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mentholmoose posted:oldskool is right, though; the Oranges had by far the best team that got relegated so far. It is quite a shame they got relegated, because I really liked the team. To go into more depth beyond : In the outfield: Bonds & Griffey are going to hit home runs and even steal some bases, in exchange for not taking walks and playing average at best defense. Ichiro isn't going to hit homeruns or take walks, but he'll probably consistently hit .320 and steal 20 bases so lead him off. Moving to the infield: Pujols is the 2007 version, so he's got no injury record to speak of, will hit around .270 with 20 home runs. He's probably the best player of the lot, because he can play 3 positions below average or worse, whereas everyone else on the Oranges was mediocre at one position and worthless anywhere else. McGwire, again young, won't hit for much average but seems to mash homers like nobody's business. Lajoie is a complete crapshoot; he can play second, but his poor defense makes that a bad fit. His other position is first base, but he doesn't really have the power you'd like at the position & you'll never make up that power in a better-defending 2B so it's an overall negative to play him at first. If he hits .350+ like he did for his first few seasons with the Oranges, then the lackluster defense (and potentially even the lack of power, depending on your lineup) is acceptable. If he sputters like he's done in the last few seasons he's a complete disaster. It is really strange, and feels wrong, to say a guy hitting .260 in the SL is a disaster, but his sole redeeming trait is a high average with bunches of XBH. If his average dips, he's a detriment to your team because he doesn't have the power, speed or defense to offset a lack of base-hit production. Trammell is pretty much a .260 hitter who will hit around 15 home runs and not embarrass you defensively at shortstop. Mauer is another gamble; he hits for average with a bit of power and speed due to his youth (the 2006 version was his second-highest career season in batting average, home runs and steals), his defense is good for the Super-League since the deadball catcher nerf, and he doesn't seem to get injured much. When he does get hurt though it's usually a major injury, so you'll have him until you don't & once he's gone you're relying on your backup catchers exclusively, meaning you have to have 3 catchers in a 28-man roster to really be prepared. On the bench: Kiki Cuyler is a good player that got benched because I drafted Ichiro to play RF immediately after acquiring him and couldn't justify benching Bonds, Griffey or Ichiro for him. Should be a starter somewhere, very good player. Taffy Wright has no business being good but I couldn't get the guy to hit below .300 no matter how much or little he played. Ozzie Smith is very good defensively but somehow managed an on-base percentage 20 points lower than his batting average in the Gauntlet. Eddie Mathews is decrepit, do not draft him. He's in his next-to-last season, he is all but guaranteed to drop off a cliff statistically during the season. Rusty Staub isn't awful, he'll be a mediocre player for you and a good late-round pick to bolster an outfield. Canseco is relatively young, I believe, but again my outfield was stacked and he never played. Andy Van Slyke is mediocre. Placido Polanco is a great late-round draft pick, he served me very well to the point where he's one of the few players left from my initial draft class. Another is Mike Lieberthal, who served well as a backup catcher (which meant he played a bunch whenever Mauer went out). Coleman should be a good base stealer but he's not a great hitter or defender and you don't have the in-game control to effectively use him as a pinch runner. Pat Collins did well as a backup backup catcher whenever Mauer got hurt, but not well enough to usurp Lieberthal's claim to the primary replacement throne. Scioscia never got used. To the rotation: Clemens is dominant. Alexander didn't work out for me but I only got to see him in 40 games. Welch is a complete roll of the dice, this is his 1990 20-win season; another victim of Mogul 13, I suspect, as he did a lot better before the changeover. Brown is the 1997 team, so Smasher hates him but he's not bad. Good groundball pitcher if you have the infield defense for him (I did not and he still did OK, to be fair). Viola is left-handed and maybe it was just Tropicana but no left-hander did consistently well for me. Falkenberg is a deadballer, Antonelli was more injured than useful, LSDock Ellis was a name that didn't do well for me. To the bullpen: Eckersley should be great for you. Wagner is a very good strikeout pitcher but he also tends to give up a lot of homeruns as a result. Nathan seems to be a mix of the two who can't quite be as good as either, but not a bad selection. Reardon is a right-handed Wagner. Neshek seems totally dependent on rating; good rating, good pitcher, bad rating, bad pitcher. Innis was always bad for me, as was Franco. SUMMONING THE JOBA: It angers Smasher, so be forewarned of that. As far as actual performance goes, he requires a cautious eye. He can average 9 K/9 which is great for a starter, but he'll give up more homeruns than his other power-pitching counterparts because he's young & just not as good as them. If you ride him until the wheels start coming off, he's very good in a pinch and performed above expectations in long relief. Try to keep riding after the wheels have fallen off, and he'll drag you under with him. He's great for spot starts, especially against teams that lack power or discipline, but a full-time rotation gig really isn't the best option. My final bit of advice harkens back to the same advice you got when you started, and that you hopefully followed: have a team concept in mind and build to that concept. Draft need over name. If you have a cavernous outfield, don't draft a "power hitter" OF who can't run or throw. If you rely on groundball pitchers, don't draft infielders who can't pull off double plays.
