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You know, when I was the cruiserweight division at WCW, we didn't get angles or stories, we just got jobbed out!: Shifting gears slightly, it's just been announced that there is going to be a four-man tournament for the vacant SLW World Heavyweight Championship of the World, with the finals to be held at our first-ever PPV event, MLK Day Panic!, in just three weeks! El Ostion Azul, Nolan Alexander, and Lord Mayor Humungus have all qualified, but the last spot is going to be decided in triple threat match later tonight! Zack MacKaye, El Rey Carmesi and Lord Royston are all going fight it out for the chance to win the biggest prize in Super-League Wrestling!: So, you're putting a CM Punk clone, the highest wrestler on Earth, and the worst gimmick on the roster in the main event? Great move.Cut to: Backstage!  : Mr. President, I and R.K. Milholland are two of the greatest webcomic creators in human history. We are so famous that we have been able to quit our day-to-day jobs and become full-time webcartoonists. Why? Because we are great. I myself am such an awesome writer that people throw money at me just to spew out a five strips a week. Do you know how long it takes me to do that much work? About 2 hours. And that's per week. That's my life. I wake up at noon, gently caress around until about six, crap out a strip, and then go to whatever lovely indie rock concert is in town. It's a pretty sweet gig, and you'd be able to do it too, if you had even 1% of the talent that I do. : Well, friend, I'm still not clear on what I can do for you.: Did you know that the characters in my webcomic are all based on me and my friends? I always said that I was cool enough that people would want to read about me, and I proved it. And then I added a talking robot just for the merchandizing, but I am that slick.: Mr. Jacques, I'm a very busy man, if you could get to the-: But let's be clear, I totally get laid way more than the main character based on me. It's just that a totally awesome dude hooking up with chicks all the time wouldn't be good for keeping female readership.  : Mr. President, could we just get a tag title shot? If you give it to us, it'll shut Jeph up.: If it'll shut him up, I'll put you up against Marks Madness later.: I still don't know how shading works.  : And back to the ring, Rance Mulliniks will pick up a quick win over Andro-Officer by DQ.: Rance knew that Andro-Officer couldn't break his programming, so he pretended he was pulling for a gun, and Andro-Officer shot him right in the gut. And that's somehow a DQ win.   : Nolan Alexander! It has been decided that we will face each other in a semi-final for the SLW Championship! I give you this one chance, Nolan Alexander: surrender to me now, and you can walk away. Continue to fight me and you will suffer more than you can possibly imagine. : Americans don't surrender, Humungus! Me and the rest of the Nolan Nation never give up! No matter what! Even if you beat me into a coma, and I suffer traumatic brain injury, I'll still come back to face you again! My doctor will get down on his knees and beg me not to go back into the ring, tears in his eyes, but I won't listen! Because I am America strong!: Listen to yourself, Nolan Alexander, you are a fool! And a fool such as yourself deserves the beating I will give you next week.: Why wait until next week? Let's go right now, in this very ring! : If I may interject... : My name is El Ostion Azul. : And I am El Rey Carmesi. Together, we are El Culto Progressiva, the greatest progressive rock tag team of all-time. : Not to mention one-half of the participants of the SLW Championship Tournament once Rey wins his match later tonight. But me? I'm totally free tonight. Humungus, I may not like you, but I respect the importance of post-apocalyptic wastelands to the imagery used in progressive rock. If Nolan Alexander, who I'm going to guess is a big Blink 182 fan, is spoiling for a fight, I say we give it to him... : Holy gently caress, we've got to take a commercial break!... : While you were out, Hack Braggart came out to even up the odds.: Even up the odds? Smasher, Hack Braggart is just another drunken Irish rear end in a top hat, what good is he going to do against real men like Humungus and Ostion?: Not much, as Humungus is going to take him out with the Release of Death.  : Hey, Mark Grace! Want to have a drinking contest? : Well, I do have a tag title match in ten minutes.: So?: Get the beers. : And Mark Grace really isn't in much shape to wrestle after that drinking contest, forcing Mark Bellhorn to go it alone against the Web-Comedy Duo.: If Mark Grace had only had a few more beers, or a few less beers, Marks Madness would be right in this thing, but Mark Grace is at that state of drunkeness where you're no good to anybody!: And...Jeph Jacques hits Bellhorn with a tablet while the ref is distracted by Mark Grace passing out on the apron! The Web-Comedy Duo are your new Super-League Wrestling Tag Team Champions!  : And in our main event, Zack MacKaye earns the last spot in the Super-League Wrestling Championship Tournament with the XXX on Lord Royston!: Straight Edge is for pussies!: Be that as it may, Zack MacKaye will now face El Ostion Azul in the semi-finals in two weeks! : Looks like El Culto Progressiva doesn't want to wait that long! Take him out, you bastards! KILL HIM!: Ugh. See you next week. Newsbreak!     Super-League Surplus Saturday, Week 1, January, 2013 : And welcome to-: No one gives a poo poo about the 'B' Show.: I know, but we will have a Television Title Match as our main event tonight. Andriy the Mutant versus a bear.: A bear?: A motherfucking bear. : Zangief makes his Super-League Wrestling debut taking out The Law.: When you say a bear, you don't mean a hairy dude, right?: I mean what I say.  : And Lord Royston and Chomondley will pick up the win over Holly and Knife.: Who the gently caress are Holly and Knife?: Well, we needed more tag teams, so I went out and recruited some people. They're either from a indie fed or a women's prison. Definitely one of the two. : People of the Super-League, El Culto Progressiva has once more returned bearing good news!: First, may the blessings of progressive rock be upon you all, and may your vinyl LPs of ELP remain unscratched.: Indeed, El Rey. But we have done some thinking about this, and we realize that we were missing something.: That's right, Ostion. You see, a duo is simply not the proper form for the followers of Progressive Rock. After all, it's not Emerson and Lake, it's Emerson, Lake and Palmer. : And can you imagine Rush without Neal Peart? No, we clearly need a third member for our team...and here he is...the man they call...EL NOCHE! : Holy gently caress! It's a real bear! Andriy is fighting a loving bear!: And Andriy takes him out with the Fist of Chernobyl!: He just beat a loving bear!: And that about sums it up! Good night! Booking Notes I decided to give El Ostion Azul, El Rey Carmesi and El Noche drug habits because I figured, well, they probably would happen. Unfortunately, the TEW engine takes a rather dim view of such habits, and it's been dogging their scores. -Since Extreme Fission Action is only two hours long, there just wasn't time to use everyone, so sorry if your wrestler didn't get used. -There's also a midcard title out there, the Super-League Commonwealth Championship, but I decided to put that off until the next week of shows.
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Smasher Dynamo posted:Super-League Wrestling, Week 1: It's a Work in Progress, You Assholes! What kind of a name for a prog guy is El Noche? I hereby rename him El Gigante Gentil! Minor nitpick: El Rey Carmesi is the Crimson King, and should probably have a red mask. I should have clarified in my original post, though, so as much my fault as anything. Other than that, looking pretty solid. As for the spoiler, I believe drug habits don't start having a serious effect until they're greater than 20%, so if you keep them in the teens, they'll have the drug habits for flavor but it won't significantly affect results. One last minor suggestion: For the benefit of readers who don't play TEW, maybe go into preferences and switch to letter grades instead of numbers? This might help especially because TEW doesn't use standard American letter grading. They might not grasp that a rating of 70 is actually a decent C+, and that seemingly horrible 58 El Noche's segment drew was actually just a mediocre C-, not a total bomb.
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mrnoun posted:What kind of a name for a prog guy is El Noche? I hereby rename him El Gigante Gentil! As for the drug problems, yeah, I know, but I figured it would add a bit more character to the game if they actually had problems that hurt them. And yeah, for the other stuff, There are a bunch of fixes to be made. This was really more of a proof of concept more than anything else, because I don't intend to start doing regular updates of this for a week or two.
