I'm going to start a running tab of first-timer mistakes I've made. Here's the list so far:
1. Having Nick Johnson on my team. I'm platooning him at first base. There were some other platoon options, but I liked his defense and the fact that he could hit lefty pitching if needed...so I took a chance on his 5 injury rating. First series he's down for 10 games. I came THIS close to dumping him, but decided wasting salary so early in my first season wouldn't be advisable. Theoretically, the math would predict a half-timer with his injury rating to average about 25 missed in a season. I'll try to be patient.
2. Accidently marking R. Rincon as "avoid lefties" instead of "avoid righties." First outing he faces 4 righties and predictably records one out. You're welcome, Fillies (My best friends).
There are a couple other things I've already realized I'd do differently with my roster too, but I don't want to give away the farm just yet. I've still got a shot at that .400 winning percentage I'm shooting for.
Vets vs. Rooks league chat
Rookie Mistakes
by maligned » Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:48 pm
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by ANDREWLAITURI » Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:56 pm
It's always good to have a goal Maligned! LOL!
With regard to your team and the season; remember that strat is a marathon and not a sprint. Give things time to shake out, if you decide that you do need to make some changes...Think TRADE first.
If the only way to shake things up comes via the FA wire, plan your moves ahead of time! Do your homework on the guys you're bringing in!
There is nothing worse than making a mistake and costing yourself too much of a cap hit. That 20% adds up in a BIG hurry!
Charlie, excellent job with the reports. Keep up the good work!
With regard to your team and the season; remember that strat is a marathon and not a sprint. Give things time to shake out, if you decide that you do need to make some changes...Think TRADE first.
If the only way to shake things up comes via the FA wire, plan your moves ahead of time! Do your homework on the guys you're bringing in!
There is nothing worse than making a mistake and costing yourself too much of a cap hit. That 20% adds up in a BIG hurry!
Charlie, excellent job with the reports. Keep up the good work!
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Hoods Play by Play...game of the day:
by cummings2 » Wed Nov 16, 2005 8:02 pm
These events took place in the rubber game between the Little Red Riding Hoods and the Samurai. It is the bottom of the seventh inning game is tied 3-3. As I had announced in the other forum, after the traditional seven inning stretch ceremonies, we blast Gloria Gaynor's "I will survive" in Minute Maid, and all of the Little Red Riding Hoods start jumping up and down in their Chippendales sponsored cups a-la rally monkey style.
The crowd is fired up, they can't stop cheering, Juan Rivera lost his cup during the dance but he didn't let that stop him from pleasing the crowd.
The noise is deafening as Pedro Martinez goes to the mound. ET is winning the battle of the starters since cummings already had to call on to the bullpen. ET knowng this celebrates with his favorite geisha, cummings knowing this can't take his eyes of ET celebrating with his geisha, in a rather harsh example of envy and jealousy, cummings jumps on Richie Sexson just to show ET that he'll be matched, watched and followed throughout the season...oddly enough sexy Richie seems to enjoy it.
PLAYBALL!!!
Pedro gets the sign, he shakes off the first he agrees to the second, he sets, he starts his windup...and cummings starts the sprinkler system!!!! Pedro is soaking wet. The sprinklers go off. Pedro sets again...and again cummings starts the sprinklers. The crowd is going wild, the ump warns cummings...party pooper!
Rey Sanchez comes to the plate, in true Pedro form he whacks Sanchez right on the forehead...Sanchez is down, there isn't much damage but being on the floor gives him a better angle on the geisha action on ET's dugout. Counsell comes in to run for Sanchez who is hurt enough to miss the next 4 games. (Do Not set the sprinklers on Pedro again)
Pokey Reese steps up to the plate, great thinking cummings, get Pedro mad and then send your injury prone gold-glove caliber second baseman to bat. Cummings flashes the signs to Pokey, the signs read "Run for Your Life!!!" Pokey is a disciplined hitter and follows his manager, Pedro tries to wack Pokey, he dives out of harms way and in the luckiest form the bat manages to get a piece of the ball, it stays fair...Counsell is running on contact, Counsell is safe, Reese is down and counting his blessings... the "sac Bunt" works! Cummings is a genius folks.
