[Westheim]

Raccoons (41-34) vs. Thunder (38-36) – June 25-27, 2029

The reeling Raccoons went on to host the water-treading Thunder, so anything could happen right now… usually bad stuff. Oklahoma sat third in the South, 6 1/2 games out, and had a nice offense that chopped out the fourth-most runs in the CL. Unfortunately for them, their pitching staff could not have been leaking worse if they were all replaced by sieves and held under a running water tap. The worst starters’ ERA, the worst bullpen ERA, and the most runs allowed – all the Thunder’s! The league-worst defense probably also had a say, but you could not blame it ALL on defense. They were also at the bottom of the CL in another stat, steals, but the rest was damning enough on its own. The Coons were 2-1 on them this season.

Projected matchups:
Tom Shumway (7-3, 1.89 ERA) vs. Jeff Dykstra (9-4, 4.56 ERA)
Trevor Draper (2-1, 5.00 ERA) vs. Chris Klein (4-7, 4.78 ERA)
Dan Delgadillo (8-5, 4.21 ERA) vs. Andy Palomares (5-6, 5.65 ERA)

Three right-handers on offer here; their only southpaw starter, “Graveyard” Gill had disappeared onto the DL several weeks ago.

Game 1
OCT: CF Pagel – C Burgess – 3B D. Garcia – SS Serrato – RF Sagredo – 1B J. Gutierrez – LF Loya – 2B Kane – P Dykstra
POR: RF Magallanes – 2B Stalker – LF Jamieson – 1B Harenberg – 3B Nunley – SS Gerster – CF Mora – C Tovias – P Shumway

The Thunder’s porous defense showed up for the first time in the bottom of the second inning when Alex Serrato fumbled a Butch Gerster groundball into an error, which combined with Harenberg’s leadoff single that extended a 12-game hitting streak and Abel Mora getting flatout nailed loaded the bases with one down for Elias Tovias, who managed a sac fly to left for the first run in the game before Shumway got eviscerated on strikes. The Thunder did not trail for long; Shumway allowed a leadoff single to Ricky Loya in the third inning, then conceded the run by allowing a 2-out triple to center on an 0-2 pitch to Kyle Pagel. Mike Burgess walked after that, but perennial pain bringer AND pain receiver Dave Garcia struck out, stranding two. Depressingly enough, the next time the Thunder had somebody in scoring position Pagel would be available again to provide a 2-out knock; that came in the fifth with Mike Kane having reached on a single that Butch Gerster should have been able to get in a perfect world, and then Pagel doubled into the gap between Jamieson and Mora to put the Thunder up 2-1 in the fifth. The Raccoons were 2-hit through five innings, which was bad enough, but there was still room for it all to get much worse. The Thunder had Garcia on with a leadoff walk in the sixth, he got caught stealing, but Luis Sagredo walked, and Jose Gutierrez – the ancient one – singled. Tom Shumway left the game – with discomfort. The trainer hauled him in, not the manager. And the Raccoons were doomed.

Never mind the run the Thunder tacked on in the eighth when Surginer and Garavito seemingly could retire nobody at all except when the Thunder retired themselves. Never mind the bottom 8th, which Ryan Allan opened with a pinch-hit single before throwing out his back in an on-base collision with Serrato at second base on Magallanes’ umpteenth ****ty grounder of the game. Never mind that the Raccoons remained absolutely pathetic at the plate and lost the game without as much as a comeback attempt. 3-1 Thunder. Harenberg 2-4; Nunley 2-4; Allan (PH) 1-1;

With Tom Shumway dangling over the DL and under the cutting knife – IN ADDITION TO Ramos, Gutierrez, and Hereford – the Raccoons’ season was most definitely wrapped up and done.

The Druid was not done soaking Shumway in vinegar for the moment, but we did place Ryan Allan (herniated disc) on the DL, where he would remain all through July. The worst thing was… there was nobody in the system that would have merited a call-up, or would made sense to call up to replace him, infielder or outfielder. The Coons settled on German Sanchez because he was on the 40-man roster, but he was also – in St. Pete – batting *.171*.

That was the point where we had sunken to. No luck. No depth. No future.

