Yogi is right, of course, as he so often is: you can observe a lot by watching. But the whole point of blatant exposition is “Tell, don’t show.”, so we’ll take all of that information second hand, thank you very much. We don’t need to see it ourselves, we’ll just assume that Yogi did the watching/observing required and that his information is correct. It’s his job, after all.
I’m still backing it all up with a visual cue or two: Bakamura isn’t suffering from inflamed irises, if something like that even exists, that’s the fire of his passion flaring straight out of his eyes. His youth is also readily apparent…and whether his flaming eyes are fueled more by his ambition or past genocides might be hard to tell, but probably isn’t that relevant to the plot anyway. None of the protagonists where involved in any of the genocides committed against the Southpaw tribe of Japanada…not even the Professor, even if he might have had some cigars and whisky with George Armstrong Custer at some point or other.
Harrison was mostly responsible. And Tyler too.
Also readily apparent is Bakamura’s huge arsenal of pitches. The forkball belongs into any such arsenal, of course…and the liftball can be very useful, especially if you happen to play soccer. And, as established earlier, all sports are kinda the same, so it’ll probably also be useful in cricket, right? And the combination of the two, the forklift ball, is obviously extremely useful…especially when it comes to loading or unloading a ship.
I’m kinda impressed, though, that Bakamura is a stevedore, not just a longshoreman. Didn’t think he was smart enough for that…
Anyway, I hope everyone is suitably impressed by the guy now.
More on Thursday.