Now the balance tilts towards cummings, he is outmanaging ET, Pedro is fuming, man on second with only one out and the big guns lining up. Larry Walker steps up to the plate...the racous crowd gets on their feet, Pedro gets the sign from varitek, not a very subtle sign as varitek mimes the knife across the neck calling for Walker's death...but Walker stands there proud, stoic, the ball comes, Pedro catches a bit too much of the plate, Larry Turns on the fastball! The ball has a chance to make it...Hunter goes back, back, jumps...did he get it? Did Torii Hunter do it again??? NO! It's outta here folks, The Hoods go up 5 to 3!!! Pedro is furious, The crowd is lovin' it...Cummings is a genius!!!
ET, pulls the trigger on Pedro before he really kills someone and gets suspended..he calls on to Brendan Donnelly and all the illegal substances he carries on his glove...the pine tar works on Abreu as he quickly falls on a nasty swing of strike three way out of the plate. But Cummings knows of the pine tar on Donnelly's glove, he whispers on Rolen's ear. Two out, Donnelly can close the door and give his team a chance to come back...but Rolen makes him pay for the pine tar and whacks one way way way outta here, the Hoods go up 6-3 folks! What a masterful display of creative genius by cummings and his hoodies!
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Well, I might as well enjoy the only two times I am bound to beat ET!
The crowd is fired up, they can't stop cheering, Juan Rivera lost his cup during the dance but he didn't let that stop him from pleasing the crowd.
The noise is deafening as Pedro Martinez goes to the mound. ET is winning the battle of the starters since cummings already had to call on to the bullpen. ET knowng this celebrates with his favorite geisha, cummings knowing this can't take his eyes of ET celebrating with his geisha, in a rather harsh example of envy and jealousy, cummings jumps on Richie Sexson just to show ET that he'll be matched, watched and followed throughout the season...oddly enough sexy Richie seems to enjoy it.
PLAYBALL!!!
Pedro gets the sign, he shakes off the first he agrees to the second, he sets, he starts his windup...and cummings starts the sprinkler system!!!! Pedro is soaking wet. The sprinklers go off. Pedro sets again...and again cummings starts the sprinklers. The crowd is going wild, the ump warns cummings...party pooper!
Rey Sanchez comes to the plate, in true Pedro form he whacks Sanchez right on the forehead...Sanchez is down, there isn't much damage but being on the floor gives him a better angle on the geisha action on ET's dugout. Counsell comes in to run for Sanchez who is hurt enough to miss the next 4 games. (Do Not set the sprinklers on Pedro again)
Pokey Reese steps up to the plate, great thinking cummings, get Pedro mad and then send your injury prone gold-glove caliber second baseman to bat. Cummings flashes the signs to Pokey, the signs read "Run for Your Life!!!" Pokey is a disciplined hitter and follows his manager, Pedro tries to wack Pokey, he dives out of harms way and in the luckiest form the bat manages to get a piece of the ball, it stays fair...Counsell is running on contact, Counsell is safe, Reese is down and counting his blessings... the "sac Bunt" works! Cummings is a genius folks.
Now the balance tilts towards cummings, he is outmanaging ET, Pedro is fuming, man on second with only one out and the big guns lining up. Larry Walker steps up to the plate...the racous crowd gets on their feet, Pedro gets the sign from varitek, not a very subtle sign as varitek mimes the knife across the neck calling for Walker's death...but Walker stands there proud, stoic, the ball comes, Pedro catches a bit too much of the plate, Larry Turns on the fastball! The ball has a chance to make it...Hunter goes back, back, jumps...did he get it? Did Torii Hunter do it again??? NO! It's outta here folks, The Hoods go up 5 to 3!!! Pedro is furious, The crowd is lovin' it...Cummings is a genius!!!
ET, pulls the trigger on Pedro before he really kills someone and gets suspended..he calls on to Brendan Donnelly and all the illegal substances he carries on his glove...the pine tar works on Abreu as he quickly falls on a nasty swing of strike three way out of the plate. But Cummings knows of the pine tar on Donnelly's glove, he whispers on Rolen's ear. Two out, Donnelly can close the door and give his team a chance to come back...but Rolen makes him pay for the pine tar and whacks one way way way outta here, the Hoods go up 6-3 folks! What a masterful display of creative genius by cummings and his hoodies!