Game 2
OCT: CF Pagel – C Burgess – 3B D. Garcia – SS Serrato – LF D. Brown – 1B J. Gutierrez – RF Dalton – 2B Kane – P Klein
POR: SS Stalker – LF Jamieson – 3B Nunley – 1B Harenberg – CF Mora – RF Gomez – C Ivey – 2B Baldwin – P Draper

To anybody’s surprise, Trevor Draper was not eaten by grasshoppers on his way to the mound for the first pitch, lined up three goose eggs to start the game, and then was spotted a lead when Tim Stalker fired a 3-piece in the bottom of the third. Baldwin, the rule 5’er nobody needed, wanted, or used around here, led off with a single, Draper had his bunt thrown away by Mike Burgess, and Tim unloaded to dead center. The Coons got Jamieson on with a single, had him doubled off when Nunley grounded to short, but Harenberg drew a 2-out walk and scored on Mora’s double to extend the lead to 4-0 before Draper could get the round leather back. When he did, he retired none of the first four Thunder in the fourth inning. Garcia walked, stole second, then scored on a Serrato single, and Draper then filled the bags with more walks to Dan Brown and Jose Gutierrez, who was going on 45 but had a .438 OBP in limited action. Dalton fouled out, but Mike Kane hit an RBI single, Klein hit a sac fly, and Harenberg made a sprawling play to retire Pagel and end the inning just before the Thunder, now down 4-3, could tie it. (barks at Draper from his office) YOU ****ING SUCKER!!

The Coons stranded a full set in the bottom 4th after leadoff singles by Ivey and Baldwin, with Stalker getting nailed to load them up for Jamieson, who popped out foul, and Nunley, who flew out to Pagel. Draper barely lasted five and a third innings, issued a leadoff walk to Gutierrez in the sixth on his way out, and Billy Brotman just barely managed to get through the left-handed Kane and the ****ing opposing pitcher without blowing the skinny lead. Actually Klein singled with two outs, but Pagel popped out poorly. Whatever the **** works? Nothing ****ing worked here anymore… Ricky Ohl pitched the seventh flawlessly, arranged as such so that Matt Stonecipher would face the less intimidating batters in the eighth. He allowed a leadoff single to Brown, nailed Kane, but somehow also struck out two without blowing the still skinny lead. Bottom 8th, Ivey and Baldwin made poor outs against Ying-hua Ou before Wilson Rodriguez, inserted in a double switch earlier, singled through Garcia in his first at-bat of the season. Tim Stalker came up, saw, and conquered, hitting a brutal 2-piece off Ou that provided some cushion while also engaging the fans in the upper rows in the leftfield stands. Even then, Josh Boles refused to save the game without panic, walking Burgess with one out, then Serrato with two outs in the ninth inning. Dan Brown was the tying run and drove a double past the diving Harenberg that plated one run and put the tying runs in scoring position for Sagredo, who grounded up the middle with spice, but Tim Stalker was there to save the day for a third time, making a sprawling reaching play-and-tumble and then still managed to toss to first base in time to end the affair. 6-4 Coons. Stalker 3-3, 2 HR, 5 RBI; Jamieson 2-5; Nunley 2-5; Harenberg 2-4, BB; Baldwin 2-4; Rodriguez 1-1;

(holds a bewildered Tim Stalker curled up in his lap and pats him like an oversized cat) You are a good boy, Tim. You are a good boy.

You are a good boy, Tim. You are a good boy.

You are a good boy, Tim. You are a good boy.

Game 3
OCT: CF Dalton – RF Sagredo – SS Serrato – 3B D. Garcia – C Burgess – 2B Kane – LF Hodgers – 1B Loya – P Palomares
POR: 2B Stalker – LF Magallanes – 3B Nunley – 1B Harenberg – CF Mora – C Tovias – RF Gomez – SS Sanchez – P Delgadillo