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This booking is bullshit. ¡Plop! from the top of the ladder would have been a ****3/4 match
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Super League IX Expansion Cup - May: I, For One, Accept Our New Robot Overlords Injury Report: Akabira Killer Mikes P - Anibal Sanchez (Stubbed Toe) - 1 Day 1B - Bill Terry (Much worse stubbed toe) - 16 Days Automatons P - Mark Davis (Missing Batteries) - 3 Days LF - Sixto Lezcano (Bad Wiring) - 13 Days SP - Mike Krukow (Overclocking a wooden Pitch-O-Matic is a fire hazard, Alpha Destroy!) - 97 Days Brooklyn Bombers SP - Bill Swift (Smasher told me I had to break one of your guys, so...) - 193 Days/Out For Season Foul Pole Penguins P - Jordan Zimmerman (Went Polar Bear Chasing) - 1 Day P - Adam Wainwright (Went to find Jordan, who got lost) - 2 Days RF - Jayson Werth (Seriously, keep him off the ice!) - 11 Days Louisville Muggers C - Smoky Burgess (Went to recreate 'Smokey and the Bandit' as 'Smoky and the Burgess') - 14 Days Oklahoma City Bombers C - Ray Schalk (Accidentally left in the cargo hold of a B-52) - 2 Days 1B - Mo Vaughn (Intentionally left in said cargo hold) - 2 Days SR - Mike Maddux (Training Exercise Accident) - 15 Days RVA Beard Leaguers 1B - Andres Galarraga (Reminder he is on your team) - 2 Days SP - Yovani Gallardo (Isn't Galarraga, but might wish he was!) - 10 Days Rochester Generics SP - Bill Bernhard (Burned, Hard.) - 3 Days/Will NOT Miss Next Start San Marcos Engineers P - Peter Locker (Chastised for going Sniper on 2Fort) - 6 Days South Dakota Marmosets LR - Red Ames (Got into a fight about which Pitcher had the most unnecessary use of vowels) - 10 Days SP - Jered Weaver (Lost that fight) - 12 Days St. Louis Congratulators RP - Nathan Lonergan (Sulking) - 3 Days SP - Daniel Hudson (Failed to be Self-Congratulatory, the most heinous of crimes!) - 339 Days/Out For Season Games Of The Month quote:MUGGERS ARE HORRIBLE PEOPLE, ROUGH UP CUTE MARMOSETS, SUPER LEAGUE CONTINUES TO BE MIRED BY CLERICAL ERRORS Box Score  quote:AUTOMATONS KILL-MACHINE BACKFIRES, HORRIBLY. Box Score  quote:GENERALS OUT-MANEUVER SOMALI IN SHOCKING CURBSTOMP Box Scores  quote:INTERLEAGUE PLAY SAYS FIRE-BREATHING LIZARDS TRUMP MOBSTERS Box Scores  Team Statistics         Analysis Despite two Otts and Musial, you have your work cut out for you, between Krakow and Oklahoma.         Analysis I'm pretty sure you're sacrificing your pitching bots to some pagan science god to get ahead, because there's no way this lead is lasting.         Analysis Bill Swift is down for the count, and David Cone is very clearly Not Working Out. That doesn't spell good things for your pitching staff.         Analysis I'm sure A.J. Burnette will even out eventually. I'm just not sure it'll happen over the course of the season.         Analysis Nothing awful is jumping out at me, though I'd take advantage of Sizemore's sudden hulking out.         Analysis Still being brutally murdered by your pitching!         Analysis Your pitching isn't as dire a situation, but it's still pretty bad. Also, Eck still cannot catch a break.         Analysis You are going to need to pick up some sluggers in the draft if this keeps up, because your guys cannot hit worth half a drat.         Analysis You still need someone to be your lead-in since Mordecai's out for the season.         Analysis Only one game back, but I'd start to worry about Bob Feller, if I were you.         Analysis Unsurprisingly, Phil Niekro is the weak spot in your rotation. Also, Mike Donlin is great for getting on base, but you should probably put a guy with more power in at #4.         