1973 Season Thread (FOOL Classic is Sunday!)

[Cringer]

Road wins! 11 innings! This crap is made up!

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

September 17:

RL Tie-breaker Playoff
Colorado 3, Boston 1 (11 innings)

Extra innings! Man, those are the ones you scratch your head and wonder what little play may have turned the whole game. And I needed that one.

[kaosfere]

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

September 17:

RL Tie-breaker Playoff
Colorado 3, Boston 1 (11 innings)

Damn. No one is even THINKING about laying down.

[Young Drachma]

September 19:
RL Tie-breaker Playoff

Colorado 8, Boston 5 (2-2 Series)

[Chief Rum]

Shit, can't lose no more.

[Chief Rum]

Damnit, let me win one home game! Just this one!

[ekcut]

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

September 19:
RL Tie-breaker Playoff

Colorado 8, Boston 5 (2-2 Series)

of course it goes to 5 games....extra innings too I bet

[Young Drachma]

September 20:

Colorado 6, Boston 1

Colorado wins the Republic League title

[Cringer]

Home team hasn't won yet, what happens in game 5?

[Young Drachma]

Most. amazing. season. ever.

[Alan T]

Grats again Chief, hope you lose in the Classic!

[ekcut]

Good job chief!!!

[Chief Rum]

WOW!!!

[Cringer]

Oh crap, that is rough for Boston.

Way to go CR, back to the big dance and against a new team this time. Congrats and good luck this time.

[Alan T]

Ok, I have to drive like 3 hours tommorrow morning so going to bed. I'll figure out where this season went right/wrong over the weekend. Grats again to Atlanta and Colorado.

[kaosfere]

*whistles in awe*

Amazing. Congrats to Atlanta, and to you two lunatics in the RL. This was great fun to watch.

[Young Drachma]

File is going up now.

[Cringer]

gstelmack, heck all the guys at the top of both leagues, great year.

edit: this is for the guys not in the Classic of course, I already said congrats to them.

[ekcut]

Hell of a season from top to bottom....one for the ages....

Thanks guys!

[Chief Rum]

OMG, this is ape shit crazy.

gstelmack may be on suicide watch after this one.

My hats off to the best competitor I have faced in this current run. Boston and gstelmack deserves so much more than this. I can't wait to go over this one, box score by box score.

[Chief Rum]

Oh, if this season ends with another FOOL Classic sweep, I am going to be pissed.

[Cringer]

Originally Posted by ekcut

Hell of a season from top to bottom....one for the ages....

Thanks guys!

Well, it wasn't that great at the bottom really. We enjoyed watching the top though.

[Cringer]

Originally Posted by Chief Rum

Oh, if this season ends with another FOOL Classic sweep, I am going to be pissed.

I have to admit I am kind of on your side this time around, a little bit.

[Young Drachma]

If there was a three-way tie, we'd effectively have a double-elimination tournament to get rid of one team, then we'd do a best of three game playoff to determine the team to advance.

[muns]

WOW. HELL OF A SEASON!!!!!! Congrats cheif on being able to get back to it!

[kaosfere]

Is this the first time the league's seen bonus-ball?

[Chief Rum]

Oh and a BIG...



to Dark Cloud in two capacities. One, for running a league as exciting as this, and, Two, for the incredible season Quad City had. It's easy to forget them in the hubbub of the tie-breaker series, but they were right there, and were one of the more pleasant surprises of the season.

[Young Drachma]

At least Boston made him earn it. I mean, at least it wasn't the cakewalk it's been in the past. Shows there are teams that are hungry and want it, so that's cool. Boston isn't going away either and he's got the farm system to boot.

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by kaosfere

Is this the first time the league's seen bonus-ball?

Yessir. Never happened before. We thought we were gonna come close a few years back when Valdosta finished 2 GB, but...this is the first time it's actually happened for real. Much less with 3 teams within the distance.