An entirely unexpected home run by Rafael Gomez (slugging under .300 entering today…) put the Raccoons up 2-0 in the second inning, cashing in on Elias Tovias’ earlier single. Delgadillo allowed no hits in the early going, and the first time through the Thunder lineup walked two (though Victor Hodgers was caught stealing) and whiffed three. The Thunder were still hitless after the fourth inning, while the Coons weren’t so much; Harenberg hit a 1-out single, stretching his hitting streak to 15 games, and Mora came up with a double in the bottom 4th, and then Elias Tovias emptied the bases with a dinger to right-center, jumping the tally to 5-0. Yusneldan maintained a no-no through five, but then got zinged for back-to-back singles by PH Jose Gutierrez and Dan Dalton. Gomez overran Dalton’s single for an error, but remarkably with two in scoring position and nobody out, Delgadillo dug in and managed to surrender only one run in the inning with a pop, a groundout, and a K to Garcia. He lasted seven innings of 2-hit, 1-run ball before being hit for to begin the bottom 7th with his pitch count at 98. Butch Gerster popped out in his spot and the Coons would not mount any more offense, but the Thunder would neither. Matt Stonecipher retired them in order for the final six outs of the game. 5-1 Coons. Tovias 3-4, HR, 3 RBI; Sanchez 1-2, BB, 2B; Delgadillo 7.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 4 BB, 7 K, W (9-5); Stonecipher 2.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K;

Before the Coons left for Boston, they put Tom Shumway on the disabled list with ulnar nerve irritation, which was probably going to put him out of his misery for the rest of the season.

Raccoons (43-35) @ Titans (41-36) – June 28-July 1, 2029

Buried deep beneath the detritus that was this season, somewhere, was the fact that despite the agony suffered in the Thunder series, the Raccoons still had gained a game on Boston, who were now 1 1/2 out, but that was still enough to lose the lead by not securing a split in Boston, and did these Coons look any likely to split? Nah. The Titans were up 4-3 in the season series, and also had the stingiest pitching in the CL, conceding the fewest runs, with a top 3 rotation and the outright strongest bullpen. The Coons could not stink up to that. In turn, the Titans still struggled to score, sitting eighth in runs tallied. The run differentials, another sometimes useful measure, saw no favorite here: the Titans’ was +45, the Coons’ +44.

Projected matchups:
Rin Nomura (3-4, 4.28 ERA) vs. Dustin Wingo (3-5, 3.10 ERA)
Mark Roberts (8-6, 3.69 ERA) vs. Bryan Hanson (4-8, 3.78 ERA)
Trevor Draper (3-1, 5.01 ERA) vs. Lorenzo Viamontes (10-2, 2.76 ERA)
Jamie O’Leary (0-0) vs. Chris Munroe (3-8, 4.19 ERA)

This series would start off with two left-handers in Wingo and Hanson, then two righties. The question was whether the Raccoons wanted to rest Kevin Harenberg at all with him on a 15-game hitting streak… Regular left-handed bats Matt Nunley and Abel Mora would get the opener off.

The Raccoons called up their 2026 first-rounder, #16 pick Jamie O’Leary. The 25-year-old southpaw had not exactly sparkled at any point in his minor league career, but there was something about desperate times and such measures. He threw 92 with a tendency for grounders, and his fastball was least impressive for sure. He had three breaking balls to mix in. This year he had gone 7-4 with a 2.82 ERA between Ham Lake and St. Petersburg.

Him and Draper had pitched on the same day and one of them would have to go on short rest. We picked Draper, who was largely a disappointment that nobody cared about anyway and regularly required resuscitation by relievers in the middle innings anyway, so why not give the debutee a clean slate on regular rest on Sunday? It’s not like it is likely to matter, because by then the Titans will have been sweeping their way to the top anyway.

Game 1
POR: SS Stalker – CF Magallanes – LF Jamieson – 1B Harenberg – RF Gomez – C Tovias – 2B Baldwin – 3B Gerster – P Nomura
BOS: 1B Jon. Morales – SS Spataro – 3B S. Williams – RF O’Rourke – 2B R. West – CF Reichardt – C T. Perez – LF Acor – P Wingo

