Monty Brewster Baseball Association Recruiting Thread (historical) - Page 7

treedom · 05-02-2003, 12:23 PM

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Originally posted by Modern Relic
What an excellent idea!

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Originally posted by Wildcard88
Yep. It is an excellent idea and if you act now...

I don't think you caught the joke

Modern Relic · 05-02-2003, 12:29 PM

Recte44 · 05-02-2003, 02:18 PM

I think the joke is that we're "ripping off" the AFBL.
Not true, but I did indeed catch the joke.

BTW- AFBL is a great league as well.

Wildcard88 · 05-02-2003, 02:57 PM

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Originally posted by badfish
If you're looking for a fictional league, come on over and apply.

While we only have one opening right now, we are approaching the end of our 1975 season and we will inevitably have additional teams opening up for the 1976 season.

The people who apply today will be the ones with the best chance to play in this AWESOME league.

I caught the joke. I didn't create the league. I would at least think both of our leagues can at least say our two leagues are more unique than say...a league starting up using realistic players of today.

Modern Relic · 05-02-2003, 04:14 PM

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Originally posted by GBC Chairman
I think the joke is that we're "ripping off" the AFBL.
Not true, but I did indeed catch the joke.

No, it's not true. I was just messing around.

The Monty Brewster has some excellent rules that make it definitely distinct from the AFBL.

And a very nice website, too.

Modern Relic · 05-02-2003, 04:17 PM

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Originally posted by Wildcard88
I would at least think both of our leagues can at least say our two leagues are more unique than say...a league starting up using realistic players of today.

Agreed. I like the fact that since they're fictional you have no real preconcievd ideas. But using "character" names gives the players some sense of familiarity.

But anyway, I'll stop hijacking your thread now.

Wildcard88 · 05-03-2003, 01:16 AM

Any league like the AFBL that has the Springfield Isotopes in it is a winner in my book. Too bad you couldn't get the Nuclear Power Plant Softball team and have Homer and the Ringers.

mad0die · 05-04-2003, 06:14 PM

The playoffs are starting tonight. Check in to the message board if you want to get on the list for any '75 openings!

JWay · 05-04-2003, 06:38 PM

Put in your 2 cents everyone, you'll love this league! The Commissioners are usually funny. We've never missed a sim since i joined (original owner

) and the live sims are a great get together.

Recte44 · 05-04-2003, 09:49 PM

Holla!

Wildcard88 · 05-06-2003, 12:03 PM

Bumparoo

Recte44 · 05-06-2003, 02:07 PM

We also have a MLB defectors system in place, where each year several MLB players are lured over.

This year the candidates (no one is confimed yet) include: Steve Blass, Henry Aaron, Billy Grabarkewitz, Tommie Agee, Jack Aker, Blue Moon Odom, Jim Ray Hart, Mel Stottlemyre, Dick McAuliffe, Ken Griffey, Sr., Bill "Spaceman" Lee, Carl Yastremski, Dick Drago, Catfish Hunter, Tony Conigliaro, and Dick Allen.

Come join the action!!

mad0die · 05-06-2003, 02:43 PM

We will be announcing any available teams this Friday, but if you want to get a heads-up on the competition, come sign up for the message board and answer some question in the New Applicants section.

I promise that you will be impressed with the activity in this league. If you love killing time at work by hanging out in your OOTP league message board, this league is for you!

Total Nirvana · 05-06-2003, 03:36 PM

Hot Dogs!

Yeah, I'm just bumping my post count, yada yada...

Recte44 · 05-06-2003, 05:59 PM

Looks like Aaron will stay in the majors....
but still plenty of superstars coming over!

Wildcard88 · 05-07-2003, 09:35 PM

STEVE BLASS!!!!!!

We'll get to see what he would do if he had another major league to try and work out his problems in.

I have it on good knowledge that at least 1 team is close to being without an owner with another one as a good possibility. If you like BOSI, we just started using it.

Recte44 · 07-03-2003, 04:23 PM

Special thanks to SpaceNinja for writing this compelling article on behalf of the Montgomery Brewster Baseball Association (MBBA)

Major League Baseball has been an American institution since before the turn of the century. It's brought us the Red Sox and Yankees, Dodgers and Giants, Mantle, Mays, Jackie Robinson and Babe Ruth. It has persevered through war and through national tragedy, overcome racial prejudice and financial upheavals, and time-and-time again defied nay-sayers by continuing to provide a wealth of dreams and memories for a generation of sports fans.

So why is Major League Baseball running scared?

The answer is Montgomery Brewster, multi-millionaire playboy and beloved political figure. Having withdrawn from the New York City mayoral campaign, Brewster made the latest in a long series of seemingly-ridiculous investments: a brand new baseball federation, in his own name and image.

The MBBA was seemingly doomed from the start, up against the impossibly-entrenched MLB. And yet, in just three years, Major League Baseball is already showing signs of fear.

Although Commissioner and all-around jerk Bowie Kuhn has yet to mention the rival league by name, there can be no question that they have begun cutting sharply into MLB's market share. Game seven of last year's Cartwright Cup was the single highest rated baseball game of the year, as the heavily advertised showdown of Willie Mays and the Washington Bobwhites against the upstart Marquette Suns and Japanese superstar Hayfu Sobah attracted a mammoth worldwide audience. Although MLB still has the vast majority in terms of of national airtime, the exciting cinderella story of Marquette attracted far more attention than the unlikable Athletics' third consecutive world series.

