I’ve finished four seasons as my little batter chap now. The third season was the best so far, with my team winning the title and everybody happy and some bonus money for me and a general sense of hurrah!

The fourth season was a disaster. My batting average fell from a bad .278 to a pitiful .261. My team kept losing, which meant my morale plummeted, so instead of going out and training in my time off I had to go on dates to try and improve my mood.


However, every date failed, so my morale stayed at about zero for most of the season and my performance on the field suffered accordingly.

That nightmare season is over now, though, and morale resets at the start of each season so I’m hoping for better in my fifth season. I really wish I could get my popularity up, though. To extend your career past its tenth season you need a popularity rating of over six hundred, I think, and mine’s only about 140. Not good at all.