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Man, this is never going to work. Owner: BearDrivingTruck Location: Albany, CA Home Grounds: AT&T Park Teams Used 1934 New York Giants 1957 Chicago White Sox 1989 San Francisco Giants 1996 Pittsburgh Pirates Past Records Expansion Cup VII 89-75, 2nd Place, Sub-Tropicals Division Super-League VIII 69-93, 5th Place, Sic Transit Vir Division Gauntlet VII Round 3: 22-18, 3rd Place, Relegated Title History 2x Hardcore Champions 1x Interim Intercontinental Champion Obit So, as you guys know, BearDrivingTruck left this thread a while ago, but, before he did, he and I came up with some possible spinoff projects for the members of his now-relegated team. Now, unfortunately, most of them are a bit unfinished, and the ones that are done aren't very good and, due to legal issues, the pitch about Billy Pierce getting his own talk show had to be removed. PITCH #1: Atlee Hammaker Logline: Atlee Hammaker is leading a double life: relief pitcher by day, world's top female assassin by night! Synopsis: Atlee Hammaker, a star pitcher for the Omaha Forgettables, who drafted him in the latest dispersal draft, has a secret life that he/she is struggling to keep secret. Because, due to old gambling debts, Atlee Hammaker is also the world's top female assassin, trying to raise enough money to buy her way out of a lifetime contract signed with the villainous, if charming, Paul LaPalme. Sample Episode: Atlee is pitching against the Fukuoka Finger-Bangers, the most evil team in the Dynamo League, when, suddenly, LaPalme orders her to go kill the French Ambassador for the villainous president of Belarus/Majority Shareholder in the Idaho Potatoes, President Lukashenko. But it soon turns out that the situation is even more complicated, as the Ambassador of France turns out to be a werewolf, who has been menacing the people of Omaha for weeks. Atlee is forced to team up with Marauder, who is the only man in Omaha with enough silver to craft a bullet with which to kill the ambassador. Can Atlee stop this deadly diplomat? PITCH #2: Boots and Braun Logline: George Grantham and Ryan Braun solve crimes...and continue to suck at defense Synopsis: George "Boots" Grantham was a cop who didn't play by the rules, until one day, his decision to solve a hostage crisis with a half-ton of C4 led to 50 deaths and his dismissal from the force. Ryan Braun was a promising outfielder in the Super-League, until he failed thirteen drug tests in a row and was given a 15-game ban. Together, they decided to form their own private investigation society, fighting crimes that the cops ignore. Sample Episode: Ryan Braun discovers a new form PED is being marketed to high school athletes, and he and Boots must go undercover to stop them. PITCH #3: Hub's Logline: Carl Hubbell opens his own bar, co-starring Denny Neagle, Jason Schmidt and Bob Brenly Synopsis: Tired of the grind of playing baseball, Carl Hubbell decides to retire and open his own bar in the bustling Chicago neighborhood of Jefferson Park. His old friends, Denny Neagle, Jason Schmidt, and Bob Brenly, also without jobs because no one in the dispersal draft had any interest in drafting them, soon join him, and they all enter a new and hilarious phase of their lives. Sample Episode: Hub's liquor license is up for renewal, and the gang is expecting an inspection from the Board of Liquor, and the bar is in no shape for an inspection after the Pulaski Day party. Denny suggests that if they wreck up the bar more, they can pretend that the bar was vandalized, and get the inspection delayed, while Jason suggests paying off the inspector with some money they found in a wallet lost during