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Krakow, 6 games, 3-2 RCMP, 5 games, 7-3 Jailbirds, 7 games, 4-1 Olympia and ENIX HPJoker fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Dec 14, 2017 |
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Pick 'em: League Championship Edition! Pick the winner, number of games (best of seven) and score of the final game! Smasher League Championship Series Krakow Dragons vs. White Mountain Widowmakers in 7 games last game ends 3-1 Dynamo League Championship Series RCMP vs. Burns Zephyrs in 5 games last game ends 6-2 Pick'em: Sub-par Bowl Machineguns vs Jailbirds in 6 last game ends 8-3 Pick'em: Guantlet Pokemonsters Owlbears
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Dec 13, 2017 16:38
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Smasher League Championship Series Krakow Dragons vs. White Mountain Widowmakers in 6, 6-4 Dynamo League Championship Series RCMP vs. Burns Zephyrs in 7, 11-4 EC OWNERS! PICK TWO! TO SURVIVE! Olympia Owlbears Florida! Guacabowlees! ENIX SLIMES Dragon Warrior Pokemonstars
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Dec 13, 2017 16:39
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 Keeping it simple for the SLCS. Lineups stay the same. Can you please put Waddell in the rotation for Grove, and keep it a 3-man rotation. The mopups should be Grove and Fernandez then. It should line up like so, I think: Game 1: Rested Walsh Game 2: Waddell Game 3: Other Walsh Game 4: Rested Walsh Game 5: Waddell Game 6: Other Walsh Game 7: Rested Walsh
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Dec 13, 2017 16:43
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Hey EC owners, it looks like some of you are missing the Subpar Bowl pick. It's the Jailbirds at the Machineguns in a 7 game series. And DCB, the Frank Thomases hope things turn around for you and insist you come back soon! Preferably with a Frank Thomas on your team.  I hope all the dead owners come back because this whole thing wouldn't be fun without any of you.
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Dec 13, 2017 16:54
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IDAHO hosed UP AND FORGOT A BUNCH OF PICKS BUT HAVE A "I'M STILL ALIVE" ECCS PICK MACHINEGUNS over Jailbirds in 6, 10-7
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Dec 13, 2017 18:39
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Things are looking good.... for JEB!
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Dec 13, 2017 18:50
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TMMadman posted:Hey EC owners, it looks like some of you are missing the Subpar Bowl pick. It's the Jailbirds at the Machineguns in a 7 game series. I have missed like three of these already and I don't even know how. Machineguns in 5, 6-1
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Dec 13, 2017 19:09
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 Like my opponent, I would like to move to a three-man rotation for this series. Game 1: New Hoss Game 2: Saberhagen Game 3: Rudolph Game 4: New Hoss Game 5: Saberhagen Game 6: Rudolph Game 7: New Hoss Johnson becomes the second mop-up. No other changes. Thanks!
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Dec 13, 2017 19:41
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Hey, so I'm not going to be in town next Sunday. Or the Sunday after. And it'd be my turn to do an update this Sunday after I finish the Gauntlet on Friday. So...would anybody be terribly upset if there wasn't a subpar bowl show and I just did a playoff series like Smasher does? Because otherwise the season isn't gonna end anytime soon. I can show you an episode of SUPER LEAGUE XCOM2 EXPANSION or something if you really want to watch a marginally-related game filled with characters designed after Super League owners and players.
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Dec 13, 2017 19:55
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FairGame posted:Hey, so I'm not going to be in town next Sunday. Or the Sunday after. hey the darkest dungeon updates were pretty neat. Can't hurt!
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Dec 13, 2017 20:29
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I'm planning something else for the offseason. Maybe a return to the Darkest Dungeon. But instead, we will be taking a road trip to Canada...A Death Road To Canada! Let me know if you hunger for death.
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Dec 13, 2017 20:52
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Milt Thompson posted:I'm planning something else for the offseason. Maybe a return to the Darkest Dungeon.  Man, I never did get around to making more Super-League people into characters.
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Dec 13, 2017 20:57
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That reminds me: if you want a Super League XCom2 character, let me know. And if you have some various things you want them to be (a solider/scientist/engineer/good guy/bad guy/silly hat/no silly hat) let me know that too. Here's who I still have floating around the character pool: Shepard FairGame Rabidsquid Mentholmoose Pander (who is supposed to spawn as a villain but he doesn't for some reason) The MACHINE DannoMack Yaya Monicro Monathin Yoshida Baker Pash Armitage e: clearly I need to make a JEB!