Unforeseen by anybody, Dustin Wingo had a bit of a hiccup in the opening frame, in which Harenberg cashed singles by Magallanes and Jamieson with a gapper in right-center for a 2-run double. Gomez singled to put runners on the corners, and then Elias Tovias bombed a ball over the head of a sad-looking Dustin Acor for a 3-piece, putting Portland up 5-0 in the first. Oh dang, it is Nomura on the mound – small leads might survive, but any huge lead was sure to be blown! True to form and fame, Nomura shuffled the bases full with one out in the bottom 1st, walked in a run when he lost Rhett West in a full count, and another run scored on Adrian Reichardt’s groundout (although given Reichardt’s record as top-drawer coonskinner we probably had to be glad that ball wasn’t headed for New Brunswick) before Tony Perez struck out to keep it a civil 5-2 after the first. The Coons added a run in the third on Jamieson’s leadoff triple and Gomez’ run-scoring groundout when Harenberg flew out poorly to shallow left, but Nomura kept sucking hard. A leadoff single by Keith Spataro in the bottom 3rd ended up being doubled up, but a leadoff walk to West in the fourth created more trouble, especially after Reichardt singled. Tony Perez grounded to short, Stalker blatantly blew the play and the bases were loaded with nobody out after the error. Acor hit a 2-run single, 6-4, before John Jacobs popped out. When Jonathan Morales singled to restock the bags, the Coons angrily yanked Nomura from the game and sent Jonathan Fleischer to contain the fire, which he did masterfully by walking in a run facing Spataro, whiffing Stephen Williams, and then conceding a score-flipping 2-run single to Dave O’Rourke. West struck out, 7-6 Titans after four.

At that point, why bother? The Coons loaded the bags against Tim Zimmermann in the top 5th, but Gerster struck out to keep the runners stranded, and Magallanes’ 2-out double in the sixth led nowhere nice, either. Instead Fleischer surrendered a tack-on run in the bottom 6th after a leadoff single by Morales, who was plated with two outs by O’Rourke. Between Pat Selby and Jonathan Snyder, the Titans produced a three-on situation again in the eighth. Nunley singled with one out in the terrible Gerster’s place, then got forced out when Mora batted for Brotman and grounded to second. However, Snyder threw a wild pitch, halfheartedly walked Stalker after that, and then hit Magallanes. Matt Jamieson came up with a full plate… and on the first pitch grounded out to Spataro. 8-6 Titans. Magallanes 2-4, 2B; Jamieson 2-5, 3B; Gomez 2-4, RBI; Ivey (PH) 1-1; Tovias 2-4, BB, HR, 3 RBI; Nunley (PH) 1-1;

Tim Stalker is 0-for-8 with a game-blasting error since his 5-RBI against the Thunder. Something seems to have disturbed him, but I can’t figure out what it might have been…

However… (looks Rin Nomura straight in the eyes) Rin… I know, or I guess, that you try your best. … But I am done with you. **** you. **** you. **** you.

**** you.

(walks away muttering)

(Nomura turns to his interpreter, who makes a spiraling motion with his finger next to his right temple and shakes his head)

Game 2
POR: SS Stalker – CF Mora – LF Jamieson – 1B Harenberg – C Tovias – 3B Nunley – RF Gomez – 2B Baldwin – P Roberts
BOS: 1B Jon. Morales – SS Spataro – 3B S. Williams – RF O’Rourke – 2B R. West – CF Reichardt – C T. Perez – LF Acor – P Hanson

The Titans jumped out to the early lead thanks to having runners in scoring position with nobody out in the first two innings. Jonathan Morales opened the bottom 1st with a triple and scored on a Stephen Williams sac fly, and then Nunley threw away Rhett West’s grounder to begin the bottom 2nd and that run came around on a Dustin Acor single when the Coons decided not to walk the .184 batter intentionally with two outs. Portland would not go down unanswered though; Tim Stalker got nailed with two outs in the third and then Mora flicked a single into center to even get the Critters into the H column. Another single by Jamieson scored Stalker before Harenberg popped out. In the fourth, Tovias and Gomez hit doubles to tie the game. The fifth saw Harenberg and Tovias strand a pair in scoring position before the Titans’ bottom of the order ripped Roberts for the go-ahead run. Tony Perez – also challenging the .180 mark – singled to lead off the bottom 5th, and then Acor hit the gap for an RBI triple. Somehow, Roberts kept him stranded despite no retirements in the inning, whiffing Hanson, walking Morales, getting a pop from Spataro, and also getting Mora to chase down a Williams drive, so maybe we could chalk that one up as success… except that we were still losing.

