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Early Life and Career

Jacoby Podcast was born on an Irish pea farm, where the Podcast family had harvested peas for generations--indeed the source of their name, from casting peapods onto wagons. At the age of 8, after a particularly egregious fight with his mother over piano practice, Podcast was sent to live with his maternal uncle in Washington, DC. Podcast’s uncle, Jeff Bezos, was an affirmed bachelor who did not work, but had a productive criminal life that relied primarily on the similarity of his name and appearance to the founder of Amazon. Despite the illegal nature of his business, Bezos was a strict guardian of Podcast, demanding that he complete all of his schoolwork. Though Podcast did not find his schoolwork particularly challenging, he did not appreciate the attitude of his teachers, school administrators, or his uncle toward him, and he dropped out of school and hitchhiked to Baltimore.

In Baltimore, Podcast found employment at the port of Baltimore with the help of sector commander Joe Loring. Loring checked in on the boy regularly and offered him lessons in mathematics and engineering at his house with his own children, which Podcast occasionally accepted. For the most part, Podcast spent most of his time at the port, loading and unloading cargo by hand, and, when his legs were long enough to reach the pedals, by truck.

It was from his much-older coworkers that he found out about blaseball, and he quickly became a Baltimore Crabs fan. After Loring brought him along to a Crabs game when he was 14, Podcast made it a point to track down a local blaseball league that he could join. While he didn’t have the experience of the other kids on the team, who had grown up playing for school or league teams, Podcast’s strength and maturity from having grown up at the port made up for it. When he was 16, Podcast joined a AA blaseball team, the Bowie Baysox, and a few years later advanced to the Crabs themselves.

Personal Life

Podcast began keeping a journal at his uncle’s insistence when he first moved to America, and, though he stayed with his uncle for less than a year, Podcast diligently continued to journal, finding that he loved to write. Though he has not published, he has penned a number of fictional short stories as well as memoirs of traveling as a child, working on the docks, and playing blaseball. Most of Podcast’s teammates only have vague ideas of his former profession, believing that he had been a sailor, though he has never actually been on a boat at sea. Owing this, “ahoy” and “aye aye, captain!” have become a popular greeting and response to Podcast on the field.