"Look up, Barry. This is what the sky looked like on precisely the minute in which you were born. This was before you and Bobby Bonilla were the "Killer Bs", before you shot your mouth off at wanting to "take out" Babe Ruth, and before anyone had the slightest idea that you would become one of the greatest baseball players of all time."
"Oh, so you mean there were stars in the sky when I was born? Neat."
"Always the asshole...You know, when you were a child you weren't so bitter. I don't know if it was your inflated ego, or an over privileged childhood that gave you such an unfriendly demeanor. The reason I brought you here, Barry, is to remind you that you are not defined by your statistics or what others think of you. And from light-years away, it's all the same to the stars. You are Barry Lamar Bonds, and you held tremendous value to this universe since the day you were born."
"Th-thank you."
"So you couldn't beat Myst. Nobody has. But at least you took it to seven games, huh?"
"Yeah...I guess I did."
-Jon
Jon@progressiveboink.com
AIM: Boiskov