Analysis Your hitters are solid, and Mighty Mark Grace is, well, Mighty Mark Grace. Your rotation's a little shaky, though.         Analysis Pitching problems galore! You out there, Oldskool? The NWO needs some TLC.         Analysis In regards to your comment last update, I'm not sure who told you the Baker Bowl was a pitcher's park, but they are almost certainly lying. On the bright side, it doesn't seem to be overly hurting you.         Analysis Cthulhu Dreams, via IRC posted:can we all just acknowledge I am a wizard for piloting the team that finished last overall to a division lead this time? This is your enemy, Yoshida Division. Can you defeat him? Or will you let him make a mockery of eldritch horrors, wizardry, and above all, beards?         Analysis Davey Lopez: Whiffing like a champion!         Analysis I think Nap is trying to tell you something, with that OBP.         Analysis Your pitchers are actually doing pretty well, but your hitters are practically nonexistent.         Analysis This is pretty much what a Super League ready team does to guys still trying to fish out the problems.         Analysis Still a dingers machine, but you're definitely going to need to work on the pitching part.         Analysis DIVULGE TO ME THE SECRETS OF YOUR JIM THOME.         Analysis Could be worse! Divisional Standings and Leaderboards    
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Apr 29, 2013 06:59
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The Baker Bowl was a better HR park than Coors Field. HR factor of 223 vs 145!
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Can I get a screenshot of my pitchers with ERA and such?
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Dave Veres is on a Super League Team? Jesus Christ, I still have nightmares from when he pitched for real! 
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LINEUPS FOR INTERLEAGUE (theres probably not even interleague but I need to tweak my lineups anyway so) vs RHP w/o DH: 1. Richie Ashburn CF 2. Zach Wheat LF 3. Carl Yastrzemski RF 4. Willie McCovey 1B 5. Luke Appling SS 6. Buddy Bell 3B 7. Ryne Sandberg 2B 8. Andy Seminick C P vs LHP w/o DH: 1. Luke Appling SS 2. Richie Ashburn CF 3. Carl Yastrzemski RF 4. Willie McCovey 1B 5. Buddy Bell 3B 6. Zach Wheat LF 7. Ryne Sandberg 2B 8. Andy Seminick C P vs RHP w/ DH: 1. Richie Ashburn CF 2. Zach Wheat LF 3. Carl Yastrzemski RF 4. Willie McCovey DH 5. Mark Grace 1B 6. Buddy Bell 3B 7. Luke Appling SS 8. Ryne Sandberg 2B 9. Andy Seminick vs LHP w/ DH 1. Luke Appling SS 2. Mark Grace 1B 3. Carl Yastrzemski RF 4. Willie McCovey DH 5. Buddy Bell 3B 6. Richie Ashburn CF 7. Zach Wheat LF 8. Ryne Sandberg 2B 9. Andy Seminick C
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Forgot to give my wrestlemen images: Mark "Mamoru Endou" Evans: (or other way around who cares)  Tammy Buller: 
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SWEET ZOMBIE JESUS MY PITCHING IS BAD. Move A.J. back to the Pen as LR, and have Hudson start again.
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 I totally posted about switching to Dodger Stadium instead of the Baker Bowl, but whatever, I'll live with the offense for now. Call up Hoyt, send down Wakefield. Put Hoyt in long relief and run a rotation of Clemens-Walsh-Faber-Scott-Garcia.
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tatankatonk posted:Can I get a screenshot of my pitchers with ERA and such? Sorry about that. I meant to bug Cthulhu about that part of the script. Post has been edited with your ERA stats.
