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 Still can't believe I'm in the SL playoffs. It's been like, 10 seasons? Man. Crazy. So glad to finally get the chance. Rotation: Old Hoss Radbourn Rick Reuschel Nolan Ryan Pete Alexander Bullpen: The Elusive Closer - CL Craig Kimbrel - Setup Mike Adams - SR Gary Levelle - SR Red Donahue - MR Frank Tanana - LR Fergie Jenkins - LR Lineup vs. Righties: 1. Arky Vaughan, SS 2. Paul Waner, RF 3. Ty Cobb, CF 4. Ted Williams, LF 5. Edgar Martinez, 3B 6. Gabby Hartnett, C 7. Jeff Bagwell, 1B 8. Nap Lajoie, 2B 9. Pitcher vs. Lefties 1. Nap Lajoie, 2B 2. Edgar Martinez, 3B 3. Gabby Hartnett, C 4. Ted Williams, LF 5. Ty Cobb, CF 6. Arky Vaughan, SS 7. Jeff Bagwell, 1B 8. Paul Waner, RF 9. Pitcher
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 Your Krakow Dragons line-up and rotation for the SLDS versus the Panderers: Rotation SP1 Waddell SP2 Reuschel SP3 Young SP4 Rudolph Bullpen CL Hoffman SU Smoltz SR Candelaria SR Gregerson MR Doug Jones LR Hubbell Mop-up Adams Versus LHP SS Wagner RF Clemente DH Heilmann C Torre 2B Stephens 1B Berkman 3B Kell LF Goslin CF Manush Versus RHP DH Sisler LF Goslin 1B Gehrig 3B Mathews RF Clemente C Torre SS Wagner 2B Stephens CF Manush Good luck to all, and thanks!
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 Sub-Par League XIV, Wild Card Round Well, it's time to move on to the playoffs proper. However, since this is just the wildcard round, we're still not going to put any real effort into it - read, I'll still be flying solo. We have two games to go through this time - in one, the Thunderbuckets take on the Plague Doctors, and in the other, the Brotherhood of Nod takes on the W.E.B. Dat Bois. Let's see how things went!  Here's some evidence that I'm not rigging things, because if I did, I would've secured poor CVE a promotion spot. Alas, Nolan Ryan giving up a bajillion walks wasn't enough to sink the Thunderbuckets, who singled their way to victory. Nothing much to say here - the Thunderbuckets converted on opportunities they had, the Plague Doctors didn't.  Now, that's a bit of an upset. Turns out meme magic also doesn't work well in small sample sizes, as the Frogs just couldn't figure out Christy Mathewson, while the Brotherhood knocked around Wood and Sale a fair amount. Maybe the Frogs just needed more Gary Sheffield. But that's nothing another draft can't fix, and the Frogs are in a good position to survive. And with that, we've made our way through the wildcard round. The next series might have some actual effort put into them, but I just couldn't be arsed for single game wildcards and wet fart tiebreakers. Next Playoff Games - Malice League Divisional Series - *** Five game series *** - Camden Buzzsaw vs. Brotherhood of Nod Everett Eagles vs. Walney Rakers - Despair League Divisional Series - *** Five game series *** - Akabira Killer Mikes vs. Sebastian Thunderbuckets Arlen Propane Sellers vs. Ogaki Aces Injuries Camden Buzzsaw: Tony Gwynn and Dennis Eckersley are still dead, George Brett is out for three days. Brotherhood of Nod: Stan Musial is still dead. Everett Eagles: Stan Hack and Mike Scioscia are still dead. Walney Rakers: Alex Rodriguez and Danny Darwin are still dead. Akabira Killer Mikes: Teddy Higuera is out for a week. Sebastian Thunderbuckets: Billy Hamilton is still dead. Arlen Propane Sellers: Christy Mathewson is still dead. Bill Bernhard is out for seventeen days. Ogaki Aces: Jimmie Foxx is out for three days. Pete Alexander is out for six days. Rotation Availability Camden Buzzsaw: Everybody can start. SP1 Greg Maddux is set as next starter. Brotherhood of Nod: Christy Mathewson needs four days of rest. The others can start. SP3 Walter Johnson is set as next starter. Everett Eagles: Everybody can start. Pete Alexander is set as next starter. Walney Rakers: Everybody can start. SP1 Addie Joss is set as next starter. Akabira Killer Mikes: Everybody can start. Hilton Smith is set as next starter. Sebastian Thunderbuckets: Nolan Ryan needs four days of rest. The others can start. Greg Maddux is set as next starter. Arlen Propane Sellers: Christy Mathewson is injured. The others can start. Clayton Kershaw is set as next starter. Ogaki Aces: Greg Maddux needs two days of rest. Juan Marichal needs one day of rest. Pete Alexander is injured. The others can start. Eddie Cicotte is set as next starter. Pick'Em - For EC Owners Pick the teams you think are going to win the series, the number of games you think they're going to win the series in, and the score of the final game.