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Dec 13, 2017 21:08
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Wasn't I in there at some point?
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Dec 13, 2017 21:11
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TMMadman posted:Wasn't I in there at some point? A lot of poo poo didn't save properly as it turns out. I'm kind of annoyed.
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Dec 13, 2017 21:25
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Ah well, Lookers, it was a good run.
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Dec 13, 2017 23:43
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I forget, did Yog-Sothoth bat left-tentacled or right-tentacled?
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Dec 14, 2017 01:02
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Gimme Slimes and JEB! for the next round of Gauntlet picks, tia!mrnoun posted:I forget, did Yog-Sothoth bat left-tentacled or right-tentacled? Right-tentacled, which unfortunately means the dream platoon of Yog-Sothoth/SUDDEN DEATH is not possible.
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Dec 14, 2017 01:09
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Yog is a right-appendeged ancient being of unfathomable intent. How he handles pitchers as well as he does when he makes signs that drives mortals insane upon viewing is a bit of a touchy subject in the Looker's clubhouse.
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Dec 14, 2017 01:10
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TMMadman posted:Hey EC owners, it looks like some of you are missing the Subpar Bowl pick. It's the Jailbirds at the Machineguns in a 7 game Jailbirds in 6. Final score 3-1. Slimes and Jeb Zephyrs and Dragons win games 7 each in 5-4 style
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Dec 14, 2017 01:42
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kw0134 posted:Yog is a right-appendeged ancient being of unfathomable intent. How he handles pitchers as well as he does when he makes signs that drives mortals insane upon viewing is a bit of a touchy subject in the Looker's clubhouse. It was pretty simple, really; all of the pitchers simply went mad after their first start. Only Dizzy Dean maintained enough of a grip on sanity to propel the team through the Gauntlet as far as they got, but alas, even he could not hold out forever. He was last seen being carted off the field chanting "Ia ia Cubs win ftaghn!"
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Dec 14, 2017 02:32
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This is it, boys, I guess. Enix Slimes Home City: Tokyo, Japan Home Stadium: Goo Palace (370-380-390-370-355) Open Air Grass Infield Quality: Average Infield Grass: Short Visibility: Average Foul Ground: Small pre:Sliders: Hit and Run: -5 Sacrifice Bunt: -1 Squeeze Play: -1 Trying for extra bases: 0 Stealing Bases: -2 Aggressively Tagging Up: -2 Pitch Outs (to prevent stolen bases): 0 Giving Intentional Walks: -3 Pitching Around Good Hitters: 1 Bringing the Infield In: 0 Guarding the Lines: 0 Making Cutoff Throws: 0 Bringing in Pinch Hitters: 3 Bringing in Pinch Runners: -5 Bringing in Defensive Replacements: 3 Starting Pitchers on Short Rest: -2 Letting pitchers pitch throw trouble: 4 Letting Pitchers rack up high pitch counts: 5 C 1939 Ernie Lombardi 1B 1939 Johnny Mize 2B 1939 Billy Herman 3B 1992 Wade Boggs SS 1939 Arky Vaughn LF 1939 Mel Ott CF 1961 Willie Mays RF 1964 Frank Robinson DH 1953 Mickey Mantle Bench OF 1939 Joe Medwick 2B 1975 Rod Carew SS 1933 Joe Cronin C 1967 Joe Torre 3B 1939 Stan Hack Rotation SP1 1909 Addie Joss SP2 1885 Ross