a modest proposal

jaa36 · 03-13-2020, 02:45 PM

So, I live in Seattle, and things are not so fun here at the moment. Schools closed, everything else is closed, and no “real” baseball on the horizon. And all of that pales in comparison to the human costs we’ll incur in the upcoming months, both in lives and well-being.

I propose that OOTP help to lighten the load a bit. Perhaps, in partnership with MLB, a formal daily simulation of the “official” results of the games that would otherwise be played- which could then be “broadcast” on OOTP Twitch, or (dreaming big) the MLB Network??

Perhaps we would never need to return to the days of real baseball!

qcbandits · 03-13-2020, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by jaa36

So, I live in Seattle, and things are not so fun here at the moment. Schools closed, everything else is closed, and no “real” baseball on the horizon. And all of that pales in comparison to the human costs we’ll incur in the upcoming months, both in lives and well-being.

I propose that OOTP help to lighten the load a bit. Perhaps, in partnership with MLB, a formal daily simulation of the “official” results of the games that would otherwise be played- which could then be “broadcast” on OOTP Twitch, or (dreaming big) the MLB Network??

Perhaps we would never need to return to the days of real baseball!

I actually posted the same idea in the beta test forums

Giants44 · 03-13-2020, 07:27 PM

When I was a kid and they went on strike - the local newspapers did fake stories and box scores the whole time. It was amazing and of course spoke to how little we had to fill our time back then.

even if OOTP didn't officially do this, feels like something somebody in the community could pull off rather easily

andyhdz · 03-13-2020, 09:12 PM

Very cool idea but honestly I would want all of the ootp staff to focus on responding to and cleaning up the bugs that will need to get ironed out. I like the volunteer idea though.

Markus Heinsohn · 03-14-2020, 02:49 AM

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Originally Posted by andyhdz

Very cool idea but honestly I would want all of the ootp staff to focus on responding to and cleaning up the bugs that will need to get ironed out.

Our marketing team does not fix bugs

03-13-2020, 02:45 PM	#1
jaa36 Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 3,031	a modest proposal So, I live in Seattle, and things are not so fun here at the moment. Schools closed, everything else is closed, and no “real” baseball on the horizon. And all of that pales in comparison to the human costs we’ll incur in the upcoming months, both in lives and well-being. I propose that OOTP help to lighten the load a bit. Perhaps, in partnership with MLB, a formal daily simulation of the “official” results of the games that would otherwise be played- which could then be “broadcast” on OOTP Twitch, or (dreaming big) the MLB Network?? Perhaps we would never need to return to the days of real baseball!

03-13-2020, 07:27 PM	#3
Giants44 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: San Francisco Bay Area Posts: 2,408	When I was a kid and they went on strike - the local newspapers did fake stories and box scores the whole time. It was amazing and of course spoke to how little we had to fill our time back then. even if OOTP didn't officially do this, feels like something somebody in the community could pull off rather easily __________________ "In a text sim - Immersion is everything" -Me "Judge a man not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character" -Martin Luther King "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." -Einstein "The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." -Muhammad Ali "Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything." -Toby Harrah

03-13-2020, 09:12 PM	#4
andyhdz All Star Starter Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Fresno, CA by way of Texas Posts: 1,754	Very cool idea but honestly I would want all of the ootp staff to focus on responding to and cleaning up the bugs that will need to get ironed out. I like the volunteer idea though.