[darkcloud4579]

I pre-wrote the bulk of this dynasty and so, a lot of stuff might change as times went on. That said, the "meat" of the dynasty is entertaining and has a lot of going for it, so...yeah. Here we go.


My current universe began using Gambo's DB back starting with the 1980 season.

The only franchise move that happened during that time was the San Francisco Giants left for Tampa Bay to play in the Florida Suncoast Dome. They later moved to Norfolk, VA, after their stadium became outmoded.

This is the story of the major leagues in my own mind, I guess. The minor leagues aren't prevelent in this game and they're really just one level for each major league, mostly for a holding place for players.

By 2007, MLB had 40 teams. When you consider that in real life, there are over 300 major, minor and independent minor league professional baseball franchises in the US and that attendance for professional baseball is over 100 million fans per year, I decided that America loves baseball more than any other sport.

Simply put, no other sport can captivate the country or has that much penentrating reach. It's mostly the greediness and monopoly that MLB owners have created over the years that makes baseball such a relatively unimaginative sport that has essentially languished behind sports like football and basketball (Yawn).

Well, in this world...that's not the case because the minors are just reserve leagues and are nominal.

So with all of those fans out there clamoring for baseball, the eventual idea is to get to something like what Europe has with soccer. With its various divisions and such alike. And the day when a team from a small town could someday make it to the majors and be on the big stage.

But...how do we get there? Friends, it's all about the journey....