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Go Team! No changes for the Thunderbucket! Just got to hope we can get lucky vs the Mikes.
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 Pitchers: Grove, Marichal, Maddux, Glavine in a 4-man rotation (with Lefty as next starter). Cicotte as mopup, Mullin as LR. Lineup: same as before, Foxx back in asap.
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Smasher Dynamo posted:Pick 'em! Divisional Round TheMcD posted:Pick'Em - For EC Owners
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Buzzsaw in 5, 3-0 Rakers in 4, 7-2 Killer Mikes in 3, 5-3 Aces in 5, 5-4
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I'll get my roster post up in an hour. got busy
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For pick 'em related reasons I will be rooting for the Mikes but the Thunderbuckets making the Final 4 would be tremendous.
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 Please switch it to a 4 man rotation. Game 1/5 starter: Deacon Phillippe Game 2 starter: Satchel Paige Game 3 starter: New Hoss Game 4 starter: Larry Jackson Mopup: Kevin Brown Lineup vs RHP no DH CF: Billy Hamilton L LF: Babe Ruth L RF: Babe Ruth L 1B: John Olerud L 2B: Joe Morgan L 3B: Cal Ripken Jr. R SS: Joe Sewell L C: Roger Bresnahan R Bench Roberto Alomar S Buck Ewing R Harry Heilmann R Charlie Jamieson L Wally Berger R Omar Vizquel S Lineup vs LHP no DH CF: Billy Hamilton L LF: Babe Ruth L 1B: Harry Heilmann R RF: Babe Ruth L 3B: Cal Ripken Jr. R 2B: Roberto Alomar S SS: Omar Vizquel S C: Roger Bresnahan R Bench John Olerud L Joe Morgan L Charlie Jamieson L Wally Berger R Joe Sewell L Buck Ewing R
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Pick 'em! Divisional Round Pick the Winner, Number of Games (Best of Five), and score of the final game! Enix Slimes vs. South Bolton Eazy W's in 5, 7-4 Krakow Dragons vs. Portland Panderers in 4, 4-3 RCMP vs. Moscow Golden Tsars in 5, 5-2 Los Angeles Misanthropes vs. Titanic Deck Chairs in 3, 2-1 Pick'Em - For EC Owners Camden Buzzsaw vs. Brotherhood of Nod in 5, 6-5 Everett Eagles vs. Walney Rakers in 3, 5-2 Akabira Killer Mikes vs. Sebastian Thunderbuckets in 3, 3-1 Arlen Propane Sellers vs. Ogaki Aces in 5, 8-4
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 Pitching: Going to do a little change to the rotation and have it go Alexander, Mathewson, Joss and Phillippe. Batting: All lineups stay exactly the same.
