UTBA-II Boxing League

[Romdawg88]

Originally Posted by SAL

Thanks Romy.

Don't forget to put your UTBA-II record and score in your link.

Don't worry I did. Man, that match just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy about my team.

[Romultiltus]

Originally Posted by SAL

If there is no interest in trading of fighters between the teams.........which I don't think there will be, I'll make plans to start week 2 either tonight or tomorrow. I need to make sure Romultiltus is ready to go before I do.

For the new guys and some of the old that may have forgotten, the waiver wire process will become a weekly habit starting at the mid-point of this season. This usually takes 3 to 4 days to complete. So there will be a 3 to 4 day lag in between game weeks.

I've got everything up to date and am ready for Week 2.

I don't have high expectations for the Tomatoes' upcoming trip to Sweden. My team has gotten bashed in most of the sims I have run against the boys from Stockholm. Some teams just do not seem to match up well against others.

[mh2365]

I was 0-3 and the closest I came was a 16 point loss in my sims against Juggernaut ... so there is always hope!!

[mikehoudini]

Originally Posted by lethal liberal

I second that Mike. Also,the cat you use as your avatar is a dead ringer for one of my beloved pets. She is no longer around but that pic could be her...amazing how much they resemble each other. If I can find an old pick(ex-wife has most)I will post it..you will be shocked. Anyway,great write up on the Binks first week good stuff! I may follow suit later. Peace.

Thanks, Lethal! Amazing regarding the cat! Jubilee the Devil Boy was roaming my neighborhood about 4 years ago looking for a home. Obviously he found one. He loves to scrap, and terrorizes the other cats, my few visitors and me on occasion, but he also likes to sleep in the crook of my arm. Weighing in at over 17 pounds, and with that black under-chin, he's a terror in his own and in many other minds, and could be the Bink mascot!

Sorry about your cat that passed. It's amazing to find one just like her, I'd guess. I hope you do find her pic. And I know about exes. One of mine, Psycho Bride, tried to take my Title Bout game just out of spite!

[SAL]

UTBA-II database update.

Sorry folks. I thought I sent Romy the update but I didn't. Since week two will begin sometime tonight, I'll wait and make sure the update is sent out right after the last team match is run.

[mh2365]

Originally Posted by mikehoudini

Sorry about your cat that passed. It's amazing to find one just like her, I'd guess. I hope you do find her pic. And I know about exes. One of mine, Psycho Bride, tried to take my Title Bout game just out of spite!

My ex-wife ripped up my Strat-O-Matic baseball game on her way out the door 20 years ago.

[mikehoudini]

Originally Posted by mh2365

My ex-wife ripped up my Strat-O-Matic baseball game on her way out the door 20 years ago.

Ouch! What makes them so vindictive? I guess Psycho Bride felt that I spent too much time (3-4 hours a week) playing the game. She detested boxing as being too violent, even the board version. I was able to retrieve and hide both my copies.

Did you ever replace your Strat-o-Matic? That was/is a great game. I took the All Time Great teams from the various decades and played them against each other. The 1st year Mets that they included didn't fare too well against anyone!

[mh2365]

Yeah it was before I went to college .. during college I had a pretty good size strat-o-matic league going.

My ex-wife was one of those constant attention women ... I had a hard time just reading a book let alone playing a game without her.

[bear]

Originally Posted by mikehoudini

Ouch! What makes them so vindictive? I guess Psycho Bride felt that I spent too much time (3-4 hours a week) playing the game. She detested boxing as being too violent, even the board version. I was able to retrieve and hide both my copies.

Did you ever replace your Strat-o-Matic? That was/is a great game. I took the All Time Great teams from the various decades and played them against each other. The 1st year Mets that they included didn't fare too well against anyone!

Are the '62 Mets the Strat-O-Matic baseball games Mel Turnbow?

Never played Strat-O-Matic.myself Was an APBA guy for both football and baseball as well as the Boxing Board Game, that the Trunzos were involved with.

Bear

[Bronx Bomber 15]

Originally Posted by bear

Are the '62 Mets the Strat-O-Matic baseball games Mel Turnbow?

Never played Strat-O-Matic.myself Was an APBA guy for both football and baseball as well as the Boxing Board Game, that the Trunzos were involved with.