the party. In another subplot, Bob Brenly takes a bunch of cough medicine to go on a "Chicagoland Peyote Trip" and ends up on a long roadtrip to Arizona, never to be seen again. Denny and Carl, after wrecking up the bar, decide they might as well cash in on the insurance policy, bringing in their claims adjuster, who is skeptical of the pair, and threatens to write them up for insurance fraud. Just then, the head of the Polish Mafia, who had dropped the wallet comes in, and starts shooting, killing the claims adjuster, and taking back his wallet, as he assumed that the claims adjuster was the one who stole it. Later, as they clean up the bloodspatter, the inspector finally comes in, and Carl bribes him $500 to pass his bar. As this is Chicago, the bribe is immediately accepted. Denny, Carl, and Jason then admit that they probably could have saved themselves a lot of time if they had just done this from the outset. PITCH #4: Jason Kendall, M.D. Logline: Jason Kendall becomes a doctor, with the help of Nurse Holly and the ghost of Mickey Cochrane. Synopsis: Jason Kendall, a remarkably bad hitter for most of his career, decides to go back to medical school so that he can go back to his first love: medicine. Teaming with Terry Mulholland, who decided to get his nursing license after he got tired of paying nurses to patch up his wounds every time he crashed his motorcycle, and the ghost of Mickey Cochrane, who can't get into heaven until he helps another catcher save 100 patients. Sample Episode: Jason Kendall faces the toughest test of his career when a patient comes in with a mysterious disease that can only be cured with a kidney transplant, but the only donor match in the vicinity is inside the preserved body of Vladimir Lenin, which is on loan from the Russian government. Will Jason Kendall break international law in order to save the life of his patient? Mickey, despite being a ghost, wants to get back on the dating scene, and asks Holly for tips. This goes terribly wrong when it turns out that Mickey's date is actually a ghost hunter who is only dating him as part of a plan to get a show on the Syfy network. PITCH #5: Untitled Bill Terry and Will Clark project Logline: Bill Terry plays an FBI agent on the trail of a serial killer, Will Clark, and they are both vampires. PITCH #6: Mel-ky Way Logline: Mel Ott is abducted by aliens to help them fight some sort of space war. PITCH #7: The Continuing Adventures of Matt Williams Logline: Matt Williams returns to his home town to resurrect his high school baseball team...and reconnect with the love of his life. PITCH #8: Luis and the Fox Logline: Slice of life comedy featuring the trials and travails of one of the better fielding middle infielders in history. Sample Episode: Luis Aparicio and Nellie Fox fight ninjas. This happens forever. Conclusion Well, there you go, eight pitches that combine to be almost one-half of a good obit. But since this is a bit short, I'll close it out with the annotated lyrics to what I assume BearDrivingTruck's favorite song is, "Magna of Illusion" by Blue Oyster Cult. Now, to put this in context, this is a song about a man named Imaginos Desdinova, a man with shape-shifting abilities born in early 19th century New England. The Invisible Ones, who covertly manipulate human history, have modified him, including giving him immortality, to be their agent on the Earth and, by the late 19th century, he was moved to Cornwall with his granddaughter. Cornwall and the harbor Where witches went mad more than once And until this day in dreams at least The lighthouse at Lost Christabel Squat and hugely tilts upon the strand Where Granddad's house was built And having