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Oh, also, that was really good Smasher. Thank you for running the SL! e: McFreeze also!
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Death, Taxes, and the Doom losing the SLDS
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 Okay, we can do this guys. We can be more successful than Sheamus! We BO-LIEVE. code:code:code:
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hey y'all, i love the super league and just wanted to say thanks for all the hard work everyone does on the updates and running things.
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Holy hell I just got the time to read that recap. I know I say it all the time, but: that was brilliant, Smasher. I am constantly in awe of your creativity and writing. The Super League is a constant joy in my life, even though my team sucks. It's so appreciated.
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Expansion Teams Pick 'em!  The Gauntlet, Round 1 Pick TWO! Idaho Potatoes Seattle Cagey Bees
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While I constantly reconsider my participation in the Super-League due to being objectively terrible at it, I have never regretted the time taken to read the game recaps. Smasher, McFreeze, and all of the assembled guest writers are astounding. I've written things for which I have gotten paid actual money by professional publications and yet I still look at Super-League recaps in awe.
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Expansion Teams Pick 'em! The Gauntlet, Round 1 Idaho Potatoes The Gay Agenda thanks
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Ice To Meet You posted:Rotation (bad): 3.54 ERA I'd say it's a life lesson about the importance of bullpens, except your bullpen isn't all that bad. So maybe there is no lesson, except life's unfai-HEY Smasher was right!
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The life lesson is never bet on the Doom to win the Divisional Series.
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Mornacale posted:The life lesson is never bet on the Doom to win the Divisional Series. Contrary to what your biological father told you shortly before skipping town, betting strategies are not life lessons.
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  Once more unto the brink. If you're just tuning in, it's time to cull the herd of all the worthless teams and make room for your new worthless teams next season. 4 teams will enter this 40-game-long deathmatch. The top 2 records will survive. The bottom 2 teams? Well, you'll probably be seeing their players again very soon.  Oh man... only the first round and we already have such drama! What's going to happen here? Mick Freese posted:
Box Score   Team Statistics    I'm sure there's someone here who is saddened by these events. Probably.    Well, you win some, you lose some.    Big Peopley did it!    Well, if Donaldson can do that, suddenly it's a pretty good lineup. Pick 'em: The Gauntlet, Round 2 Pick TWO! Achewood Stoned Lightning Dusty Baker's Base Cloggers Seattle Cagey Bees Small Market Superstars
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gently caress the haters!!! But I'm sorry, Grinnblade. Wish it didn't have to be your team.
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Pungry posted:gently caress the haters!!! THE COLD POTATOES EXPLODE! oh wait they already did gently caress (honestly though I almost said something to the effect of "WHY THE gently caress ARE YOU ALL CHOOSING ME" to everyone who did because it says a lot that I went 20-19 with TWO loving RUTHS)
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Pick 'em: The Gauntlet, Round 2 Pick TWO! Dusty Baker's Base Cloggers Small Market Superstars
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Pick 'em: The Gauntlet, Round 2 Pick TWO! Achewood Stoned Lightning Seattle Cagey Bees
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Pick 'em: The Gauntlet, Round 2 Pick TWO! Dusty Baker's Superstars!
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Harlock posted:How come Lester didn't pitch? Did it default to most rested and just kept doing 1-4? Pretty much. The game doesn't have a 4-team 40-game schedule, so it makes one up. And the one it makes up only has 3 or 4 games per week. So there are always enough rest days to skip the 5th guy.
