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[jg2977]

Originally Posted by Clovidequano Dovatha

As far as things currently go for both Simon Clairborne and Barrett Parverol, I'm really not particularly bothered here that they didn't play in 1898, in truth. Then again, both started their playing careers in 1883 for your IPA, I believe, so maybe they'll retire soon? We'll have to see, of course, jg2977. CD out.

Honestly, that's fine with me too. Without them playing, it leveled the playing field for other teams. San Alejo won the division for the first time in 15 years, and Fairfax won their first division title due to Walter White and Yogi Berra not playing for Blue Lake. So it's good to get some different teams in the playoffs.

At the same time, I love watching dynasties develop and prosper, so there's that aspect of it too. Glasco finished at an astonishing 143-19, so it looks like the 1898 Pro Cup will be theirs. The only question may be who their opponent from the Tycobbian Union will be. If Glasco wins, it would be their 5th championship, which would be the most of an IPA team so far.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

I probably will be submitting Jerry Holmes's proposed player profile in time for the 1901 season, as well, but I'll have to think about that for a little while, I think. Just so you know. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

If Jerry Holmes actually debuts in 1901 as expected, he should start on South Fork, if he starts in the IPA. Suppose he starts his playing career in the MLB, though. In that case, he can then start anywhere the Freemans, Morses, or Waltons don't or won't actually start their playing careers, within the usually applicable eligibility criteria here.

As for the Morses not descended from Zebulon or Jethro, they could probably play anywhere in your dynasty's setup that is compatible enough with the usual assignment criteria, I think. While I don't think you'll be using any of my MLB work, except for Hartford, at least, maybe there are some items I've done related to MLB teams that you'd use to help stay within the normal criteria. I don't think you'd want all of them to play for Hartford, at least, though. But perhaps they could play for certain teams in the Midwest, for instance, near St. Louis and all, in any case. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

I was hoping Simon Clairborne could be a pitcher in his career for your dynasty, but you made him a position player. Seeing as that is the case, perhaps his son Hugh could pitch instead during this generation of your dynasty, starting with Turon, if he starts in the IPA and not MLB.

I don't have a position in mind yet for Bradley Parverol, so maybe he could be a player who plays both in the infield and the outfield for Sugar Valley, if he starts in the IPA. His son Tiamghan will be an outfielder, for sure, once the third generation starts, in any case, if all goes sufficiently according to plan here.

Jerry Holmes will be an outfielder. Not sure where he'll play in it, after being proposed, but I don't intend to give him any pitching ratings whatsoever. If he starts in the IPA, he should start with South Fork, but if he starts in MLB, then perhaps any team that anyone on the Freemans' side of things isn't originally assigned to, at least to start, would be all right for him here.

Tanner's son Otis will probably be primarily an outfielder, but he might still have minimal pitching ratings, just the same. There aren't many places where a left-handed thrower will be able to perform easily enough, I think, after all. If he starts in the IPA, then Kenwood should be where he starts. If in the MLB, anywhere that doesn't have anybody on the Freemans' side of things should be all right for him to start his career in.

Morses descended from Zebulon and/or Jethro should start on Glasco, if they start in the IPA. Other Morses' original teams will have to be determined later, if they start in the IPA. However, if they start in MLB, we'll probably have to randomly choose a team for them to start on, at least for the first applicable brother in a particular branch of the Morse family tree.

The Walton boys should both start on Hillsboro when they likely would debut circa 1915 or so, I think. They won't be among the first relevant players from the second generation of your dynasty here, most likely, but among the last, if not the last, in any case.

Follises in the MLB should start with the Cardinals, unless otherwise stated. If they start in the IPA, perhaps Denton City might be a good starting location for them instead.

Tulachs, if they make it to your dynasty, should perhaps start in Southport or some other eligible IPA team, supposing they start in your IPA and not MLB. If they start in MLB, they should start on any team not connected to anyone on the rivals' side of things here, I believe. For they'll be connected to the Morses through common relatives here.

Thank you for your time and attention and all here, as always, jg2977. I'm looking forwards to seeing what might happen next in your dynasty here, of course, you know. Talk more with you later, as time allows and all, I'm sure. CD out.

[jg2977]

How many players are you going to propose for this next generation? The first generation in my IPA had eight.