stood the test of time The starry gale the bloody tide Granddad's house though gaped with hooks And filled with books Could stand no more until a certain prophecy Once read now stood, before the world fulfilled Now of these books in Granddad's keep Some of them were new but mostly they were old And the oldest was a scroll, a prophecy that read When the riddle begins the story will end August, the First 1892 and in the guise of destiny Granddad quit Cornwall, "I'm a captain of a ship My ship is charmed and called Plutonia" Stories on land, storms at sea 'tween 1892 and '93 When Granddad sailed for Mexico Ships charmed and ordinary Sailed the glide path to the sun And when the sun proved false As it always does Some of them would be lost And some would sail back home It was no star but a magna of illusion I mean by that, the mirror found In the chamber of jade Grown like a seed, deep within the ground The mirror found by one man So on and off again He sailed the Europe's rim On and off, off and on Until his time had come Through tears and smiles, the last domain The rods of broken crystal On and off and off again until his time had come Late to the story that had been But early to the riddle not yet begun August, the First 1893 The charmed ship Plutonia Sailed like a ray into Cornwall And none too soon it seems That night the Captain's granddaughter Would celebrate her birthday "I've come a long way", said the Captain "From Lost Christabel this night" "Accompanied by my dog familiar To blast your rafters with my surprise Granddaughter, it's a foreign mirror Taken from the jungle by crime" Stories on land, storms at sea 'Tween 1892 and '93 When Granddad sailed for Mexico When tables collapse And floors have filled And the party's over, it's all over Sea-dogs and rockers will dwell on doom I've warped the stuff of ground What seems to be is not Behind closed eyes Realize your sight Mine, granddaughter, proves a surprise More light than sun More dark than night Then more a snare than lust Smasher Dynamo fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Feb 9, 2013 |
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oldskool posted:To go into more depth beyond : Did... Did you just say Barry Bonds isn't going to draw walks?
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Bonds will draw walks but not like his insane early 00s numbers. You're only getting a mere Hall of Fame outfielder and not the guy who was better than Babe Ruth.
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UltimoDragonQuest posted:better than Babe Ruth. Shut your filthy whore mouth
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I realise I do have to fix it eventually, but I'm kind of intrigued to see how far you can take a team that ignores the very concept of defense. Also, with that draft pool, the biggest fix I can make involves a huge reach with the tenth pick, which I'm not entirely sure I want to do. I definitely need to change my stadium though.
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quote:-"You aren't listening, Smasher, I have no patience for any these Game Notes you use to pad out your recaps. The only thing I want to read from you is of my final triumph over the Coburns. Now get to it with no further delay!" Hahaha! I knew I had a use for John Olerud. Ferris Fain can't truly eat with gusto. Pessimists' obit was fun. Cheers for skipping the "Screwballs" joke. I still want to see the Deutschbags spinoff, though.
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I want to bet on the Babe, but I can't get behind the Biospark rotation. Burma and Seattle to advance Love the obits, Smasher, thanks again for doing them.