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Panderers Playoff Positions! PITCHING Game 1: Kershaw Game 2: Hamels Game 3: Madbum Game 4: Guidry Mopup: Johnson CL: Chapman SU: K-Rod SR: Orosco SR: Paco Rodriguez MR: Kaat LR: Santana LINEUPS VS RHP SS George Davis 2B Eddie Collins LF Max Carey RF Paul Waner 1B Pete Rose C Deacon White 3B Pie Traynor CF Emmet Heidrick DH Cupid Childs Vs LHP SS George Davis DH Eddie Collins LF Max Carey 3B Pie Traynor RF Paul Waner 1B Pete Rose C Cliff Lee CF Robin Yount 2B Lew Fonseca Bench/Platoons: CF Hedrick/Yount C White/Lee DH/2B Fonseca/Childs 3B Deuteronomy Slims SS Al Dark Pander fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Mar 27, 2019 |
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SMALL PICK 'EM UPDATE ON WHO CAN WIN: The only people who can win the Pick 'Em are: HulkaMatt [126] Yaya [118] CFBalla [117] DannoMack [115] I thought FairGame, kw0134, and TheMcD were able to catch but: TheMcD is 22 points behind HulkaMatt currently. The McD can only gain 10 points on him if the Tsars win the division, putting him at a total of 114 points. If any of his other choices win, HulkaMatt will also get those points. TheMcD is mathematically eliminated. ~~~ kw0134 is 11 points behind DannoMack. kw0134 can only gain 5 points on DannoMack, and that is if the Rakers get promoted. Anything else he picked will be points that also go to DannoMack. kw0134 is mathematically eliminated. ~~~ FairGame is 9 points behind CFBalla. Fairgame can only gain 5 points on CFBalla, and that is if the Buzzsaw are promoted. Any other points FairGame gets also go to CFBalla. Fairgame is mathematically eliminated. ~~~ Everyone else is too far behind and also mathematically eliminated. HulkaMatt fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Mar 27, 2019 |
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I think that means: Panders/Tsars final + Tsars win = I win Panders/Tsars final + Pander win = Balla wins Panders win vs Mounties or anybody not Tsars = Danno wins W's win or none of those scenarios happen = HulkaMatt wins I think???? I don't know what the Sub-Par predictions look like
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Akabira Killer Mikes Division Series lineup Same LHP and RHP as before, but send edd roush to the minors, put ozzie smith on the bench, and put arky vaughan in ozzie smith's spots Rotation Smith Koufax Drysdale Carlton
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Pick'Em - For EC Owners Brotherhood of Nod in 4, 4-3 Walney Rakers in 3, 2-0 Sebastian Thunderbuckets in 4, 6-4 Ogaki Aces in 4, 5-3 Pick 'em! Divisional Round Pick the Winner, Number of Games (Best of Five), and score of the final game! Enix Slimes - four games, and 7-3 Portland Panderer - three games 3-2 RCMP - five games - 6-1 Titanic Deck Chairs - four games - 4-3 edit - edited in the divisional round pickem so its all in one post. Zodiac5000 fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Mar 27, 2019 |
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 We who are about to die salute you. Vs. RHP/LHP (though every starter I face will be RHP) #1: CF Rickey Henderson #2: 1B George Sisler #3: DH Rogers Hornsby #4: LF Gary Sheffield #5: RF Roberto Clemente #6: SS Cecil Travis #7: 2B Roberto Alomar #8: 3B Chipper Jones #9: C Yogi Berra BENCH 3B George Brett 1B Ed Delahanty CF Fred Lynn SS Alan Trammell C Javy Lopez ROTATION SP1: 1996 Maddux SP2: 2002 Maddux SP3: Powell SP4: Patterson Mopup: Guidry BULLPEN: CL: Chapman SU: Smoltz SR: Gossage SR: Clear MR: Garvin LR: Blyleven
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 Okay, it's time for me to do the thing you should never do in Mogul and overthink your roster due to matchups! Lineup: SS Vaughan LF Williams DH Bonds 1B Musial CF Thompson (92) RF Thompson (91) 2B Hornsby 3B Robinson C Cochrane Bench Foxx Lajoie Cronin Mays Aaron Rotation SP1 Joss SP2 Joss SP3 Vance MU1 Clarkson MU2 Radbourn Bullpen CL Smoltz SU Stanton SR1 Cliff Lee SR2 Reardon MR McGee LR Adams
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 Wait, what's this now? This is something I want to try for the next offseason. This is Super Baseball Simulator 1.000, a game for the SNES. As a baseball game, it is notable because it allows for you to create your own custom teams and give them stats by assigning them to players from a fixed pool of points. This means that all teams created through this should in theory be somewhat equal, and that means that it's very suited for tournaments. I first saw this being done on speedrunner PJ's channel, where he uses the game to decide which game he would play next by having teams based on those games and pitting them against each other in a tournament. And I think this would be a fun offseason activity for us to try. So how