Heroes of Rapture - The Athlete

Audio Logs of Danny Wilkins, Rapture, circa 1958

“Rookie kid comes up to me…Joey Glatz…a real bang-up guy. Says he wants to be a great ballplayer, says I’m his hero. ‘You wanna learn?’ I say, ‘Keep your eyes on me.’ Kid asks how I deal with the press griping about me: There’s no ‘I’ in team and all that. Well, the way I spell it, there is! Wilkins does things his own way! That’s what makes a champ!”

“That rookie’s got a lot of potential, but he’s got to get with the program. Kid says Plasmids are ruining the game. I say, ‘Glatz, have you seen what we can do on that stuff?’ Game’s not ruined, it’s changing. And if the game changes, Wilkins changes with it. So I offer the rook a hypo…Sportboost…and he just shakes his head and walks away. Trying to shame Wilkins, kid? Only shame is in losing, and you just decided to lose, pal.”

“Something wild is burning inside of Wilkins today, folks! This whole city’s got their dreams pinned on him, and he’s playin’ like he knows it! Shame about the rookie, but Wilkins can’t let that get him down. Sure, Wilkins hit him too hard, but the rookie was weak! Wilkins didn’t mean to kill him, folks! He didn’t! He told that rookie to stay competitive, didn’t he? Just, Wilkins plays hard, folks…and he does it for you! Y’hear that, folks? Wilkins does it all for you!” (Wilkins imitating crowd cheering)