My Baseball Life: Replaying 1983-today

desmetzag2 · 04-04-2011, 03:44 PM

Opening Day, 1983

He saw himself as a sort of visionary, able to see the future and steer baseball away from a slide into obscurity. The designated hitter experiment over – a player should have to hit, throw and catch to play baseball – he said. An unbalanced league is inherently unfair, and this would return baseball to Brooklyn and start a new franchise in Colorado. Pitchers are getting softer, so the 4-man rotation became a rule. He would set up academies to recruit the best athletes to play baseball, instead of football and basketball domestically and instead of soccer internationally.

Wild card teams would expand the playoffs another round. If appropriate, both teams could come from the East or West division. Players would be drug tested regularly and the offensive explosions (1930) and defensive dominance (1968) would never happen again. It would take a once-in-a-lifetime player to approach 755 career home runs or 61 in a season, and they would have to use their skill level and luck to do so, not steroid-filled arms or a juiced baseball.

He took control of his favorite franchise, the Milwaukee Brewers. He saw a team that if not properly run may not reach the postseason again for a long time. He saw great players using “free agency” to break fans’ hearts and required that every team offer a contract extension to an All-Star. He saw the New York Yankees acquire damn near any talented player because they had the funds to and controlling the game, so he instituted a hard salary cap.

It should always be America’s greatest professional sport, and he intended to keep it so.

desmetzag2 · 04-04-2011, 03:49 PM

May 1, 1983
It was a little quiet as the bottom of the second inning started on 1983’s Opening Day in New Ebbets Field. The frenzy behind the return of baseball to Brooklyn ebbed and fans settled in for an actual baseball game. Disco Dan Ford led off the inning with a single, which brought up Bo Diaz, who drove a 1-0 Eric Show offering 362 feet into the stands in left-center field for Brooklyn’s first runs since 1957.

They piled on to win that one 9-2, but the Robins (12-14) have been up and down since then. Brooklyn lost five straight in the middle of April, but the bizarre expansion team roster of 22nd- through 25th-men in other organizations still sits 2 games back of the lead in the NL East. Damaso Garcia is second in the NL, batting .385, but they won’t have the talent to truly contend for some time.

In the league’s other division, the Colorado Rockies are experiencing a little more success. If the season ended today, the Rockies (15-11) would be tied for the NL’s second playoff spot. Scientists speculated about the effect of the Mile High air on the game, but surprisingly enough, Colorado is riding the league’s second best pitching staff to their early success and a lights-out 1-2 punch in the bullpen, with Jay Howell (0.96 WHIP) and Cecilio Guante (5 saves, 0 ER) dominating the end of games.

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desmetzag2 · 04-07-2011, 01:53 PM

June 11, 1983

On one hand, the team played Game Seven of a World Series last year.
On the other, most talent evaluators would say it was only a matter of time before this happened.

Disaster has struck in Milwaukee, where the Brewers dropped to 2-8 in June (28-36 overall), due largely to an impotent offense where “Harvey’s Wallbangers” have given way to a collection of old players on the wrong side of 30, young players that can’t stay healthy and the incredible Robin Yount (.917 OPS), who can’t carry this team any further.

Gorman Thomas (39 HR last year) hasn’t appeared in a game since May 4 with back issues, Ben Oglivie (34 HR last year) is posting an OPS of .528 in left field and Paul Molitor is batting .358 but is making his second appearance on the disabled list. Randy Ready showed promise replacing Molitor at third, including 8 multi-hit games in a span of 13 days, but then he went out with back issues.

