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Faustoan Bargain posted:
Yeah I haven't done poo poo about the playoff rotations. Those screenshots were made on saturday/sunday.
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 Make my rotation Lolich McNally Pappas Dobson. Set stealing to -3. Don't change my lineup. 
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Proof of Concept: All-Time, All-Team Super-League Cup Tournament Not because I'm necessarily going to run this, but just to show how I would. Johnny Hopp Region (Seed #1) 1. Boston Skyhawks 16. Newport Sharks (v1) 8. Omaha Forgettables (v1) 9. Cancun Tornados 5. Coburns 12. Atlantis Unspecifieds 4. South L.A. Eazy W's 13. Poughkeepsie Superbas 6. Second City Saints 11. Seattle Suicides 3. Newport Sharks (v3) 14. Idaho Potatoes (v2) 7. Lombard St. Gumshoes 10. New England Arguments 2. Finger Lakes Phoenixes 15. Kolkata Indians Bill Dinneen Region (Seed #8) 1. Ryleh Cultists 16. Brooklyn Bombers (v2) 8. San Diego Freewheelers 9. Wausau Woodchucks 5. Petaluma Goose Eggs 12. Cleveland Communists 4. Oxbridge Mathematicians 13. Falmouth Clippers 3. Rochester Generics 14. Atlantis Aquamen (v2) 6. Portland Bulldogs 11. London Calling 7. San Juan Tigres 10. Oneida Spooners 2. Cleveland Unicorns (v2) 15. Newport Sharks (v2) Lloyd Moseby Region (Seed #5) 1. Seattle SuperSonics 16. Brooklyn Bombers (v1) 8. Mid-Northern Suicides 9. Albany Pessimists 5. Baltimore Blind Men 12. Boston Crabs (v2) 4. Great Googly-Mooglies 13. Des Moines Dervishes (v2) 3. Juneau Juggernauts 14. Leprechauns (v2) 6. Ted Sox 11. Silicon Valley Wanzers 7. New Orleans Hurricanes 10. Venice Beach Surf 2. Florida Oranges 15. Rated R Superstars Thornton Lee Region (Seed #4) 1. Chicago Bobbleheads 16. Brooklyn Bronies 8. Polyarny Postmodernists 9. Cleveland Commies 5. Deadwood Cutthroats 12. #Occupation 4. Milwaukee Drinkers 13. Madison Mudholes 3. Virginia City Vigilantes 14. Toronto Ravens 6. Greenbrier Orchids 11. California Unspecifieds 7. Des Moines Dervishes (v1) 10. Florida Dickshots 2. Chicago Blood Sox 15. Jackson Jerks Eddie Joost Region (Seed #3) 1. Gander Doppel-Bangers 16. Stevie Mitch Specials 8. Omaha Forgettables (v2) 9. Barons 5. Antarctica Unspecifieds 12. San Francisco Clues 4. Leprechauns (v1) 13. Boston Crabs (v3) 6. Detroit Original Riots 11. Catalina 2 Fish 3. Burma Imperialists 14. Anchorage Penguins 7. Idaho Potatoes (v1) 10. Cuba Smokers 2. Queen Mercuries 15. Old Hoss Radbourns Big Six Region (Seed #6) 1. South Bolton Eazy W's 16. Kodak Googles 8. Mudville Masochists 9. Hartford Whalers 5. Dorchester Phantoms 12. Greater Googly-Mooglies 4. Comancheros 13. Seattle Homers 3. Honolulu Lava Flows 14. East St. Louis Electrics 6. Oyster Cult Blues 11. Barrow Daydreamers 7. St. Paul Bearers 10. Flushing Flying Dutchmen 2. Providence Murderbots 15. Hill Valley Biffs Eri Yoshida Region (Seed #7) 1. Rockford Losers (v2) 16. Vancouver Loonies 8. Power Rangers 9. New Orleans Mashers 5. Chicago Dinger-Machines 12. Motor City Bengals 4. Cologne Emperors 13. Jerk City Philosophers 3. Detroit Switchblades 14. Free Country Fhqwhgads 6. Boston Crabs (v1) 11. Norfolk Splinter Cells 7. Cleveland Unicorns (v1) 10. San Juan Elephants 2. Luna Landers 15. Philadelphia Longshots Don Slaught Region (Seed #2) 1. Fukuoka Finger-Bangers 16. Las Vegas Gamblers 8. Paris Postmodernists 9. Web 2.0 Bloggers 5. Atlantis Aquamen (v1) 12. Vice City Goose Eggs 4. Detroit Riots 13. Rockford Losers (v1) 6. New New York Fightin' Mongooses 11. Spokane Air Raids 3. Dubai Dervishes 14. Hakata Runnin' Ramen 7. EV-IL Corp. Villains 10. Philadelphia Failures 2. Framingham Fillies 15. Senadores de San Juan
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:You were a scary amount over your pythag. "Pythag?"