Bear

I caught the APBA bug myself around 2000, then free time got less and less and so did my APBA play, though I did manage a few really good sims. I'd like to get into it again at some point.

I'm pretty lucky I suppose: my Mrs. complains about my attention to boxing but lives with it. I still picture the day I come home and find my DVD recorders and discs out on the front lawn.

[mh2365]

Kelly is totally sold on boxing now ... she has even rooted against my guys on a couple of occasions ... of course she tends to pick on looks ....

[kenyan_cheena]

Originally Posted by mh2365

Kelly is totally sold on boxing now ... she has even rooted against my guys on a couple of occasions ... of course she tends to pick on looks ....

It's great having a wife who loves sports. My wife Shirley loves tennis with a passion (her favourite players were Agassi and Graf, now it's Djokovic) She also loves basketball (she's hoping the Celts win the Finals 'cause she loves how passionate Garnett is), boxing, cricket, baseball, rugby league and the NFL. She gets more excited when she's watching than I do and it always makes me happy when I'm in another part of the house and I hear her scream or shout when something happens in a game we're watching.

I took her out to the game on the weekend I wrote about in the OT thread and she loved it, as it was the first time she'd been to a game at Leichhardt Oval.

[mh2365]

Kelly is a NASCAR fanatic (she's from North Carolina) and will watch that by herself ... other than that she roots for my favorites (Notre Dame, Colts, Red Sox) ... the only sport she doesn't care for is basketball ... won't even pay attention to college ball.

She also loves the Atlanta Braves. Boxing ... she loves the same people I do except she hates Floyd. She likes Hatton a lot more than I do. She loves Calzaghe because he is "dreamy" ... I also thinks she likes Pavlik more than I do, and I love Pavlik.

[bear]

Originally Posted by Bronx Bomber 15

I caught the APBA bug myself around 2000, then free time got less and less and so did my APBA play, though I did manage a few really good sims. I'd like to get into it again at some point.

I'm pretty lucky I suppose: my Mrs. complains about my attention to boxing but lives with it. I still picture the day I come home and find my DVD recorders and discs out on the front lawn.

I caught the APBA bug in '64 after the Bears took the title.

My wife also detests boxing. She lives with it though. Gripes about our digs looking like a storehouse for the books, magazines, and scrapbooks I've collected. Worst thing she does is to sometimes grouse about how horrible boxing is when I'm watching a fight and trying to score it. Our biggest sports disagreement involves football. Liz is a Packer fan which makes us a real mixed marriage.

Bear

[mh2365]

Now that my boy Brian Brohm is a Packer .... I'm back to rooting for them (they were my favorite team before the Colts moved to Indy)

[CONN CHRIS]

I was mainly into the SI Statis Pro games sold through Avlon Hill. I liked the football game the most but setting it up on a table only big enough to lay out one defense and one offense (and that had to be cleared for dinner) made actually finishing a game an epic challenge. I loved the O line rating cards. I have forgotten over the last twenty five years what the formula was but I had OL rating that I made up. I assigned various point totals to outcomes relating to their blocking (some + others -) and then divided by plays. I think somewhere around a 0.70 rating was Anthony Muoz territory.

Ah - don't start talking geeky board games around me. I just end up staring into space and wasting even more time than normal!

[mikehoudini]

Originally Posted by mh2365

Yeah it was before I went to college .. during college I had a pretty good size strat-o-matic league going.

My ex-wife was one of those constant attention women ... I had a hard time just reading a book let alone playing a game without her.

I started with APBA baseball & football as a kid, then golf, and eventually moved to Strat-O-Matic for baseball after a dismal experience with BLM and Negamco (latter for football). There was this really poor boxing game I played during college (and we did have 50 states then), so I went bonkers with Title Bout!

Psycho Bride (ex-wife number 2-5, or at least it feels that way) also didn't like my hobbies, but I found a great reading room where I could always turn on a fan if she was on a roll!

We had APBA baseball leagues in my youth, and now I've got to consider OOTP! The good news is you have a great wife now, from everything I've read, and I look forward to following Nate's collegiate career.

