WIS Prog 1953 draft - yeah we're finally doing this

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uublog: Jul 19, 2012; "World Champions. WORLD FUCKING CHAMPIONS." - Chase Utley, October 31, 2008; Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA

Zamboni Jesus posted:

he has a pretty good chance at shattering kiner's homerun record of 69 though

nice

# ? Sep 3, 2014 06:49

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toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Every now and then, the sim is so eerily similar to real life it's kind of spooky.

Take Daniel Bard's line here for instance http://whatifsports.com/slb/Boxscore.aspx?gid=23054583&pid=1&pbp=0&tf=10

# ? Sep 3, 2014 20:04

Devo: Jul 9, 2001; Caught Cubs Posting

welp time to shuffle ol' Danny boy back to AAA for a while

# ? Sep 3, 2014 20:07

uublog: Jul 19, 2012; "World Champions. WORLD FUCKING CHAMPIONS." - Chase Utley, October 31, 2008; Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA

I don't think he'll have any more success there...

# ? Sep 3, 2014 20:51

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

AHAHAHAHA holy poo poo, I was going off of my memory of his time with the Red Sox. Im pretty sure I could put up better than a 175 ERA in the Sally league.

# ? Sep 3, 2014 21:02

Ivan Drago: Jan 17, 2003

toadee posted:

AHAHAHAHA holy poo poo, I was going off of my memory of his time with the Red Sox. Im pretty sure I could put up better than a 175 ERA in the Sally league.

One of the many Rangers minor league reports from around the brief time he was with the team:

"Ricardo Rodriguez (5 IP, 3 H, 2 BB, 6 S) and Angelo Leclerc (4 IP, 1 H, 1 BB, 2 SO) combined for nine innings of scoreless ball. Between them, Daniel Bard walked two and hit two, all of whom would score. Bard has a dumbfounding opposing line of .000/.889/.000. He's faced 18 batters, 16 of them reaching via walk or HBP."

# ? Sep 3, 2014 22:29

Scrotos: Sep 8, 2003

Is there a way to not have scores of the game ruined when trying to check boxscores?

# ? Sep 4, 2014 19:12

Devo: Jul 9, 2001; Caught Cubs Posting

Scrotos posted:

Is there a way to not have scores of the game ruined when trying to check boxscores?

If you're talking about your own games you can click on Game Results from the front page of WIS and the play-by-play only. If you're talking about the whole league then I'm not sure.

# ? Sep 4, 2014 19:35

Scrotos: Sep 8, 2003

Devo posted:

If you're talking about your own games you can click on Game Results from the front page of WIS and the play-by-play only. If you're talking about the whole league then I'm not sure.

Thank you good sir, game results is what I wanted.

# ? Sep 4, 2014 19:44

Bob Shabazz: Oct 21, 2008; At 12:17 a.m. MU police spotted Mauk, 19, run a stop sign while driving his scooter east on Kentucky Boulevard - with two female passengers on board.

# ? Sep 5, 2014 15:55

uublog: Jul 19, 2012; "World Champions. WORLD FUCKING CHAMPIONS." - Chase Utley, October 31, 2008; Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA

Far as I can tell if things continue as they are now, two teams will get hosed out of a playoff spot, the runners-up in the NL East (probably me) and AL West

# ? Sep 5, 2014 20:13

AlleyViper: Sep 15, 2007; Oh, there's plenty of other balls in the sea. Plus, you're not very talented.

uublog posted:

AL West

AKA every single prog season

# ? Sep 5, 2014 20:32

uublog: Jul 19, 2012; "World Champions. WORLD FUCKING CHAMPIONS." - Chase Utley, October 31, 2008; Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA

AlleyViper posted:

AKA every single prog season

Worst second-place finishes by division:
NL East: 78 wins, Ivan, 1952
NL West: 81 wins, gardenald, 1951
AL East: 73 wins, AU, 1952
AL West: 89 wins, Bob, 1946; ZJ, 1949; Bob, 1949 :psyduck:

you weren't kidding

Speaking of incredible things that don't seem possible, of all the great Al Rosen Facts there have been and will be this season, my favorite is that he has 84 hits through 46 games, a pace which, if he keeps, would get him 296 and demolish 1948 Stan's record of 265.

# ? Sep 6, 2014 07:23

Pumpkin McPastry: Mar 8, 2004; What else do I have to do to impress you people?

NL West produced two 100-win teams that missed the playoffs in 1947.

# ? Sep 6, 2014 17:05

Devo: Jul 9, 2001; Caught Cubs Posting

1947 didn't happen

# ? Sep 6, 2014 17:20

Zamboni Jesus: Jul 3, 2007; We don't really care about what that bug-eyed fat walrus has to say

Devo posted:

1947 didn't happen

1947 owned

e: 1946 is the only season where more than one team in the al west finished below .500. this year might finally break that streak though because my team is looking a bit rough. 1946 is also the only year that the winner of the al west didn't win more than 100 games

Zamboni Jesus fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Sep 6, 2014

# ? Sep 6, 2014 18:20

Pumpkin McPastry: Mar 8, 2004; What else do I have to do to impress you people?

