You might think that Injun’s and Tanuki’s battery is in serious trouble, with Tanuki being seriously distracted from doing his job…by something or other. Yeah, let’s put it that way. ‘Something or other’. I guess if you want to defend it better, you could argue he’s just engaged in due diligence…exploring the capabilities of his new body, and all that, so that he can adjust his planning accordingly. >_>
Frankly, I don’t even know whether tanukis are not also able to lick their own balls to begin with. I didn’t dare googling it. There are things you have to know, and there are things you don’t have to know. And there are things you might be tangentially interested in, but knowing them is not worth the potential emotional trauma the internet might inflict upon you in the acquisition of that knowledge. This is one of those things.
So, in my canon Japanadian tanukis can not lick their balls, so this is new for Kazuya.
Anyway, don’t underestimate this battery! Tanuki has currently been unable to make up his distracted mind concerning the question which pitch Injun should try next, let alone been able to signal it to him in any way, shape, or form. And Injun still throws the right pitch! Yeah, had Tanuki been able to get any tactical planning in before getting, uh, distracted, he would have asked for a knuckleball from Injun. This is what a perfect battery looks like: this almost telephatic level of understanding that enables them to understand each other messages even if there is no message.
Although…on the other hand, the knuckleball is Injun’s default fall-back, because Tanuki is a knucklehead most of the time…
More on Thursday.