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Cthulhu Dreams posted:Why those guys? That's what the thread voted for in Smasher's BBM LP after his last run. Also, Smasher, in the module, one of the Prompt 248 options directs you to Prompt 262, but it should send you to 265
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ToiletofSadness posted:You want mercy? Go to church. Yeah, expansion cup results don't mean a great deal. The Unspecifieds had the 2nd worst cup record, but we still kept pace with the Finger-Bangers until the last couple weeks and avoided the gauntlet. With wild cards in place now, there are several expansion teams that I think have a good shot at a playoff spot.
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 Super League VIII Roster Post: Lineup: 1915 Tris Speaker, CF 1911 Home Run Baker, 3B 2011 Miguel Cabrera, 1B 1929 Paul Waner, RF 1918 Rogers Hornsby, 2B 1997 Derek Jeter, SS 1951 Yogi Berra, C (Parrish catches for Perry) 1910 Sam Crawford, LF Pitcher Bench: 1984 Lance Parrish, C 1989 George Brett, 1B/DH/3B 1965 Jimmie Hall, OF 1970 Jim Fregosi, SS 1965 Tony Oliva, OF 1929 Pie Traynor, 3B Rotation 1958 Whitey Ford 1965 Jim Kaat 2009 Cliff Lee 2011 Doug Fister 1965 Jim Perry Bullpen: CL 1989 Dennis Eckersley 1994 John Wetteland 2003 Jose Valverde 1965 Al Worthington 1997 Eddie Guardado 1929 Burleigh Grimes Minors: 1918 Red Ames 1968 Bill Freehan 1965 Don Mincher 1997 Rick Aguilera 1965 Bill Pleis 1931 Tommy Bridges 1978 Dave Parker In DH games, use Brett at DH and bat him 8th (Crawford 9th) blackmongoose fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Dec 11, 2012 |
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:I'm not actually sure this is a good idea, but Sure, let's do this. I need the Saint to truly change the Super League
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Hornsby for Sandberg, Billy Williams, Mark Bellhorn
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blackmongoose posted:Sure, let's do this. I need the Saint to truly change the Super League Actually, I'm going to put this on hold until tomorrow because I see lots of people yelling and it occurs to me that I should not make trades while drinking wine. I'll confirm or cancel this tomorrow when I get up
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Dec 11, 2012 05:08
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I'll take '78 Dave Parker. Also, Cthulhu, I'm sorry but I'm going to have to decline the trade because I have no idea why I thought Billy Williams was a good deal. I would need a significantly better player to go through with that.
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I posted my roster here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3499603&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=72#post410246143
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Dec 12, 2012 20:44
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 Switch Waner and Cabrera in the batting order.
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Dec 20, 2012 04:03
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Swap Bridges and Lee I guess. So much for his all-star season last year. Also, voting B
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Dec 29, 2012 01:25
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Put Fregosi in for Hornsby for this next week. All Star Ballot: Smasher Dynamo posted:All-Star Ballot
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Jan 2, 2013 06:35
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I'll take 1910 Shoeless Joe. Put him in the lineup in Crawford's spot and send Jimmie Hall to the minors
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Jan 4, 2013 05:09
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Put Hornsby back in for Fregosi. Has Ford actually gotten much worse, or is he just getting unlucky all of a sudden?
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Jan 6, 2013 01:23
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Bring Aguilera up and put him in Valverde's spot, sending Valverde down
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Jan 8, 2013 00:49
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Put Fregosi in for Hornsby while he's injured.
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Jan 15, 2013 02:57
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The Merry Marauder posted:blackmongoose, you're (still) up in the draft. I'm gonna skip you and pick at 10 EST. Sorry, no one announced I was up so I didn't realize it was my pick. I guess I'll take 93 Mark Wohlers and put him in Worthington's spot for now. Finger-Bangers up next.
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 Put Wohlers in Worthington's place, put Oliva in for Waner, and platoon Brett/Traynor at 3B
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cbx posted:Who's looking for fair? I'm looking to challenge the status quo. The status quo is that the Super League brutally winnows each expansion class down to the two or so teams capable of being realistic competitors. Just this year, the Barons, Tornadoes, Gumshoes, and arguably Mashers and Bloggers are teams in a position to make the playoffs or at least survive to next year. The Cultists won their division in their first year. The very best teams undergo Macho Man-based attrition. Your plan might change which teams succeed, but it won't change this calculus. It seems frustrating to new teams because most of them are in the 80-90% that will die, but there's no avoiding that inevitable outcome. Honestly, I'm sympathetic to some of these issues, but the system we have now seems like the best compromise. And really, at this point you're just complaining about Marauder. The Losers have only been around for 3 seasons - is that too long to be interesting? If so, should we just kill every team after its second year? No, it seems to me that these complaints always come back to Marauder's teams, and the truth there is that he's been lucky that the Finger-Bangers haven't won the league since Macho-Manning became a thing and that Smasher has still failed to put a good DH team in the Phoenixes' division. In conclusion, we should appreciate what we have, and not try to come up with crazy plans to stack expansion teams in order to "challenge" a largely imaginary "status quo." In several seasons, when the Rakers or Catastrophes or some other expansion team are 16 games ahead of their division, someone will complain about how the old teams are just too good and the cycle will begin anew.