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by Cringer

I have to admit I am kind of on your side this time around, a little bit.

I will gladly take the support.

I'll need it. I am giving up the home field to the CL again.

[muns]

Originally Posted by Chief Rum

OMG, this is ape shit crazy.

gstelmack may be on suicide watch after this one.

My hats off to the best competitor I have faced in this current run. Boston and gstelmack deserves so much more than this. I can't wait to go over this one, box score by box score.

Man its been his year for what seems like forever......just cant seem to get over that hump.....

[kaosfere]

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

Yessir. Never happened before. We thought we were gonna come close a few years back when Valdosta finished 2 GB, but...this is the first time it's actually happened for real. Much less with 3 teams within the distance.

Looks like I joined at the right time.

This is awesome. Thanks, y'all.

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

At least Boston made him earn it. I mean, at least it wasn't the cakewalk it's been in the past. Shows there are teams that are hungry and want it, so that's cool. Boston isn't going away either and he's got the farm system to boot.

From a fun perspective, nothing beats this.

But my cardiologist prefers the cakewalks.

[muns]

Originally Posted by kaosfere

Looks like I joined at the right time.

This is awesome. Thanks, y'all.

We are glad your here bud.....

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by Chief Rum

Oh and a BIG...



to Dark Cloud in two capacities. One, for running a league as exciting as this, and, Two, for the incredible season Quad City had. It's easy to forget them in the hubbub of the tie-breaker series, but they were right there, and were one of the more pleasant surprises of the season.

I appreciate that. Makes me really glad I came back this year to run them. I knew we have a special group and I didn't want to give up on them yet, because unlike my past teams, I feel REALLY connected to some of the youngsters we've got. I'm really proud of them. Even though it'll go down as a 3rd place finish, I think we've effectively cleaned the stain of our life as the hapless Chicago Comets for good with our 4th straight winning season.

Maybe I really do know what I'm doing?

[muns]

Originally Posted by Chief Rum

Oh and a BIG...



to Dark Cloud in two capacities. One, for running a league as exciting as this, and, Two, for the incredible season Quad City had. It's easy to forget them in the hubbub of the tie-breaker series, but they were right there, and were one of the more pleasant surprises of the season.

[Young Drachma]

File is 54.71 MB and is uploading now. @ 14%

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

I appreciate that. Makes me really glad I came back this year to run them. I knew we have a special group and I didn't want to give up on them yet, because unlike my past teams, I feel REALLY connected to some of the youngsters we've got. I'm really proud of them. Even though it'll go down as a 3rd place finish, I think we've effectively cleaned the stain of our life as the hapless Chicago Comets for good with our 4th straight winning season.

Maybe I really do know what I'm doing?

Happiest thing for me from the Quad City perspective? You still have Montoya over there, and you picked up Proctor, one of my favorite pitchers. It broke my heart letting him go.

Did you know he once went 20-0 in the minors? Check it out. I was like, "Okay, next season he goes in my rotation."

(P.S. That rookie season was my championship season)

[Young Drachma]

The Board of Directors acknowledged the salary cap violation of the Columbus Crusaders. They have issued a warning, but remind the owner that a future violation would result in the loss of a draft pick. We understand that it was just a good faith mistake, given the confusion related to which salary cap number to follow and the issue was rectified without much of a real issue.

So we consider the matter closed at this time.

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by Chief Rum

Happiest thing for me from the Quad City perspective? You still have Montoya over there, and you picked up Proctor, one of my favorite pitchers. It broke my heart letting him go.

Did you know he once went 20-0 in the minors? Check it out. I was like, "Okay, next season he goes in my rotation."

(P.S. That rookie season was my championship season)

That trade we made with you was still one of the smartest trades I've ever made in this league. It was the thing that started my revival over here. We still have to go out and get some arms, but offensively, we've got some talents on the way. I'm still really glad I went and got Theirry Fournier at a time when I thought we would content, but thought trading Hardee was the right thing to do, even though he was still young.

