[Joshua Acquin]

 Joshua is seen in his office going over paperwork with the things he is looking into acquiring and running.  When as he is getting up his sister comes in and sits down.

“May I help you?”

“Well you know how you are trying to get into the LFL and owning the Las Vegas Sin?  I think you need to rethink that since that sport is aimed at one thing, and you know what that thing is.”

Joshua thinks about it and nods.

“That is one thing that I was thinking of after I made that announcement.  I just wanted another person I knew I could trust to say something about it and you
know how Austin is.”

“So did you have anything else in mind since that is off the table?”

“You know I have been a big supporter of getting a soccer team here to Las Vegas.  So on top of giving land to the 51’s new stadium before I sold them and the new arena for the Wranglers.  I am going to put up a soccer stadium in a proposal to MLS to expand here.  People want to complain about the heat here in Las Vegas so I am going to have the first domed soccer field in the US.  We will have it open most days and when the temperature gets to a point that I will allow MLS make that call.  It could also help us land the 2022 World Cup since they are going to redraw for the cup.”

“Ok so you have all that going out how do you plan on making money?”

Joshua looks at his sister and shake his head.

“I am a CEO for the best resort on the Strip I have people losing money in the casino hand over fist it is like they are playing the lottery and I am the one who wins.”

“By the way you have a limo waiting for you.”

“Who sent it?”

“Did you forget the 51’s were going to honor you so they are getting you there to Cashman field early.”

“That’s right I have been busy with everything.  Actually I have tickets for you, Austin, Tiff, and Joshua Jr.  The latter two should be here any minute.  Austin I don’t know.”

Just then Tiff and Joshua Jr. walk into the office.  Jr. runs up and gives Joshua a hug.

“Hi Aunt Ashlynn.”

He gets out of Joshua’s arms and goes to Ashlynn to get a hug.

“Tiff did you see Austin out there at all?”

“No but he did send a text saying he would be here.”

“Well our limo waits.  I hope he meets us at the limo.”

With that the four leave the office and head to the private entrance where Austin is waiting for them.

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They arrive at the park before any of the players do they get dropped off at the press gate.  Joshua walks up to the gate and walks into the offices for the management.  There he sees the person he was looking for.

“Hey James how’s it been going?”

“Hey Joshua, been going great actually I need you guys to put these VIP passes on and then we are going to head to the locker room.”

They go through a side door and walk down the corridor to the empty locker room that has the players gear hanging in the lockers.  Over on one side of the room there are five jerseys.  Two of them have J. Acquin on it with the only difference besides the size was the smaller on has Jr. on the end.  The others have A. Acquin on them and the last one just has the number with no name.  Joshua picks up his and passes out the others to the respected owners.  Just as Joshua was finishing handing them out James comes in.

“Ah I see you got the surprises that the team bought for you guys.  Tiff I didn’t know what your last name is but whenever you want just come in and we will put that on for you.”

Everyone thanks him.

“Well you have about thirty minutes before the team shows up to do some batting practice.  If you want to follow me we will go through the dugout onto the field.  Which we have gloves and bats for you to hit a few balls with the team.”

They go onto the field and hit the ball with the team.  Joshua and Austin have a home run contest with it ending in a tie.  After practice they go up to the suite they will be in till it is closer to game time where they are back on the field with a ball for each of them.

“Ladies and gentlemen we have a few people pitching out the first pitch.  The first one you should recognize as the previous owner of the 51s.  Joshua Acquin.”

Nightmare plays over the sound system as he walks out to the pitcher mound.  When he arrives he takes the microphone and looks around at the crowd as Nightmare fades out.

“Wow it is always good to be here at Cashman Field.  Earlier today we had some BP with the team and Austin and I had a contest which we tied at so in order to break the tie I am challenging him to a pitch off.  Rules are we have to throw a strike as hard as we can.  If you miss too bad.  So with out any further delays I will throw first.”

Joshua pitches the ball as a strike and registers on the speed gun at 86 mph. The others in his group pitch there balls expect for Austin and Jr.  Before Jr goes up Joshua grabs his glove and takes over for the catcher and catches his sons pitch.  Then Austin goes up and throws his pitch at 87 mph as the umpire that showed up for the challenges calls ball.  Joshua smiles as he knew he won, and goes to shake Austins hand in front of the fans and cameras.  They head back up to the suite with Joshua heading over to the press box to meet up with Russ Langer to do an interview and call a little bit of the game.  When Joshua gets into the open air press box Russ is setting up the second headset as a commercial is going on.  As Joshua sits down and put the headset on he can hear Russ signing onto the broadcast with his normal upbeat energy as he goes over the line ups putting in his two cents as the pitcher is on the mound ready to start the game.

“Well folks as we get underway here I am joined by the former owner and SCW wrestler Joshua Acquin.  Welcome Joshua.”

“Hey thanks for having me Russ.  By the way congrats on the second in a row of the Nevada broadcaster of the year award.”

“No thank you Joshua I could only do that since you kept me here.  Anyway first pitch is a swinging strike the count is 0 and 1.  Now Joshua you just got back from Africa a little while ago and lost your tag tile how are you feeling now that it has been a few weeks?”

“Well Russ as anyone that is in a competitive field will tell you it sucks because they don’t give out a hey you showed up award.  That gold is one reason that I am in wrestling.”

“Ball just outside count is 1 and 1.  So where do you go from here in SCW?”

“Well I have a contractual rematch.  However the SCW management thinks I need to reconfirm my standing as a number one contender.  So this week they have me and Frost versus Frost former partner and his NXT partner.  Only thing he needs to know is that HSI is where those titles are coming back too.”

“Ball was hit well but caught at the warning track.  So what is next for you business wise for you?”

“Well I can’t speak publicly about what I am going to do on that front, but I will be heading to Brazil to catch a few World Cup games.  But I am going to go next door to get back to my seat.  Thanks for having me.”

“Thank you Joshua.  Folks that was Joshua Acquin and we have a strike out for the second out of the inning.”

Joshua gets up and shakes Russ’ hand and walks back to his suite.

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Nightmare hits the PA as Joshua walks out from the back to a crowd of boos.  He avoids everyone as he walks down the ramp to the ring that has a chair set up in it.  Joshua gets to the ring and gets a microphone and sits in the chair.

“Joshua are you pissed off?  Joshua how does it feel to lose the tag team titles?  Joshua do you blame yourself or your partner?  Joshua, Joshua, Joshua you know what I think of losing the tag team championship?  Really how do you think I feel about it?  Just think about if you didn’t get your promotion you were looking forward to how would you feel.  Kinda pissed off right?  That’s what I am now.  To put salt into the wound they force Frost and I to requalify as number one contender?  Who is the team we must face?  Of course it would have to be a NXT team.  Sure they swept HIS at Cape Town,, but they didn’t win the championships off of us it was a team of, how to put this, a challenged persons favorite tag team. But you know what you do after a loss is you learn from it and move on.  As for this chair I may have to use this to rid us of this NXT bug.  When will people get that HSI is the way to go.  We will win and bring the gold back to HSI.”

With that Joshua drops the microphone and leaves the ring.