does this work? Well, it's pretty simple. You sign up, get me a custom team, and I'll then run a tournament with all our teams. I'll then stream the games on Twitch and maybe even get somebody in to commentate on the games with me. Fun times should ensue. So, if you want to sign up, your steps are as follows: - Get the game Super Baseball Simulator 1.000 in some way. If you have trouble with this step, hit me up on Discord, I'll help you out. - Create a custom team. You do this by going to "EDIT" in the main menu, then choosing to "ENTER", then selecting an Ultra League team to create your new team over. Not selecting an Ultra League team means that the points you get to build your team will be reduced, so watch out. - After creating a custom team, go to "EDIT" in the main menu, go to "DISPLAY", then select your team. Take screenshots of the stats you get and get them to me alongside the archetype you picked for your team so I can enter them in my copy. And that's all! But how do I make a team, this is all so confusing! Well, let's just go over the options you have when creating a team. In the beginning, you have to name your team and assign it a uniform color. That should be pretty simple.  Next, you'll get to select the archetype of your team. You can pick something completely middle-of-the-road with "Standard", something middle-of-the-road but slightly more unique with "Moderate", or you get to pick something particular with "Special". If you pick "Special", you get to pick two options to specialize your team. So "Accuracy" gives you more contact, "Fast Ball" gives you pitching speed, that kind of stuff. You probably want to pick "Special".  Then, let's use a team that might look a bit familiar to you if you've been paying attention to the Sub-Par to go over the stats you can then assign. On the hitter side, you can assign the following: - Name - Handedness - Stance (just for aesthetics) - Position (you can swap them around between players if you want to, but you will always have all fielders plus four generic pinch hitters) - Batting average (meaning contact ability) - Home runs (meaning power) - Running ability (meaning speed on the basepaths) - Fielding ability  With pitchers, you can assign the following: - Name - Handedness - Pitching style (overhand, sidearm, submariner) - ERA (I think this might be a generic "how well can other guys hit off of this pitcher") - Speed (how fast the pitches are) - Right and left breaking (apparently this sets how hard a pitcher can break a ball to each side) - Something that is either fielding or "fork ball ability". No idea. - Stamina (I don't think this is the number of pitches, though)  Then, you can set "ultra abilities" for your players. These are basically superpowers that allow you to really gently caress with things. The easiest way to figure these out is to read this GameFAQs guide on the subject, it has a comprehensive list of all abilities.  You can also set the ultra abilities for the pitchers. That's all you need to do - then I just need screenshots of those four menus and the archetype you selected, and I'll have all the information I need to rebuild your team. However, there are a few guidelines I'd like to set: - You can just not assign your ERA points in the editor. I would prefer it if you assigned all ERA points to your pitchers, however. - You can also assign four ultra abilities to each pitcher, which is pretty crazy. I would limit the ultra pitches to 12. You can assign them however you wish, though, so if you want four on your ace, go right ahead. - Don't use the ultra pitches "Floater Ball" and "Spiral Ball". The AI can't deal with them properly and it just slows the game down a ton. Otherwise, I'd say go nuts. One more question, why are you posting this now? Because I have the sneaking suspicion this is going to take ages to run, so I'd like to start the signups early, and to give people time to futz around with the game. TheMcD fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Mar 27, 2019 |
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The Sub-Par League Divisional Round has been simmed!
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Might as well post this now since I have it ready. Team Archetype: Special (Accuracy and Fastball)    
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TKBomber7285 posted:Might as well post this now since I have it ready. Uh, poo poo, I kind of forgot something. I obviously also need the team archetype you selected at the beginning.
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TheMcD posted:Uh, poo poo, I kind of forgot something. I obviously also need the team archetype you selected at the beginning. Editing it into the post right now, though in case you see it here first it was Special: Accuracy and Fastball.