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BearDrivingTruck posted:"Pythag?" Pythag is a shorthand reference to the Pythagorean Expectation, a formula created by Bill James to predict the expected win percentage of a Baseball team. The formula is as follows: Runs Scored^2 / (Runs Scored^2 + Runs Allowed^2) A team that is above or below its expected winning percentage as determined from the Pythag can be viewed as over or under preforming.
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BearDrivingTruck posted:"Pythag?" Pythag is short for Pythagorean record, which is a tool that uses a team's runs scored and runs allowed to determine how many games they "should" have won. Among other things, it's proven to be a better predictor of a team's record in the following season than that team's actual record. Let's look at a modern example. The 2012 Baltimore Orioles went 93-69. Going with just that information, you'd think they were a dominant team. However, they scored just seven more runs (712) than their opponents (705). Their Pythagorean record, then, was 82-80; they "should" have been about a .500 team. The 2012 Orioles are a case of a team that overperformed their Pythag. Barring some major changes to the overall construction of their team (like signing Josh Hamilton and adding a whole new starting rotation), in 2013 they're likely to be closer to 82-80 than to repeating at 93-69.
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I've wondered how useful Pythag is in the Super League. Especially when you consider things like the mid-season drafts where HoF-caliber players are up for grabs, or when you can have games which tend to be either low scoring affairs and ones you lose by enormous margins because it's the Super League. Teams can change in a blink, and teams can face anything between All-Century Teams and our equivalent of AAAA clubs.
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You know, I actually like the Orchids in the Thornton Lee Division up there. At least, if everyone else's Babe Ruth exploded.
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Smasher Dynamo posted:Eddie Joost Region (Seed #3) Still my favorite team I ran.  Every one of my teams aspires to be them.
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  Postmodern Gauntlet Roster Lineup LF "Sliding" Billy Hamilton 2B Napoleon "Nap" Lajoie 3B George Brett CF Willie Mays RF Sam Crawford DH Cesar Cedeno 1B Keith Hernandez/"Hall of Famer" Joe Kelley SS Ozzie Smith C Darrell Porter/Ray Schalk Bench IF Tom Herr OF Max "Scoops" Carey UT Elmer Flick Rotation SP Addie "The Human Hairpin" Joss SP Noodles "the Pitcher" Hahn SP Waite "Schoolboy" Hoyt SP Fernando "Not a Closer" Valenzuela Bullpen CL Robb Nen SU Jeff Reardon SR Jesse Orosco SR Todd Worrell MR John Hiller LR John Tudor MU Cy Falkenberg Non-Roster Invite XE Denny "Glacier" Rainwater We fully expect to take the International Championship out of the Gauntlet and proceed to suck our way through SL VIII.
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mks5000 posted:Pythag is a shorthand reference to the Pythagorean Expectation, a formula created by Bill James to predict the expected win percentage of a Baseball team. The formula is as follows: Just to be pedantic, people have crunched the numbers better over the years and I think the actual correct exponent is like 1.8 or something (where "correct" means "gives the best correlation between RS, RA, and winning percentage"). e: I was right, it's 1.83.