[jg2977]

Originally Posted by Clovidequano Dovatha

If Jerry Holmes actually debuts in 1901 as expected, he should start on South Fork, if he starts in the IPA. Suppose he starts his playing career in the MLB, though. In that case, he can then start anywhere the Freemans, Morses, or Waltons don't or won't actually start their playing careers, within the usually applicable eligibility criteria here.

As for the Morses not descended from Zebulon or Jethro, they could probably play anywhere in your dynasty's setup that is compatible enough with the usual assignment criteria, I think. While I don't think you'll be using any of my MLB work, except for Hartford, at least, maybe there are some items I've done related to MLB teams that you'd use to help stay within the normal criteria. I don't think you'd want all of them to play for Hartford, at least, though. But perhaps they could play for certain teams in the Midwest, for instance, near St. Louis and all, in any case. CD out.

South Fork can be the sister city for San Francisco. They have the same initials (SF) and I have Candlestick Park as the South Fork Stallions' stadium. So Jerry Holmes can start on either the South Fork Stallions or the San Francisco Giants.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Seeing as it seems that you will have at least 100 teams, if not more, present during this generation, I'd figure somewhere between fifteen and twenty, if all are approved, including a semi-fictionalized version of my Dad's paternal grandfather, at most, at least as of this particular point in time here. See post 3274 in this thread for more information, please, jg2977.

I certainly won't be proposing any of them, however, if at all, until they're each at least 17 or 18 years old, if not older, to be sure, as of the year before they might debut for any of your dynasty's teams. For instance, it will not be before 1907 or 1908 when I might propose Moses Morse for a possible playing career somewhere in your dynasty, most likely Glasco to start with for himself. Just so you know. And of course, with the various birthdates for them, their potential debut years will not be all heavily clumped together, either, it seems to me. We have various birth years ranging all the way from 1881 down to 1901 listed in that post here, so obviously they won't all necessarily be able to play with each other at the same time, most likely. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Let's try and make it easier for us all here, if we can, jg2977. Let's say that anyone born before 1881, give or take a few years either way at most, is most likely part of your dynasty's first generation. Anyone born between 1881 and 1910, more or less, is probably part of its second generation. Between 1911 and 1940, more or less, its third generation. And so on and so forth, as the case might be for them all here.

Which then probably puts both of us, if we use our real names for certain players, in your dynasty's fifth generation, if I'm not too mistaken here. For it is quite obvious that we were both born in the 1970's here, for sure. While I don't have any children myself, in reality, I still might want to continue the Follis line into the potential sixth generation, when it comes to players for any of my dynasties or yours, supposing I'd propose them to you here, or put them myself into any of my own games. Just so you know. CD out.

[jg2977]

Originally Posted by Clovidequano Dovatha

Let's try and make it easier for us all here, if we can, jg2977. Let's say that anyone born before 1881, give or take a few years either way at most, is most likely part of your dynasty's first generation. Anyone born between 1881 and 1910, more or less, is probably part of its second generation. Between 1911 and 1940, more or less, its third generation. And so on and so forth, as the case might be for them all here.

Which then probably puts both of us, if we use our real names for certain players, in your dynasty's fifth generation, if I'm not too mistaken here. For it is quite obvious that we were both born in the 1970's here, for sure. While I don't have any children myself, in reality, I still might want to continue the Follis line into the potential sixth generation, when it comes to players for any of my dynasties or yours, supposing I'd propose them to you here, or put them myself into any of my own games. Just so you know. CD out.

Well, you can give me the profiles and I'll enter them into the game. You keep track of all that stuff, that will be easiest for me.

I'm not going to follow actual birthdates for my family members. If I have my brothers playing in the year 1918, that's okay with me. Dates of birth and that kind of accuracy aren't important to me. If they're important to you for your players, I'll honor that.

If I eventually add an NHL league to my dynasty, which I probably eventually will, around the 1920's, then I'll save the Hartford Whalers for that league. I still want a Hartford in my MLB, so I'll name them the Hartford Huskies.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Okay, please do as you wish, as far as the Grubins go, at least. I don't know how many people related to the Follises or part of them there will be proposed by the years when we were each born, but let's just see what happens on that front later, as time allows and all. Lord willing and all, of course, that is.

Are you going to connect a hockey world to this dynasty's related things here? If so, there will probably be at least one Morse and/or Tulach I might propose for it, if I'd be able to have a player creation template for it like there are for OOTP players, I think. Just so you know, jg2977. CD out.