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The question, coming into this round, is how far Burma and Rochester can go. With apologies to blakelmenakle and Pungry, neither the Suicides or Biosparks are real contenders to survive the Gauntlet, but either or both could play the role of spoiler, and break up the Imperialists-Generics tandem. Let's see what you guys thought: Burma Imperialists Armitage (JAC) cbx (DEC) CVE (MDM) Gabriel Pope (OMA) gingemidget (WAL) GrickleGrass (MAN) Monathin (CNT) NotThatSamBeckett (PAR) Pander (SAD) ScottyJSno (LOV) theacox (CER) Rochester Generics CVE (MDM) Monathin (CNT) mooseontheloose (HRV) Senerio (NOW) theacox (CER) Saturn Biosparks Armitage (JAC) cbx (DEC) gingemidget (WAL) mooseontheloose (HRV) Pander (SAD) ScottyJSno (LOV) Senerio (NOW) Seattle Suicides Gabriel Pope (OMA) GrickleGrass (MAN) NotThatSamBeckett (PAR) The Imperialists are still heavy favorites, but a couple of you chose to pick against them, either trying to be clever or being Senerio and just flipping a coin. It looks like people were split on who else would advance though, as most of you thought that the Generics would wilt in the face of two teams with Babe Ruth. Between the Suicides and Biosparks, people tended to like the Biosparks a bit more, probably because blakelmenakle has won a couple of Super-League championships while Pungry has...not exactly distinguished himself in the Super-League. Then again, he does have Babe Ruth AND Ted Williams... Results Same as it ever was...Imperialists and Generics advance yet again! Not your best round, but good enough. The Imperialists continue their march towards survival. Yogi Berra has carefully considered it, and he's decided that the Generics simply are not going to be relegated this round, and if he has to single-handedly save the team, then he's going to do it. I know you're lineup was a bit glitchy here, but if we're being honest, I don't think subbing in Lynn or Fox would have done much good, especially given how well Doby and Avila did. But, hey, at least this will free up some of your time to help pilot the Bobbleheads back into the Super-League as part of the Purgatory Challenge! Which I'll get to officially announcing relatively soon. See you in Super-League X, Pungry. The Pick'em United Can Never Be Defeated Pick TWO! Burma Imperialists Florida Dickshots Rochester Generics San Juan Elephants
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Smasher Dynamo posted:The Pick'em United Can Never Be Defeated Burma and Rochester to advance.
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The Pick'em United Can Never Be Defeated Pick TWO! Burma Imperialists Florida Dickshots Rochester Generics San Juan Elephants The Rochester revival will finally wilt under the power of the Space Jam.
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Pick 'Em Elephants & the Imperialists I refuse to be Generic, that's just, like, what all you conformist sheeple are. You laugh because I'm different, but I laugh because you're all the same. Just like my mass-produced t-shirt says that totally defines my individuality. I also drink coffee and smoke cigarettes, like all non-conformists do. But wait... does that mean I conform to non-conformity? poo poo. I can't rightly root for another Floridian team, as I hope to abandon this hellhole before the start of the SL. And everybody loves Elephants. Elephants never forget. Hopefully this skill translates to the based ball.
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Pick 'em Burma and the Generics till the end.
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Expansion Cup VIII Playoff and Gauntlet Pick Em Scores and Standings Update Through Gauntlet Round 4 update pre:Gricklegrass 27 cbx 24 Armitage 23 NotThatSamBeckett 22 Monathin 21 Senerio 21 Pander 20 CVE 19 Gabriel Pope 19 theacox 19 gingemidget 18 Mooseontheloose 14 ScottyJSno 9 Bograt 3
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Unless there's a good reason to go to a 4 man rotation, and I certainly cannot quibble with the results this round, I think I would prefer a standard 5 man pitching rotation please.
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No longer living in a state of Mark Grace. Owner: blakelmenakle Location: Saturn Home Grounds: Enceladus Dome Teams Used 1915 Philadelphia Phillies 1930 St. Louis Browns 1950 Chicago White Sox 1953 Cleveland Indians 2004 Milwaukee Brewers Past Records Super-League VIII 72-90, 5th Place, Senor Goodtimes Division Gauntlet VII Round 4: 15-25, 3rd Place, Relegated Championships 3x Television Champions The Last Days of the Biosparks The doors of the cyro-chamber creaked open as : Hey, Smasher, listen, I read over your notes for this obit, and the Biosparks being awoken after 2000 years in cryo-sleep to play one game of baseball to save the human race? That's pretty lame, especially since your villains, the "Commissars of Dynamo", a race of aliens who discovered the transmissions of the Super-League and based their culture around it...or something...either way, they're pretty terrible. The whole thing is terrible. Let me sum up the Biosparks for you, okay? Great. Mark Grace posted:
: So there you good, that's why the Biosparks sucked so much. Fortunately for blakelmenakle, though, it wasn't the end of his story...