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  The Imperialists aren't a great team. But they're good enough. They don't have great pitchers, but they get by. Their lineups always seems to have one or two holes in it, but they can usually get enough runs to survive. For the second straight year, they have won the Memento Mori Division, not so much because of excellence on their part, but because they were the only competent team in their division. Now, however, they are suddenly thrust in a battle where mere adequacy is not adequate. Can the Imperialists rise to the occasion?  Old Moulmein Park Mandalay, Burma Old Moulmein Park will host Games 3 and 4 of this series.  For the past two seasons, the Rockford Losers have posted the best regular season records in the Dynamo League. They have the greatest pitching rotation in the Super-League this season, and perhaps in any season. They have outstanding hitting and good fielding. But no one seems to see them as real contenders. Maybe it's time that changed.  Rockford Municipal Stadium Rockford, IL Rockford Municipal Stadium will host Games 1, 2, and 5 of this series. Game 1 Don May posted:
Box Score   Game 2 Don May posted:
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Regrettable. Distressing. Ah, well, until next season. I must remember to investigate whether "General" Crowder is any relation to Bo, Bowman, or Boyd. It would explain his dogged stupidity and hirsute incompetence, if nothing else.
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kw0134 posted:I've wondered how useful Pythag is in the Super League. Especially when you consider things like the mid-season drafts where HoF-caliber players are up for grabs, or when you can have games which tend to be either low scoring affairs and ones you lose by enormous margins because it's the Super League. Teams can change in a blink, and teams can face anything between All-Century Teams and our equivalent of AAAA clubs. I'm almost positive the Bobbleheads have outperformed their Pythag in every season of the Super League, so I'm inclined to agree.
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blakelmenakle posted:I'm almost positive the Bobbleheads have outperformed their Pythag in every season of the Super League, so I'm inclined to agree. I'm not sure it's quite the simple. It's true the Bobbleheads have outperformed their pythag every year, but I would guess that a fair amount of that has to do with the fact that they are only of the only teams with a semblance of a bullpen, which helps them in close games. And, even then, they really only outperformed their pythag dramatically in two of the four seasons. Here's a list of the five teams longest-tenured teams' records and pythag records (in parentheses) over the last four seasons. Cleveland Unicorns SLIV 93-69 (90-72) SLV 85-77 (87-75) SLVI 91-71 (87-75) SLVII 73-89 (84-78) Chicago Bobbleheads SLIV 78-84 (75-87) SLV 91-71 (80-82) SLVI 86-76 (76-86) SLVII 108-54 (103-59) Florida Oranges SLIV 90-72 (90-72) SLV 93-69 (93-69) SLVI 92-70 (90-72) SLVII 76-86 (77-85) Fukuoka Finger-Bangers SLIV 88-74 (90-72) SLV 90-72 (86-76) SLVI 96-66 (100-62) SLVII 92-70 (90-72) South Bolton Eazy W's SLIV 92-71 (96-67) SLV 71-91 (81-81) SLVI 79-83 (78-84) SLVII 99-63 (95-67) These numbers also lead me to believe that two things happened in this last season: 1. The Dynamo League got stronger Granted, no new team made the playoffs in the Dynamo League, but you didn't really have many awful teams in that league either. True, the Radbourns were fatally flawed, but they had a decent offense, and the Superbas were probably better than you think. In addition, the Saints, Bulldogs, Unspecifieds were all .500 teams or better, and even the Gumshoes and Postmodernists were pretty decent. The result? The Oranges and Unicorns, who had stagnated over the past few seasons, suddenly found themselves unable to maintain their positions in the upper-middle class of the Dynamo League and got thrown into the Gauntlet. 2. The Smasher League got a lot weaker No way to sugarcoat this one, the only really good new team in the Smasher League was the Cultists. The other expansion teams in the league were pretty rough, to say the least. Granted, the Mathematicians will survive, but they're a quirky and flawed team that is going to need to make some moves to be able to do anything of import next season. The rest of the expansion teams are almost certainly going to get relegated. The cosmically awful Potatoes, Superstars and Goose Eggs are already gone, and the Mudholes are probably not long for this world. Norfolk was too fragile to survive, and Ted Sox overachieved to make it to 79 wins. For that matter, several of the returning teams in the Smasher League disappointed. The Juggernauts and Mooglies self-destructed through bad trades. The Emperors, who were always decent, but never had quite enough pitching, were no match for the Cultists, the Comancheros just kind of flamed out. Were the five power teams in the Smasher League historically good? I'm not so sure. The Bobbleheads, Eazy W's and Landers were all basically the same teams they were last year, and they all showed huge improvements this year. The Phoenixes were basically the same as last year, except instead of finishing in third place, they finished in first by 15 games. And the Cultists? Not to take anything away from Cthulhu Dreams, who did an outstanding job in his first season, but when an Expansion Team, untested in the Super-League, suddenly vaults to 100 games, you would tend to think that it wasn't facing the best the Super-League had to offer.