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cbx posted:Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about everything. I'm simply introducing an idea to change up the league. The Gauntlet was one such idea back in the day, admittedly it's a much better idea. But change doesn't happen by sitting idle. Yeah, I didn't mean to direct that whole thing at you, my apologies. It's just that the idea reminded me of how we get several complaints about "old teams dominating" (including from me in the past!) and I wanted to write a bit on why I disagree with that now. I don't think there's anything wrong with proposing ideas to tweak the Super League to make it better (though I do think that your idea would just shift power among expansion teams in unpredictable ways, which I'm not sure is a good thing), and I didn't mean to seem like I was trying to shut down ideas. Sorry if I came off a little aggressive!
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Put Worthington back in, send Aguilera to the DL.
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Do that thing you said you would do in my team analysis (Waner back in for Oliva). Also, C
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Put a Traynor/Brett platoon in at 3B for Baker. Voting Yoshida and Hopp, the ultimate co-commentating duo.
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Jan 26, 2013 05:25
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Bring up Ames and put him in for Grimes
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Ironically, I've been arranging to have gyros delivered for an event tomorrow and it's been a tremendous pain to work everything out. I blame you, Smasher, and vote C. Also, put Home Run Baker back in at 3B
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In order to make the title truly intercontinental, the Antarctica Unspecifieds will enter the Intercontinental Championship tournament.
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The Unspecifieds select 2012 Jered Weaver. Monathin and the Catastrophes are up next.
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Super League IX Roster Post: Lineup: 1915 Tris Speaker, CF 1997 Derek Jeter, SS 1929 Paul Waner, RF 2011 Miguel Cabrera, 1B 1918 Rogers Hornsby, 2B 1910 Joe Jackson, LF 1951 Yogi Berra, C (Parrish catches for Lee) 1911 Home Run Baker, 3B Pitcher Bench: 1910 Sam Crawford, LF 1984 Lance Parrish, C 1989 George Brett, 1B/DH/3B 1970 Jim Fregosi, SS 1965 Tony Oliva, OF 1929 Pie Traynor, 3B Rotation 1958 Whitey Ford 1965 Jim Kaat 1931 Tommy Bridges 2009 Cliff Lee 2012 Jered Weaver Bullpen: CL 1989 Dennis Eckersley 1994 John Wetteland 1993 Mark Wohlers 1997 Rick Aguilera 1997 Eddie Guardado 1929 Burleigh Grimes Minors: 1965 Al Worthington 2003 Jose Valverde 1965 Jim Perry 1918 Red Ames 1968 Bill Freehan 1965 Don Mincher 1965 Bill Pleis 2011 Doug Fister 1978 Dave Parker 1965 Jimmie Hall In DH games, use Brett at DH and bat him 9th Strategy Hit and Run: 2 Sacrifice Bunt: -5 Squeeze Play: -3 Trying for extra bases: 2 Stealing Bases: 0 Aggressively Tagging Up: 0 Pitch Outs (to prevent stolen bases): 0 Giving Intentional Walks: -2 Pitching Around Good Hitters: 0 Bringing the Infield In: 0 Guarding the Lines: 0 Making Cutoff Throws: 3 Bringing in Pinch Hitters: 2 Bringing in Pinch Runners: 2 Bringing in Defensive Replacements: 3 Starting Pitchers on Short Rest: -2 Letting pitchers pitch through trouble: 1 Letting Pitchers rack up high pitch counts: 1 blackmongoose fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Feb 27, 2013 |
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Just realized my roster post had Parrish listed as Perry's personal catcher even though Perry is no longer in my rotation. Change that to make him Lee's personal catcher.
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Baker should be starting at 3B over Traynor and Jackson should be starting in LF over Oliva. Also, Jeter should be batting second, Cabrera fourth, Hornsby fifth, and Baker eighth. Other than that, everything looks good. Also, one question: how soon do I need to bring up starting pitchers from the minors before they start to decay? I remember you mentioning that they become unusable if they stay in the minors for a long time, and I'd like to potentially rotate some of them in.