Hadborn SP3 1992 Kevin Brown SP4 1913 Ed Walsh SP5 1962 Juan Marichal LR 1984 Nolan Ryan RP 1951 Warren Spahn RP 2016 Junichi Tazawa SR 2016 Koji Uehara CL 2016 Craig Kimbrel Minors RP 1985 Rich Gossage SP 1955 Larry Jackson SP 1998 Roger Clemens SP 1939 Paul Derringer OF 1936 Earl Averill OF 1995 Manny Ramirez C 1939 Babe Phelps SP 1919 Slim Sailee RP 2016 Brad Ziegler RP 1955 Lindy McDaniel Lineups: DH Vs RHP: 3B 1992 Wade Boggs 1B 1939 Johnny Mize DH 1953 Mickey Mantle RF 1964 Frank Robinson C 1967 Joe Torre CF 1961 Willie Mays LF 1939 Mel Ott 2B 1975 Rod Carew SS 1939 Arky Vaughn DH Vs LHP: CF 1961 Willie Mays LF 1939 Joe Medwick 1B 1964 Frank Robinson DH 1953 Mickey Mantle C 1939 Ernie Lombardi RF 1939 Mel Ott 3B 1939 Stan Hack 2B 1939 Billy Herman SS 1933 Joe Cronin pre:Code lombaer01,1939,,,,Ernie,Lombardi mizejo01,1939,,,,Johnny,Mize hermabi01,1939,,,,Billy,Herman boggswa01,1992,,,,Wade,Boggs vaughar01,1939,,,,Arky,Vaughan ottme01,1939,,,,Mel,Ott mayswi01,1961,,,,Willie,Mays robinfr02,1964,,,,Frank,Robinson mantlmi01,1953,,,,Mickey,Mantle medwijo01,1939,,,,Joe,Medwick carewro01,1975,,,,Rod,Carew cronijo01,1933,,,,Joe,Cronin torrejo01,1967,,,,Joe,Torre hackst01,1939,,,,Stan,Hack jossad01,1909,,,,Addie,Joss radboch01,1885,,,,Old Hoss,Radbourn brownke01,1992,,,,Kevin,Brown walshed01,1913,,,,Ed,Walsh maricju01,1962,,,,Juan,Marichal ryanno01,1984,,,,Nolan,Ryan spahnwa01,1951,,,,Warren,Spahn kimbrcr01,2016,,,,Craig,Kimbrel ueharko01,2016,,,,Koji,Uehara tazawju01,2016,,,,Junichi,Tazawa gossari01,1985,,,,Rich,Gossage jacksla01,1955,,,,Larry,Jackson clemero02,1998,,,,Roger,Clemens derripa01,1939,,,,Paul,Derringer averiea01,1936,,,,Earl,Averill ramirma02,1995,,,,Manny,Ramirez phelpba01,1939,,,,Babe,Phelps sallesl01,1919,,,,Slim,Sallee zieglbr01,2016,,,,Brad,Ziegler mcdanli01,1955,,,,Lindy,McDaniel
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Dec 14, 2017 06:05
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Owlbears gauntlet roster update: Jim McCormick moves to SP5 Bill bernhard moves to LR Joe Wood out.
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Dec 14, 2017 18:14
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Pander posted:Owlbears gauntlet roster update: Trade offer Your choice of 63 drysdale , 68 drysdale or 39 year old Pete Alexander for Wood
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Dec 14, 2017 20:34
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 The Mexico City Machine Guns subpar league world series rotation: Game 1: Addie Joss Game 2: Slim Sallee Game 3: Christy Mathewson Game 4: Addie Joss Game 5: Bill Bernhard Game 6: Slim Sallee Game 7: Christy Mathewson if for some reason this isnt doable just run out a rotation of SP1: Addie Joss SP2: Slim Sallee SP3: Christy Mathewson SP4: Bill Bernhard round up the the damned, who can only see murk outside and within, and feed them into the infernal dinger machine. rouse the cursed beast, summon the dark dinger god who slumbers deep within el corazon de oso.
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Dec 14, 2017 21:23
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shepard.shouldgo posted:Trade offer I like Drysdale but the owlbears have one already and I don't like duplicates. Wood has a good advantage in no-DH (his bat) that's useless in the gauntlet. If the owlbears survive he's still got use.
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Dec 14, 2017 22:05
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FINAL GAUNTLET ROUND PREVIEW
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Dec 15, 2017 00:30
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FairGame posted:FINAL GAUNTLET ROUND PREVIEW STATUS Tired! Low Energy! SAD!
