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After a magnificent Klein/Season 14 regular season run and a guaranteed spot in the postseason, the Alewife Arsonists notched several critical moral victories. First, they swept the Vegas Vampires in the Division Series, avenging two bitter Division Series losses to the Vampires. Alewife followed that up by winning a very tough series against a dominant San Francisco Boat Shoes team. They prevailed in the Championship series and clinched the pennant, and after two huge, emotional postseason series wins against bitter rivals, the Arsonists entered the final Klein Cup series against the Sacramento Boot Lickers riding an epic wave of elation.

After the Arsonists took a seemingly commanding 2-0 lead in the series, everything began to fall apart like the universe was following a script. In four stunning back-to-back-to-back-to-back victories, the Boot Lickers ran the table and stunned Alewife. The mysterious Brake Master Cylinder, who had spent most of the Klein/Season 14 postseason boasting of Alewife's superior formations and tactics, memorably left the microphone open and walked out of the broadcast booth in disgust as the Boot Lickers closed in on their Game 6 clincher, leaving the game to close to a soundtrack of tortured subway trains grinding their gears down the tracks of the Red Line, their cries echoing through endless underground tunnels like the wailing of disappointed fans.