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 vs Can the modern fly balling strike out pitchers of the Cleveland commies overcome the Providence Baron's pitching antiques? Is 38 year old Honus Wagner still a good super league player? Let's find out in the  Blue League Divisional Series The Saga of Tyler Clippardquote:Providence - Both of these teams are fairly evenly matched, so starting the 7 game series with a one nothing league would be an very useful state. Unfortunately for the Barons, with Babe Adams out until game two with elbow sorness, Mike Torrez had to take the mound for game one of the divisional series.  quote:With the Barons holding a ladies night, Babe Adams took the mound for game, and pitched a beauty, keeping the communists to 4 hits, and only letting a solo home run from Mike Morse score. This excellent pitching performance was supported by Tyler Clippards continued relief brilliance, amply demonstrating his skills as the Barons (sic) MVP, loading the bases in the 9th, before B.J Ryan was brought in to conceed the Walk off RBI Walk to Dwight Evans.  quote:Cleveland - At this point, I don't even know why the AI keeps bringing Clippard in? His regular season was brilliant, but this is just depressing. It's almost like Celevand is as cursed as Chicago. However, despite Clippards brilliance, the Communist bats are just overpowering, with 4 doubles and a Paul Konerko solo blast over the center field fence to give BJ Ryan the win, and to put the communists up 2-1.  quote:Barons tie it up in 2-1 squeaker With the Communists pulling ahead, the Barons need to post a good outing, which they did. Chief Wilson racked up the first hit with a solo shot over the centrefield fence, then Buddy bell(!) tripled before scoring on a wild pitch for the GW RBI.  quote:Tyler Clippard squashes late rally, puts the commies up 3-2 in division series The communist offense struck hard in the 7th and 8th innings to rack up 4 quick runs on a sequential offence including 2 infield singles. This gave the manager the courage to turn the ball over to Tyler Clippard for two more innings of the Tyler Clippard Adventure! Tyler Clippard rewarded the Managers courage by returning three hitters on 4 pitchs in the 8th, and seeing little harm with a 4 run lead, the manager put Clippard in again in the 9th.  quote:Barons tie it up at three apiece!  quote:AND THE BARONS WIN IT, THE BARONS WIN IT, OH MY GOD THE BARONS WIN IT.  Great series. Tense 7 games. Carl Yastrezeski is probably the MVP, and B.J Ryan and Tyler Clippard should be fired into the sun, as between them they cost the Communists 3 games. Series, B.J Ryan gave up two walk of walks. TWO. Tornandos vs Bloggers tommorrow!
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I'm still here! Pick Em'! Madison and Norfolk to survive. Barring more major injuries, I think my team can make the Gauntlet run.
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       Stop using Art Nehf and Jack Scott before they do actually kill your team.    Ryan Braun posted:
   While I was digging through the thread looking for your roster, I noticed that you, at one point, constructed an entire conversation between yourself and Ordius over a trade that didn't pan out. That does raise certain questions about the legitimacy of that alt account. But, we can talk about that later, at the moment, the Cells move on.    Winter comes to Poughkeepsie. Next Time!    A Pick 'em in Time Saves Nine! Pick Two! Cleveland Unicorns Juneau Juggernauts Norfolk Splinter Cells Polyarny Postmodernists
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Pick 'em! Polyarny and Juneau to advance!
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Do I get the pleasure of taking 2011 Ryan Braun out back and putting him down? I guess that was really what I should have expected from him, given his regular season.
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Well that was a hell of a series. Good fight, Cleveland. Now to see which of the other teams kicks my butt in the final.
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Pick-'em update II: Yes, it's late. Sorry. No commentary because it's half one in the morning. (Fun fact: At half one in the morning, there are exactly two places open in the whole of Barrow-in-Furness.) Bruzer - 7 points  Faustoan Bargain - 7 points  gardenald - 3 points  mentholmoose - 5 points  mks5000 - 6 points  Monicro - 7 points  Mornacale - 3 points  Pungry - 1 point  Robert_Deadford - 5 points  tatankatonk - 5 points  UltimoDragonQuest - 5 points  Standings 1. Bruzer/Faustoan Bargain/Monicro (7) 4. mks5000 (6) 5. mentholmoose/Robert_Deadford/tatankatonk/UltimoDragonQuest (5) 9. gardenald/Mornacale (3) 11. Pungry (1)
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Pick 'Em! Cleveland Unicorns Juneau Juggernauts Norfolk Splinter Cells Polyarny Postmodernists Still refusing to put by faith into the Unicorns because Cleveland Sports Teams.