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 Super-League XXVI, Smasher League Divisional Round: Enix Slimes vs. South Bolton Eazy W's  : If this update isn't done in ten minutes, put me on suicide watch. : You seem like you're in a slightly worse mood than usual. Kind of. It's hard to tell.: Well, Yoshida, I just spent an entire day alone in an office, while my boss is on vacation, with him checking in once every few hours to whine at more to do more stuff for him and ask me questions I've already answered several times, and then, when I finally get free, I go to the store because I need to pick up a few things, and I get $20 cash back, but either I was too loving tired to pick up the money from the cashier, or it fell out of my pocket, but, either way, I'm out $20. And now, instead of getting to relax, I have to do this update, which is going to piss people off, because it's the W's series.: Who hates the W's?: Everyone hates the W's, because everyone is living in this loving fantasy world where the W's are some unstoppable machine. Ignoring the fact that in 25 season, the W's have won a grand total of 3 champions. The Bangers won three in the first 12 seasons. The Skyhawks won three of the first four. But, no, the W's are some sort of reality-warping danger that needs to be grumbled about. Well, I have some bad news for everyone. I have had enough. I am going to take the W's, and I am going to murder every team in this league over and over until someone actually remembers that the W's have lost in the playoffs about 10,000,000 times. First up, I'm going to loving murder the Slimes, for no other reason than because they are right here.  : Introducing first, the Enix Slimes, who had a great season that I am about to end in the most brutal fashion I can possibly make happen.  : And the W's. They are going to kill all of your teams, because I am having a bad day. Also, a bad week. Also, a bad month, year, decade, lifetime and eternity. Game 1: Enix Slimes @ South Bolton Eazy W's (Series Tied 0-0)  : What the gently caress is this?: Smasher, you can't win them all.: We sure as gently caress can win them all! We cannot gently caress this up. I will not gently caress this up. Try it again, and try harder!Game 2: Enix Slimes @ South Bolton Eazy W's (ENX Leads 1-0)  : gently caress. Good. Let's go.: Good start by Alexander. Deadballers feel like they're doing better this season in general.Game 3: South Bolton Eazy W's @ Enix Slimes (Series Tied 1-1)  : I appreciate that you won, but are you guys trying to give me a heart attack or something? If so, it better be loving fatal. : We're not trying to kill you! By the way, I need to take Game 4 off. : What?: I need to get a new cap, my old one's kind of falling apart, the bill is warped, it's a problem.: That's not a whole day thing!: It absolutely is if you want to get a good cap. Besides, I'm probably pretty sure you won't need me!Game 4: South Bolton Eazy W's @ Enix Slimes (SLA Leads 2-1)  : ...: Okay, technically, you didn't actually need me! Everything worked out great!: I want that $20 back. God drat it.
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A good effort by the Slimes but we couldn't quite do it. Thank you Smasher for running the league and allowing me to have fake baseball fun
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Sub-Par League XIV, Despair League Divisional Series, Arlen Propane Sellers vs. Ogaki Aces Well, turns out that thanks to my writer being stuck in the frozen hellscapes of Canada, you're going to be stuck with me for another series. So, who are we going to be seeing? The Ogaki Aces could not have stumbled harder going into this series. They barely limped over the finish line via tiebreaker and then their ace died. This does not bode well.  The Arlen Propane Sellers are the team of destiny, apparently, because they just keep winning somehow. I just don't loving get it. Now, let's get into the games, because I just really can't be arsed to put a lot of effort into writing at this point, and apparently one of these teams shares my lack of desire to exert effort. That's what we in the trade call a spoiler.  The Aces just can not touch Kershaw at all, and thus we get a very one-sided game while the Propane Sellers jump all over Maddux. However, up until the eighth inning, Maddux was also responsible for the single, solitary loving hit the Aces managed to get. Shame on you, Aces offense.  SHAAAAAME. The entire Propane Sellers lineup including the pitcher gets on base in this game, and with the exception of Bagwell, every hitter gets on base at least twice. The Aces never had a prayer in this one. The first inning for the Propane Sellers went as follows: Single. Single. Walk. One RBI groundout. Two RBI single. Groundout. RBI single. Single. Strikeout to end the inning. Small that ball!  This game was at least technically close, but the fact that the Aces scored three runs in a three game series is very disappointing. To compare, Jesse Burkett scored three runs for the Propane Sellers in game two alone. That's just sad. And that's yer lot for the first series of the divisionals. The Arlen Propane Sellers are the first team to punch their ticket to the Super-League as the team of destiny, and the Ogaki Aces find themselves now staring down the Gauntlet.
