I miss Marmel.
 

Nostalgia and lack of sleep make me sappy, but I miss him. :(

Is that ok to say publicly?

Looking back at the last days of Marmel, I think the board is in a much better place today. I'm not sure how it happened exactly, but I'm glad we don't have threads like that every month anymore.

That's weird you said that. I was thinking of him just earlier today too, wondering what he was up to.

INot only do I miss him on FOFC, but I really miss the JBL. Dr. Sak, Marm's wife randomly showing up during live sims, Carp vs. Tigers, everyone hating me, etc. I miss it all.

Schmidty I found some old clips that I use to use on the JBL Live. I actually sent them to Smolen over IM. We were laughing at how old they were and the fun we use to have with the JBL.

By the way I am still the champ in the JBL! Long live the Yakult Swallows!

Yeah I miss him too. Ant and I got to know him and his wife when we played City of Heroes.

Hope he comes back :(

bsak16 is married to Marmel???

No but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express with her before!

Quite likely changing a diaper.

Why did he leave the board?

He didn't like SkyDog.

Well, that problem is now solved. There's no more SkyDog! :D

So umm, why is there anyone here at all? nobody likes skydog? ;)

His constant whining about the moderation got pretty old. I did enjoy double-crossing him in FOFC Survivor though. :)

His constant "threats" to leave the board were pretty annoying too. That's right up there with announced message board retirements in ridiculousness.

!!!!!!!!!

Do you keep in contact with him? I'd love to send him an email.

Yeah, I miss Marmel alot. Being the co-commish, we were always talking behind the scenes... the JBL is probably the most fun multi league of any sport in which I've ever been involved.

Marm was da bomb... :(

On a tangent, the JBL has been closed for probably 3+ real life years now and I can still remember most of the owners

Orix BlueWave-me
Fukuoka Daiei Hawks - Chief Rum
Nippon Ham Fighters - Neuqua
Kobe Surpass - ScottVib
Yokohama BayStars - Swaggs
Yakult Swallows - bsak16
Hanshin Tigers - Schmidty
Hiroshima Toyo Carp - Marmel
Kintetsu Buffaloes - smolen22
Chunichi Dragons -
Yomiuri Giants - vtbub?
Chiba Lotte Marines - asamford
Seibu Lions - Alan T?

What are the teams/owners I'm missing?

I miss Shorty, what ever happened to him...

lol dango weren't you the Salmon

Yep, I ran the Sapporo Snow Salmon! HAI!

Seibu was Koji
Chunichi was Drew

We used to talk about getting the JBL back together, but that kind of fizzled. I really wish we could somehow still do it. Soes anyone still have the final League file anymore, and if so, would it be convertible to OOTP8?

Hello Schmidty. :) I have been lurking the forum since I heard about the switch on the FOBL forums a week or so ago. Mostly the FOF strategy section since I have been playing solo again lately. (Shout out to, I think, RedKingGold for his draft combine thread over there by the way).

I don't ever recall threatening to leave the forum, I just said I was, and did. Yes, I bitched about the moderating here, but I think I only actually started 1 or 2 threads about it, at the most. It wasn't only the moderating, but at the time every thread just seemed to stray way off topic into an inside joke fest, which wasn't even very funny. It annoyed me to no end, I found myself visiting less and less, and whatever it was that set me off just made it like a good time to leave.

So these days, I follow the FOFL very closely, as well as post a little over there. I post a bit at the Straight Dope (under a different name). I post a bit over at the Syracuse sports message boards as well. You can find me most nights on City of Heroes (Protector Server), still, as well as my wife, but she doesn't play as much these days.

Oh, and we had our first kid on Sunday morning. :)

The JBL was easily the best online league ever created. I still feel bad I burned out on the commissioner job and the league folded. I'll have to search for some files, but I highly doubt I have any.

Congrats on the kiddo, Marm! Nice of you to drop by...

I'm sure I've read your stuff then. I don't post there yet. I'm waiting until it becomes free. Hopefully soon.

Koji! I loved Koji, what happened to THAT guy?

Congrats Mark.

Hiya Marm, grats on the kid!



I was Sapparo before I had to quit because of divorce/life issues/etc way back when. I think Dang took over my powerhouse of a team from there!



He is Baltimore in the RWBL still, and currently kicking Sean's Toronto Blue Jay butt.

Awesome, Marm! Congrats! Good to see you around here again.

I believe I was owner of the Giants. All I remember was that I couldn't beat Swagg's Yokohama.

Yes and I did such an excellent job that I let Brian win every season after I joined...

Swaggs and I had some real epic battles in the playoffs. As much as I hated Schmidty's Tigers, I always felt the Stars were my biggest rivals.

Marmel! The JBL! :)

Good times were had by all. I do miss that league, and fighting it out with smolen and Shorty (and later ScottVib) in division every year. Plus, I always seemed to play Koji's Seibu squad when I managed to escape the division.

Good to hear from you, Marm, and I am happy to hear of the new addition. Hope to see you around more.

I was a little surprised the JBL disbanded. I don't know what the circumstances were, but it seemed like a strong league. If you guys were on v5, you can at the least convert through v6/6.5. I can't recall if 2007 can import from v5, but it should at least be able to do v6.


At the time??? :)

Congrats on becoming a dad Marmel!