Devo posted:

1947 didn't happen

If you do the math, the team that won the division in 1947 won even more games than the other two.

# ? Sep 6, 2014 19:55

uublog: Jul 19, 2012; "World Champions. WORLD FUCKING CHAMPIONS." - Chase Utley, October 31, 2008; Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA

p cool how I lost because of a literally dead Yo-Yo

# ? Sep 7, 2014 00:43

Power of Pecota: Aug 4, 2007; Goodness no, now that wouldn't do at all!

Weekend at Bernie'd Yo-yo also started every game of a sweep of Toadee a few days ago :o

# ? Sep 7, 2014 07:13

uublog: Jul 19, 2012; "World Champions. WORLD FUCKING CHAMPIONS." - Chase Utley, October 31, 2008; Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA

Power of Pecota posted:

a sweep of Toadee

uublog posted:

of all the great Al Rosen Facts there have been and will be this season, my favorite is that he has 84 hits through 46 games, a pace which, if he keeps, would get him 296 and demolish 1948 Stan's record of 265.

nope I just found a new one: We're 49 games in, and his number of hitless games is the same as his number of strikeouts this season - five. His BABIP, completely out of context and without any others to compare it to, is .376. That's probably not even in the top 5 this season, honestly

# ? Sep 7, 2014 07:33

Power of Pecota: Aug 4, 2007; Goodness no, now that wouldn't do at all!

uublog posted:

Whoops, Ivan. I thought Toadee was Pittsburgh. My level of interest in this season is showing~

# ? Sep 7, 2014 17:46

uublog: Jul 19, 2012; "World Champions. WORLD FUCKING CHAMPIONS." - Chase Utley, October 31, 2008; Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA

Power of Pecota posted:

Whoops, Ivan. I thought Toadee was Pittsburgh. My level of interest in this season is showing~

Haha I was gonna say, if you swept toadee I wouldn't still be 4 games back

How am I still 4 games back?? toadee stop winning so much!!

# ? Sep 7, 2014 19:53

uublog: Jul 19, 2012; "World Champions. WORLD FUCKING CHAMPIONS." - Chase Utley, October 31, 2008; Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA

Al Rosen has gone 10 games without a home run :aaaaa:

# ? Sep 8, 2014 22:31

Pumpkin McPastry: Mar 8, 2004; What else do I have to do to impress you people?

uublog posted:

Al Rosen has gone 10 games without a home run

Schoendienst has slipped below .400/.500/.600

# ? Sep 8, 2014 22:37

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Gene Woodling went 2 for 4 and lowered his OBP

# ? Sep 8, 2014 23:24

gardenald: Jul 23, 2007; In the end, it comes down to throwing one pitch after another, and seeing what happens. With each new consequence, the game begins to take shape.

Larry Doby owns a lot

# ? Sep 9, 2014 00:11

Pumpkin McPastry: Mar 8, 2004; What else do I have to do to impress you people?

So bummed I didn't get to draft Doby or Minoso.

# ? Sep 9, 2014 02:24

Zamboni Jesus: Jul 3, 2007; We don't really care about what that bug-eyed fat walrus has to say

Pumpkin McPastry posted:

So bummed I didn't get to draft Doby or Minoso.

gently caress your solly hemus

# ? Sep 9, 2014 02:29

Pumpkin McPastry: Mar 8, 2004; What else do I have to do to impress you people?

Zamboni Jesus posted:

gently caress your solly hemus

Your complaints should all be directed to Art.

# ? Sep 9, 2014 03:08

uublog: Jul 19, 2012; "World Champions. WORLD FUCKING CHAMPIONS." - Chase Utley, October 31, 2008; Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA

Pumpkin McPastry posted:

So bummed I didn't get to draft Mickey or Willie.

I mean, Minnie's pretty cool and all. He's .346/.416/.505, with 8 homers. He's 13-22 stealing bases, which is weird because he has like 86 speed. And he's made 8 errors in 54 games because his D+/C- defense is literally the best of my full-time OF. (That's admittedly my own fault, though tbh, gently caress defense get bats.) But yeah. Though Willie wouldn't be contributing to Slugfest '53, so... s'all good if I don't miss the playoffs this season, I guess

I'm still stunned at how not awful my pitching has been. I don't have anyone in the majors now with an ERA above 5.00! That's probably because I've gotten really lucky. Johnny Klippstein, for example, has a .304 OAV, 1.86 WHIP, and 2 strikeouts to 9 walks in 14 innings, but only a 3.21 ERA magically.

# ? Sep 9, 2014 06:07

Pumpkin McPastry: Mar 8, 2004; What else do I have to do to impress you people?