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Mar 5, 2013 07:42
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Bring Bill Pleis up from the minors in Guardado's spot. Pick 'Em: Cougars, Gumshoes, Tornadoes. Titles: Cultists, Losers retain, Barons steal.
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Catastrophes, Mules, Unspecifieds, Manatees. Everyone retains.
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Pick 'Em: Rakers, Postmodernists, Tornadoes, Catastrophes Titles: All retain
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 Bring Fister up and put him in Bridges' spot in the rotation, sending Bridges down. Crawford officially goes into Speaker's spot, Jimmie Hall comes up from the minors, and Speaker goes to the DL. New lineups: No-DH vs. R 1. Crawford, CF 2. Berra, C 3. Waner, RF 4. Cabrera, 1B 5. Jeter, SS 6. Baker, 3B 7. Hornsby, 2B 8. Jackson, LF 9. Pitcher No-DH vs. L 1. Crawford, CF 2. Jeter, SS 3. Waner, RF 4. Cabrera, 1B 5. Parrish, C 6. Baker, 3B 7. Hornsby, 2B 8. Jackson, LF 9. Pitcher DH vs. R 1. Crawford, CF 2. Berra, C 3. Waner, RF 4. Cabrera, 1B 5. Brett, DH 6. Jeter, SS 7. Baker, 3B 8. Hornsby, 2B 9. Jackson, LF DH vs. L 1. Crawford, CF 2. Jeter, SS 3. Waner, RF 4. Cabrera, 1B 5. Parrish, C 6. Baker, 3B 7. Hornsby, 2B 8. Traynor, DH 9. Jackson, LF Remove all personal catcher orders
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(Sorry Cthulhu and cbx, but I've decided my long-term pitching needs are more important than a backup 2B who wouldn't play much past this year) The Unspecifieds draft 1918 Dazzy Vance. Put Vance into the rotation in Lee's spot. Bring up Perry and put him in Grimes' spot in the bullpen. Put Lee in the bullpen in Bill Pleis' spot. Send Pleis and Grimes to the minors. Put Hornsby on the DL. Start Fregosi in his place, batting last in all lineups. Bring up Dave Parker from the minors.
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Unspecifieds draft '50 Nellie Fox. Insert him into the 2B spot in the lineup. Send Fregosi to the DL Viscount Slim and the Imperialists are up
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For next week, put Oliva in right, Hall in left, and platoon Traynor and Brett at 3B
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Put Jackson back in LF and Waner back in RF. Bring Bridges up from the minors to take Vance's spot
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Unspecifieds Gauntlet Roster Lineup vs. R 1. 1915 Tris Speaker, CF 2. 1951 Yogi Berra, C 3. 1929 Paul Waner, RF 4. 2011 Miguel Cabrera, 1B 5. 1989 George Brett, DH 6. 1997 Derek Jeter, SS 7. 1911 Home Run Baker, 3B 8. 1918 Rogers Hornsby, 2B 9. 1910 Joe Jackson, LF Lineup vs. L 1. Speaker, CF 2. Jeter, SS 3. Waner, RF 4. Cabrera, 1B 5. 1984 Lance Parrish, C 6. 1929 Pie Traynor, 3B 7. Hornsby, 2B 8. Brett, DH 9. Jackson, LF Bench: 1910 Sam Crawford, LF 1970 Jim Fregosi, SS 1965 Tony Oliva, OF Rotation 1965 Jim Kaat 1918 Dazzy Vance 1958 Whitey Ford 2011 Doug Fister 2012 Jered Weaver Bullpen: CL 1989 Dennis Eckersley 1994 John Wetteland 1997 Rick Aguilera 1997 Eddie Guardado 2009 Cliff Lee 1931 Tommy Bridges Minors: 1965 Al Worthington 2003 Jose Valverde 1965 Jim Perry 1918 Red Ames 1968 Bill Freehan 1965 Don Mincher 1965 Bill Pleis 1993 Mark Wohlers 1978 Dave Parker 1965 Jimmie Hall 1929 Burleigh Grimes 1950 Nellie Fox blackmongoose fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Apr 28, 2013 |
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Smasher Dynamo posted:Major League: Back to the Minors: This movie happened. Even the movies about the Twins suck  . And the movie having Tom Kelly apparently be a terrible person is even worse. Although I wouldn't be surprised if some of those '90s teams lost to a minor league team.
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cbx posted:What about Little Big League? ... Oh wait. Never mind. That was why I pluralized movies. I hope those are the only two...
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