To her credit, Paradise Whippoorwill stood by her man...at least for a while.
She set him up again in a minor league game, this time in Japan, but the results were the same. Next, she staged a private exhibition with a hand-picked crowd of supposed Thal Simoleon boosters...but it turned out the boosters were bashers at heart, and Thal again had to flee for his life. Then, there was the ill-fated game without an audience, in which the umpires and groundskeepers took it upon themselves to uphold the tradition of trying to kill Thal.
But all of this, Thal discovered, was not a bad thing.
“I’m no good for you,” Paradise told him three weeks after the last comeback attempt had failed. “I’m holding you back.”
“Uh-oh,” said the pink hippo. “This sounds familiar.”
Raising her left arm, Pa
