Fake Baseball Insider Magazine (Season 31)

[Young Drachma]

WELCOME TO FBI MAGAZINE
For over 30 years, SLOP has existed as the premier fast-sim league in the OOTP universe and now, that league has its own newsmagazine. We'll produce stories throughout the season of interest. We'll highlight interesting players, do profiles on teams and really give you an unparalleled look on what's happening the SLOP.

So lock yourself in the bathroom and prepare to read hard-hitting journalistic awesomeness about your favorite fake non-slowsie baseball league.


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[Young Drachma]

EAST
Memphis 85-77
Chicago 84-78
Cleveland 79-83
New York 74-88
Cuyahoga 55-107

WEST
St. Louis 110-52
Las Vegas 90-74
Winnemucca 82-80
San Diego 78-84
Rio Grande 69-93

[Young Drachma]

SEASON 31 PREDICTIONS

EAST
Gettysburg 108-54
Brooklyn 90-72
Carolina 80-82
Portland 62-100
Washington 55-107

WEST
Los Angeles 95-67
Columbus 90-72
Denver 88-74
Lake Tahoe 82-80
Wyoming 79-83

[Young Drachma]

Since their ascendent title back in their 3rd season, the Kauai Emeralds franchise had fallen off the map. The team returned to the post-season two years ago thanks to the first conditional playoff rule season was enacted when the Emeralds won the NL West but finished 5th in the NL overall.

After over a decade in Hawaii, wolvie decided to pull up stakes and take the team to the mainland where he saw a huge Los Angeles market in the mood for a winner and moved his squad there becoming the 3rd SLOP team to decamp on that city in the league's history.

The first were the LA Vulcans, who won the '39 NL Pennant in their only playoff appearance before folding in '46. Then in '55, the city got the expansion Los Angeles Banditos who made the playoffs in '57 and lost in the NLCS before claphamsa moved them to Washington D.C. two years later. So will the 3rd time be a charm?

It's hard to say, but if there's ever an ownership group poised for a rebirth it's this one.

Thanks to a deal with the former residents of LA, the Villains are poised to make a hard run at an NL West pennant. They added veteran 2B Dave Plummer and solid starters in Dave Renninger & R.J. Musumeci

In terms of the most improved squads in the NL, you have to like what wolvie's done. After finishing just 2 games out of the NL West pennant last year, if their offense led by Jaime Daughtery is anything like it's been the past few years, they should be a threat to advance to the post-season the first year in their new city.

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