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 Welp, 17 games behind with 6 games against the pirates on the road. Seems like a good time to get... creative. Call ups Joe Adcock Ryan Howard Johnny Pesky Joe Dobson Send downs Joe Torre Jim Thome Hank Aaron John Smoltz Lineups Pitching rotation SP1 Tex Hughson SP2 Bob Buhl SP3 Lou Burdette SP4 Joe Dobson SP5 Warren Spahn Jack Morris to Long Relief w/o DH 3B Johnny Pesky 2B Chase Utley LF Joe Adcock 1B Ryan Howard RF Johnny Hopp C Mike Lieberthal (Del Crandel Catches for CF Dom Dimaggio SS Placido Polanco w/ DH 3B Johnny Pesky 2B Chase Utley LF Joe Adcock 1B Ryan Howard RF Johnny Hopp C Mike Lieberthal CF Dom Dimaggio DH Jimmy Rollins SS Placido Polanco
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So, I have two third base dudes who can hit, and Rickie Weeks can hit homers and not much else. Also, can we all just stand and admire randy johnson's horror season? That's 0-8 with 71 IP and 71Ks people. However Tom Foley it turns out can niether hit or defend, so lets do something about this vs RHP LF: Tim Raines RF: Stan Musial CF: Dale Murphy 1B: Prince Fielder 3B: Ken Boyer SS: Hubie Brooks C: Jeff Reed 2B: Rickie Weeks (  )vs LHP LF: Tim Raines CF: Dale Murphy 3B: Ken Boyer 1B: Prince Fielder RF: Ryan Braun SS: Hubie Brooks C: Lucaroy 2B: Rickie Weeks ( )vs RHP with DH LF: Tim Raines DH: Stan Musial CF: Dale Murphy 1B: Prince Fielder 3B: Ken Boyer RF: Aubrey Huff SS: Hubie Brooks C: Jeff Reed 2B: Rickie Weeks ( )vs LHP LF: Tim Raines DH: Stan Musial 3B: Ken Boyer 1B: Prince Fielder CF: Dale Murphy RF: Ryan Braun SS: Hubie Brooks C: Lucaroy 2B: Rickie Weeks ( )
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Another issue I just noticed with the script you're using, the leaders pages only show the Larkin league, not the entire Expansion Cup. e: And for some reason, they're showing the career statistics, not during this season.
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CraigK posted:Dave Veres is on a Super League Team? Jesus Christ, I still have nightmares from when he pitched for real! Dave Veres owns and is my favorite "bad, but not hilariously so" Cardinals closer of the last 2 decades. Runner-up: Juan Acevedo anyway.... St. Louis Congratulators Moving deck chairs on the titanic: 1.) Ian Kennedy to rotation, Hudson to DL. Call up Ugueth Urbina as long relief. 2.) What the gently caress is a Nathan Longernan? Release him so I can get a cooler fake player. 3.) Platoon Montero at catcher vs. RHP and Howard vs. LHP 4.) Justin Upton to AAA. Vlad Guerrero to big club. 5.) Platoon Vlad in RF vs. LHP and Maris vs. RHP
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Don't think I picked this yet. Pick 'em: Gauntlet Round 1 Pick TWO to survive! Harvard Elites Lombard St. Gumshoes Lovable Losers Million Dollar Men I might possibly, theoretically, want to make a trade for a pitcher... I'll look it over later tonight.