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Ah, yes, tell me again of this marvelous place they call Poughkeepsie, where the waters run blue, and the skies are bright. Oh, it's a lie, of course, but it's a lie magnificently told! Owner: Nerokerubina Location: Poughkeepsie, NY Home Grounds: Polo Grounds Teams Used 1970 Chicago White Sox 1971 Oakland A's 2011 Texas Rangers Past Records Expansion Cup VI 68-94, 5th Place, Skyhawks Division Super-League VII 65-97, 4th Place, Sic Transit Vir Division, Gauntletted Gauntlet VI Round 1: 20-20, 2nd Place, Survived Round 2: 22-19, 2nd Place, Survived Round 3: 14-26, 4th Place, Relegated It was cold that day in Poughkeepsie, cold and getting colder. Martin Wolf was in his garden, staring at the remains of dillweed plant. He hated dill, always had. The taste, the smell, they almost made him sick. But dill grew, unlike the rest of the herbs he had planted. Perhaps the garden just didn't get enough sun to grow rosemary or thyme. Maybe it wasn't warm enough in the spring. Martin shook his head sadly before getting his shovel, the first frost of the season had killed the dill, and now it was time to plow it under so that it could feed the next year's crop of that loathsome weed. Still, for today at least, he got to bury the dill under the ground, where he could put it out of his mind for a dew months. He wiped his sweaty brow with the sleeve of his flannel work shirt. "Martin, come here a minute", came a nasally voice from the kitchen window. Martin would be lying to himself if he said that his wife's voice was pleasant to hear, but nobody's perfect, not here in Poughkeepsie. He ambled over the window, his knees sore from his groundskeeping. "Martin, I need you to run by the store and get some baking powder. I want to make some biscuits for dinner, and we're fresh out." "Alright, Martha, how big a thing of baking soda do you need?" Martin asked, trying to be helpful. "No, not baking soda, baking powder. Powder. They're not the same thing, you know." "Ah, okay, how much baking powder, then?" "A small can ought to be fine for now." Martin shrugged and went inside the house to get his wallet. He checked to see how much money he had inside...two fives and three singles. How much did baking soda, no, powder, how much did baking powder cost? He couldn't remember ever buying it at the store. Thirteen dollar should be enough, he thought, and if it isn't, I guess I can stop by the bank. Martin walked out the front door, to be greeted by a gray sky and a mild chill. Looking at the clouds, Martin guessed they were the type of clouds that would only tease a drizzle, and not actually rain. It was a good day for a walk. The streets of Poughkeepsie were not in good repair. There simply was no money to repair them. The finances of the town hadn't been in good shape for yours and building that stadium, well, if Main Street collapsed in a sinkhole tomorrow, there'd be nothing anyone could do but sign and importantly shake their heads. Then again, if Main Street did collapse, it's not like too many people would be that inconvenienced. Martin remembered as a boy when the street was lined with small stores, each with their own discrete little sphere. The hardware store, and the bakery, and the stationery store, and so many others, each one its own little petty kingdom. Nowadays, the street was mainly deserted. Once in a while, a new restaurant or some other hopeless business would move in, its owner full of smiles and hope, but they never lasted long. The truth is, one you got away from the nostalgia of it, all those mom and pop shops offered was limited selection and higher prices. Martin head the road groan under his feet. Now there's a problem, he thought, walking down the street to Mike's General Store. It amazed Martin that Mike was still in business. A general store didn't seem to make much sense in this day and age, especially not with the Stop n' Shop just down Route 9. There seemed to be no reason for anyone to go to Mike's these days, and yet, while the rest of Main Street died, Mike's seemed to be doing all right for itself. Martin had heard rumors that Mike had kept his store afloat with some questionable activities, the smart money was on his storeroom in the back serving as a waystation for contraband going down to the city. Other townfolk, who cared more for salacious gossip than finding out the truth, suggested he operated some sort of underground bordello. For his part, Martin didn't care one way or the other, he just wanted to get the baking soda...powder, and get out of there. Actually, that wasn't true. Martin had made a bit of sport of going