Minoso always stole at a crazy bad percentage so that part is accurate. Pretty sure everything he did - good and bad- made him more entertaining.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 01:59

uublog: Jul 19, 2012; "World Champions. WORLD FUCKING CHAMPIONS." - Chase Utley, October 31, 2008; Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA

Before today, I had won all seven of my games against PMP by a combined score of 41-17. Today, I've already lost two games to PMP by a combined score of 17-3.

You just can't predict fake baseball, Suzyn.

# ? Sep 12, 2014 01:51

uublog: Jul 19, 2012; "World Champions. WORLD FUCKING CHAMPIONS." - Chase Utley, October 31, 2008; Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA

uublog posted:

Before today, I had won all seven of my games against PMP by a combined score of 41-17. Today, I've already lost two games to PMP by a combined score of 17-3.

You just can't predict fake baseball, Suzyn.

ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh kill me plz

e: wait what the gently caress

# ? Sep 12, 2014 07:11

Bob Shabazz: Oct 21, 2008; At 12:17 a.m. MU police spotted Mauk, 19, run a stop sign while driving his scooter east on Kentucky Boulevard - with two female passengers on board.

Billy Goodman has yet to strike out in September, only has 4 all season.

# ? Sep 12, 2014 19:43

uublog: Jul 19, 2012; "World Champions. WORLD FUCKING CHAMPIONS." - Chase Utley, October 31, 2008; Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA

All-Star break!

irl All-Stars posted:

code:

AL All-Stars                              NL All-Stars
1. Billy Goodman                2B       1. Pee Wee Reese                SS
2. Mickey Vernon                1B       2. Red Schoendienst             2B
3. Hank Bauer                   RF       3. Stan Musial                  LF
4. Mickey Mantle                CF       4. Ted Kluszewski               1B
5. Al Rosen                     3B       5. Roy Campanella                C
6. Gus Zernial                  LF       6. Eddie Mathews                3B
7. Yogi Berra                    C       7. Gus Bell                     CF
8. Chico Carrasquel             SS       8. Enos Slaughter               RF
9. Billy Pierce                  P       9. Robin Roberts                 P

Reserves (includes players replaced due to injury)
   F Fain                       1B           G Hodges                     1B
   J Mize                       1B           G Hamner                     2B
   E Robinson                   1B           D Williams                   2B
   N Fox                        2B           D Crandall                   C 
   G Kell                       3B           C McCullough                 C 
   S White                      C            D Rice                       C 
   L Doby                       CF           W Westrum                    C 
   T Williams                   LF           R Ashburn                    CF
   M Minoso                     OF           D Snider                     CF
   B Hunter                     SS           R Kiner                      LF
   H Kuenn                      SS           C Furillo                    OF
   P Rizzuto                    SS           J Robinson                   OF
   M Garcia                     P            M Dickson                    P 
   B Lemon                      P            H Haddix                     P 
   S Paige                      P            C Simmons                    P 
   A Reynolds                   P            W Spahn                      P 
   J Sain                       P            G Staley                     P 
                                             H Wilhelm                    P

Warren Spahn got the win, Allie Reynolds the loss, Murry Dickson the save.

Yes, Murry Dickson made the ASG by going 7-11 with a 4.76 ERA in 125 IP (17 starts), which is somehow better than what he's put up for me, a 5.20 in 106 IP (and now that I realize that I finally took him out of the rotation)

Pee Wee Reese, Enos Slaughter, Stan Musial, and Minnie Minoso (!) had two hits each. There wasn't much interesting about the game.

# ? Sep 18, 2014 02:27

uublog: Jul 19, 2012; "World Champions. WORLD FUCKING CHAMPIONS." - Chase Utley, October 31, 2008; Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA

gently caress me I lost by 7 to gardenald :confused:

# ? Sep 18, 2014 17:32

Pumpkin McPastry: Mar 8, 2004; What else do I have to do to impress you people?

Have fun being one of the two best teams in the NL with toadee only to lose to my bullshit squad in the NLCS :smug:

# ? Sep 19, 2014 00:23

uublog: Jul 19, 2012; "World Champions. WORLD FUCKING CHAMPIONS." - Chase Utley, October 31, 2008; Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA

Hahaha I'm not gonna make the NLCS!

I think it's already pretty obvious that I'm finally gonna get my 100-win division loss, as it seems to be a rite of passage in this league.

e: btw :tipshat:

scrotos for bullshitting his way to a division win! :bravo:

uublog fucked around with this message at 07:37 on Sep 19, 2014

# ? Sep 19, 2014 07:18

Scrotos: Sep 8, 2003

uublog posted:

e: btw scrotos for bullshitting his way to a division win!

You are just jealous of PMP and my divisons.

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saffi faildotter: Mar 2, 2007

everyone sucks except harvey haddix and gus zernial

# ? Sep 19, 2014 14:58

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