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 Super-League XIX, Dynamo League Divisional Series: South Dakota Marmosets vs. Sindhi Sheikhs Nuts and Bolts  The Marmosets are probably the weakest of the eight teams that made it to the first round of the playoffs. In fact, 'probably' is being a bit kinder than I ought to be. They had the fewest wins of any team in this round, and are the only one of these teams that has never won a division title at some point. That said, it's not like the Marmosets are a bad team. After all, they've been hanging around the Super-League for a while now, and while you can coast in some divisions by being a middling team, that's not really possible in the Sic Transit Vir, which has been competitive lately. To their credit, in a division where everyone finished with a winning record, the Marmosets still managed to snag a wildcard. What the Marmosets have going for them is having a lot of interesting pieces. Do they all fit together? That's a tough question, but guys like Honus Wagner, HoWilliams Monsoon, Cool Papa Bell, Rogers Hornsby, and so on, they're interesting players. These are guys that you can almost see them forming into a really good and fun nucleus. It hasn't quite worked out for them to this point, but you have to be at least a little intrigued as to what these guys could accomplish, if everything breaks right. As far as the pitching goes, it's actually been very impressive. Keep in mind, the Marmosets are rolling out the worst conceivable infield defense of Monsoon/Wagner/Hornsby/Lajoie. That's a lot of errors. In fact, in every game of this series, that infield made at least one error. But the Marmosets' pitching has still been above-average. That says a lot. The bullpen is actually decent. I've made a lot of jokes about Baker giving up runs at the worst possible time, but part of the reason that she gives up a fair number of runs is that she pitches a lot. She had close to 100 innings in relief, and was the best reliever on the Marmosets. Like they have been, the Marmosets have potential, and have had some success, and we're all just waiting to see what Zodiac5000 is going to do next. Besides get absolutely hammered and call Pash to pick him up, of course.  Basically, the Sheikhs and Kernels have the same basic design, so there's not a lot to add to what I wrote about them a few days ago. The Sheikhs do operate a bit differently than the Kernels, admittedly. The Kernels, outside of the Masked Shortstop, have basically punted on defense, with the expectation being that the Masked Shortstop alone will help the stifle the other team's offense down enough to just bash them to death. The Sheikhs are less willing to play outright bad defenders, and, actually, at the end of this season, are going even farther in that direction by getting Mike Schmidt to play third base at least some of the time. As a result, the Sheikhs give up fewer runs than anyone else in the league despite not having a great rotation on paper. Defense does matter, guys. On offense, the Kernels stack a lot of great hitters together, figuring that, if you have enough offensive talent, and bundle it together, great things are bound to happen. That's not a bad theory, and it's worked for them. The Sheikhs, not having the same sort of depth of hitters, instead concentrate on just clustering a few great power hitters together, under the theory that, given enough time, the opposing pitcher will make a mistake, and then they will make him pay. That's a risky strategy in a vaccuum, but given how few runs their own pitchers allow, it can work, and it does work. And, for the record, it even works in gimmick stadiums, as shown by the Sheikhs routing the Zephyrs in Hoboken to close out the regular season. The Sheikhs don't have an exciting team, but they do have a technically sound team. They're not going to beat you by trickery or anything like that, they are going to beat you with power and defense. Facing a team like the Panderers, an owner probably thinks to himself 'if I had home-field advantage, I could beat these guys', and they might be right. Against a team like the Sheikhs or the Kernels, if you want to beat them, you're just going to have to build a good team. The Epic Cycle posted:
  
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The Marmosets led every single game in this series, and still got swept. Amazing. Also, holy poo poo, Beet has all the loving titles in the league right now. I'll wait to make any changes to my line-ups until after the final division series has been posted, but for now I will say this: we beat you last season, Sheikhs. We can do it again. Masked Shortstop, prepare yourself for the final confrontation with The MACHINE.
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I had a lot of reading to do once I got back from camping and WOW this is the greatest thread.
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Finally got time to read the update. Every season there's some point when I think to myself Smasher's set the bar too high, it'll never again be topped. Iambic pentameter An instantly classic D&D campaign featuring Spriggles Last Night of the Syndicate now in back to back updates you've gone from a self-help guide from the world's least motivational speaker to ANOTHER amazing epic, with Baker dropping the pretense partway through and the growing anticipation of the greatest battle between fictitious shortstops ever. Plot, humor, deft handling of incredibly random topics...how the hell is this an LP about a baseball simulator? Pander fucked around with this message at 10:00 on Jul 11, 2016 |
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Forzelt posted:Interesting offer but I have to wait till I get home tomorrow. Fairgame: Hafey wasn't interesting enough Forzelt, did you ever get a chance to think about that three-way trade? Obviously it's not like we need to rush, but there's a lull in the thread so I want some SL-related action.
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Last Night of the Syndicate is still the best. All this other stuff approaches Last Night of the Syndicate in quality, but I don't think that'll ever be topped. It was amazing.
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Since its a quiet day I would just like to restate that Luke Appling is a terrible 3B.
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I agree with Last Night of the Syndicate being the best. I'm also really glad that, with the threat of shortstop crippling grenades, we're still getting finality and closure to the Beet vs Balla saga. White Envelopes, to Burnt Doritos, to Arcade MACHINE vengeance, all leading up to one final series.
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SmasherDynamo first off, thanks again. This is an awesome undertaking you have shouldered the burden for. We are truly not worthy. Speaking of being not worthy, is it possible to get a sneak peak of the EC Cup prize I won?
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