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fhomess · 07-01-2011, 12:31 PM

There's something about "Canada Day" that just sounds funny to me. In the US, we don't have "America Day" or "United States Day", we have "Independence Day". "Canada Day" sounds a little like "Fhomess Day" to me. It's not "Fhomess Day", it's simply my birthday. That said, if "Fhomess Day" entitled me to a small percentage of everyone's salary, I'd be all for it.

Questdog · 07-01-2011, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by fhomess

There's something about "Canada Day" that just sounds funny to me. In the US, we don't have "America Day" or "United States Day", we have "Independence Day". "Canada Day" sounds a little like "Fhomess Day" to me. It's not "Fhomess Day", it's simply my birthday. That said, if "Fhomess Day" entitled me to a small percentage of everyone's salary, I'd be all for it.

Canada never became independent, so they have no birthday......

megamanmatt · 07-01-2011, 12:45 PM

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Canada never became independent, so they have no birthday......

I thought they were finally granted independence in the 80's. I could be totally wrong though.

The Wolf · 07-01-2011, 01:03 PM

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Well Wisconsin is only boring in certain context. Politically it's freaking crazy.

Ever been to Rice Lake?

megamanmatt · 07-01-2011, 01:10 PM

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Ever been to Rice Lake?

I have not, however it appears to only be a short 2 1/2 hour drive from my house. Is that where you're from? Or just a particularly boring part of WI?

Cras · 07-01-2011, 01:16 PM

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I thought they were finally granted independence in the 80's. I could be totally wrong though.

Elizabeth II is still the Queen of Canada, appoints the Governor General, who in terms appoints the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

Heck, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are over there right now to help celebrate Canada Day.

megamanmatt · 07-01-2011, 01:23 PM

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Elizabeth II is still the Queen of Canada, appoints the Governor General, who in terms appoints the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

Heck, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are over there right now to help celebrate Canada Day.

Canada is it's own sovereign nation though.

LeiterFanatic · 07-01-2011, 01:27 PM

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And there are quite a few who make money as small outfits. The trick is to manage your finances well, market properly, and don't overextend. Just like OOTP to date.

what they realy need is to mate the graphics of the MLB.com Gameday for IPAD to OOTP. THEN you would have a killer app. "Putting the game in Gameday"
I was watching the Pirates game last night on my IPad and I was struck how natual a presentation it would be for OOTP. The stadium backgrounds, the pop-in, pop-out lineup and stat windows; the pitches being represented graphically. WOW. How about it Markus? Or Curt? Or whomever? I will play "Cliff Floyd's OOTP Gameday for Ipad2" if I have to

megamanmatt · 07-01-2011, 01:29 PM

Canada gained it's independence in 1982. Question answered.

Cras · 07-01-2011, 01:34 PM

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Canada is it's own sovereign nation though.

It is still apart of the Commonwealth, which means the Queen is the Sovereign, and it acts on its own only by agreement. I do believe all the laws the Parliament passes still requires a form of Royal Ascent, in the form of a signing by the royally appointed Gov General.

The way it is sovereign in all these areas technically and legally, is that the Queen has a seperate title to act as the Sovereign of Canada. She is not the head of Canada by being the Queen of the United Kingdom, but rather she is the Queen of Canada, and I believe the only other member of the Canadian royal family is the prince regent, which in the modern case is the Prince of Wales, Charles. None of the other members of the British royal family are part of the Canadian royal family.

Donevyn · 07-01-2011, 02:03 PM

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The beauty thing about OOTP is we have played out many seasons over many different version of the game (well us longtimers) and here is Schilling's career in NARBL an online league that has been going since June of 2002 (real life)

History

Drafted in 1st round, 3rd overall pick, by Milwaukee in 1988...
Earned first career win on 9/6/1989...
Injured on 5/16/1991 with a Inflamed Back Muscle, out for one week...
Injured on 9/10/1991 with a Strained Bicep Muscle, out for 7 weeks...
Traded from New Orleans to Texas on 6/16/1992 (Going to NOR: P Gene Nelson, 1B Sid Bream. Going to TEX: P Curt Schilling, 1B John Jaha)...
Injured on 9/7/1993 with a Inflamed Bicep Tendon, out for 3 weeks...
Traded from Texas to New York (A) on 7/1/1994 (Going to TEX: P Doug Drabek, P Rheal Cormier. Going to NYY: P Curt Schilling)...
Injured on 5/9/1995 with a Pulled Elbow Ligament, out for 1-2 weeks...
Injured on 8/10/1995 with a Strained Back Muscle, out for 5 weeks...
Injured on 10/10/1995 with a Blurred Vision Eye, out for 3 weeks...
Won World Championship with New York (A) in 1995...
1/31/1996: Gets a new one-year contract worth $1,492,857 through salary arbitration...
Injured on 5/9/1996 with a Torn Rotator Cuff Muscle, out for entire career...
Retired in 1997.

Career stats

123 G, 33-60 record, 5.23 ERA, 1.52 WHIP, .497 BABIP

The ironic thing was he won the World Series with the NYY in 1995 going 11-6 that season and with one start in the postseason taking a loss.

He suffered a CEI at 30 years old.

I am a huge Sox fan and this was just wrong

This is interesting. I'm new to the OOTP universe, so perhaps this has been brought up somewhere, but does OOTP track injuries in such a way that if you can get reoccurring injuries based on previous injuries? I.e. your propensity to get the same kind increases?

