This Is Total BS

[Urishade]

You might remember me from such other topics as the 22-1 Epic comeback where my team underachieved by 12 games and another team overachived b 13 games in order for us to finish tied for first in my division but I lost out on a tie breaker. For all the gory details please refer to 22-1 epic comeback thread.

Anyways I am back thi time without the sh-tty bullpen and having a 6 game lead with 12 games to play. Seems safe huh? Sure when at that time I had just completed a 10-5 stretch against my divisional rivals.

If you thought so then you need to stop being such blatant believers in reality. After establsihing my postiion I have gone 4-8 over my last 12 games 5-10 over my last 15. This is of course against the exact same teams that I went 10-5 in the previous 15 games. I have twice been swept by the worst team in my division whom I ha previous had a a 9-9 mark. So after 18 games i playted .500 ball but then with the diviision on the line I go 0-6. Yeah relalty!!! That makes sense.

So now with one last series to play I have a measly 1 game lead. My opponent, who I face in the final series, has trimmed a six game deficiet to 1 game with three to play. Bascially ove the last 9 I have played 2-7 while he has gone 7-2. This is while I was dominating divsional play early on.

I have had enough!!! F--k HAL and all his antics. He/she/it has robbed me of so many divisional titles/playoff berths/sensible conclusions to seaons that I am done. What more can happen to me before I just belive that I am cursed! Really a six game lead with 12 to play while kicking a$s and now I am facing elimination? That is total and utter horsesh-t!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[drew6013]

urishade = 2007 Mets

[LMBombers]

Look at the Yankees this year. They are in last place or close to it. The best teams don't always win in Strat or real baseball. Get over it urishade. Winning is just a roll of the dice.

[garykeithron]

I hear ya Urishade.

I would consider your two pennant stretch shortcomingings deliberately singled out by HAL right up there with these five other major injustices perpetuated on someone:

5) Current Mortgage Fraud Crisis
4) Hollywood Blacklist scandal from a few decades back
3) MLB Owner collusion against free agents in the 90's
2) African genocide
1) The Holocaust

[emart]

Though one would expect a game like this to produce fairly predictable results, like many other things in life it does not. I have had many inexplicable outcomes while playing this game - strong teams lose, weak teams win, upside-down RD results, and I could go on. At this moment, in one league I'm being challenged for the division lead by a team with an upside down RD, mediocre one-run game stats, and the manager has made an abundance of starting player roster moves involving his team. He still wins and is 10 games over .500. Go figure.

In the end HAL does crazy stuff and its a dice game. I stopped placing importance on winning championships last year and now I just try to have a good time with it. Otherwise, it is simply too frustrating.

[teamnasty]

I'm still laughing over Gary's wicked commentary.

Look Urishade you know that I agree that Brummer's 22-1 comeback in the previous league was indeed "h-****" luck that screwed you over. But this current situation is anything but. It simply is not bad luck to go 2-7 over a stretch of 9 games, it is way too small a sample to conclude that. Flip a coin 9 times and you will frequently get that result.

And to put it another way: why do you assume that your current stretch of 2-7 is bad luck, but your previous 10-5 stretch is a result of skill? It's a 162 game season not a 150 game season, and your team's poor performance over the last 12 games is as much a combination of luck and skill as your team's good performance the previous 12. Being better at Strat is not decided in one's own head, but on the field of battle, just like real baseball games. You give too little credit to opposing owners.

[Free Radicals]

I cannot tell you how many times Hal has dumped my teams into the trash can at the end of the season causing great pain and anguish . Can I sue ? Your just a member of a much bigger elite group of " Late season Hal haters" . Buck it up and kwitcherbichen , your not alone at all ! :wink:

[pwootten]

During 1962 and 1963, the Phillies began to climb back to respectability, and throughout the 1964 season, they seemed destined to make it to the World Series, with excellent performances from players such as rookie third baseman Dick Allen, starters Jim Bunning (obtained from the Detroit Tigers at the start of the season to shore up the pitching staff) and Chris Short, and star right fielder Johnny Callison. TV Guide went to press with a World Series preview that featured a photo of Connie Mack Stadium. However, from a 6½-game lead on the Cincinnati Reds with 12 games remaining in the season, Philadelphia collapsed in a 10-game losing streak (the first seven played at home). The crucial series came when the now second-place Phillies traveled to St. Louis to play the Cardinals after their losing home stand. They dropped the first game of the series to Bob Gibson by a 5-1 score, their eighth loss in a row, dropping them to third place. The Cardinals would sweep the three-game set and assume first place for good. The "Phold," as it is known, is one of the most notable collapses in sports history.

[RICHARDMILTER]

I have an idea. Why do we even play the games at all ? The best team on paper should automatically win! Once again(just like the 1980 Soviet Olympic Hockey team) you got hosed!
Quit your damn crying! Champions do not complain or make excuses, they keep on going! Show some class!

Lee Scoresby(lives)

[pkwmati]

I knew it!!!! It was HAL who screwed the '64 Phillies.