We were using 6.x at the time, so if someone had the last league file we could convert it to 8 and get it going at anytime.

That stings. :(


Congratulations on the baby though!!!!

I hope you visit more often. If you ever feel like playing in another league of any kind, let me know and I'm in. :)

Past Champions



2002 Japan Series Winner

Hiroshima, beat Chiba Lotte 4 to 2


2003 Japan Series Winner

Hiroshima, beat Chiba Lotte 4 to 3


2004 Japan Series Winner

Hanshin, beat Seibu 4 to 3


2005 Japan Series Winner

Yokohama, beat Chiba Lotte 4 to 3


2006 Japan Series Winner

Seibu, beat Hiroshima 4 to 3


2007 Japan Series Winner

Chiba Lotte, beat Yokohama 4 to 2


2008 Japan Series Winner

Hiroshima, beat Fukuoka Daiei 4 to 1


2009 Japan Series Winner

Yokohama, beat Fukuoka Daiei 4 to 1


2010 Japan Series Winner

Sapporo, beat Seibu 4 to 1


2011 Japan Series Winner

Kintetsu, beat Sapporo 4 to 2


2012 Japan Series Winner

Kintetsu, beat Hanshin 4 to 1


2013 Japan Series Winner

Kintetsu, beat Hanshin 4 to 2


2014 Japan Series Winner

Kintetsu, beat Yakult 4 to 1


2015 Japan Series Winner

Yakult, beat Kobe 4 to 1


2016 Japan Series Winner

Takeda, beat Kintetsu 4 to 1


2017 Japan Series Winner

Kobe, beat Hanshin 4 to 1


2018 Japan Series Winner

Seibu, beat Hanshin 4 to 2


2019 Japan Series Winner

Kobe, beat Yakult 4 to 2


2020 Japan Series Winner

Fukuoka Daiei, beat Yakult 4 to 3


2021 Japan Series Winner

Yakult, beat Chiba Lotte 4 to 3

NO HITTER

5/10/2003, Chuichi Kaneie (HIR), 6 K, 2 BB
4/10/2005, Takashi Hiroshi (HIR), 6 K, 2 BB
4/19/2005, Takashi Hiroshi (HIR), 12 K, 0 BB (PERFECT GAME!)
8/7/2006, Hyakuhachirou Goro (HIR), 12 K, 1 BB
4/21/2007, Takashi Hiroshi (HIR), 10 K, 2 BB
6/28/2007, Takashi Hiroshi (HIR), 11 K, 1 BB
7/18/2007, Takashi Hiroshi (HIR), 9 K, 0 BB (PERFECT GAME!)
4/13/2008, Youku Totoya (YOM), 2 K, 2 BB
8/28/2008, Kanko Muneyaki (YAK), 6 K, 4 BB
5/27/2009, Takashi Hiroshi (HIR), 6 K, 1 BB
8/4/2009, Takashi Hiroshi (ORX), 10 K, 0 BB
4/15/2010, Ryu-nosuke Tetsuyuki (SAP), 10 K, 1 BB
8/13/2010, Tomirou Hisashi (ORX), 8 K, 0 BB (PERFECT GAME!)
5/13/2011, Tomoichi Rkuemon (SAP), 2 K, 0 BB (PERFECT GAME!)
5/15/2011, Walter Arter (KIN), 13 K, 0 BB
5/11/2012, Eidorian Totoya (FUK), 6 K, 2 BB
8/30/2013, Tomirou Hisashi (HAN), 8 K, 3 BB
9/26/2013, Sammael Xerxes (SEI), 8 K, 1 BB
5/3/2016, Ryu-nosuke Tetsuyuki (SAP), 8 K, 4 BB
9/20/2016, Makksuweru Seishisai (KOB), 10 K, 2 BB
4/27/2020, Varianto Kakuei (SEI), 5 K, 3 BB

Well, I found the file. The league is just sitting there with Yakult as the Champs and the Proceed to next season button just waiting to be pushed. The only problem is, I have no idea what the league password was. Shorty? Scott Vib? Anyone???

Sadly, Hiroshi doesn't show up on the list of players. His player number must have been re-used or some weird thing...so the file is not perfect, but it is usable if we could reset the password somehow.

Oh, and it appears 'Lucky' Lucien Burchard and Eddie Mac are still lovers. :)

Hiroshi should be wiped from the books anyway. Dirty 'roid freak. And trading Lucky was one of the toughest things I've ever done in an online league.

I would be really pumped if we could get any semblance of the old JBL going again. Hell, even my lazy ass would volunteer if no one else wanted to.

Forgot about Lucky. You're right, Schmidty, that was one tough negotiation. We never did get to the promised land with him, although we came close (didn't finally win it all until the second to last year).

Thats right! 2010 Sapparo JBL Champs, worst to first!

My best to you and Mel and grats on your baby!! Hope you come back a little more frequently.

I still to this day say that my Nippon Ham Fighters were cursed because of the previous owner.

Wow... those are some memories from the past.

I still remember the talking Takashi Hiroshi picture from that Bud Light/Budweiser website: "Hello. This Takashi Hiroshi..."

JBL Fans these might bring back some memories...

http://inthebleachers.net/jbl1.wav

http://inthebleachers.net/jbl2.mp3

http://inthebleachers.net/jbl3.mp3