"Steven Popkes - [SS] Bread and Circus" - читать интересную книгу автора (Popkes Steven)

тАЬAllтАФwhat? I canтАЩt talk to him in the middle of a game. ItтАЩs the playoff.тАЭ

тАЬMike, you have to take an interest some time. ItтАЩs your home, too. ItтАЩs
not my fault weтАЩre in Providence.тАЭ

тАЬButтАФтАЭ

тАЬThere are no тАШbutsтАЩ here. IтАЩve done all the leg work. I just want you to
make sure I havenтАЩt missed anything.тАЭ

тАЬItтАЩs the middle of the game!тАЭ

тАЬYou canтАЩt take a short phone call?тАЭ in that brittle voice Mike knew so
well.

тАЬOkay,тАЭ he said defeated. тАЬI can give him a minute.тАЭ
 Mike hung up and watched his team. This is going to go well, he
thought with a certain amount of satisfaction. They win. They go on after the
championshipтАФthe East Coast Division is easily the strongest. If they donтАЩt
mess up, they had the cup. Who was Ross going to pick then? The losing
team?

At that moment, every one of the saurians stopped what they were
doing and stared over at the LegsтАЩ side of the field.

Mike closed his eyes. He knew exactly what had happened.

****

John: Wow. Look at those muscles. Are you sure heтАЩs within the
weight limit?

Al: Sebastian weighed in yesterday at three thousand, nine hundred
and eighty-seven pounds, well inside of the one-to-two-ton range.

John: He must have starved himself for a week before the weigh-in.
HeтАЩs got to be two and a half tons, at least.

Al: According to a press release IтАЩve just been handed, Sebastian
has been undergoing some radical gene therapy to increase his muscle
mass. ThatтАЩll make him even tougher to beat.

John: Or for Tom to hurt him again. Coach Paderewski has his work
cut out for him.

Al: The Legs have always like big players, preferring a straight
forward line of Charcaradontasauruses backed up by Gigantasaurs on
defense. Even so, historically the Braves have been thought the better
team.