1976 season thread

[Young Drachma]

CL
---
Valdosta 87-62 --
Baltimore 3 GB
Atlanta 5 GB

RL
----
Columbus 86-63 --
Hartford 1 GB

5 GAMES TO GO

[muns]

COME ONE N.O. Man, this is killing me

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by ekcut

Brooklyn is a pain in everyones arse

No joke

[TeachEnEspanol]

Originally Posted by kaosfere

That one musta gone over my head. Is it cuz she's a she? If so, I need to introduce y'all to pegging, cuz that's what just happened to me. :P

That being said, yes, Teach is a keeper.

OK, well played. You win this round.

And thanks, I'll stick around.

[Young Drachma]

September 11th
----
Toronto 6, Baltimore 2
Valdosta 2, Brooklyn 0 (11 innings)
New Orleans 7, Columbus 4
Chicago 13, Hartford 8

[Young Drachma]

September 12th
----
Valdosta 8, Brooklyn 4

Valdosta clinches their 5th CL title in seven years.

[kaosfere]

Originally Posted by TeachEnEspanol

OK, well played. You win this round.

Thanks. For my part, I promise to never again use the phrase, "I need to introduce y'all to pegging".

[Alan T]

Just from the month of September, I think Gonzales and Wilson had to win about 25 games each as the rest of my starting rotation looked lousy.

[Young Drachma]

September 12th
----
Valdosta 8, Brooklyn 4
Columbus 3, New Orleans 2 (10 innings)
Chicago 8, Hartford 2

[kaosfere]

Congratulations, Alan!

You are either a genius, or the most consistently lucky bastard alive. Or maybe a bit of both.

[muns]

Can a Pooner catch a break over here?????

[muns]

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

September 12th
----
Valdosta 8, Brooklyn 4

Valdosta clinches their 5th CL title in seven years.

Congrats Alan!!! Another hell of a season!

[ekcut]

Well done Alan....I think I am just going to start cutting and pasting that phrase

[Young Drachma]

September 13th
----
Hartford 6, New Orleans 3
Chicago 4, Columbus 3 (10 innings)

[muns]

Me thinks im in some trouble

[muns]

WHAAAAOOOOOOOO

[Alan T]

Thanks guys, definitely was a good race from several teams in the CL. I already knew Baltimore and Toronto were good, but I had figured we would get at least 1 year break from Atlanta being in the mix.

[TeachEnEspanol]

Originally Posted by kaosfere

Thanks. For my part, I promise to never again use the phrase, "I need to introduce y'all to pegging".

LOL! I think that's fair.

[Young Drachma]

September 14th
----
New Orleans 6, Hartford 5
Columbus 6, Chicago 3

Columbus went 7-3 in their last 10 to pull it off.
Hartford went 3-7 in their last 10.

Columbus clinches their first RL pennant!

[muns]

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

September 14th
----
New Orleans 6, Hartford 5
Columbus 6, Chicago 3

Columbus went 7-3 in their last 10 to pull it off.
Hartford went 3-7 in their last 10.

Columbus clinches their first RL pennant!

Aint that a bitch. 3-7........

Congrats Columbus, you earned it

[Alan T]

Congrats to Columbus! Now you can upgrade those Republic Shield banners in the hall of champions to the RL pennant

[Young Drachma]

1976 FINAL STANDINGS

Continental League Standings
			W	L	PCT	GB
Valdosta Peanuts	91	63	.591	-
Baltimore Terrapins	87	67	.565	4.0
Atlanta Firecrackers	86	68	.558	5.0
Toronto Osprey		81	73	.526	10.0
Brooklyn Brownstones	71	83	.461	20.0
New York Highlanders	71	83	.461	20.0
Texas Travelers		68	86	.442	23.0
Rio Grande Roadrunners	61	93	.396	30.0

Republic League Standings
			W	L	PCT	GB
Columbus Crusaders	89	65	.578	-
Hartford Harpooners	87	67	.565	2.0
Long Island Violators	79	75	.513	10.0
Chicago Thunderstorms	76	78	.494	13.0
San Diego Fathers	74	80	.481	15.0
Colorado Rancheros	73	81	.474	16.0
Compton Brothers	70	84	.455	19.0
New Orleans Wrens	68	86	.442	21.0

[Young Drachma]

Carlos Gonzales of Valdosta won the pitching triple crown. 19-5, 1.93 ERA, 257 K

[TeachEnEspanol]

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

1976 FINAL STANDINGS

Continental League Standings
            W    L    PCT    GB
Valdosta Peanuts    91    63    .591    -
Baltimore Terrapins    87    67    .565    4.0
Atlanta Firecrackers    86    68    .558    5.0
Toronto Osprey        81    73    .526    10.0
Brooklyn Brownstones    71    83    .461    20.0
New York Highlanders    71    83    .461    20.0
Texas Travelers        68    86    .442    23.0
Rio Grande Roadrunners    61    93    .396    30.0