to Mike's, seeing just how many people were there when he went in. For whatever reason, Martin thought it was funny how slow Mike's business was. He'd probably feel bad if Mike seemed to care about his business at all, but, it was rather clear he didn't, so neither did Martin. He enter the store, and was greeted with a place out of time. The display cases, the signs, everything felt fifteen, twenty years out of date, if not more. The interior was trimmed in pastels, which had fashionable in a past era that Martin struggled to remember. Going past the coolers, humming loudly, he found his way to the baking supplies. The entire aisle appeared to be coated in dust, as if no shopper had been here in years. Maybe they hadn't. Gliding past the various spices, Martin turned for a moment, and then winced when he saw a little contained of dried dill leaves on the shelf. He still hated dill. He found the baking powder...wait, it wasn't baking powder he was after, it was baking soda, right? Yes, baking soda, that's what he was here for. He grabbed a tin of baking powder, and that, more than anything, spoke to the stagnation of Mike's store. He wondered how old this tin was, as he couldn't remember the last time he had seen baking soda sold in a tin. If nothing else, he supposed, it was a more attractive enough container than the normal cardboard box, it felt more solid, more real, more pure than the normal baking soda. It wasn't, of course, but perception was sometimes more important that reality. He drummed his fingers on the tin for a little while, hearing the muffled percussion. Before heading to the checkout, Martin looked under the bottom of the tin, just making sure it wasn't expired. Of course, he didn't even know if baking soda could expire. Wait...was he supposed to get baking soda, or baking powder? Soda. Definitely soda. Martin headed to the register where Mike stood there waiting for him, as there were no other customers in the store. Mike was a middle-aged man, barrel-chested and sleepy-eyed. Thirty years ago, when things were different, Mike has been a trim, energetic fellow, but that was a long time ago. "Hello, Marty, good to see ya!" Mike bellowed. Martin hated being called 'Marty'. "So, ya heard what happened to the team? drat shame if you ask me." "I don't really follow baseball, Mike." Martin responded, making no attempt to mask his disinterested. If Mike noticed, he didn't show it. "drat shame. You know, I really think they could have done good if they'd had another season." "Right, so, what do I owe you?" "That'll be $4.95." Martin wasn't sure whether that was a good price for a tin of baking soda or not but, at the moment, he just wanted to get the hell out of Mike's store. He slid Mike a five, and Mike slid a nickel back. Martin left, just wanting to get home. As he stepped on to the street, though, he felt it shift under his feet. Gingerly taking another step, he could tell the street was buckling. Realizing that something was very wrong, Martin tried to get back to the curb, off this unstable road. By the time, he took, his next step, though, street in front of him was already gone, and he was falling, falling...as he fell into a sinkhole that was swallowing Main Street, he starting thinking about what Mike had told him, and as he hit the ground, and his vision started to fade, his last that thought was that Vida Blue was about the worst ace that any Super-League team had ever had, and that's why the Superbas got relegated.
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A Pick 'em in Time Saves Nine! Pick Two! Norfolk Cleveland
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Great, the round where I had the right picks I forget to post 'em. Amazing job, me. Norfolk & Polyarny
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Let's hope that I'm better at picks than the Commies' BJ Ryan is at throwing drat strikes when it counts.  Juneau Juggernauts Norfolk Splinter Cells
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Last place in pick 'em, I continue to own at everything in the Super League Norfolk and Cleveland
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 Comanchero Gauntlet Roster 2B Rod Carew CF Joe DiMaggio SS Rogers Hornsby LF Manny Ramirez 1B Jeff Bagwell 3B Jim Thome/Edgar Martinez RF Sammy Sosa C Yogi Berra/Mike Stanley DH Albert Belle IF Carlos Baerga IF Michael Young OF Brian Giles SP Bert Blyleven SP Greg Maddux SP Cliff Lee SP Luis Tiant MU Mike Garcia CL Tom Henke SR Goose Gossage SR Jeff Reardon SR Paul Assenmacher MR Bill Campbell LR Tom Seaver Fear that lineup, cocksuckers.
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