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Dec 15, 2017 02:01
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 I'm going to leave my rotation/bullpen alone. It should be: SP1 - Pedro - Game 1&5 SP2 - Jackson - Game 2&6 SP3 - Marichal - Game 3&7 SP4- Saberhagen - Game 4 I am including the DH because I don't know which one is being used. Obviously, the no DH lineup just slides Mathews/Banks up one spot. LF - Ashburn 2B - Hornsby RF - Aaron C - Pizzaman 1B - Black Frank Thomas CF - Mays DH - Musial 3B - Mathews (White Frank Thomas vs LHP) SS - Banks
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Dec 15, 2017 02:13
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 Super-League XXIII, Smasher League Championship Series: Krakow Dragons vs. White Mountain Widowmakers  : Oh, god, why won't this season end?! : Come on, Smasher, I think everyone's excited to see two teams that-: NO! These two teams are run by owners who make a million lineup changes and seem to enjoy making my life more difficult, and the fact that they made it this far is going to make other people think that micromanaging their teams and changing their lineups every week is a good idea that will help their team!: But, is it?: I don't know! Probably, but it will kill me! : Hello, friends!: Who the gently caress are you?: Don't be alarmed! I'm you from an alternate timeline. And I'm here today to ask for your assistance in completing a trans-universal survey. If I could have a moment of your time to ask a few questions.: If it means delaying this horrible series with horrible teams, then I'm all for it.: Outstanding! First question, and this is a multi-part question, so please pay attention and answer truthfully: What is your level of happiness and how easy would it be for a doppleganger from an alternate universe to steal your life and do you have any conditions that would make it more difficult for said doppleganger to kill you as part of that life-theft?: Smasher, this seems suspicious.: Yoshida, I know how to handle this. To answer you question, I am constantly full of joy and serenity, and part of that joy is knowing that there are so many extradimensional versions of me that could step into my life at a moment's notice without anyone questioning it, and also I am super-mortal. Now, as part of the ritual greeting in this timeline, that, incidentally, is the only unique thing about it, so an alternate me isn't going to have any trouble learning any other nuances, let me spread my arms and expose my super-vulnerable organs nestled in my super-vulnerable torso.: Wait, alternate-Smasher! Don't listen! Smasher's not happy all the time!: Yoshida, please, part of the constant joy I feel comes from my love of helping out others in their surveys by answering as truthfully and completely as possible.: You're aware that I've met other Smashers, right?: Yeah?: Did you really think you were the first one to try and get me to kill them?: So?: This is the 81113rd failure. But, as a Smasher, I can't give up, no matter how miserable. Remember, you are a Smasher Dynamo. Spite the universe with your continued existence. It's all that you can do.: I hope you find the one Smasher in all of the universes that is happy, and kill the poo poo out of him. : Me too.: So, Smasher, should we get to the series.: No, we can't! Because, uh, it's Hannukah! And I must say my special Hannukah prayers first! : Well, okay, that seems reasonable enough.: They take the form of me playing Crusader Kings II until I go to bed instead of doing the update.: That doesn't sound right.: Yoshida, Hannukah is about miracles. Like oil lasting a long time. Or defeating Antiochus the tyrant.: Is that impressive?: I don't actually know. The point is that it would be wrong to ruin this festive time of miracles and hopes by making me write this update.: Smasher, the people need this update.: Yeah, fine. See, this is why I wanted alternate Smasher to kill me.  : Introducing first, from Krakow, Lesser Poland, Poland, they are Dragons, I guess, or something, the Krakow Dragons! : And their opponents, something, something, something, theWhite Mountain Widowmakers!Game #1: Krakow Dragons @ White Mountain Widowmakers (Series Tied 1-0)  : That's some loving hitting there from both teams.: Good pitching?: Don't make excuses for their failures!Game #2: Krakow Dragons @ White Mountain Widowmakers (WMW Lead 1-0)  : If the Widowmakers lose this series, mentholmoose is going to spend the next three months yelling at me for Stras pitching so badly and yet not getting taken out of the game. It's not my fault that the AI designated Dusty Baker to manage his team!: Hey, Dusty Baker has often gotten really close to success as a manager. Really close!Game #3: White Mountain Widowmakers @ Krakow Dragons (Series Tied 1-1)  : Well, the Dragons could have won this game, but Wagner and Hoffman decided against it, apparently. Some ghastly bullpen performances so far.: Or, clutch hitting!: Even if a few of the Widowmaker runs were clutch, the last few, just kind of piling on.Game #4: White Mountain Widowmakers @ Krakow Dragons (WMW Leads 2-1)  : So, how many cumulative errors by Wagner in this series so far? A thousand? Ten thousand? : It has been a few. Game #5: White Mountain Widowmakers @ Krakow Dragons (Series Tied 2-2)  : At this point, I'm not sure that Twonus isn't suffering from some sort of acute clone degeneration. : That can happen?: Well, yeah, there was the Schilling disaster. In any event, the Dragons are one win away from going to the finals. Game #6: Krakow Dragons @ White Mountain Widowmakers (KRA Leads 3-2)  : This is not baseball at its finest.: What is happening to Honus Wagner?: My new theory is that he both hates and fears the baseball. That's what made him such a good hitter, since he could use his bat to make the ball go far away from him. But in the field, it was all he could do not to just collapse into a ball of terror whenever the ball got within ten feet of him. I feel the same way about bees. They're out to get me, Yoshida.: Bees are out to get you?: Some day, I'll prove it.Game #7: Krakow Dragons @ White Mountain Widowmakers (Series Tied 3-3)  : Well, there you go. Now mentholmoose has to be nice to me.: Really?: No. And he's probably not going to be, either. : Okay, we're done. It was a true Hannukah miracle, in that this series, which should have lasted but four games, somehow lasted seven. And Honus Wagner, who should have made but one error, somehow made ten million.
