Zoe, you’re so right about this baseball thing. Who is speaking Spanish in the Rangers dugout if they’re all Stars. You can’t have no Spanish in the Rangers dugout, it just doesn’t work. So I have a suggestion—what if you vibe checked some of them into different sports. Soccer player Esa fits so much better
soccer player esa is SO good. also!! i know i put roope in the baseball au for keeping-the-top-line-together reasons but i think actually he'd be a fun basketball player in an alternate sport au given that both his parents were basketball players. also i think in a basketball player roope au miro should still be a hockey player ........ transpose the miro/luka vibes ............. make luka be the go-between for roopemiro's star crossed cross sport romance ......................
the whole 'finnish mafia play different sports' thing should all still be in dallas btw. dallas fc esa, mavs roope, stars miro. actually maybe jani should be a baseball player just so he can be on the rangers .......... designated hitter jani it's YOUR time to shine. he's already multilingual and good at barbecuing, he deserves to stay in texas & i think he'd have fun in a spanish-heavy dugout. i think he'd show off by being the one white boy on the team who's, like, really good at rolling his r's.
what if your werewolf boyfriend doesnt want to top. did you ever consider that. no you only ever think about yourself. he's going to leave you and you'll deserve it
hey so if you had to sort the stars into a baseball fielding lineup...
so honestly this is something i've been thinking about for like a year now because last opening day i got struck with the desire to write a robotter baseball AU!! and then wrestled with the dual desires to a) add more of the team into the au and b) be Baseball Accurate and not have an mlb team of all white boys -robo, many of whomst are european and probably actually Did Not Know what a baseball game looked like until the rangers won the WS this past season & they all went to a game together, as besties. i made a whole post about it (the baseball AU dilemma, not the rangers winning the WS).
when i did put some of my Thoughts down in a plotting doc this is what i came up with:
and i do think otter & wedgie as catchers, miro as a pitcher, and the top line as the outfield (robo left field, roope center field, pavs right field) still feels Right!
since that's most of a team anyway, let's round out the rest of a starting lineup (and maybe toss in a couple of other pitchers so miro can have a break every once in a while, because i care) —
per this article, jamie played first base, outfield, and pitched a little when he played baseball so he can be our first baseman because even though i by & large Do Not Engage with him much anymore, it just makes sense.
this interaction between wyatt & bobby witt jr. is deeply important to me (i have the beginning of a cross-sport arranged marriage fic centering on these two in my wip folder) (i will probably finish it off this summer) so for Bobby Witt Jr. Is A Shortstop reasons, wyatt is also a shortstop.
and actually just to round out the fact that we've got all of the top line in the outfield and most of the third line in the infield, let's make short king logan stankoven our second baseball, à la known short king second baseman josé altuve
hmmm okay third base. craig smith. this is a pure vibes pick so if anyone has Other Thoughts please air them out
harls should get to be another pitcher!! to keep with the idea of him being paired with miro!!! honestly going strictly off that logic harls should be a catcher so they're a battery, but i think both of them being pitchers is fun. pitcher harls you're real in my heart!!!
actually further down in my notes i'd written ('tyler’s the like ……… vet pitcher who’s just getting his arm back after a couple surgeries') and you know what. yeah, why not.
make mush a reliever so you get some bullpen nonsense from him & tyler and we're GOLDEN
this isn't the whole team so i'm sorry if that's what you wanted!! there's just so many more guys in hockey. and also i cannot realistically picture like ........... daddy or suter or esa sitting in a dugout chompin away at seeds yk?? they lack the Vibes (imo)
just realized the depths of violence the nhl enacted on the stars by making this game being a national broadcast ……… we’re not gonna get to see footage of them going crazy with the t-shirt gun postgame …………. no fan appreciation night nonsense ………………