[jamus23]

So after contemplating numerous dynasties that I've never managed to get off the ground, I am bound and determined to see this one through. It seems to me that many dynasties here are with brand new leagues just starting up, and while there is a certain excitement about a fresh league, I think that I prefer a league that's "lived in," so to speak. A league with some history to it. Well, this league has some history to it. This is a pseudo-fictional league. By that, I mean that the players are fictional, most of the teams are fictional- though not all (for example, there is a Pittsburgh Pirates franchise)- and the structure is fictional. On the other hand, most of my award names come from MLB, including the "Cy Young award," which, of course, makes no sense in a league that Cy Young didn't exist in. No matter.

At any rate, this league began in the year 2003. There were two leagues and 2 divisions in each league, and four teams in each division for a total of 16 teams. Only the division winners reached the playoffs. In the year 2038, the league expanded, adding one team per division. The playoff format remained the same. The league expanded once more in the year 2064, again adding one team per division. This time, however, the playoff format was altered to allow the top two teams in each division to make the playoffs.

That brings us to the year 2081, and to the focus of our story: The Denver Broncos baseball team. Denver was one of the 2038 expansion group, and after some ups and downs(and some wayyy downs), they have established themselves as a team much like the 1990s Atlanta Braves- only slightly worse. Consistently good, consistently in the playoffs, but just as consistently unable to breakthrough. Despite reaching the playoffs each year since 2073, the team has yet to even reach a World Series in this time period, with heartbreak after heartbreak. The latest failure was getting no-hit in Game 7 of the Divisional Series in 2080.

Before I begin chronicling the 2081 season, however, I would like to provide some backstory as to where this Denver team came from. I will try to do that in the form of newspaper snippets from a beat writer by the name Al Vincent.


Our tale begins with a major announcement prior to the 2069 season...