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 Alright, looks like I know my big draft priority already. Could be worse, I guess, as I get the niggling feeling my pitching is underperforming in general. Let's try some new lineups. Versus LHP AND RHP/DH 1. Rickey Henderson (LF) 2. John McGraw (2B) 3. Chipper Jones (3B) 4. Bobby Abreu (DH) 5. Mark McGwire (1B) 6. Roger Bresnahan (C) 7. Mike Donlin (CF) 8. Sammy Strang (SS) 9. Jose Canseco (RF) No DH 1. Rickey Henderson (LF) 2. John McGraw (2B) 3. Chipper Jones (3B) 4. Mark McGwire (1B) 5. Roger Bresnahan (C) 6. Mike Donlin (CF) 7. Sammy Strang (SS) 8. Jose Canseco (RF) 9. [Pitcher] Lets get rid of my Catcher Platoon and just let Bresnahan ruin all the baserunners for a while. Napoli shall be banished to the tower of adorable shame, where he will be set upon by all manner of fuzzy terrors. Also, it should be noted that renowned Super League Wrestler/Bear Grizzly Jones is a Marmoset Supporter, and can often be found in the crude den he formed in the right field overlook. Zodiac5000 fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Apr 29, 2013 |
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 My hitters can't hit but they can draw walks like nuts. So let's fix this lineup a bit. Swap Furillo and Ott in RF, Campanella and Lombardi as starting catcher; make Campy the personal catcher for Red Donahue. Make the batting order as follows: code:Edit: I'd like to know if my guys are hitting the ball for outs or if they're TTO machines and when they're not walking they're striking out. kw0134 fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Apr 29, 2013 |
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Well, uh, hey. I guess April wasn't a fluke. I mean, I'd thought I'd built a good team overall and got sufficiently useful pieces to fill the holes I had before the cup started, but drat. My biggest problem appears to be a phantom loss belonging to one of my pitchers. According to the calendar, I'm 46-8 but my pitchers' losses add up to 9. That's pretty good. Warren Spahn is also being a bit disappointing but I'll live. I'd like to try Johan Santana just for the hell of it but he's absolutely not a groundball pitcher and that's precisely what makes things work so well yet again. I guess I'll just trade him after the cup. In the mean time hopefully I can continue scoring 180% more runs than I allow, may as well clinch this thing by the end of August.
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swap McGriff in for Rose in both lineups, and swap Lopez in for Seminick at C.
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Put in Overall and Shields for Brown and Kazmir. Also, I wanted Heilmann to start at 1B for Bubbles, not like it'd matter at all.
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 Yep, let's sort out Ol' Feller. It's not yet time to take him behind the woodshed and shoot him, but he and Bob Lemon can exchange roles for now. Esteban Loiaza is waiting for his big chance... Lemon to SP2. Feller to MR.
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Second to Cthulhu. Why does this seem so familiar? Monathin posted:Analysis Also, Vargara isn't a player of mine, he's just one of the players that've been auto-assigned to fill up my pitching roster. Could you take him out and put LaRoche in at MR, with that one SR spot going blank?
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Robert_Deadford posted:Esteban Loiaza is waiting for his big chance... That may be the saddest thing I've ever read.
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Woo, no injuries this month!  That being said, still a few changes. Catchers seem to be sneaking their way into my farm system; kick Chris Thacker off the roster. I seem to have one extra pitcher in the majors, and Rusty Staub in the minors, so...bump Staub up to the bench, send down Ken Johnson to the minors. Bullpen shuffling time! Closer: Joe Nathan Setup: Matt Guerrier SR: Jesse Crain SR: Jim Brewer MR: Dan Plesac LR: Turk Farrell Switch Jim Bunning and Claude Osteen in the rotation. Also, lineup change time! Bench Luis Castillo, unleash Joe Morgan in his spot. That'll be all.
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Just for the record, I'm only slightly apoplectic with rage about losing out on the division by one game. At least I didn't pull a Koop and lose the 163rd. I've been pretty hands off since I saw Maddux was gonna line up as the WC starter; I assume I'll have the chance to select a rotation replacement for Stieb once I find out how badly I beat the Tornados?
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Fix the pitching staff: New rotation: Smoltz Johnson Glavine Maddux Verlander Bullpen: LR Falkenberg MR Rodney MR Farnsworth SR Rocker SR Percival CL Urbina New lineup: Myer 2B Simmons LF Bonura 1B Ordonez RF Jones 3B Rodriguez C Guillen SS Milan CF P Send Andruw Jones to the bench. Send Taffy Wright to AAA to make room for Milan. On the block: IF Cecil Travis; rated 92 in the Expansion Cup, hitting .262 off the bench, plays all the infield positions. CF Andruw Jones; rated 93 in the Expansion Cup, young enough to actually field, hits as well as you would expect an Andruw Jones to hit. Neither one are bad players, they just happen to be the best of the redundant "infielder/single-position-outfielder"s I have and with no pitching depth at this point I'm looking to add a starter & perhaps a left-handed bullpen arm thrown in as the crapshoot that position entails. Draft picks always welcome.
