The Ilhyeon baseball club had been part of professional baseball since the sport's very inception, and it was, in its own right, a club renowned as a prestigious name in the pro-baseball world.

As befit the group's renown, it had secured a solid fan base in the region, and by steadily taking part in baseball-related events it had won over many fans not only locally but nationwide — a famous club indeed.

Naturally, then, the Ilhyeon baseball club had no shortage of famous players either.

From home-run hitters to ace pitchers to all-around batters, the club's fame ran so high you could line up a whole row of celebrated players who'd come out of Ilhyeon.

But what ran inversely to that fame was its record.

If you looked at the regular-season record alone, you couldn't call it bad.

On the contrary, its regular-season record was good year after year — to the point that even calling it "very high" fell short.

The problem, the club's weakness, was that it was fragile in the short-series contests leading up to a championship, the ones they call the postseason.

It had reached the finals for the championship trophy they call the Korean Series only a handful of times, and even when it got there, it fell every single time without putting up any fight, smearing the Ilhyeon name in the process.

So now, twenty years on, most people had come to hold little expectation of an Ilhyeon championship.

And it was to this Ilhyeon baseball club that Seong-ho had been newly inaugurated as CEO. He went down to Jinju, where the stadium was, to make his inaugural greeting.

"He's coming."

Byeong-jin, who had gone down to Jinju ahead of him, spotted Seong-ho's car and signaled to the club staff.

But even having heard the signal, the Jinju office staff wore indifferent expressions.

"Come on. Is it really right to give this kind of welcome just because one representative is coming down? General Manager?"

One of the staff put the question to General Manager Do-yeong Seong.

Do-yeong Seong soothed the discontented employee with a…