[jg2977]

Originally Posted by Clovidequano Dovatha

Okay, please do as you wish, as far as the Grubins go, at least. I don't know how many people related to the Follises or part of them there will be proposed by the years when we were each born, but let's just see what happens on that front later, as time allows and all. Lord willing and all, of course, that is.

Are you going to connect a hockey world to this dynasty's related things here? If so, there will probably be at least one Morse and/or Tulach I might propose for it, if I'd be able to have a player creation template for it like there are for OOTP players, I think. Just so you know, jg2977. CD out.

The NHL will still be OOTP baseball teams. I'll just be using hockey team names. So don't send me hockey player templates. Use baseball player templates.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

I meant if you were intending to create a related hockey world in FHM to your IPA/MLB one, jg2977. Just so you know. CD out.

[jg2977]

Originally Posted by Clovidequano Dovatha

I meant if you were intending to create a related hockey world in FHM to your IPA/MLB one, jg2977. Just so you know. CD out.

I don't have FHM, so I won't be.

[jg2977]

What are your thoughts on Glasco (143-19) falling to Fort Benton (108-54) in 7 games? Jethro Morse had a great first game, hitting a home run in his first at-bat and pitching a complete game shutout. However, it all kind of fell apart after that. He struggled in his pitching performance in Game 5, and for the series batted 7-for-29 (.241) with 1 HR and 7 RBI. One of the biggest playoff upsets in IPA history.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Hopefully, Jethro will somehow actually get at least one more ring before his playing career is done, of course, jg2977. Whether or not he actually plays with any of his sons or nephews, for instance. But if he doesn't, then so be it, obviously enough here.

My brother got the OOTP 23 and FHM 8 bundle for me today, but I haven't had a chance yet to install and/or activate and/or play its games. Maybe once I get enough additional work done for my main story, at least, I'll have enough time to do so easily enough and all. But seeing as my birthday's now about three and a half months away, I don't anticipate me doing so anytime soon, somehow, unless I can make a great deal more progress on the story by then, if not complete its entire first draft.

Talk more later, as time allows and all, I'm sure. I spent much of today periodically trying to win at Civilization IV on its Noble difficulty level, and not having much success in that sort of thing, unfortunately. Which is usually the case for me, to be sure, whenever I play Civilization IV games, whether they're the vanilla Civilization IV games, Warlords expansion games, or Beyond the Sword expansion games. I can almost never stay caught up technology-wise by the time I reach the middle of the game, more or less. And that is if I actually have a sufficiently good map to play on for much of the game, at that, often. CD out.

[jg2977]

Originally Posted by Clovidequano Dovatha

Hopefully, Jethro will somehow actually get at least one more ring before his playing career is done, of course, jg2977. Whether or not he actually plays with any of his sons or nephews, for instance. But if he doesn't, then so be it, obviously enough here.

My brother got the OOTP 23 and FHM 8 bundle for me today, but I haven't had a chance yet to install and/or activate and/or play its games. Maybe once I get enough additional work done for my main story, at least, I'll have enough time to do so easily enough and all. But seeing as my birthday's now about three and a half months away, I don't anticipate me doing so anytime soon, somehow, unless I can make a great deal more progress on the story by then, if not complete its entire first draft.

Talk more later, as time allows and all, I'm sure. I spent much of today periodically trying to win at Civilization IV on its Noble difficulty level, and not having much success in that sort of thing, unfortunately. Which is usually the case for me, to be sure, whenever I play Civilization IV games, whether they're the vanilla Civilization IV games, Warlords expansion games, or Beyond the Sword expansion games. I can almost never stay caught up technology-wise by the time I reach the middle of the game, more or less. And that is if I actually have a sufficiently good map to play on for much of the game, at that, often. CD out.

I've never played Civilization IV. I looked it up, and I see that it's an empire-building game. Only kind of game that I've played that might be somewhat similar was Sim City, when I was much younger. I used to like building my own cities. So I wonder if I might like the Civilization games. Sports games have always been my favorite, although as I kid I spent many hours playing the Super Mario games, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Contra. RBI Baseball was the first sports game that I truly loved. Blades of Steel and Ice Hockey were up there as well. Then Sega Genesis came out and the NHL Hockey series by EA Sports consumed all of my time.

