Vous êtes quebecois donc Beer ?? Si 'Adrien' s'écrit avec un 'e'.. Sounds like it'd be a great book, that... Your baseball story reminds me of the dad of a friend of mine who, according to legend, was the trainer of the football team (soccer that is) of the Psychiatric hospital in Dublin that Swift left money to in his will (St. Pat's).
According to the same legend there was another team behind them in the league table - we never found out who.
Your job/vocation would have me driven to the whiskey, I'm sure, not just the beer. Fair play to ye...