Republic League Standings
            W    L    PCT    GB
Columbus Crusaders    89    65    .578    -
Hartford Harpooners    87    67    .565    2.0
Long Island Violators    79    75    .513    10.0
Chicago Thunderstorms    76    78    .494    13.0
San Diego Fathers    74    80    .481    15.0
Colorado Rancheros    73    81    .474    16.0
Compton Brothers    70    84    .455    19.0
New Orleans Wrens    68    86    .442    21.0

Well isn't that a fine way to start the weekend. :P

Congrats Columbus!!

[kaosfere]

Well damn. Way to go, Columbus! Chicago and I would like to welcome you to the first-time winners club. It seems repeating is harder than getting it to start with.

Muns, I'll get the bubbly out to you post-haste. Forget that it's for celebrating, and just drink till it doesn't hurt any more.

[Young Drachma]

Thursday, September 16th, 1976: FOOL News: The All-Star Game Rosters Have Been Announced
The All-Stars are in a clash by themselves. The star performers from the Continental League and Republic League will soon do battle in the 1976 Front Office Offseason League All-Star Game. It's an annual diamond spectacular that takes place at the midpoint of the season. Two superb ballclubs taking each other on in the All-Star Classic to determine the best league for this year. The talented stars are playing for league pride. Each roster is filled with standout performers.

The Continental League All-Stars feature these players:


SP C. Gonzáles (VAL)
SP D. Adams (ATL)
SP I. Flores (BAL)
SP R. Padilla (TEX)
CL G. Arrojo (BKN)
SP P. Guerrero (RG)
CL A. Barbosa (VAL)
CL M. Conley (NYH)
CL S. Miller (ATL)
CL E. Hensley (BAL)
CL D. Webb (TEX)
MR C. Long (BKN)
CF R. Lang (BKN)
LF D. Hurley (BKN)
2B J. Gonzáles (TEX)
C H. Tanaka (RG)
3B A. Luján (TOR)
1B B. Arnold (VAL)
SS O. Yamazaki (BKN)
RF E. Richard (BAL)
C F. Polanco (TOR)
LF A. Corona (TOR)
2B R. Haas (ATL)
LF E. Reyes (ATL)
2B A. Payton (RG)
2B R. Hayes (BKN)
CF T. Ewing (BAL)
LF P. García (VAL)


On the Republic League All-Stars roster will be:


SP R. Fritz (CLB)
SP C. Miner (HAR)
SP D. Barajas (HAR)
SP R. Wilkins (CLB)
SP J. Román (SD)
SP V. Reyes (SD)
CL D. Hennessey (HAR)
CL T. Ishibashi (COM)
CL A. Dailey (CLB)
CL P. Castillo (LI)
CL K. O'Quinn (SD)
RF M. Rasmussen (CGO)
1B N. Shimada (NOL)
C Á. Ramírez (CLB)
SS R. Cruz (CGO)
CF R. Horswill (LI)
LF J. Hunt (LI)
3B A. Summers (HAR)
C J. Moya (COM)
2B C. Watkins (HAR)
DH E. Morgan (COM)
1B H. Matthews (CLB)
SS R. Sánchez (HAR)
RF C. Khu (CGO)
CF A. Poole (COM)
CF R. Spencer (LI)
1B B. Barrett (SD)

[TeachEnEspanol]

Nice job Alan!

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

Carlos Gonzales of Valdosta won the pitching triple crown. 19-5, 1.93 ERA, 257 K

He did that to spite everyone that was praising Wiley as the next coming!

[Young Drachma]

If Baltimore and Hartford want their respective league 2nd place boobie prizes, do let me know and I'll have 'em whipped up for you.

[ekcut]

87 wins, my personal best! I am happy...especially after being below .500 after two months. At least i made a run at it! I feel alot better about this team then my past run 3 seasons ago. I have a young young team that is only getting better!
I have a feeling no matter what I do though, Alan will be there to show me exactly who rules the roost!

[muns]

Originally Posted by kaosfere

Well damn. Way to go, Columbus! Chicago and I would like to welcome you to the first-time winners club. It seems repeating is harder than getting it to start with.

Muns, I'll get the bubbly out to you post-haste. Forget that it's for celebrating, and just drink till it doesn't hurt any more.

Ya, send it on over will ya!!!!!

[Alan T]

Wow no Inman in the all star game for the first time since 1965.. that probably is not a good sign for the future.

[Young Drachma]

Preparing the file for upload.