One reason why OOTP is the best game ever is that I care more about what happens in my fictional league than real-life baseball. My Yankees got swept by the Astros, and I wasn't even all that upset by it.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

There are still some similarities between MLB of today and MLB of our youth, but very few, considering all of the perhaps needless tinkering practices with certain baseball rules and all in the last thirty or so years, at least. It was not a good thing to have each league go to three divisions, for instance. Nor to have Milwaukee shift to the NL and Houston to the AL, among other stupid changes, as I and others would probably consider such things to have been here, when they were made.

Personally, I don't actually consider the Phillies-Astros matchup here to be a true World Series matchup, seeing as the Astros never should have been in the AL in the first place. By the same token, I don't consider any Astros World Series appearance since they actually switched leagues to be a true World Series, either. Just so you know. CD out.

[jg2977]

Originally Posted by Clovidequano Dovatha

There are still some similarities between MLB of today and MLB of our youth, but very few, considering all of the perhaps needless tinkering practices with certain baseball rules and all in the last thirty or so years, at least. It was not a good thing to have each league go to three divisions, for instance. Nor to have Milwaukee shift to the NL and Houston to the AL, among other stupid changes, as I and others would probably consider such things to have been here, when they were made.

Personally, I don't actually consider the Phillies-Astros matchup here to be a true World Series matchup, seeing as the Astros never should have been in the AL in the first place. By the same token, I don't consider any Astros World Series appearance since they actually switched leagues to be a true World Series, either. Just so you know. CD out.

I don't consider many World Series to be true matchups. The 2019 World Series featured the Astros who should be in the NL, and the Washington Nationals should still be the Montreal Expos. The 2020 World Series doesn't count because it was a Covid shortened season, and the Dodgers should still be in Brooklyn.

Here's some more:

2021: Should have been the Boston Braves vs. Boston Red Sox (Braves should be in Boston, Astros don't count because they should be in the NL and are cheaters, so I'll take the AL runner up).

2020: Doesn't count, Dodgers should be in Brooklyn and Tampa/St. Pete shouldn't have a team.

2018: Should have been the Boston Red Sox vs. Brooklyn Dodgers, so this doesn't count either.

2017: Astros cheaters and NL, should have been New York Yankees vs. Brooklyn Dodgers

2016: Cubs vs. Indians, counts
2015: Mets vs. Royals, counts
2014: doesn't count, should have been Kansas City Royals vs. New York Giants
2013: St. Louis Cardinals vs. Boston Red Sox, counts
2012: doesn't count, should have been Detroit Tigers vs. New York Giants
2011: doesn't count, should have been St. Louis Cardinals vs. Washington Senators (TX Rangers)
2010: doesn't count, should have been New York Giants vs. Washington Senators
2009: New York Yankees vs. Philadelphia Phillies, counts

1996 and 1999 don't count, should have been New York Yankees vs. Boston Braves.

1988 definitely doesn't count, should have been Philadelphia Athletics vs. Brooklyn Dodgers.

Come to think of it, none of the Yankees' championships should count because they should still be called the Highlanders. And even before the Highlanders, they were the Baltimore Orioles!

Could have a lot of fun with this!

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

2004 and 2013 I still have reservations about. Both those Series seem to be suspect to me, as if they were somehow given to the Red Sox by TPTB, in truth. Not necessarily because of the players and coaches involved, mind you, of course, but they still seem suspicious to me, even now.

And don't get me started about 1985 or 1987, for that matter, either, at the present time, at least. Those still bother me after all this time as well, to be sure. CD out.

[jg2977]

Originally Posted by Clovidequano Dovatha

2004 and 2013 I still have reservations about. Both those Series seem to be suspect to me, as if they were somehow given to the Red Sox by TPTB, in truth. Not necessarily because of the players and coaches involved, mind you, of course, but they still seem suspicious to me, even now.

And don't get me started about 1985 or 1987, for that matter, either, at the present time, at least. Those still bother me after all this time as well, to be sure. CD out.

I believe the Cardinals had the best record in baseball in 2004, and they led the 2013 World Series 2 games to 1. Cardinals should have won both those series.

You did get some retribution in 2006 when you were just 83-78, winning a weak division and getting hot at the right time, and in 2011 when you were a strike away from losing in two separate innings. Somehow you won both of those World Series.

Just like how the Yankees winning in 2009 softened the crushing blows of losing 2001 & 2003 World Series and the 2004 ALCS, and then losing in the ALDS three straight seasons from 2005-2007.