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01-19-2020, 01:35 PM | #81 |
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P464: Good Luck, Warbirds!
Stone Island awaits...
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01-19-2020, 01:50 PM | #82 |
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Wow, We DID it, we beat the whale! After a spectacular regular season where we got the wild card despite being in the same division as the whale, we get matched up in the division series and, propelled by CG shutouts by Pedro and Waddell, finish them off in 4! I get another whale in the sub-league series but who cares, we took on the best team in the league and won.
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01-19-2020, 04:05 PM | #83 |
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It's on! Big Mo on our side.
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01-19-2020, 04:05 PM | #84 |
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P464 Update Time!
The Rilzemer Deifel impressively took the Adirondack LOLCats to 5 games in the Division Series--even leading 2 games to 1!--but could not pull off the amazing upset. The LG Twins did knock off my old friends, the St. Louis Cardinals, in 5. In the AC Sub-League Series, the LOLCats currently lead 1-0.
Meanwhile...
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01-19-2020, 04:13 PM | #85 |
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Frogs got thru the dreaded Wild Card game with a 1-0 win over the Madison Tycoons. Richie Ashburn broke a scoreless tie with a walkoff RBI single in the 9th inning.
But, 2061 champions was not to be for the Frogs. We faced a very familiar foe in Long Beach-Compton, but appeared to have already used up all the offense allotted for this season. The Frogs bowed out weakly in the DS, losing 2-3, 0-2, and 5-7 (10 innings). Good luck to daves (and to those marooned in the whale league). The Auburn Doubledays are still alive in P441 and will face a pretty large underdog before taking on the winner of Monterey Bay/Long Beach-Compton in the PL Series. On the positive side of things, we pulled a 100 Lefty Grove from a pack last night. The Frogs also escaped punishment once again by applying a bit too late to the whale league. Oh shucks... I would suggest a reformation of the Old Timer 5, but I'm guessing nobody wants to hear that coming from me at this point.
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I was sure your team wouldn't catch USC and then when I checked in right at the end, I was shocked to see the Warbirds on top. That was an amazing comeback! Congrats! Good luck in your series vs Stone Island.
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01-19-2020, 04:54 PM | #87 | |
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tied 1-1 in the series. That split at Stone Island is a win. The Warbirds have been lights out at home playing at .815 including a sweep of Stone Island. Stone Island incorporates a 4 man LH opener(limited pitch count) strategy and heavy LH lineup. This matches their park set up. They played at .840 at home and only .667 on the road. The Warbirds (on game 9) switched to a beneficial RHB park factors and have strong RHB platoon so we are feeling confident. Do we have to win all 3 at home? Can we steal one in their park if needed? Will the Island get revenge and make this post a waste of all of our time?
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01-19-2020, 04:58 PM | #88 |
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The Raccoons didn't make the playoffs for the 1st time since our time in a whale league that had 15 whales in it (20 years ago). But it wasn't the whales that did us in this year, we just didn't do well even against the lesser teams.
So an update to our performance vs the better teams in the league. I "promoted" the Warbirds to whale status and the Suns to mini-whale. vs Whales: Warbirds 17-21 .447 Red Raiders 13-19 .406 Raccoons 22-34 .393 vs Mini-Whales: Warbirds: 8-2 .800 Red Raiders: 30-11 .732 Raccoons: 15-12 .556 Total vs whales/mini-whales: Red Raiders: 43-30 .589 Warbirds: 25-23 .521 Raccoons: 37-46 .446 Whales: LOLCats, Cardinals, Trojans, Stone Island, Soniqs, Warbirds Mini-whales: Raccoons, Red Raiders, Deifel, Twins, Asbury, Suns vs all non-whales (final records): Warbirds: 102-22 .823 (119-43 .735) Red Raiders: 97-33 .746 (110-52 .679) Raccoons: 70-36 .660 (92-70 .568) So... If any of you are contemplating joining an all (or mostly) whale league, then look at our records above and reconsider. If we were to join an all whale league, we'd almost certainly be sent back to diamond. Compared to the teams in diamond, we'd look like a whale and we'd no doubt play like one too. Could be interesting as could the beating we'd take in an all whale league, but I don't think I'm up to it at the moment (lack of time to micromanage like I'd like). So if any of you do want to join a whale league, please let me know and unfriend me for now. I do wonder if someone from this small group of whales still has my team friended, because this is the 2nd time out of the 4 times I've used the friends feature (besides the other 2 times where I intentionally joined them) where I've ended up with them even though I have none of them friended. If someone doesn't unfriend you, can you be still paired with them, I wonder?
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01-19-2020, 05:55 PM | #89 |
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I decided not to join the whale league for now, but I would gladly have waittilnextyear and old timer as my only friends (aw) so we could, at least, be placed together again next season...assuming everyone remembers to set the League Placement Setting to "Use Friends List" <ahem>.
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01-19-2020, 05:57 PM | #90 |
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P464: Come on, Warbirds!!
Almost there...
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With 2 chances to move on to the waiting LOLcats will the Warbirds tinker with the vs LH lineup or let the hot play continue.
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01-19-2020, 06:18 PM | #92 | |
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Silicon Valley losing streak continued as they lost the wildcard game as well. Texas took the Doubledays to 5 games before we could move on. Stafford Rangers currently putting up a fight in the ACCS. Amazing to pull a Perfect card out of a pack.
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FYI, see pic for current league placement setting. If a few other people want to join, that's cool. The whale invitational next week should prevent being placed in whale league.
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01-19-2020, 07:08 PM | #94 |
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Hmm...My Flyers vs. baugh5's SA Cotton Rats!
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01-19-2020, 07:09 PM | #95 |
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Stan Coveleski is going super saiyan for me in Diamond .374. Current playoff stats:
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Due to the difference in RD - 639-377 - the LOLcats are the favorites. The Warbirds on the other hand are hot. Winning their last 19 reg games as well as holding the best post-AS game record. In fact they are a 7.5 games better than the LOLcats.
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01-19-2020, 07:42 PM | #97 | |
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...I'll show myself out.
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01-19-2020, 08:31 PM | #98 |
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Aw hey, came back from a 3-1 deficit in the league championship to make it to the finals! Up against the Flagstaff 49ers... this is gonna be tough.
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Is this another PL finals and another loss coming up for the Warbirds.
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Put me back please.
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