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The Pick'em United Can Never Be Defeated Pick TWO! Burma Imperialists San Juan Elephants I just have more confidence in tatankatonk's team than the Generics, even though kw0134's team has won the last 2 rounds just to spite me.
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Smasher Dynamo posted:
You deserve to be relegated for this alone. Those early 00's Brewers teams were a loving disaster.
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Pick em Florida Dickshots Burma
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ScottyJSno posted:Pick em Also THIS.
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Anybody who bets against Chick Hafey deserves what they get.
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The Pick'em United Can Never Be Defeated Pick TWO! Burma Imperialists San Juan Elephants More of the same from Jacksonville!
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ForeverBWFC posted:Shut your filthy whore mouth If you think about it for a couple of minutes, it's obvious that Barry bonds was better than Ruth, and so much better that it's not close. If she went back to when Ruth was throwing his first professional pitchers, the current high school girls world record holder could have won the men's 100m freestyle at the Olympics. Cthulhu Dreams fucked around with this message at 05:10 on Feb 10, 2013 |
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Smasher Dynamo posted:
May as well
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:If you think about it for a couple of minutes, it's obvious that Barry bonds was better than Ruth, and so much better that it's not close. If she went back to when Ruth was throwing his first professional pitchers, the current high school girls world record holder could have won the men's 100m freestyle at the Olympics. Did someone mention the early Olympics? Wiki on the 1904 Games posted:Marathon
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Expansion Cup VIII Playoffs: McQueen League Championship Series -- Idaho Potatoes vs Detroit Cougars Owner: cbx Hometown: Detroit, MI Teams Used: 1915 New York baseball Giants, 1938 Detroit Tigers, 1965 San Francisco Giants Regular Season Record: 102-60 cbx has been around the block a few times, and the Cougars are a testament to this fact (as well as his understandable diehard fanaticism for the Detroit Tigers). Their starting pitching is one of the strongest staffs in the Cup, with staff ace Christy Mathewson pitching the only perfect game in the regular season, and his #2 and #3 starters are no slouches either. And their offense? Well, they finished second in runs scored in the Cup with 901 (the Rakers scored 907). This was accomplished by having 3 players hit over 25 HR each, and the lowest batting average in their lineup belongs to catcher Rudy York, with a .239. The Cougars arrived here after an all-season knock-down, drag-out brawl with Senerio's Nowhere Men in Gauze for the McQueen League Barreta Division crown, a brawl that only ended when the Nowhere Men mysteriously faded away in September. Now, with a solid team backed by a guy who knows what he's doing, the Cougars may be poised to head to the Expansion Cup Championship Series, and perhaps even make some noise come Super-League IX. Tiger Stadium, Detroit, Michigan Tiger Stadium will host Games 1, 2, 6, and 7. Owner: Grinnblade Hometown: Moscow, ID Teams Used: 1926 St. Louis Cardinals, 1955 Detroit Tigers, 1976 Houston Astros, 2003 Colorado Rockies Regular Season Record: 87-75 Call it homefield advantage, call it corruption, or just do what I do and call it plain dumb luck, but whatever you call it, it resulted in my hastily-concocted Idaho Potatoes just barely fending off GrickleGrass's Miami Manatees to earn their first real accolade in three iterations of the team: The McQueen League Larkin Division crown. As