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well you just can't beat a team running on a clean burnin fuel like old lady propane i tell you wahut
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Alright, with the Aces eliminated, we have some wiggle room to do Gauntlet rounds as well. Furthermore, in the name of death, we're going to be killing three teams per round instead of two, because out of the teams entering the Gauntlet, things have worked out in such a way that only one survives, with three teams being safe from the outset. Also, since we have more regular playoff rounds this season, we can reduce the number of Gauntlet rounds through killing more teams with extreme prejudice. So I would like to request that the following teams get their Gauntlet rosters in: Round 1 Hill City Dinos - .340 Milan Mosquitoes - .377 Joliet Jailbirds - .414, loses seniority tiebreak Hollywood Hulkamatts - .414, wins seniority tiebreak Round 2 Homer Power - .473 Skogr Sundr-Slayers - .475 Ogaki Aces - .479
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Super-League XXVI, Smasher League Divisional Series: Krakow Dragons vs. Portland Panderers : I'm still upset about losing that $20.: Even though I got a new cap?: Wait, did you steal my money to buy a new cap?: No, the two aren't connected.: Let's just get on with this. : The following contest, scheduled for the best three out of five games, is a Smasher League Divisional Series. Introducing first, from Krakow, Poland, they are the four-time and reigning Mark Bellhorn Division champions, the Krakow Dragons! : And their opponents, from Portland, Oregon, they are the seven-time Senor Goodtimes Division champions, the four-time Smasher League Champions, and the two-time Super-League Champions of the world, the deservedly hated and feared Portland Panderers!Game 1: Krakow Dragons @ Portland Panderers (Series Tied 0-0)  : And to the surprise of no one, the Panderers take Game 1 at home.: It was a close game, but the reality is that the Dragons are going to have to win a game at the Panderdome if they're going to win this series. It's math. Because there are three games in the Panderdome, and you need to win three games to win. And the entire series is only five games long at most. And that means that only two games are going to be in Krakow.: Yeah, okay, that's...yeah.Game 2: Krakow Dragons @ Portland Panderers (PAN Leads 1-0)  : And the Dragons lose another. Things are looking grim for the Dragons. : What the Dragons were able to do in the regular season is overcome their mediocre pitching by generating a lot of offense. Now, the issue is that they generated this offense by chaining together hits, they didn't hit many home runs at all, especially considering how many division games they played in Khartoum and Mexico City. The Panderers, of course, have a pitching staff that strikes guys out, and doesn't allow a lot of hits compared to most teams. They give up walks, and, in non-Panderdome games, home runs. But the Dragons don't take a ton of walks, they aren't going to hit home runs in Portland, and that's what's causing their woes here.Game 3: Portland Panderers @ Krakow Dragons (PAN Leads 2-0)  : And the Dragons will fight their way back, they score three in the ninth, and the winning home run in the eleventh, and they'll live to fight another day.: This game is a good illustration of Panderers' biggest problem. In the bottom of the ninth, with two men on, no one out, and up 7-4, the Panderers probably want a right-handed reliever to face Honus Wagner. They problem is, they only have one right-handed reliever, and they had already used him, so Aroldis Chapman, a lefty, faces Honus Wagner. Obviously, most of the time, that's not an issue, but that close to finishing this series, you want to play the percentages however you can, and the Panderers literally could not do so, and it cost them.Game 4: Portland Panderers @ Krakow Dragons (PAN Leads 2-1) : We'll pick things up in the bottom of the ninth, the Dragons, letting Dick Rudolph throw longer than they should have, coughed up four runs in the top of the inning, including the go-ahead double from Deuteronomy Slims, and now are down 7-5 with just three outs left. Roberto Clemente leads things off, and he hits a chopper to the shortstop...who misplays it! And the tying run will come to the plate with no outs.: That's sad, especially since Alvin Dark had just been brought into the game to play defense.: Chapman regains his focus, though, and retires Harry Heilmann and Joe Torre in order. That brings the Dragons to their last out, and it will be Mark Grudzielanek of all people to take it. But he punches through a single!: This could be the start of something great!: And Chapman is flustered now! And he throws a wild pitch, runners to second and third! And with two outs, any base hit will tie the game!: It's happening!: Lance Berkman will come to the plate-: Launch Ballman? Against a power left-handed reliever? OH, NO!: And he will strike out on four pitches to end the series.: That would be much sadder if Launch Ballman were a better human being. : Well, that will set up the Panderers against the W's in the Smasher League Championship Series.: We have home-field, and the W's are going to avenge our Dragon friends! Maybe! We'll try!
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Well, poo poo. If only the AI had pulled Rudolph in favour of a reliever. We'd probably have lost game 5 anyway. As noted, if our offense can't get cranked up, our pitching can be a liability, with or without New Hoss. Part of me wonders what might have been had Gibson not exploded in the early part of the season. Then it would've been Torre at 1B... Thanks for the season, Smasher!
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