All you young guys should consider yourselves very, very lucky

[Rod_Carew29]

Re: High Heat @ dave_sz

me too! But I never could, and still can't get over the player models...

the rest of the game...in terms of the GM/inside stuff, was ahead of it's time

funny you should say that, I still have it in MINT condition...

[DrUrsus]

Re: All you young guys should consider yourselves very, very lucky

Hell yea Dr. I loved that game. Can you remember some of the teams that were on that game???? I remember the 78 yanks, 84 Tigers, 81 Dodgers. Then of course I made my own team. I even remember one of my favorite lineups
1. Kal Daniels-lf
2. Mariano Duncan-ss
3. Eric Davis-cf
4. Andre Dawson-rf
5. Harold Baines-dh
6. Tim Wallach-3b
7. UL Washington 2b
8. Franklin Stubbs-1b
9. Rich Gedman- c

Haha..... Those were the days.

Oh yea. Sweet lineup. Man, I forgot about some of those players like Rich Gedman, Tim Wallach, Kal Daniels and Franklin Stubbs. I can picture their faces now.
Needless to say, I played with the 84 Cubs, and I also played a lot with the 86 Red Sox, 27 Yankees (Ruth and Gehrig), and 61 Yankees (Maris and Mantle). Whitey Ford was a God in that game! So was Mantle and Ruth of course.

[DrUrsus]

Re: All you young guys should consider yourselves very, very lucky

I played that game alot with the 79' Pirates "We Are Family" team with Stargell, Dave Parker, Omar Moreno, Phil Garner, Bill Madlock, John Candeleria, Mike Bibby, Bert Blyleven and Kent Tekeluve. That was an awesome team. I also enjoyed playing with the '84 Tigers, they were special, too. That was the 1st video BB game that focused on stats.

"We are family, get up everybody and sing". I have that song now finally. That was a cool Pirates team. I hope the Pirates have a winning team again someday (even though I'm a Cubs fan).

[Rod_Carew29]

@ Capa

I'm right behind you...I'll be 52 in October...
totally young at heart, spirit and in presence...other than family and close friends, no one believes me when I tell em I'm 51...LOL

My son...21 years old, ain't into baseball AT ALL. Real or in video form...He thinks I'm crazy because as he says, "Dad, you're always O.D.'ing with The Show! Can't you play something else on your PS3?" To which I tell him..."No way!!!"

LOLOL

I am 53...here is what I started playing as a kid. I've played them all since then. So you KNOW how much I am loving this game!

C

[Hammerhunker]

Re: All you young guys should consider yourselves very, very lucky

I am so old, I remember when we actually created our lineups in our notebooks from the boxscores in the newpaper, and then go out and play them out playing whiffleball or ragball. Or when there wasn't anyone to play with, I had this old table set up with a strike zone on it and I would play a game using a rubberball. Any indoor baseball was playing Statomatic, creating some goofy game with baseball cards, or watching the Cubs play on WGN.

[coachpars]

Re: Strat-O-Matic @ coachpars

DING!! I used to play that game in the early 70's...my cousin, who was about 5 years older than me at the time, introduced me to it...

Roll those dice!!!

Rod, I used to come home every day in the spring, praying the ups guy showed up with the new strat cards. ( cant believe that was 30 yrs ago!!!) I have that same giddyness for Knights rosters...lol

[Knight165]

Re: Strat-O-Matic @ coachpars

Rod, I used to come home every day in the spring, praying the ups guy showed up with the new strat cards. ( cant believe that was 30 yrs ago!!!)

STRAT CARDS!!!!
Man...we are old

I've said it before...but I love how the passage of time is marked by baseball...either real or even now with games....in the U.S.
It's like that with most sports...but not as prevalent as with baseball IMO.

M.K.
Knight165

[Rod_Carew29]

@ coachpars

LOL

I also have memories of a similar dice game I THINK put out by Sports Illustrated....don't know why S.I. comes to mind, but it had the sheets for each team, the socre sheet pad and the dice also....

I used to keep stats with that like crazy...

Rod, I used to come home every day in the spring, praying the ups guy showed up with the new strat cards. ( cant believe that was 30 yrs ago!!!) I have that same giddyness for Knights rosters...lol

[coachpars]

Re: @ coachpars

LOL

I also have memories of a similar dice game I THINK put out by Sports Illustrated....don't know why S.I. comes to mind, but it had the sheets for each team, the socre sheet pad and the dice also....

I used to keep stats with that like crazy...

I believe that game was called APBA baseball...I was so loyal to strat that I never even thought about trying it. Knight made a great point. i use baseball to remember great times from my past. Example; first time I remember sleeping over my aunts house when I was five. I dont recall what we did,but I do remember that picture of Rusty Staub in his home whites and flaming red hair sitting on her kitchen table.( i believe it was a photo book from the department store Grants...lol) I became a Mets fan right there. 1973...yikes!

[KLima878]

Re: Strat-O-Matic @ coachpars

STRAT CARDS!!!!
Man...we are old

I've said it before...but I love how the passage of time is marked by baseball...either real or even now with games....in the U.S.
It's like that with most sports...but not as prevalent as with baseball IMO.

M.K.
Knight165

They actually have a strato-matic league online now. I've done a few leagues and it's pretty fun.

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/

[7stringking]

Re: All you young guys should consider yourselves very, very lucky

"We are family, get up everybody and sing". I have that song now finally. That was a cool Pirates team. I hope the Pirates have a winning team again someday (even though I'm a Cubs fan).

I wish Sony would release some DLC that would let you play ball from about that time...Lots of cool teams in the early 80's(Pirates, Dodgers, Phillies, Red Sox, cardinals, A's, Orioles)

[7stringking]

Re: @ coachpars

I believe that game was called APBA baseball...I was so loyal to strat that I never even thought about trying it. Knight made a great point. i use baseball to remember great times from my past. Example; first time I remember sleeping over my aunts house when I was five. I dont recall what we did,but I do remember that picture of Rusty Staub in his home whites and flaming red hair sitting on her kitchen table.( i believe it was a photo book from the department store Grants...lol) I became a Mets fan right there. 1973...yikes!

APBA football and baseball...Good times..Even had my mom make xerox copies of stat sheets at work

[DrUrsus]

Re: All you young guys should consider yourselves very, very lucky

I wish Sony would release some DLC that would let you play ball from about that time...Lots of cool teams in the early 80's(Pirates, Dodgers, Phillies, Red Sox, cardinals, A's, Orioles)

Oh man, could you imagine if there was DLC for a particular year? Like if you could play the 1986 season if you were a Red Sox or Mets fan, the 1984 season if you are a Cubs fan (or San Diego or Detroit fan), or any of the Big Red machine or Yankees Dynasty years. Even better would be if the ballparks and uniforms were correct. That would be baseball bliss. Imagine playing at the Polo grounds or Crosley field for example.

[coachpars]

Re: All you young guys should consider yourselves very, very lucky

Oh man, could you imagine if there was DLC for a particular year? Like if you could play the 1986 season if you were a Red Sox or Mets fan, the 1984 season if you are a Cubs fan (or San Diego or Detroit fan), or any of the Big Red machine or Yankees Dynasty years. Even better would be if the ballparks and uniforms were correct. That would be baseball bliss. Imagine playing at the Polo grounds or Crosley field for example.

Im pretty sure I would pass out if this idea came to be...lol

[Hammerhunker]

Re: All you young guys should consider yourselves very, very lucky

Playing at the Polo Grounds is a kick. I sure wish this stadium and all the old ones could have been implemented into the Show.