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Well, I might as well enjoy the only two times I am bound to beat ET!
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by ANDREWLAITURI » Wed Nov 16, 2005 9:01 pm
LOL! Cummings I think you may have a shot at the creative writing 101 class after all! Very nicely done! Although...poking ET with a sharp stick is NEVER a good idea! :shock:
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by ERICTAYLOR 2 » Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:25 pm
That does it...no more Mr. Nice Guy!
I've changed Pedro's individual setting to "plunk everyone possible"
BTW, if HAL had put in a real lineup, that dinger would have been caught by Hunter not stared at by Quinlan (who hurt his neck on the play and is out for 8 games).
What's the old saying about sleeping dogs?
WAY too early in the season to get me riled up. I may read four or five box scores this season now!
I've changed Pedro's individual setting to "plunk everyone possible"
BTW, if HAL had put in a real lineup, that dinger would have been caught by Hunter not stared at by Quinlan (who hurt his neck on the play and is out for 8 games).
What's the old saying about sleeping dogs?
WAY too early in the season to get me riled up. I may read four or five box scores this season now!
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by ERICTAYLOR 2 » Wed Nov 16, 2005 11:45 pm
Keep laughing...Maddux may start against you next series and maim half your lineup with the "Changeup of Death"
Which reminds me of a true, funny and sad story from my past baseball season. I hit about 15-20 batters this year pitching, mostly with breaking balls that didn't break but the occasional heater. The guy who came closest to charging the mound all year I hit with a KNUCKLEBALL.
Which reminds me of a true, funny and sad story from my past baseball season. I hit about 15-20 batters this year pitching, mostly with breaking balls that didn't break but the occasional heater. The guy who came closest to charging the mound all year I hit with a KNUCKLEBALL.
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by ERICTAYLOR 2 » Wed Nov 16, 2005 11:58 pm
In fact, Mr. Cummings (if that is your real name), you get Pedro in the first game and Maddux in the third of out next series. You'll be trying to recruit the CHA-CHA dancers for your starting lineup by the end of that one.
BTW, my team has already been notified that they lose a testicle for every game they lose that series. What happens in the event the Little Red Riding Hoods sweep my team? Public hangings by the aforementioned testicles.
The owner has already said he won't go to the stadium anymore because of fears for his and his family's safety from fans who are unhappy that the lineups were decided in a double-blind study analyzing the weiner races shown on the JumboTron the night before.
Meanwhile, in the clubhouse, Todd Ziele attacked Greg Maddux because Mad Dog wouldn't turn down his stereo (which was blasting "What these bïtches want") prior to the last game. The brawl was broken up by the beat reporter for the Stockton Light & Shopper, 87-year old Ethel Franks (no relation to Ball Park Franks, although she plumps when you cook her). The Samurai manager sashsayed into the clubhouse wearing pink garters wedged up his Äss. This prompted bench coach Attila the Hun to fly into a rage, sparking a mutiny.
The Samurai are leaderless and divided. Bring on the other 156 games.
BTW, my team has already been notified that they lose a testicle for every game they lose that series. What happens in the event the Little Red Riding Hoods sweep my team? Public hangings by the aforementioned testicles.
The owner has already said he won't go to the stadium anymore because of fears for his and his family's safety from fans who are unhappy that the lineups were decided in a double-blind study analyzing the weiner races shown on the JumboTron the night before.
Meanwhile, in the clubhouse, Todd Ziele attacked Greg Maddux because Mad Dog wouldn't turn down his stereo (which was blasting "What these bïtches want") prior to the last game. The brawl was broken up by the beat reporter for the Stockton Light & Shopper, 87-year old Ethel Franks (no relation to Ball Park Franks, although she plumps when you cook her). The Samurai manager sashsayed into the clubhouse wearing pink garters wedged up his Äss. This prompted bench coach Attila the Hun to fly into a rage, sparking a mutiny.
The Samurai are leaderless and divided. Bring on the other 156 games.
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