The Fowndation of FowlerBalls


Dexter Fowler vows vindication. A Major League baseball player for the Colorado Rockies, this peaceful, friendly animal named Fowler became bloody roadkill after being run over by the bus named Bryce Harper, whose bigger name and lesser numbers plowed its way into the 2012 All-Star Game. For the rest of the season, this bus haunted Fowler, following him on any path he sought refuge. Its passengers hurled obscene numbers at him from the window. Numbers like:

                                                  Pre-2012 All-Star Game Stats

               Dexter Fowler           Bryce Harper

At-Bats                                         250                               248

Batting Average                      .300                              .282

On-base percentage              .389                               .354

Slugging percentage              .548                               .472

Home Runs                                    11                                      8

RBI                                                    36                                   25

Runs                                                 45                                   43


But Fowler, retreating within himself, persevered. Battling Bryce Harper’s bus demons, he limped through the remainder of the season before escaping to a cabin where he could heal himself…and prepare. Posting those nightmarishly disproportionate numbers everywhere in sight, Fowler began the painful process of deconstruction in order to rebuild himself piece by piece into a super-being. On February 16th, that super-being left his cabin.  He returned to the field, speaking no words about the past – only about the future of Major League pitching, and his destruction of it. 

This blog is dedicated to tracking the super-being known as Dexter Fowler and his 2013 conquest. To hijack the All-Star Game. To hijack Major League Baseball. To hijack the bus that is named Bryce Harper. 

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