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"You’re tearing this teaaze at him "You’re nineteen years old and you think you know everything I’m here to tell you…you don’t know shit about what it takes to run a professional sports team"

"Get off your soapbox, oldoff at the mouth because you know your job is in jeopardy Max played a better game than you this past week, and, frankly, he deserves the starting spot No one forgets you fucked us out of the championship last year"

Before I can even defendmy head to whip his way "Shut the fuck up, Amedee Don’t speak on ht for the job"

Claude holds up his hands and waves them like he’s scared "Oh,your dick the way I suspect she’s sucking all of you ain

I push up out of my chair so fast it topples backward and startit, asshole," Claude sneers now that I’rowls "Want ain?"

"What?" someone says behind ot in a fight?" another teammate asks

"Evans sucker punched Claude," I hear, and I don’t need to turnhis friend

"What the fuck?" soh!" Alex roars, and the rooht…we’re definitelyus down Ryker hit the nail on the head We’reapparent to everyone at this point"

Alex letse Amedee’s face, I need to support Alex as he tries to diffuse the situation

"If unification is so important," I hear another player say, "then why is Ryker sucker punching his teammate? Didn’t he do that on another team? Seems to me he’s the one that needs to practice what he preaches"

My shoulders sag a bit, because when you say it like that, it sounds like I’roup

"Ryker had cause to do it, and it wasn’t a sucker punch," Alex says, and I startle over his defense of ree not to tell anyone so it wouldn’t blow up Theinto it has me astonished