[muns]

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

If Baltimore and Hartford want their respective league 2nd place boobie prizes, do let me know and I'll have 'em whipped up for you.

I for one dont, as im sure you knew that. These bums barely deserve post game meals for what they did in the last month

[kaosfere]

None of my pitchers made all star?

I think I know where my problems may have come from.

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by Alan T

Wow no Inman in the all star game for the first time since 1965.. that probably is not a good sign for the future.

For you? Or the rest of the league that'd like to get into the Classic?

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by kaosfere

None of my pitchers made all star?

I think I know where my problems may have come from.

+1

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

For you? Or the rest of the league that'd like to get into the Classic?

I meant more the future of my man crush on him....

[kaosfere]

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

+1

Based on the discussion I read here earlier, I changed from my previous ways of using start-highest-rested and set a strict rotation, tweaked to make sure my best pitchers faced who I thought would be the most challenging teams the most often.

Maybe I shouldn't have.

Or maybe they all just decided to suck after two straight years of being on fire.

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by Alan T

I meant more the future of my man crush on him....

hehe...he'll always be a hero in our hearts.

[muns]

Originally Posted by kaosfere

Based on the discussion I read here earlier, I changed from my previous ways of using start-highest-rested and set a strict rotation, tweaked to make sure my best pitchers faced who I thought would be the most challenging teams the most often.

Maybe I shouldn't have.

Or maybe they all just decided to suck after two straight years of being on fire.

Im willing to bet it on too much tweaking...

[muns]

anyone else have 6 all stars make the game?

Just once again proves that I can get guys that are great on a team, they just cant ever put it together period

[kaosfere]

Originally Posted by muns

Im willing to bet it on too much tweaking...

I must have re-exported at least 4 times switching back and forth between the two because I couldn't decide which to use. Finally settled on the new approach about 7 central.

[TeachEnEspanol]

Originally Posted by muns

Im willing to bet it on too much tweaking...

I'm with Muns. I think I made the same mistake today.

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by kaosfere

Based on the discussion I read here earlier, I changed from my previous ways of using start-highest-rested and set a strict rotation, tweaked to make sure my best pitchers faced who I thought would be the most challenging teams the most often.

Maybe I shouldn't have.

Or maybe they all just decided to suck after two straight years of being on fire.

I think I knew going into the season what my problem was going to be. I knew this year wasn't going to be a repeat year for us, I had hard decisions to make last year and I made them and fared WAY better than I should've, picking up Khu and a few other key pieces to the puzzle.

This will be Christian Larsen's last season with us and a few other veterans whose time has come to be jettisoned. I don't know if we'll try to make a run for next year, but...we've got enough of a core that I'm confident that we're not gonna ever return to the days of those OLD Chicago teams.

Our classic trip in '74 was so brief, I almost forget this team went back to back for RL titles.

Hell of a job by Columbus and Hartford is BACK! Knocking on the door to the title, too. Congrats to Valdosta. I joke about his death grip on the Continental League pennant, but to win six pennants is hard, to do it in the span of time he's done it, with the sort of competition we have here...is astounding.

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by muns

anyone else have 6 all stars make the game?

Just once again proves that I can get guys that are great on a team, they just cant ever put it together period

Only 4 here, including only 1 starting pitcher. I can't remember the last time I didn't get at least 2 SP in the allstar game.

[kaosfere]

(If anyone's interested, I have an excel spreadsheet which will take your season schedule and a pitching rotation, tell you exactly who will be in each game, and give you a team-by-team breakdown of who each pitcher will be facing.

I might not use it again.

[Ramzavail]

I had 4, 3 pitchers.

[muns]

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

I think I knew going into the season what my problem was going to be. I knew this year wasn't going to be a repeat year for us, I had hard decisions to make last year and I made them and fared WAY better than I should've, picking up Khu and a few other key pieces to the puzzle.

This will be Christian Larsen's last season with us and a few other veterans whose time has come to be jettisoned. I don't know if we'll try to make a run for next year, but...we've got enough of a core that I'm confident that we're not gonna ever return to the days of those OLD Chicago teams.

Our classic trip in '74 was so brief, I almost forget this team went back to back for RL titles.

Hell of a job by Columbus and Hartford is BACK! Knocking on the door to the title, too. Congrats to Valdosta. I joke about his death grip on the Continental League pennant, but to win six pennants is hard, to do it in the span of time he's done it, with the sort of competition we have here...is astounding.

hear hear (spellling is prob wrong) but well said, Alan has done it over and over again. Cant kiss his ass enough over here

[Alan T]

I think I got lucky more than anything this year. I guess I'll have to wait and see the file when it comes up.. but based on just what I see in the all star game, I have to guess my Pyth record is the opposite of last year and I'm a few games over my expected record.