reference to Watson's earlier death.
Fan Art
Mini-Blaseballer by @HetreaSky
Watson by @glassgoblin
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| Shadows | ||
| Buried | Kennedy Loser · Leach Herman | |
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| Stats | Season | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 |
| Events | Mexico City Wild Wings v. The Blaseball Gods | |
| Ballpark | Basin of Mexico Park | |
| Community Lore | ||
| Staff | Guy Flieri · Gastronomic Conjury Guild · Wild Wings Legal Team | |
| Places | Mexico City | |
| History | Mexico City Wild Wings' History · The Weather Event | |
| Fan Culture 📣 · Fan Works 💌 · Tlopps Cards 🃏 | ||
| Pase Lo Que Pase. | ||
