What's in a name?

Thank you Comrade!

The Splinter…do I really have to expound on that?

If I was Frank I would say that you road the pine a bit to much in Little League, Jim. But I'm not so "The Kid" it is.

Clearly, I'm a bigger football fan than baseball fan as my username indicates. I came to Strat baseball, by way of Strat football. I was in a face-to-face football league in the early 90's which led to a face-to-face draft baseball league. I will maintain until my dying breath that the Strat Football BOARD game is vastly superior to the baseball BOARD game. The baseball game comes down to dice rolls, and therefore is almost purely luck based. The football game however, due to the chess match of the defender trying to guess the offense player's, play call and tendencies throughout the course of a game, somewhat minimizes the luck factor of rolling the dice.
After moving away from my face-to-face leagues, I happened to see an online add on the Sporting News website for the online Strat game. I've been here since the beginning.

BTW, the opposite is true of online football and baseball. The online football game blows chunks. It's completely unplayable IMHO and in no way represents the board game.

“ If I was Frank I would say that you road the pine a bit to much in Little League, Jim. But I'm not so "The Kid" it is.”

He would be correct about my HS career. I had trouble with the curve.

College friend had the board game in 84 and we played many Phillies-Oriole games that year. Found online game in 05 and have played since. Really miss the netplay league I was in but just didn't have the time to commit.

Stoney is a play on my last name (better than Stoner which it was for a year or so) and 18 is the number I've had for every sport I played.

I played the APBA baseball and football board games in the late '50s and early '60s, but then got busy with life. Didn't discover Strat on the TSN site until I was recovering from congestive heart failure in 2009. It was great mental calisthenics and I was hooked. Started my first keeper league later that year and now run 8 of them. I guess I like it!

I was lazy with my username and just used the start of my email address. I've had the address since I started my first website in 1995, so it's certainly easy to remember

Originally I played a baseball board-game called "Longball" with a friend during my Jr. High years. I loved that game. Fast forward to the Army a few years later and that's where I met another dude that loved baseball. We went to a Cincinnati Reds home game (my Army base was Ft Benjamin Harrison in Indiana) at Riverfront Stadium in late 1981 and while there visited a hobby shop and I bought a Strat board game. I played it religiously...even when I was supposed to be studying and working on my MOS (Journalism). I didn't care. I was addicted to that board game. I literally took the game with me to various Army sites (buildings) and played solitaire while waiting for my appointments. It was like my security blanket. I found the Army to be a bit much as I was still a little boy in so many ways.

In 2006 I noticed by accident that TSN had SOM. Those were fun years for Strat playing. I forget the name of the gentleman who ran the show for TSN but he was talented and very dedicated to making the experience a memorable one. He was excellent. Health issues made him give it up I believe.

fredpaii is the prefix of an email account I no longer use. I've already changed my screen name once so I will keep fredpaii (my name).

I think you are thinking of Bernie Hou. He was the face of SOM online for a while. He still works with Strat, doing a bunch of programming.

“ I think you are thinking of Bernie Hou. He was the face of SOM online for a while. He still works with Strat, doing a bunch of programming.”

Oh yeah, can he fix the F’d up injured starting pitcher bug that nobody at Strat has bothered to address despite numerous requests.