is probably clearly apparent, when I was writing the divisional clinching game recaps and the September summary I didn't give my team much of a shot at winning this series. I figured my luck had to run out sometime soon, and what better time to do so than going up against the best record in the entire Cup? Well, then I looked at the numbers, and the numbers paint an interesting picture. The regular season series went to the Potatoes, 11-7 - the best winning percentage against the Cougars in non-interleague play. (Oddly enough, the Cougars went 1-2 against 3 of 6 of their interleague opponents.) In those 18 games, the Potatoes outscored the Cougars 98-81. Yeah, the Cougars are good. But could my rag-tag bunch of misfits possibly have the Cougars' number? Let's find out. Kibbie Dome, Moscow, Idaho The Kibbie Dome will host Games 3, 4, and 5. (And yes, the ACTUAL Kibbie Dome is too small to play baseball in. The dimensions are that of the Kingdome.) Game 1 Detroit Free Press posted:ONE-SIDED BULLPEN BATTLE GIVES GAME 1 OF MLCS TO IDAHO, 10-4 Game 2 Detroit Free Press posted:COUGARS SURVIVE EIGHTH-INNING SCARE, TIE SERIES UP AT 1-1 WITH 3-2 GAME 2 WIN Game 3 Moscow Daily News posted:REVENGE! IDAHO WINS GAME 3 IN WALK-OFF FASHION, 4-3 Game 4 Moscow Daily News posted:IDAHO ON VERGE OF UPSET WITH 1-0 GAME 4 VICTORY Game 5 Moscow Daily News posted:GAYLORD PERRY PUTS COUGARS ON BACK, SENDS MLCS BACK TO DETROIT WITH COMPLETE GAME GEM Game 6 Detroit Free Press posted:RUBE MARQUARD SURVIVES NINTH-INNING RALLY TO PITCH COMPLETE GAME AND FORCE GAME 7 Game 7 Detroit Free Press posted:POTATOES WIN MCQUEEN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES IN 11-INNING INSTANT CLASSIC
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... Right. The way my luck goes, that's exactly what was going to happen. Make it to the playoffs, don't even get a drat prize player and get last pick in the loving draft.
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Holy mother of God I did not realize how many I wrote about fantasy fantasy baseball until I scrolled through that post. Sorry guys, I'll try to be a little less verbose in the TLCS/ECCS. I mean, .cbx posted:... Right. The way my luck goes, that's exactly what was going to happen. Make it to the playoffs, don't even get a drat prize player and get last pick in the loving draft. please don't kill me Depending on how the ECCS goes I'd be interested in trading picks.
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cbx posted:... Right. The way my luck goes, that's exactly what was going to happen. Make it to the playoffs, don't even get a drat prize player and get last pick in the loving draft.
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Holy gently caress were those some long writeups. Anyway, I had thought of a prize to give to the winner of the Expansion Cup but I'm loathe to explain exactly what it is, to avoid any potential impropriety on Grinnblade's part. Well, any impropriety other than his team managing to pull off a miracle upset against a vastly superior team after making the playoffs thanks to a super-fortunate divisional alignment. Then again, I did give the Potatoes a banner of President Lukashenko for a reason.
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Grinnblade posted:Holy mother of God I did not realize how many I wrote about fantasy fantasy baseball until I scrolled through that post. Sorry guys, I'll try to be a little less verbose in the TLCS/ECCS. I mean, . No, I'm not pissed off at you... just been a really rough night. That having been said, I don't believe that the EC Commissioner should be eligible for a prize for his own team winning the EC championship. That would be like if Bud Selig still owned the Brewers and they won the World Series and he got Ted Williams as a prize. Not that I'm arguing that my team should get the prize. We don't deserve the drat thing.
