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Much appreciated, 128. Yes, I'm still here, still working sporadically on Short Hop. Thankfully, COVID has kept its distance in my life, but other projects have taken my time. Other stories, book projects, and some game design. One day I'll post some of it so you can see what kept me from Short Hop for such long stretches.
I'll be posting the next part of History of Pro Baseball in the coming week. As I get closer to the present it has somehow become harder to organize. Like real baseball, ABA/CBA history has gone from league expansion and competitive changes to nothing but money and business. If I plan it correctly, History will end when Short Hop ends.
As for Dave's story, the recent Win 11 upgrade had me a little worried, so I have resolved to finish simming Dave's career all at once -- something I wasn't planning to do (I usually only simmed a half season in advance so I wouldn't be tempted to do much pre-planning). I couldn't bear it if Win 11 somehow messed with the OOTP5 game file. Yes, that's right. OOTP FIVE. (I am running WIn7 currently).
So I've been simming and collecting info, and printing each year out on paper so I could make notes. About 25 pages of data per year. I have no teasers for you because I haven't looked at the numbers too deeply yet.
Thank you all for the kind words. Maybe one day I'll ask you to send testimonials to prospective publishers... In the meantime, look for more Short Hop just as soon as I make sense of all these stats...
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