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Warm Sarsaparilla posted:Just for the record, I'm only slightly apoplectic with rage about losing out on the division by one game. At least I didn't pull a Koop and lose the 163rd.
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please switch Pujols's and Morse's positions thank you; replace Werth with Schumaker??? also take out Molina and put in Suzuki this month. Pitching Rotation: 1. 2012 Gio Gonzalez 2. 1987 Mark Langston 3. 2007 Adam Wainwright 4. 2012 Jordan Zimmerman 5. 2012 Steven Strasburg
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 Dynamo League Wildcard Showdown: Cancun Tornados vs. Coburns  The Tornados are definitely one of the more unique teams in Super-League history. And that's not necessarily a good thing. The pitching staff is odd. Since this is a one game playoff, let's focus on that starter. It's Don Drysdale, which is great. But it's also a 20 year-old Drysdale, which is considerably less great. He has enough power to shut any other team down, but is also wild enough that the Coburns can and will draw walks off of him, and that could very quickly cause real problems. That said, he's the right choice to start this game. Halladay is good, but Drysdale is better rested. Koufax had a down year. Grove doesn't have enough power to deal with the Coburns' hitters. McGinnity has even less power. Putting Drysdale in this situation isn't ideal, but he's probably the safest pick. It's not entirely clear how the pieces of this team fit together. Ernie Banks is the team's best power-hitter, and he's a shortstop (and as any Cubs fan can tell you, not the best choice to build an offense around). It does have a few players with elite contact tools (Hamilton, McGraw, Riggs and Steve), and a few good power hitters (Snider, Banks, Stargell, and Trout), and those have formed a potent combination. The contact hitters gash any deadballers or other control pitchers, the power hitters punish anyone from the liveball answer. There's no pitcher safe from the Tornados' offense, and that's why they scored the 2nd-most runs in the Dynamo League this year...  ...And guess who had the best offense? The Coburns offense is simply fantastic, and that's true even with George Brett and Eric Davis being injured, shutting down a couple of their super-platoons. Look at this lineup: 2B: Carew/Sandberg (Both easy hall of famers, Carew had 3000 hits, Sandberg hit over 200 home runs as a 2B) RF: Mel Ott (500 home runs, another easy hall of famer) LF: Ted Williams (500 home runs, Greatest hitter in human history) 1B: Jimmie Foxx (500 more home runs, greatest right-handed hitter of his era) 3B: Mike Schmidt (500 home runs, greatest 3B of all time) CF: Bernie Williams (Plays guitar) SS: Barry Larkin (Easy hall of famer) C: Jorge Posada (One of the better hitting catchers of his time) Now that is a loving solid lineup. Not only do they have sluggers, they have sluggers with contact skills. That Ott/Williams/Foxx trifecta is probably the best heart of the lineup that anyone has. Hell, I even like it more than the Bangers old trio of Wiliams/Bonds/Thomas, because contact skills are a bit more important in the Super-League than in real-life. It's just a great offense. The pitching, though, isn't quite up to that standard. Maddux, the ace, will get the start, which is kind of a problem because the Coburns really could have used him going twice in the Losers series if they advance here. Still, Maddux will likely be able to get them there. He's a great control pitcher with a touch of power, which is basically the worst possible combination for the Tornados, because he doesn't pitch over the plate quite enough to fuel the contact hitters, and he doesn't give up walks or home runs. Don May posted:
