[Stanley Kuppchaser]

I was kidding about the hour wait. I will rip those packs later, though.



The attached chart shows the details of the kind of pack ripping dumb luck I've read about on the forum, usually doubting it. These are the top 50 rated lives and OL cards after the 50th pack was ripped earlier today.



The only thing I did with the team was, 2 or 3 times a day, spend 10-15 minutes to rip packs, sell off doubles, click the AI to organize. That would cover both Freedonia and the Memphis Chicos, my other auto-pilot OL team-in-waiting.



One other thing. On Sunday morning, I notice that Freedonia had a bunch of Orioles, so I spent 300-400 PP for the Harold Baines. I had to buy only like eight cards.



I would then spend another hour tweaking Port Ruppert, checking the AH, and entering each of the teams in tournaments, probably getting them each into about a hundred from the start until now. I also took off a day from it and gave each of my team's around a hour at Challenge mode. They each got one. Of course, and trust me, I am not making this up, Freedonia's was a gold, which turned into my only gold double, so far, a live 88 that sold for 1600 PP.


With the current state of the pandemic, my other pursuits that took me from OL will be temporarily away, so I'll have way more time than I thought for OL (and, sorry in advance, per chance to write). That being the case, Freedonia might not be more than another week away. Unless this dumb and dumber luck doesn't stop. That I'll ride.



It crossed my mind for a split second that I could just make Freedonia my main team, or even exchange the team names, but it just didn't sit right. Port Report is the only remaining original team name, and it would have felt false to "not dance with one that brung me."


Besides, for me this is more about the nostalgia of building with players I watched and read about growing up, until I lost interest in baseball in the early 2000's. I don't even know who these guys are today, although Freedonia's changing that a bit for the good guys.


I like winning, but I love bad puns, making hideous and silly graphics, and interacting with the great bunch we have here.


Poor Memphis. I felt bad for them this morning. and spent over an hour and simmed the '27 Yanks to four straight titles with nothing getting awarded. I finally got frustrated and stopped. In the afternoon, I did a quick maintenance on PT to get the teams into their allotment of tournaments.



I had a half hour to kill before a late lunch, so I fired up a new historical, switched to the '08 Athletics for variety. They finished 7th the first year, and in 3rd, 15 games behind in '09. Wonder of wonders, the game still kicked out a pack. I felt better for the Chicos, I think you can guess what's coming next.


I had left the computer to get a drink, just after I finished signing the Athletics a few free agents. I truly did not notice that I had never logged onto the Memphis account, and, of course, the pack went to Freedonia. They only got a live silver, a live bronze, an OL bronze, and an OL iron, though.



Poor, poor Memphis. They have had much more typical pack luck, and will clearly be the runt of the litter when they finally show up.