Great thread. Cool Curt is here and VERY thankful he started 38 for I've missed some old games I played when young and he keeps the up for younger folks and old folks that lost their original copies. Thanks!

LeiterFanatic · 07-01-2011, 04:28 PM

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Canada gained it's independence in 1982. Question answered.

*watches Curt Schilling quietly exit the thread he started and leave the community he just joined*

Bluenoser · 07-01-2011, 04:35 PM

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Elizabeth II is still the Queen of Canada, appoints the Governor General, who in terms appoints the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

Heck, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are over there right now to help celebrate Canada Day.

No, Elizabeth does not appoint the GG, the Prime Minister does that.

The GG does not appoint the PM, he gets elected same as the cabinet does.

1967 is the year we got our own flag.

1982 was when the Canada Act (Constitution) was passed by British Parliment, ending all remaining dependance of Canada on the UK.

silvam14 · 07-01-2011, 04:40 PM

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*watches Curt Schilling quietly exit the thread he started and leave the community he just joined*

Yeah, Too bad this thread got sidetracked

RBLwebguy · 07-01-2011, 07:07 PM

Don't blame me!

BballDoc · 07-01-2011, 07:12 PM

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Yeah, Too bad this thread got sidetracked

Yes it is, I was just getting ready to share my neat Curt Schilling story. I'll tell it anyway.

Loved Statis-Pro Baseball as a kid but over the course of the years and all the moving around I ended up losing my game and season cards. Several years ago I decided to see if I could find one on Ebay, and of course there was several out there to bid on. It was the full game with the 1991 Season Cards. Won the bid and was pumped to get the game.

The player cards were still in sheets and had never been separated. I separated them into their respective teams but came upon this one card that was different. This card had writing on the back of it, it what looked like roller ball or fine tip felt black pen. The players' card was Curt Schilling and HE HAD SIGNED THE BACK OF IT!! On top of that....Avalon Hill had printed (in smaller print) on the front of the card Curt's Advanced Squad Leader A.R.E.A. rating.

Matty86 · 07-01-2011, 07:25 PM

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Well I think you'd have to look into how many sales iOOTP has in comparison to other game applications before you can say any market is sitting anywhere. OOTP's market is likely still far larger than iOOTP's but is still no where near the level of platformers, RPGs, 1st Person Shooters or any of the other more standard genres.

I'm still not sold on the long term viability of the gaming market on the iPad simply due to American's short attention spans.

Now, if you were to approach Playstation or Microsoft in an attempt to get a downloadable version of OOTP on their console's online services that would be a better direction to go IMO as you'll be reaching a far larger audience who are more dedicated to games. Most people who play games on the iPad and iPhone are casual gamers who will be turned off by the level of depth OOTP goes into.

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I don't know. I really don't think fantasy baseball players would be that interested in it. I could be wrong, not being a fantasy baseball player.

It's just a genre that gets little to no publication, on air time, or even notice at E3. That's the problem. You're not just trying to introduce a new game to a market, you're trying to introduce a whole different style of game in a market that is heavily dominated by EA and 2k. Even developers with deep pockets and industry connections can't compete with those two. The only company that has had any real success trying to break through was Sony themselves and that is in large part because they own the console.

I think America's short attention span is exactly why that kind of game would work on a iphone/ipad.... I have a dozen games on my phone that I bought and have played maybe twice..

And our genre of games could certainly benefit from having well known big name athletes attached to them.

Matty86 · 07-01-2011, 07:35 PM

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Yeah, Too bad this thread got sidetracked

Yeah no kidding... from some goot ootp/baseball chat to a page + talking about America's hat....

Carlton · 07-01-2011, 08:31 PM

Violation Matty86! Shhhhhh, they JUST stopped and where about to go to "f&*% to sleep" as Samuel L. Jackson would narrate

silvam14 · 07-01-2011, 08:58 PM

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There's a lot of things that could be done with OOTP. I'd start with online commercial OOTP leagues with a monthly subscription fee. With paid professionals doing the commissioner work that could be huge and could even make a dent in the fantasy market.

Mmmmmmm. I'd buy that for a dollar!

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fhomess Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,651	There's something about "Canada Day" that just sounds funny to me. In the US, we don't have "America Day" or "United States Day", we have "Independence Day". "Canada Day" sounds a little like "Fhomess Day" to me. It's not "Fhomess Day", it's simply my birthday. That said, if "Fhomess Day" entitled me to a small percentage of everyone's salary, I'd be all for it. __________________ StatsLab- PHP/MySQL based utilities for Online Leagues Baseball Cards - Full list of known templates and documentation on card development.

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megamanmatt Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeville, Minnesota Posts: 2,416	Canada gained it's independence in 1982. Question answered. __________________ "The Minneapolis Lakers moved to Los Angeles, where there are no lakes; The Oilers moved to Tennessee where there is no oil; the Jazz moved to Salt Lake City where they don't allow music; The Oakland Raiders moved to Los Angeles and then back to Oakland, no one in Los Angeles seemed to notice." Note to self: Princess Kenny was really off-putting.

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Carlton Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 3,765	Violation Matty86! Shhhhhh, they JUST stopped and where about to go to "f&*% to sleep" as Samuel L. Jackson would narrate __________________ "I am at that stage of my life where I keep myself out of arguments. I am 100% self sufficient spiritually, emotionally & financially. Even if you say 1+1=5, you are ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. Enjoy!"

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RBLwebguy Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Canuckistan Posts: 5,162	Don't blame me!