Did I get the 1973 Willie Mays card?

[PJ Axelsson]

I can't wait any longer, he's killing me with his Ping Bodie type hitting.

[url=http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=372490]Spicy Pickles[/url]

He's hitting eerily similar to that 1973 season.



1973:
.211/.303/.344

for me:
.210/.253/.355


Has anyone ever seen such a crappy performance from such an expensive player? He's in minutemaid, with another minutemaid in the division. What's up with this?

[george barnard]

Don't knock the 73 Mays. Even on gimpy knees, he did help the Mets to the Series (and a great series it was too -- I was sitting in the Oakland Coliseum bleachers as a 12-year-old getting a contact high as well as getting slightly tipsy on the "lemonade" my mother and her friend had packed for us all). Mays was God when you grew up in the Bay Area. A sad day when he was sent off to the Mets for ... Charlie Williams.

Bill

[GFDWARF07]

[quote:37845a062f="george barnard"]Don't knock the 73 Mays. Even on gimpy knees, he did help the Mets to the Series (and a great series it was too -- I was sitting in the Oakland Coliseum bleachers as a 12-year-old getting a contact high as well as getting slightly tipsy on the "lemonade" my mother and her friend had packed for us all). Mays was God when you grew up in the Bay Area. A sad day when he was sent off to the Mets for ... Charlie Williams.

Bill[/quote:37845a062f]

Here here!

[PJ Axelsson]

Sorry, but he's just about knocked out of a job at this point. No offense Willie, but I need 10m worth of player, not legend.

[LoopsandRolls]

Torre and the cheap Greenburg are playing in nose bleed territory and you are in first place - so . . . .

[RangerJoe]

The 54 card has given me decent, but not Earth Shattering numbers on a few teams. Will hit a lot of triples though.

[lanier64]

George Barnard wrote:

[quote:344c5cc838]Don't knock the 73 Mays. Even on gimpy knees, he did help the Mets to the Series (and a great series it was too -- I was sitting in the Oakland Coliseum bleachers as a 12-year-old getting a contact high as well as getting slightly tipsy on the "lemonade" my mother and her friend had packed for us all). Mays was God when you grew up in the Bay Area. A sad day when he was sent off to the Mets for ... Charlie [/quote:344c5cc838]

August 1973: Mets-Giants at Candlestick. Giants lead 7-6 in top of the ninth, Mays pinch hits, a standing ovation that goes on so long that the umps appeal to the crowd to sit down. Mays smokes a linedrive to left center. As soon as he sees that the ball is going to hit that old chain link fence they had out there in a place that will cause the ball to fall straight down dead he puts his head down and steams for second. He also knows that Gary Maddox (having trained him) is inexperienced at playing that fence and sure enough he stands back from the fence expecting a carom that never comes and Mays pulls into second base standing up and another standing O. Mets score to tie the game. One of the smartest plays I have ever seen and he ran pretty well fo a 42 year old man. Remember that unlike today 42 was considered very old. Giants win the game by loading the bases in the bottom of the 9th and Bonds (Bobby, not his evil spawn) singles to win it.

[OakAth72]

You have 5 mil cash available in a 100 mil format......is this a theme league?

[PJ Axelsson]

No theme, I'm biding my time. I dropped Petrocelli at one point to pick up Bowa, and dropped Barker to get Hunter. That gave me the extra $5m. Been in or around first for awhile, and the 10% drop is a few series away. Will do something, but I haven't been able to confidently address my weaknesses yet.

I've been waiting to see if Willie works it out. The cards and numbers say he has to hit over the course of the season, but I also believe in the superstitious aspect of this game, the bad juju. Maybe it's just Bernie messing with me for bugging him about fantasim so much?

My preference is that Willie hits and I keep him, then add some pitching or catching help, but his rope is running thin.