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Tib · 06-15-2021, 05:48 PM

Hello again, P! Thanks for the kind comments and your take on things is right on. One of the challenges of writing a story like this is finding "thematic insurance" for the uncontrollable events the game gives me. Whatever happens on the field, I have to come up with some type of plausible explanation for it. Throughout Short Hop I have devised several different possible storylines as ways to explain any unexpected thing that happens.

In the case of Dave's experience in Chicago, I decided to develop different sources of tension and conflict to explain the team's mercurial play. One of those things was the Chicago media, or more specifically, the press. Creating this kind of adversary helped explain the team's intersquad tensions as well as their dismaying decline in the latter months of the season. And when Pyle hit Wills (exactly as it happened in-game), it was the perfect opportunity to get the foreshadowed "fight with Marcus Barrows" out of the way and create a crescendo to a frustrating (but in many ways successful) season and bring Dave's career there to an explosive conclusion.

In many ways, this last Chicago team was actually pretty good, but like most Comanche teams of recent years, they just couldn't get it together until it was too late. And isn't that baseball sometimes?

A couple of other notes: Chicago really did have eight guys in arbitration. I'd never seen that before so I had to make a storyline out of it. I used it to explain the financial tensions that led Dave to choosing free agency. And Dave really did have only 14 errors - a remarkable season - but for some reason the game did not award him with the Defensive Ace. Well, I have no control over that. If I did, Dave would have won at least three by now. And the successes of Joel Kral, Von Jones, Flash Viveros, Jukebox and Moose were all game-created, just as the struggles of Bobby Nitta, Yoogie and J.R. were game-created.

Anyway, thanks for the comments. You might be the only person who stills reads this thing. And as Dave immerses himself in the weird world of free agency, here's Chapter 69, which sets the stage for a very interesting conversation....

06-15-2021, 05:48 PM	#832
Tib All Star Reserve Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Paso Robles, CA Posts: 995	Hello again, P! Thanks for the kind comments and your take on things is right on. One of the challenges of writing a story like this is finding "thematic insurance" for the uncontrollable events the game gives me. Whatever happens on the field, I have to come up with some type of plausible explanation for it. Throughout Short Hop I have devised several different possible storylines as ways to explain any unexpected thing that happens. In the case of Dave's experience in Chicago, I decided to develop different sources of tension and conflict to explain the team's mercurial play. One of those things was the Chicago media, or more specifically, the press. Creating this kind of adversary helped explain the team's intersquad tensions as well as their dismaying decline in the latter months of the season. And when Pyle hit Wills (exactly as it happened in-game), it was the perfect opportunity to get the foreshadowed "fight with Marcus Barrows" out of the way and create a crescendo to a frustrating (but in many ways successful) season and bring Dave's career there to an explosive conclusion. In many ways, this last Chicago team was actually pretty good, but like most Comanche teams of recent years, they just couldn't get it together until it was too late. And isn't that baseball sometimes? A couple of other notes: Chicago really did have eight guys in arbitration. I'd never seen that before so I had to make a storyline out of it. I used it to explain the financial tensions that led Dave to choosing free agency. And Dave really did have only 14 errors - a remarkable season - but for some reason the game did not award him with the Defensive Ace. Well, I have no control over that. If I did, Dave would have won at least three by now. And the successes of Joel Kral, Von Jones, Flash Viveros, Jukebox and Moose were all game-created, just as the struggles of Bobby Nitta, Yoogie and J.R. were game-created. Anyway, thanks for the comments. You might be the only person who stills reads this thing. And as Dave immerses himself in the weird world of free agency, here's Chapter 69, which sets the stage for a very interesting conversation.... __________________ https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...ad.php?t=64219 Last edited by Tib; 06-15-2021 at 06:02 PM.