tatankatonk posted:

noice, just post that you approve this

Trade Notice



San Juan Elephants receive:

'78 Luis Tiant

Barons receive:

'77 Buddy Bell

Warm Sarsaparilla posted:

I feel like we'd be flirting with .450 if anyone was hitting. Maybe I am an optimist.

Anyway, send down Wilbuh and put Kaat into the "rotation." Send down Eric Davis, call up Damon, and rest Bernie with him for the week.

We need some gritty, hard-boiled spirit, so mix Detective Don Slaught into a platoon at catcher.

kw0134 posted:

Trade Bait
My Barry Bonds is injured and I'm in the midst of a hot streak. I'd like to, finally, make it into the playoffs or at least a bye to the next season. To that end, I'm offering up Sir Barrold Bonds of 1999 vintage, first pick in his dispersal draft, for comparable greatness. Preference will be in CF, catcher, or pairs of corner outfields.

NEW OWNERS! You will get a chance to take him completely healed up and ready to mash taters. There is NO waiting, he is refreshed for you and your expansion cup aspirations if you submit a winning offer.

cbx posted:

Alright, New Owners!

I have begun inputting rosters. However, I am dismayed that several of you have still not posted your completed rosters/sliders for me to labor over.

Post them in the next couple days or be gone from the EC and SL for the season! Deadline is Sunday at midnight EST

ForeverBWFC posted:

Would you take Duke Snider and Johnny Roseboro?

kw0134 posted:

Snider's good but Roseboro is org fodder.

kw0134 posted:

Trade Bait
My Barry Bonds is injured and I'm in the midst of a hot streak. I'd like to, finally, make it into the playoffs or at least a bye to the next season. To that end, I'm offering up Sir Barrold Bonds of 1999 vintage, first pick in his dispersal draft, for comparable greatness. Preference will be in CF, catcher, or pairs of corner outfields.

NEW OWNERS! You will get a chance to take him completely healed up and ready to mash taters. There is NO waiting, he is refreshed for you and your expansion cup aspirations if you submit a winning offer.

cbx posted:

Sliders affect different strategies. I'll post a random example:

Hit and Run: -4
Sacrifice Bunt: -5
Squeeze Play: 1
Trying for extra bases: -2
Stealing Bases: -2
Aggressively Tagging Up: 4
Pitch Outs (to prevent stolen bases): 0
Giving Intentional Walks: -2
Pitching Around Good Hitters: 0
Bringing the Infield In: 0
Guarding the Lines: 0
Making Cutoff Throws: +2
Bringing in Pinch Hitters: +4
Bringing in Pinch Runners: 0
Bringing in Defensive Replacements: +2
Starting Pitchers on Short Rest: +1
Letting pitchers pitch throw trouble: -3
Letting Pitchers rack up high pitch counts: -2

These commands tell your in-game manager how aggressive or avoidant to be in each situation. For example: Hit and Run -4 means that this owner really doesn't want their manager to call for the Hit and Run play, preferring his or her virtual players to play station to station ball, so to speak. The ranges are -5 to +5

Don May posted:

BOBBLEHEADS ASSERT DOMINANCE WITH 7-6 WIN OVER W'S

Chicago- In Super-League I, the Bobbleheads routinely beat the Eazy W's en route to their first Senor Goodtimes Division title.

Six seasons later, not a whole lot has changed.

The Bobbleheads survived a shaky outing from Curt Schilling to tie the game going into the bottom of the ninth inning. With the score tied 6-6, the W's sent out their new closer, Rob Dibble, to try and extend the game. Up first was Babe Ruth, commonly considered the best hitter in history, who drew a walk when Dibble wisely backed off Ruth when the count ran full. Dibble was able to refocus himself, however, and struck out Alex Rodriguez on four pitches to get the first out of the inning.

Jason Giambi, playing left field for the injured Hank Greenberg, was up next. In a better world, the W's would have sent out a left-handed reliever to deal with him, but, as the W's had not a single southpaw reliever on their active roster, Dibble would have to take his chances. Still, with the slow Ruth at first place and the even slower Giambi at the plate, almost any ground ball could be an inning-ending double play. It was not a ideal situation for the W's, but hardly dire.

But then Babe Ruth broke for second on the first pitch of Giambi's at-bat. Babe Ruth is not a fast man. In fact, the Ruth in this game, hailing from 1926, made the final out of the World Series being caught stealing second. Fortunately, Ted Simmons' defensive skills are so bad that Ruth was safe at second without a throw.

Now the W's were in real trouble as the double play was taken off the table, and the winning run was now at second. Rob Dibble would have to really bear down. Instead, he gave up an RBI single to Giambi on the next pitch, letting Ruth score and ending the game.

Mark Grace, who, at this point, could not care less, did not particularly care. "We won? Okay. Neat. Hey, did I put Jason Giambi at left field in today's game? I did. Weird, I don't think he really has the range to play in the outfield. And we still won. poo poo, I think we could win if we only started seven or eight guys in the field. I might have to try that. I mean, at this point, I think our team can we without actually starting a shortstop. Look at what happened in this series! We beat the W's four straight times! And they're supposed to be an elite team in this league. What the gently caress has happened to the Smasher League? We're not supposed to be some sort of invincible force that just kills everyone else! We're supposed to limp our way into the postseason after getting lucky in the last month of the season. We're supposed to win 85 games and be lucky to win that many. This...this is all hosed up."

