Yellowstone Magic

"Welcome to Yellowstone National Park, home of prismatic pools, erupting geysers, rolling rivers, ancient stone formations, bison, and the Yellowstone Magic! Come see the natural wonders of the park in the day, and come nightfall, marvel as the ballpark converges and the players emerge from the forest! Cheer on the home team as they stride across (and steal!) the miles between bases, confound opponents with their mystical tricks, and whip fastballs into the ethereal plane! See the stars on and above the field, feel the thrum of Ol’ Faithful, and believe in the Magic! Stop by the park office to meet a ranger and collect your complimentary party hat, while supplies last." -- Introductory Video from Yellowstone National Park (Ballpark)

Yellowstone Magic
Division	Chaotic Good
Ballpark	Yellowstone National Park (Ballpark)
Home Location	Yellowstone National Park
Team Slogan	As Above, So Below
Emoji	✨
Rivals	King Weatherman, a world without the San Francisco Lovers
Mascot	Unknown, estimated to be 40-70% of all Wildlife within the borders of Yellowstone National Park

The Yellowstone Magic are a Blaseball team in the Chaotic Good division of the Good League. They have been a part of the Blaseball League since Season 1. They are coached by Alf Merlinmeyer the Prophesied. Originally owned by the Oconnor family, the family abandoned the team after the incineration of Famous Oconnor. The Magic are currently owned by the eccentric Park Service.

The Magic play at Yellowstone National Park (Ballpark), located in Yellowstone National Park (Parkpark).

The Magic are particularly well known to fans of the IBL for their seemingly supernatural ability to steal bases, and boast two of the best runners league wide.

The Ancestral Bat of the Magic is Ol' Faithful, hewn from a branch of the oldest pine tree in Yellowstone. It was sealed away under the ballpark for fear of its immense extradimensional power between Season One and the first Postseason. Many Magic fans speculate that this is why the Magic fell from number one seed to a first round loss in the postseason. The Oconnors lobbied to have the bat brought back. Merlinmeyer forbade it.

The Yellowstone Magic pull their rookies from various teams in The Underleagues, including the Great Smoky Mountain Druids, the Grand Canyon Sorcerers, and the Glacier Warlocks. They generally do not accept players from the Yosemite Slams, as it causes too many clerical errors.

Current Players/Team Information

Batters

• Washer Barajas
• Sutton Picklestein
• Francisco Preston
• Bevan Wise
• Richardson Turquoise
• Penelope Mathews
• Halexandrey Walton
• Eizabeth Elliott
• Oscar Dollie

Pitchers

• Yeong-Ho Garcia
• Logan Rodriguez
• Inky Rutledge
• Curry Aliciakeyes
• Cory Twelve

Alumni

• Sosa Elftower (Incinerated Season 2, Day 64)
• Famous Oconnor (Incinerated Season 2, Day 65)

The Magic School Buses

The official vehicles of the Yellowstone Magic, they are used to transport the team between stadiums during away games and to get snacks from the 7/11 after practice. The origin of the bus' name is unknown, but it's extremely misleading since it is not and has never been a schoolbus. In reality, they are repurposed tour buses, enchanted with a rune spell that activates upon the starting of the vehicle. The caster of this enchantment is unknown, as are their intentions. Upon startup, a random passenger (not driver) within the bus will exclaim, "WITH THE FRIZZ?". Immediately after, all but one passenger in the bus will shout "NO WAY!". Any attempts at removing the spell have been flagrantly unsuccessful, all resulting in being bodily flung from the vehicle at an extreme speed before the rune is able to be destroyed. Attempts have been made to circumvent this enchantment by starting the bus while empty or with only one passenger onboard, but if this is done the bus will almost always shut itself off mid-trip until it is restarted with the whole team inside.