Fournier is just 21 now and that trade seems like forever ago.

I've never built a team this way before, but it's been fun. Montoya is a beast, too.

[Chief Rum]

Yeah, the two numbers thing can be confusing. I am glad I had my close call with that last year. It showed me the difference between the two and how to manipulate both.

[Young Drachma]

I have to give my kudos to Baltimore. He's quickly emerging as one of the best GMs in our league and I didn't think he was gonna have as big a year over there has he did, but the Terps were right in the battle until the end and to me, that's just huge. He's made some nice signings and given that Baltimore is one of my favorite teams in the league due to their early success, I think it's awesome that he's brought them back to prominence.

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

That trade we made with you was still one of the smartest trades I've ever made in this league. It was the thing that started my revival over here. We still have to go out and get some arms, but offensively, we've got some talents on the way. I'm still really glad I went and got Theirry Fournier at a time when I thought we would content, but thought trading Hardee was the right thing to do, even though he was still young.

Fournier is just 21 now and that trade seems like forever ago.

I've never built a team this way before, but it's been fun. Montoya is a beast, too.

What's great about that trade is, for all that I traded away, do you think I have regretted once? Of course not. Davis has been every bit the powerful ace I thought I was trading for.

And if the game didn't do some little contract hiccup like it sometimes does, Davis signed a pretty cheap three year extension this past season.

[Young Drachma]

File is at 46% I'd give it another 25 minutes or so. I have to go make sure my gf isn't mad at me for sitting in here an hour longer than I intended.

[graygoose12]

In all of the seasons of online OOTP leagues I think this is the first time I've made the playoffs.

I had a rising team that was going to challenge in the RWBL, but that league abruptly ended. In that league I started with a terrible team, with some good young players.

Other than that I've usually taken over bad teams, and haven't had enough time to develop anything before the league ended.

So I am pretty excited about this. It makes me happy that I was not only to overcome Valdosta(thanks to cap issues) but also hold off the other rising teams in the CL.

I look forward to the Classic!

[kaosfere]

Alrighty, DC. I gotta be up in 7 hours to help a friend move so I'm going to disconnect and unwind for a while. Congrats again to you and everyone.

I'll see how I ended up in the morning!

[muns]

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

File is at 46% I'd give it another 25 minutes or so. I have to go make sure my gf isn't mad at me for sitting in here an hour longer than I intended.

ahhhh....... good luck with that one...... mine is gonna be here tomorrow, and i can already hear it.... "dont start with that fool thing tonight"... makes me laugh

[muns]

Originally Posted by graygoose12

In all of the seasons of online OOTP leagues I think this is the first time I've made the playoffs.

I had a rising team that was going to challenge in the RWBL, but that league abruptly ended. In that league I started with a terrible team, with some good young players.

Other than that I've usually taken over bad teams, and haven't had enough time to develop anything before the league ended.

So I am pretty excited about this. It makes me happy that I was not only to overcome Valdosta(thanks to cap issues) but also hold off the other rising teams in the CL.

I look forward to the Classic!

You surely have earned it.... Your offseason was nice!!!

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by graygoose12

In all of the seasons of online OOTP leagues I think this is the first time I've made the playoffs.

I had a rising team that was going to challenge in the RWBL, but that league abruptly ended. In that league I started with a terrible team, with some good young players.

Other than that I've usually taken over bad teams, and haven't had enough time to develop anything before the league ended.

So I am pretty excited about this. It makes me happy that I was not only to overcome Valdosta(thanks to cap issues) but also hold off the other rising teams in the CL.

I look forward to the Classic!

The RWBL ended?

[Commo_Soldier]

WOW what a season, I am just sad I had to take a quick nap for work and was unable to be here live.

Congrats to Goose and Chief. I am torn who I want to win the Championship as I want it to stay in the CL; but I also don't want to see Chief and his Colorado team become the Buffalo Bills of FOOL.