Gomez and Baldwin hit a pair of 1-out singles to go to the corners in the top 6th, which brought up Roberts as well as a dilemma. The Raccoons had abused their pen in the previous game(s) and required more pitching badly, but Roberts was also still batting over .300, so maybe he could by chance… no, popped out. Stalker grounded out to Spataro. The first-and-third, one out situation reoccurred in the seventh inning, then after Mora had singled, stolen second, and had advanced on Harenberg’s streak-extending single to Acor’s feet, which precluded Mora from challenging for home. Mora was sent, however, on O’Rourke’s arm when Tovias flew out to fairly deep right, and managed to slide in under the tag, just barely safe, to tie the score. Nunley singled, but Gomez flew out to center to end the inning – the cardinal mistake, hitting it vaguely into Adrian Reichardt’s zip code…

Roberts got through seven and also over 100 pitches at the same time and would be hit for in the top 8th, but before his turn even came up he was spotted the lead in the single most unlikely fashion – Chris Baldwin homered off Pat Selby. This was the first career dinger for Baldwin, of course, and it could also prove a real thorn in the Titans’ side here. Selby hung around to allow a PH single to Magallanes, who advanced on Stalker’s groundout. Mora was walked intentionally to get to Jamieson, but the Coons also pulled off a double steal here which not only took away the double play, but also turned out crucial in getting another run across on Jamieson’s 3-1 grounder to the left side that Spataro managed to cut off deep on the dirt, but by then he had been carried so far away from any play (there was no play at second base) that all paws were safe with a run-scoring infield single. Harenberg hit a sac fly, 6-3, and Ricky Ohl retired the 1-2-3 batters with surgical precision in the bottom of the eighth inning. All that was left was for Josh Boles to get three outs before cucking up three runs. Rafael Gomez picked an O’Rourke drive off the top of the fence, West struck out, and then Reichardt was nailed. Perez hit a 2-2 pop foul, but Jamieson dropped it outside fair bounds, putting the batter back in the box. The count ran full, but then Perez grounded out to Stalker. 6-3 Coons. Mora 3-4, BB; Jamieson 2-3, 2 BB, 2 RBI; Gomez 2-5, 2B, RBI; Baldwin 2-5, HR, RBI; Magallanes (PH) 1-1; Roberts 7.0 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 7 K, W (9-6);

(exhales)

The good news is that while Draper goes on short rest on Saturday, our long men are rested and we will probably see at least one between Fleischer and Stonecipher.

Game 3
POR: 2B Stalker – 3B Nunley – LF Jamieson – 1B Harenberg – CF Mora – RF Gomez – C Ivey – SS Gerster – P Draper
BOS: 1B Jon. Morales – SS Spataro – 3B S. Williams – RF O’Rourke – 2B R. West – CF Reichardt – C T. Perez – LF Acor – P Viamontes

Draper sucked right out of the gate, walked two and allowed two hits in the bottom 1st with the Titans having one run on the board and three men on base when Adrian Reichardt uncharacteristically did not remove my will to live with a gapper, but hit one to Butch Gerster for a 6-4-3 inning-ender, keeping it a 1-0 deficit. Tim Stalker would tie the game with a solo homer in the top of the third, which not only made him the first player into double digits on this team (!!), but also broke an 0-for-13 spell. The Titans recovered soon from that blast, at first aided by Shane Ivey, who dropped a foul pop by Spataro with one out in the bottom 3rd, the second time this occurred for a Coons fielder in four defensive innings… Spataro got another chance and singled, but was thrown out at home plate on the following deep double by Williams. The Titans were unfazed though, getting 2-out RBI hits from O’Rourke (double) and West (single) to build a new 3-1 lead.*

Draper lasted five, which was probably as much as anybody’s most generous guess, but remained on the short end of the score despite leadoff doubles by Nunley and Jamieson in the sixth. While that got one run across, Jamieson was left stranded. The Titans also stranded a pair in scoring position against Fleischer in the bottom 6th when Acor flew out to Jamieson, and the Coons opened the seventh with an Ivey single past Rhett West. Gerster bunted badly, getting the catcher forced out at second base, but then was sent to second base, which he swiped, under threat of immediate disposal in the nearby harbor. Next was Chris Baldwin, who had entered with Fleischer, who was in the #5 hole, in a double switch earlier, and we were not inclined to pinch-hit now. Baldwin came back with a gapper in right-center, O’Rourke missed it narrowly, but then still had to chase it all the way to the fence, leaving Baldwin with a score-knotting RBI triple. The Titans got out of that one with an intentional walk to Stalker, then a poor grounder by Nunley, and finally Jamieson flying out to right, keeping it a 3-3 game. … well, at least until the top of the order took Fleischer apart in the bottom 7th. Morales single, walk to Spataro, RBI single by Williams. Harenberg opened the eighth with a double to right, then was stranded when Tovias grounded out and Gomez and Ivey both popped out foul. Ryan Corkum retired the Coons in order in the ninth. 4-3 Titans. Ivey 2-4; Baldwin 1-2, 3B, RBI;