Superstitions

• King Weatherman, rival of the Yellowstone Magic, may be a resident of Bluesky, the ██████ █████ ███████████ territorial Yellowstone National Park (parkpark). Some druids among the senior members of the Magic administration are convinced the Weatherman is trying to meddle with the weather over Yellowstone, in an attempt to gain the Ol' Faithful bat.
• Due to a large amount of spelunking and skydiving-related disappearances, speculations have been made that a mysterious force exists deep in the Yellowstone Caverns.
• Hot dogs are believed to be "good luck" after Halexandrey Walton coughed up a "nearly perfectly spherical" chunk of rotten sausage meat after winning a particularly vicious game against the Kansas City Breath Mints. As a result of this, many of Presto's pro/post-game cookouts are treated as highly spiritual rituals. Note: Corn dogs "count", but most players prefer hot dogs anyway.
• A disproportionately large amount of Blue Sky Natural Soda cans have been found littered in both treetops and by cave openings by the 300 trained birds of Yellowstone National Park; this has led to a belief that some alchemical properties exist in the beverage.
• The waters of Yellowstone National Park are famed for their magical potential, particularly for scrying and alchemy. Local splorts fans are known to follow Washer Barajas around in attempt to collect “samples” from them, much to geys chagrin.
• Mild game delays occur for innings played after 12:00 PM and before 1:00 PM. This period of time is referred to "The Pitching Hour" by the Magic. This midday Blaseball counterpart to the Witching Hour allegedly increases the pitching prowess of whoever stands on the mound. The delays occur from attempts to stall the opponents pitch as long as possible by performing "powerful counter-rites" to undo the positive energy given to the pitcher. In reality, these "counter-rites" consist of yelling at the enemy pitcher as they prepare to throw, attempting to distract them. This has not been ruled unsplortsmanlike, although most teams the Magic play frown upon this behavior strongly.
• Following an incredible influx of peanuts and the subsequent plague of birds at Blaseball leagues, Yellowstone National Park has forbidden any and all magics that involve the conjuring, speed-growing or any other mass production of peanuts.

Season Results

Season	Record	Win %	Place in CG Division	Season Notes
1*	62-35	.626	1st	Eliiminated in the postseason by the Boston Flowers
2	49-50	.494	3rd
3	53-46	.535	3rd

_{* Season 1 is missing the results of Day 98 and 99's games. Blaseball has been lost.}

Chants/Mantras

Fan chants are carefully vetted by the Park Service for adverse mystical potential before being allowed during a live blaseball game.

• As Above! (Followed by) So Below!
• Leave no trace!
• HOCUS POCUS (clap clap clapclapclap)
• Pack it in! (Followed by) Pack it out!
• (During home games) This is where the magic happens!
• (Following home runs, grand slams) ALA-KA-SLAM!
• (After the Magic scores) And for my next trick!
• (For Washer Barajas) Wash em out!
• (For Francisco Preston) That's my dad!
• (For Bevan Wise) Wise up Bevan!
• (For Richard Turqoise) TURQ!
• (For Penelope Mathews) Lucky Penny!
• (For Halexandrey Walton) Hex em Halex!
• (For Curry Aliciakeyes) Spice it up!
• (For Cory Twelve) Atta bot!
• (For Cory Twelve) You're doing great sweetie!
• (For Yeong-Ho Garcia) Let's Go Yeong-Ho!

Mascots

The Yellowstone Magic have not just one Mascot, but a Wizard's Council of Mascots. This is based on the Air Bud Principle (there's no rule in blaseball that says you can't have multiple mascots.) The exact number of mascots is unkown and unkowable, but Magic fans speculate that anywhere between 40 and 70 percent of all animal life in Yellowstone National Park may be mascots. When approached, the National Park Service declined to comment.

Names given to Mascots are simply what we the Magic calls them, their true names are unknown. These names are either unkowable, or the mascots are just shy. Theories about size limitations of mascots are best left unexplored as realizing the fact that there could be microscopic mascots around us right now, or that one day a leviathan class mascot could walk out from behind Mount Washburn can be very distressing to us simple splortsfans. Known Mascots include:

• Archmage Hexley
• Barry Bison Bones
• Tycho "T" Rex
• My Dad
• THE FRIZZ (on Wednesdays)

Barry Bison Bones (Credit @Aarquus)	"T" Rex (Credit @kimjaTycho ppas)	A Poster for the Magic, depicting buffalo mascot My Dad (credit: @suttonpicklesteinismywife)	Archmage Hexley (Credit @Aarquus)

Fan Art

Logo by Cobaltcakes.

Arcane Research

• Philly Pies Arcane Research