The Frogs' reign of terror is over. It was surely fun while it lasted, but winning ~145 games and then steamrolling through the 'yoffs is mostly a memory right now. Whale tears...
That's because we only won 137 games this week in I178, but had a tough team in the same division. The Boston Patriots won 123 games and were continually feeding in new players to their team. It was a bruising regular season head-to-head, with the Frogs barely escaping 10-9. So, naturally I was rooting hard for the Patriots' Wild Card opponent. But, twas not to be. The Patriots won comfortably and then really took it to my Frogs, winning the DS in 4 games. There were two 9-8 extra inning games that were split. Then it was domination with them winning G3 and G4 by a combined 12-1 margin.
I don't mind the competition (although destroying worlds these past couple of weeks was nice while it lasted), but it's disappointing that none of my SP rotation (100 Clemens, 99 Maddux, 100 Grove, 98 Brown) showed up for this series. They all gave up at least 5 ER in their one start, and usually in a short outing at that. When your 99 Maddux gives up 6 ER on 12 H and their 99 Maddux goes 8 IP scoreless, it's just not your week!
Congrats to the Pats...it's a very good team that hopefully uses this opportunity to grab a medallion. For us, it's wait til next year (week).
Good luck to those still banging out sims!