[SAL]

May 29, 2008 - Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Canada

Villebillies @ Toronto Tornados

Bout Results:
(Villebillies listed first)

Fly- Jorge Arce W TKO 7 Beaver Kajimoto

Fly- Pongsaklek Wongjongkam W TKO 6 Albert Belanger

BW- Z Gorres L UD 12 Carl Tremaine

BW- Jose Luis Araiza L TKO(c) 6 Stan Almond

FW- Wilfredo Vazquez L TKO(c) 8 Jackie Callura

FW- Abner Mares L KO 6 Art Hafey

LW- Alexis Arguello W UD 12 Al Ford

LW- Enrique Bolanos W TKO(c) 8 Arthur King

WW- Miguel Angel Cotto W UD 12 Donato Paduano

WW- Gregorio Vargas W UD 12 Sammy Luftspring

MW- Anthony Bonsante L KO 4 Frank Battaglia

MW- Rafael Gutierrez L TKO(c) 7 Wilfie Greaves

LHW- Jesus Ruiz W TKO 6 Yvon Durelle

LHW- Thomas Ulrich L KO 6 Jack Delaney

HW- Chris Arreola W KO 5 Earl Walls

HW- Vladimir Virchis W UD 12 Larry Gains


Halftime Score:
Villebillies 9-7-0 (KO-1) (T/Ud-8) = 27.5
Toronto Tornados 7-9-0 (KO-3) (T/Ud-4) = 22.5
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Fly- Pongsaklek Wongjongkam W KO 10 Beaver Kajimoto

Fly- Jorge Arce W KO 10 Albert Belanger

BW- Z Gorres W UD 12 Stan Almond

BW- Jose Luis Araiza W KO 1 Carl Tremaine

FW- Abner Mares Draw TD 3(c) Jackie Callura

FW- Wilfredo Vazquez L KO 5 Art Hafey

LW- Enrique Bolanos W KO 11 Al Ford

LW- Alexis Arguello W UD 12 Arthur King

WW- Miguel Angel Cotto W KO 11 Sammy Luftspring

WW- Gregorio Vargas L UD 12 Donato Paduano

MW- Rafael Gutierrez L TKO 4 Frank Battaglia

MW- Anthony Bonsante L UD 12 Wilfie Greaves

LHW- Thomas Ulrich W TKO 5 Yvon Durelle

LHW- Jesus Ruiz L UD 12 Jack Delaney

HW- Vladimir Virchis W KO 4 Earl Walls

HW- Chris Arreola W KO 9 Larry Gains

========================================
Final Score:
Villebillies 19-12-1 (KO-8) (T/Ud-11) = 62
Toronto Tornados 12-19-1 (KO-4) (T/Ud-8) = 39
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[SAL]

Hey Mike!

Bolanos is looking pretty good. I think you should give me your 1st rounders for the next two seasons for making such a good swap with ya.

[mikehoudini]

Originally Posted by Bronx Bomber 15

I caught the APBA bug myself around 2000, then free time got less and less and so did my APBA play, though I did manage a few really good sims. I'd like to get into it again at some point.

I'm pretty lucky I suppose: my Mrs. complains about my attention to boxing but lives with it. I still picture the day I come home and find my DVD recorders and discs out on the front lawn.

APBA had a boxing game??? If the Trunzos were involved, it had to be better than Realistic Pro Boxing, or whatever it was (I still have it in a closet).Are the '62 Mets the Strat-O-Matic baseball games Mel Turnbow?

Never played Strat-O-Matic.myself Was an APBA guy for both football and baseball as well as the Boxing Board Game, that the Trunzos were involved with.
Bear

Oops, I tried to reply to Bear's post but got hooked to Bronx Bomber's. My neophyte status is showing through!

The Mets were far worse than Mel Turnbow, in my humble opinion. I think there were about 40 top teams from the decades through the mid-60s in the Strat-o pool, and they threw in the original Mets (who my buddy loved). The staff aces were Roger Craig, Al Jackson and Jay Hook (on the 61 Reds featured in Jim Brosnan's book), who each lost at least 19 games, but they were the aces and pitched more than the others!

Choo-Choo Coleman was one of their main catchers, though their main duty was to tally runs, not catch pitches. Frank Thomas, of Kenyan Cheeta fame in his uni, slugged about 20 homers, Richie Ashburn hit about 300, Joe Christopher may have been an outfielder, Rod Kanehl was their utility infielder, and their anchor was Marvelous Marv Throneberry, who hit about 300 and fielded the same!

I could be off on some of these stats, but I think I am close. To think they topped my Birds 7 years later!