I like to think that this lineup would be a bit less ****ty with Ramos and Hereford around…

Game 4
POR: SS Stalker – 3B Nunley – LF Jamieson – 1B Harenberg – CF Mora – C Tovias – RF Rodriguez – 2B Baldwin – P O’Leary
BOS: 1B Jon. Morales – SS Spataro – 3B S. Williams – 2B R. West – CF Reichardt – C T. Perez – RF Calfee – LF Acor – P Munroe

O’Leary retired the first five batters of his major league career, including Morales and Reichardt with strikeouts, before Perez and John Calfee reached base in the bottom 2nd. Acor flew out easily, however, the bottom 3rd began with a Chris Munroe double, which was annoying as **** in itself, and doubly so given that Munroe had started the season 0-for-****ing-32. The double made him an .030 batter, although the top of the order stranded him on third base with a grounder, a pop, and a fly to Jamieson in that order. The game was scoreless after three. O’Leary would also get his first career hit, a single to right in the fifth inning that also sent Wilson Rodriguez from second to third with one out. Tim Stalker hit into a 5-4-3 double play to keep the Coons dry.

The Titans took their time, but eventually got there when O’Leary came unhinged in the sixth inning and just like that walked the bases full with one out. All the runners scored on singles by Reichardt (2 RBI) and Calfee (1 RBI), and the Titans stormed into first place because of it. O’Leary was hit for with two outs in the seventh inning and Mora and Baldwin in scoring position against Munroe, but Rafael Gomez flew out to Calfee in rightfield. The pinnacle of shame came when the Titans deemed it unnecessary to remove Munroe for a reliever in the ninth inning despite being up by “only” three runs. He had a 7-hit shutout after all, what could ever happen to him against one of his 38 former teams? Mora led off with a single. A-ha! There is the rally! And when Tovias smacked into a double play, the rally was over. 3-0 Titans. Jamieson 2-4, 2B; Mora 2-4; Stonecipher 2.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K;

In other news

June 25 – The hitting streak of Washington’s Enrique Trevino (.357, 1 HR, 41 RBI) reaches 25 games with a single in the Capitals’ 5-1 win over the Pacifics.
June 25 – IND SP Andy Bressner (9-6, 3.63 ERA) will miss two to three months with a herniated disc.
June 26 – SAC SP Alex Vallejo (4-3, 4.05 ERA) 1-hits the Rebels in a 7-0 shutout. Richmond’s only base hit is a leadoff single by INF John Hansen (.240, 3 HR, 15 RBI) in the fourth inning.
June 28 – Just a week after being signed out of Italy by the Wolves, LF Fontana Condulmaro (.455, 1 HR, 6 RBI) collects four hits and drives in six runs in an 11-3 win over the Scorpions.
June 29 – The hitting streak of WAS Enrique Trevino (.355, 1 HR, 41 RBI) ends after 27 games in a 5-2 win over the Buffaloes. Trevino goes 0-for-3 in the contest.
July 1 – LAP LF/CF Chris McEwen (.286, 4 HR, 12 RBI) goes deep three times in an 8-2 Pacifics win over the Warriors. It is the first time a Pacific has achieved the feat in 17 years, with Stanley Murphy most recently going deep three times for them in 2012.

Complaints and stuff

(sits in the middle of a burning hotel room and calmly drinks from a weirdly glowing bottle)

This is all fine.

(with great bluster and rumble, part of the burning ceiling collapses in the far corner)

Fun Fact: Whenever the Raccoons have on 95+ games in a season, they have won only 89 games on average the following season.

Also, only five playoff appearances in years after a 95+ W campaign.

Well, shoulda seen it coming!

*The game scored these two runs as unearned, while I think they should be earned. If you want to weigh in, a discussion is in the OOTP 19 General Blurb forums.