Don May posted:

LANDERS BLANK GOOSE EGGS 3-0

Moonbase 0-2- Count the Landers among those who agree that the Bobbleheads leading the Senor Goodtimes Division by seven and a half games is 'all hosed up.'

Speaking to reporters after an easy 3-0 win over the flailing Goose Eggs, mrnoun let slip his frustration with the situation, "Dumb loving luck. That's all this is. Dumb loving luck. In a luck-neutral universe, we would be leading this division by three or four games. But apparently fortune does not favor us. But we'll fix them, given enough time. Those jock rocking-listening bastards can't hold us down forever.

"As for today's game, however," mrnoun then placed a cassette player on the podium and inserted and played a tape of A Flock of Seagull's "I Ran". "This I find much more frustrating. This music, this terrible, terrible music, dominated the air waves for the better part of the '80s. Eventually, to the credit of all mankind, we turned away from this....style." mrnoun's disgust was palpable, "But these Goose Eggs, they want to dredge up certain things that are better left buried. Because I'm a just man, I have decided to bury them for their crimes, down there deep with Billy Idol and the Thompson Twins. And when I'm done, let that be a lesson to anyone who thinks that the culture of the '80s is something to look back on nostalgically. The '80s should be forgotten and ignored and that's all there is to it!"

Armitage disagreed, even as he continued his piss-poor Tony Montana impression, "Hey, mang, I don't go up to your moonbase and tell you that your progressive rock is crappy, mang. Now say goodbye to the bad mana-" the interview continued, but all of the reporters present agreed that it would be best to just tune it out.

In other news, J.R. Richard, the Landers' winning pitcher, spoke on what it was like to move from the Aquamen, who he played for last season, to the Landers, "Well, I am not sure how the gently caress they built a dome at the bottom of Crater Lake, but that still makes a lot more drat sense then someone building a god-drat moonbase! How the gently caress are people affording all of this, anyway?"

Don May posted:

HOPELESS POTATOES BEAT HOPELESS COMANCHEROS 13-12

Coahuila- Neither the Potatoes nor the Comancheros have a good chance of reaching the postseason, but their powerful offenses did at least get their day in the sun in today's 13-12, 10-inning runfest.

Josh Gibson, the prospective #1 pick in the next dispersal draft, seemed eager to move on from the Potatoes after the season, even after delivered the game-winning RBI for his team, "Yeah, I won the game for the team. Can I please leave now? I hate playing in Idaho, I hate my teammates, and I hate the fact that Grinnblade won't even let me play catcher where I could make even more of a difference. I'm a great DH, but a whole lot of my value comes from the fact that I can play catcher too. It's just a real shame that I have to waste an entire season playing out here in the sticks where there's basically no chance of this team going anywhere except Round 1 of the Gauntlet where we'll probably killed by the Superbas! It is an American tragedy. I should be leading teams to championships, not watching moose wandering around in the stadium's parking lot! No one should have to spend the best years of their life in Idaho. Nobody."

Grinnblade tried to refute Gibson's comments, "Gibson is way out of line. Idaho is great. Did you know we have one of the highest proportions of libertarians in America? And we all know that libertarians know what's going on. They know that big government is working day and night to restrict our freedoms. All they want to do is take our money and redistribute it to the laziest members of society so that they don't have to work at all. Ron Paul 2012!"

The owner of the Comancheros, Warm Sarsaparilla, has now seen his team fall apart completely, and it is looking increasingly likely that both of his teams will end up in the first round of the Gauntlet. "What went wrong? I know that we didn't have a great defense, and that our pitching might not work out, but we were supposed to have a great offense. But it's not working! Nothing's working! I bring new hitters, but they won't hit for me. I go into Idaho, against one of the few teams worse than me, and I lose? Why is this happened to me? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?"

Monicro posted:

Mooseontheloose posted:

Are you in need of a Middle Reliever? I need a Left Handed Relieve Pitcher and am willing to give away the one and only 2011 Joquin Benoit to help bolster another teams bullpen.

Mooseontheloose posted:

Are you in need of a Middle Reliever? I need a Left Handed Relieve Pitcher and am willing to give away the one and only 2011 Joquin Benoit to help bolster another teams bullpen.

Mornacale posted:

I have a surplus of catching: 1932 Ernie Lombardi, 1968 Bill Freehan, 1990 , and 2004 Jason Kendall. I also have 1932 Chick Hafey who can mash in CF (or LF). I also have 1964 Boog Powell, 1968 Willie Horton, 1968 Al Kaline, 2004 Craig Wilson, and 2004 Jason Bay to hit dongs in corner OF. I also have, you know, other stuff.

Anything jump out?

Grinnblade posted:

Idaho Potatoes

Oh gently caress me.

Gibson to C, Berra to DH. Keep them in the same spots in the lineup.

Anybody want Berra? Just need a decent replacement for McDougald...

kw0134 posted:

Well, I'd like to take Kaline out for a spin, and Hafey might be an interesting choice for CF given that he was supposedly half blind (and Bill James thinks he was a bad joke of a HoF selection). Both mens' best days are behind them and it doesn't seem like you're even starting either of them so perhaps both for Bonds?

Grinnblade posted:

Idaho Potatoes

Oh gently caress me.

Gibson to C, Berra to DH. Keep them in the same spots in the lineup.

Anybody want Berra? Just need a decent replacement for McDougald...