Box Score   Smasher League Wildcard Showdown: Montreal Manatees vs. Walney Rakers  How have the Manatees gotten here? Well, first of all, someone needed to win the second wildcard, so they had that going for them. Beyond that, they've had two other things going for them: 1. Massive amounts of power pitching. Clemens, Big Unit, Pedro, The Ryan Express, and Kevin Brown...okay, that last one is really more of a sinker pitcher than a pure power guy, but that's still a ton of power, and because Super-League owners like to stack their lineups with players that draw a lot of walks, they can get a lot of strikeouts. 2. Left-handed power, which can make even the hardiest right-handed pitcher look like a chump. Of course, there is one small problem with that being the basis of your offense. Griffey, Olerud, Palmeiro, Walker and Stargell are all quality left-handed bats, but as left-handers, they're at a disadvantage against left-handed pitching. Can you see where this is going?....  ...The Rakers are starting a left-handed pitcher, and that's really, really, really, really bad news for the Rakers in this one-game playoff. Jon Matlack isn't a great pitcher, admittedly, though he has had a good year, but even still, the fact that he's a southpaw cannot be understated. The Rakers' offense is mainly the '27 A's. Now, the '27 A's were still a couple of years away from starting their dynasty, and, as a result, they've got a bunch of great players who are just the wrong age. Collins and Cobb are well past their prime, and Foxx, Simmons and Cochrane are a bit young. Then again, they also have Willie Mays and Al Kaline. This isn't a bad team, just one that probably isn't quite as good as the three division winners in the Smasher League. Then again, they have an extra pick in the Dispersal Draft thanks to the Pick 'em, so maybe they can fix that.... Don May posted:
Box Score   Expansion Owners Pick 'Em Pick winner, number of games, and final score of the final game Cleveland Unicorns @ Burma Imperialists Coburns @ Rockford Losers Ryleh Cultists @ Queens Mercuries Walney Rakers @ Luna Landers
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Cleveland Unicorns in 4 (5-3) Rockford Losers in 5 (6-2) Queens Mercuries in 4 (6-1) Luna Landers in 3 (5-2) Edward Mass fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Apr 30, 2013 |
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CaptainYesterday: Divisional series are best of 5. So you'll want to revise your picks. Pick Em Scores pre:Owner Score factorialite 2 kw0134 2 Monicro 2 Robert_Deadford 2 Beet 1 FairGame 1 GVOLTT 1 mentholmoose 1 Revenant Threshold 1 TheFlyingLlama 1 alpha_destroy 0 CaptainYesterday 0 Chilly McFreeze 0 mks5000 0 tatankatonk 0 Zodiac5000 0
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Ratings Challenge on Drysdale! 1) In 1956 Drysdale had a HR/9 of 0.8 so 2 in 5.1 innings is very unrealistic. 2) 
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Cleveland Unicorns in 4, 5-2 Rockford Losers in 3, 6-1 Ryleh Cultists in 5, 3-2 Luna Landers in 4, 7-1
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5 game series, right? if so: Expansion Owners Pick 'Em Pick winner, number of games, and final score of the final game Cleveland Unicorns @ Burma Imperialists in 4, 5-3 Coburns @ Rockford Losers in 5, 3-2 Ryleh Cultists @ Queens Mercuries in 5, 5-4 Walney Rakers @ Luna Landers in 3, 6-3
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Expansion Owners Pick 'Em Pick winner, number of games, and final score of the final game Cleveland Unicorns @ Burma Imperialists in 5, 8-6 Coburns @ Rockford Losers in 3, 5-6 Ryleh Cultists @ Queens Mercuries in 4, 6-4 Walney Rakers @ Luna Landers in 3, 6-5 Well, I got one.
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Expansion Owners Pick 'Em Pick winner, number of games, and final score of the final game Cleveland Unicorns @ Burma Imperialists in 4, 2-5 Coburns @ Rockford Losers in 3, 3-5 Ryleh Cultists @ Queens Mercuries in 5, 4-1 Walney Rakers @ Luna Landers in 4, 4-6
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