Further complicating matters is a directive that the Brewers have to stay in the bottom half of league payroll. Since the team started the year in the top five, they have not been able to add players to replace the injured and ineffective. This led to lots of at-bats for fringe major leaguers like Bob Skube (131 AB, .435 OPS) and Ed Romero (85 AB, .459 OPS).
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majesty95 · 04-23-2011, 05:22 PM

This didn't last long, lol

04-04-2011, 03:44 PM	#1
desmetzag2 Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 8	My Baseball Life: Replaying 1983-today Opening Day, 1983 He saw himself as a sort of visionary, able to see the future and steer baseball away from a slide into obscurity. The designated hitter experiment over – a player should have to hit, throw and catch to play baseball – he said. An unbalanced league is inherently unfair, and this would return baseball to Brooklyn and start a new franchise in Colorado. Pitchers are getting softer, so the 4-man rotation became a rule. He would set up academies to recruit the best athletes to play baseball, instead of football and basketball domestically and instead of soccer internationally. Wild card teams would expand the playoffs another round. If appropriate, both teams could come from the East or West division. Players would be drug tested regularly and the offensive explosions (1930) and defensive dominance (1968) would never happen again. It would take a once-in-a-lifetime player to approach 755 career home runs or 61 in a season, and they would have to use their skill level and luck to do so, not steroid-filled arms or a juiced baseball. He took control of his favorite franchise, the Milwaukee Brewers. He saw a team that if not properly run may not reach the postseason again for a long time. He saw great players using “free agency” to break fans’ hearts and required that every team offer a contract extension to an All-Star. He saw the New York Yankees acquire damn near any talented player because they had the funds to and controlling the game, so he instituted a hard salary cap. It should always be America’s greatest professional sport, and he intended to keep it so.

04-23-2011, 05:22 PM	#4
majesty95 All Star Starter Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: San Antonio, TX Posts: 1,790	This didn't last long, lol __________________ College Football Sim League

04-04-2011, 03:49 PM	#2
desmetzag2 Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 8	May 1, 1983 It was a little quiet as the bottom of the second inning started on 1983’s Opening Day in New Ebbets Field. The frenzy behind the return of baseball to Brooklyn ebbed and fans settled in for an actual baseball game. Disco Dan Ford led off the inning with a single, which brought up Bo Diaz, who drove a 1-0 Eric Show offering 362 feet into the stands in left-center field for Brooklyn’s first runs since 1957. They piled on to win that one 9-2, but the Robins (12-14) have been up and down since then. Brooklyn lost five straight in the middle of April, but the bizarre expansion team roster of 22nd- through 25th-men in other organizations still sits 2 games back of the lead in the NL East. Damaso Garcia is second in the NL, batting .385, but they won’t have the talent to truly contend for some time. In the league’s other division, the Colorado Rockies are experiencing a little more success. If the season ended today, the Rockies (15-11) would be tied for the NL’s second playoff spot. Scientists speculated about the effect of the Mile High air on the game, but surprisingly enough, Colorado is riding the league’s second best pitching staff to their early success and a lights-out 1-2 punch in the bullpen, with Jay Howell (0.96 WHIP) and Cecilio Guante (5 saves, 0 ER) dominating the end of games.

04-07-2011, 01:53 PM	#3
desmetzag2 Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 8	June 11, 1983 On one hand, the team played Game Seven of a World Series last year. On the other, most talent evaluators would say it was only a matter of time before this happened. Disaster has struck in Milwaukee, where the Brewers dropped to 2-8 in June (28-36 overall), due largely to an impotent offense where “Harvey’s Wallbangers” have given way to a collection of old players on the wrong side of 30, young players that can’t stay healthy and the incredible Robin Yount (.917 OPS), who can’t carry this team any further. Gorman Thomas (39 HR last year) hasn’t appeared in a game since May 4 with back issues, Ben Oglivie (34 HR last year) is posting an OPS of .528 in left field and Paul Molitor is batting .358 but is making his second appearance on the disabled list. Randy Ready showed promise replacing Molitor at third, including 8 multi-hit games in a span of 13 days, but then he went out with back issues. Further complicating matters is a directive that the Brewers have to stay in the bottom half of league payroll. Since the team started the year in the top five, they have not been able to add players to replace the injured and ineffective. This led to lots of at-bats for fringe major leaguers like Bob Skube (131 AB, .435 OPS) and Ed Romero (85 AB, .459 OPS).