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Smasher Dynamo posted:Anyway, I had thought of a prize to give to the winner of the Expansion Cup but I'm loathe to explain exactly what it is, to avoid any potential impropriety on Grinnblade's part. Right then. I haven't exactly had the best of weeks either, so some of this may come off a bit chippy. Now that the "rigging" talk has gone from joke I ran into the ground with Monathin to backhanded public accusation from the guy I'm only trying to help, I'm gonna clear the air. First off, as I said repeatedly in that wall of that was the MLCS writeup, as well as in some of my self-analyses over the course of the Cup, I have no loving clue how I've managed to get this far. I'm just doing the sim and boggling at the results (when I saw Potatoes 4-3 in the playoffs window I just about died). Well, I suppose I do have some inkling why -- I've known since about the All-Star Break of the EC that I hosed up big-time when I decided to go with the divisional alignments I did. Given a chance to do things again I'd probably switch myself and one of Jacksonville/Walney/Harvard at the very least, along with separating Omaha and CERN in the Taggart League. In fact I'm even starting to second guess my decision to have playoffs in the first place even though it was put to a vote. cbx posted:That having been said, I don't believe that the EC Commissioner should be eligible for a prize for his own team winning the EC championship. That would be like if Bud Selig still owned the Brewers and they won the World Series and he got Ted Williams as a prize. This... is a very good point, and frankly I'm embarrassed that I didn't just declare myself ineligible for any tangible reward from the very beginning. Effective immediately, I am declaring myself ineligible to receive any tangible prize outside of the title of McQueen League/Expansion Cup VIII Champion - and the ability to take my team to Super-League IX. I am also willing to: - Move to the back of the dispersal draft order and every team below me moves up one pick. -OR- Vacate the picks entirely. - Upload the .mog file to a Dropbox or Google Drive to let somebody else with BM2013 sim the ECCS, then send it back to me for the writeups. I'm also open to other feedback/suggestions. I know one thing: this entire experience has been highly informative and if I am allowed to return to oversee ECIX a lot of things will be done differently.
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# ? Feb 10, 2013 10:21 |
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Grinnblade posted:This... is a very good point, and frankly I'm embarrassed that I didn't just declare myself ineligible for any tangible reward from the very beginning. Effective immediately, I am declaring myself ineligible to receive any tangible prize outside of the title of McQueen League/Expansion Cup VIII Champion - and the ability to take my team to Super-League IX. All of the EC's have had playoffs, so don't worry about that. Since your team is legitimate, and you shouldn't be penalized for doing a good job with the EC, it wouldn't be right to take players away from you. I do think that in the future rounds where your team is involved, Smasher should run the sims just to prevent any possible accusations against you "gaming" the engine for your team's benefit. Also, please note that I am not accusing, nor would I ever accuse, you of gaming our series. My teams have a tradition of choking in the spotlight dating back to the Riots, and this EC proved that well. You're doing a good job, don't get discouraged.
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# ? Feb 10, 2013 11:26 |
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The Pick'em United Can Never Be Defeated Pick TWO! Burma Imperialists San Juan Elephants [/quote]
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# ? Feb 10, 2013 14:44 |
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Burma San Juan
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# ? Feb 10, 2013 18:39 |
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Grinnblade You need to relax. I was only kidding about you rigging the results. If I actually thought something was up, I probably would have done something about it, rather than just make a joke and then go to bed. In terms of not giving the Potatoes a prize, I'm only a bit leery about that because, as cbx demonstrated not ten minutes after I made that first post, that people are going to complain about it if I do give it you, and since I don't really want to deal with another season worth of drama like the whole "Senerio vs. TKBomber" debacle, this just seems like a neater solution. So, in summary: relax.
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# ? Feb 10, 2013 20:06 |
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For the EC advice post, I'm up through the Lovable Losers - a really apt name considering your team - and I should have that and a mock draft up sometime tomorrow or Monday. Apparently I didn't get as snowed in as I thought I would. That said, I can't seem to find the draft order, so Grinnblade, could you tell me what page it's on again? Also, I distinctly remember a trade of draft picks going down already. If you were involved in one of those trades, could you please repost it for my consideration? Thanks.
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# ? Feb 10, 2013 22:40 |
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mentholmoose posted:That said, I can't seem to find the draft order, so Grinnblade, could you tell me what page it's on again? Direct link to post. As far as draft pick trades go I don't remember seeing any offered, but I may just be misremembering.
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# ? Feb 10, 2013 23:41 |
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mentholmoose posted:Also, I distinctly remember a trade of draft picks going down already. If you were involved in one of those trades, could you please repost it for my consideration? Thanks. I believe I (Walney) have Tijuana's third round pick, from the Buddy Bell trade.
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# ? Feb 10, 2013 23:49 |
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# ? May 28, 2024 09:37 |
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That is correct. I traded my third round draft pick for Buddy Bell. This didn't work out entirely horribly for me. Just mostly.
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# ? Feb 11, 2013 00:43 |