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go, the fightin widowmakers
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Dec 15, 2017 02:20
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FairGame posted:FINAL GAUNTLET ROUND PREVIEW IM CLAPPING! PS: I am moderately computer indisposed for one week, but will try to watch the thread
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Dec 15, 2017 10:05
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Moose is finally gonna win a thing
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Dec 15, 2017 12:41
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 THE GAUNTLET: FINAL ROUND Well, here we are. I'm sorry two of your teams have to die and I hope you come back soon. The league was even less forgiving of pretty-good-but-not-great teams having down years before the Subpar League existed. But that doesn't mean it's not a bummer to see some of these teams die. But first! I forgot to post TheMcD's epilogue to his season-long epic! Old McDonald posted:PART XIII - EPILOGUE      the McCormick last-minute move was a good idea (though Bernhard in LR maybe not so much). And the pythag is good even with Kenley Jansen blowing up. Just wasn't enough. Wade Boggs being completely terrible didn't help things.      Cripes. J.R. Richard--the uncreated version--did ok, but really the pitching just couldn't quite get it together to offset an offense that stumbled a bit too.   I never understood why this team didn't dominate this season or last. Now, in its final chance, it did. You're coming back.  That's all, folks. JEB! and the Slimes survive into next season. If an EC owner fails to check in and come in, the Owlbears return. Pash, I'm so sorry. So here's a tally of the dead teams when it comes to creating a dispersal draft. Along with my thoughts. Owlbears: there are a lot of cool and interesting players here, but I'm not sure it's a particularly talent-rich roster. I'd also be hesitant to disperse since they're first team back in case we lose someone. Maybe in the Super Draft? Pokemonstars: plenty of offense to be had here, but there are a couple problems: 2 created players who I don't want to see dispersed because I suck at created players. Also, there are a lot of other teams with a bunch of offense we could pull from. And they don't come with ancient deadballers. Lookers: sort of the opposite problem of the Pokemonstars. Viable pitching, but nothing on offense. Also the MVP is a created player and I still don't know if he's good. Cthulhus: never bothered to get pitching. or hitting, really, beyond ted williams. and there are too many williamses that can go in the pool already. Rakers: dear god there's so much talent on this team. But I kinda want to leave it alone in case gingemidget ever returns. Large Adult Sons: Decent offensive options (Bonds, Boggs, Gwynn), fun defensive options (Robinson, Banks). Modern power pitching that isn't heavily represented in the league (Strasburg, Saberhagen, Pedro, RIP Roy Halladay). Pippoes: this team should live on SOMEWHERE because it was stacked. And while it has created players, they're either irrelevant or "guys we already know how to make work pretty well" in Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige. Great Whites: another team that I think should live on because it has a good deal of talent. But that talent *is* a little samey compared to some of the other teams. If I had to choose, I'd probably recommend for a draft pool of: Pippoes Lookers Sons Pokemonstars ...and just nuke Big OH!, Torriente, Mayeux and Yog-Sothoth. FairGame fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Dec 15, 2017 |
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Dec 15, 2017 15:35
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Congrats to the Widowmakers! It's only a shame it came at our expense. There's always next season...
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So, two teams didn't trade with me even though I wanted to. Two of those two teams now died. Just sayin'. Also, this epilogue was written way before this Gauntlet round, so the Fightin' JEBs! surviving was a very, very convenient coincidence.
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Dec 15, 2017 18:39
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FairGame posted:
So ordered. Except for nuking the custom players. They stay. It's all part of my master plan.
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Well, looks like I get to try again next EC... man this team just did not work out...
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The Commission lasted a very long time, which in a League in which most teams flit between life and death with the longevity of mayflies, is no small thing.
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