Washington D.C. has clearly been the biggest source of pride for MBBA diehards and the biggest sticking point for the MLB. Kuhn and the rest of Major League Baseball spent decades trying to make baseball profitable in the nation's capital before finally giving up for good in 1972. In just two years, Brewster had put together for Washington a team of some of the best players in the world, and had them playing in front of sell-out crowds every night.

But despite the undeniable star power of players like Mays, controversial defector (or 'traitor' as some have branded him) Dick Allen, and 22-year-old hearthrob Steve Nebraska, the real draw for the MBBA has simply been a solid, entertaining game.

"The simple fact is, going to an MLB park to see a game isn't a lot of fun," said sports analyst Horace Brainstettler. "The parks are either old and cramped or revoltingly artificial and sterile. The game is slow, the pitchers don't hit, and the players are more concerned about their next paycheck than the outcome of the game."

The MBBA has taken advantage of the growing resentment towards the MLB's new direction. MBBA games are typically fast-paced, strategic affairs, and the players are mostly fresh-faced and fun loving. No surprise considering most of them are former amateurs or journeymen finally getting a shot at national exposure. The league has also benefited from their stadiums, many of which are attractions all by themselves. Designed with the fan in mind, the beautifully designed state-of-the-art parks are all wonderful places to watch a ball-game, from the comfortable seats to the carefully aligned dimensions.

Another feather in Montgomery Brewster's hat has been his cornering of the tourism market. Whereas years ago people traveled from far and wide to see a ball-game, Major League Baseball has become an introverted, localised sport. The MBBA has instead chosen to focus on building exciting franchises in towns such as Las Vegas, Honolulu and New Orleans. Getting a drink at Moe Fugger, catching a Phoons game and betting on the number of sac bunts that New Orleans will lay down is quickly becoming as big a part of the tourist experience as casinos, beaches, or the French Quarter.

Also raking in money for the MBBA is their relative success in Canada. Although they have yet to achieve any massive breakthroughs, franchises across the great white north have each managed in one way or another to turn a profit, something the MLB has yet to pull off with the beleaguered Expos franchise. Indeed, Montreal's now infamous Fire and Brimstone have taken to the Blazers so strongly that Les Expos may have to move southward to a less competitive market.

Kuhn has not yet acknowledged the success of the MBBA, but the concern is clearly there. Just last week, it was announced that Major League Baseball had awarded two expansion franchises, one in Toronto, and one in Seattle. Toronto is the only major Canadian market that the MBBA has *not* already cornered, and Seattle has been the home of MBBA's most troubled franchise, and the one that the MLB will have the least trouble choking out. It is clear that Kuhn hopes that these new organizations will be able to loosen the MBBA's vice-like grip on the Great White North.

Montgomery Brewster still has a long way to go before people whisper his name in the same breath as Doubleday and Cartwright, but there's no denying one thing: professional baseball just got a lot more entertaining.

When contacted for a quote on his latest miraculous financial success, Brewster merely cursed a lot and screamed "WHY!?!"

A.J. Holz · 07-03-2003, 04:33 PM

If Major League Baseball thinks the Mariners and their goofy-ass pitchfork logo will even come close to snuffing out the fire the Storm put into the people of Seattle this season, well, they're dead wrong.

mad0die · 07-03-2003, 04:38 PM

Who needs the MLB?!

ImpossibleDream · 07-03-2003, 07:59 PM

The MLB is all about flannel uniforms and fat guys fom the 1920s. The MBBA is the league of the future.

05-02-2003, 12:29 PM	#122
Modern Relic All Star Starter Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,265	__________________ American Folklore Baseball League (closed): Commissioner/GM - Mudville Nine (ruled!) Former member of Boys of Summer: GM - St. Louis Browns (doormats!) Former member of the OTBL: GM - Gashouse Gorillas (also ruled!) "People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." Rogers Hornsby

05-02-2003, 02:18 PM	#123
Recte44 Global Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Oconomowoc, WI Posts: 2,754	I think the joke is that we're "ripping off" the AFBL. Not true, but I did indeed catch the joke. BTW- AFBL is a great league as well. __________________ Matt Rectenwald Commissioner, GM: Las Vegas Hustlers, The Brewster Baseball Association- fictional league (JOIN NOW)

05-03-2003, 01:16 AM	#127
Wildcard88 Minors (Single A) Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 79	Any league like the AFBL that has the Springfield Isotopes in it is a winner in my book. Too bad you couldn't get the Nuclear Power Plant Softball team and have Homer and the Ringers. __________________ Montreal Blazers GM 1973 FL Atlantic Division Champion MBBA

05-04-2003, 06:14 PM	#128
mad0die All Star Reserve Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: TX Posts: 912	The playoffs are starting tonight. Check in to the message board if you want to get on the list for any '75 openings! __________________ Commish GUBA

05-04-2003, 09:49 PM	#130
Recte44 Global Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Oconomowoc, WI Posts: 2,754	Holla! __________________ Matt Rectenwald Commissioner, GM: Las Vegas Hustlers, The Brewster Baseball Association- fictional league (JOIN NOW)

05-04-2003, 06:38 PM	#129
JWay Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Sioux Falls, SD Posts: 5,021 Blog Entries: 3	Put in your 2 cents everyone, you'll love this league! The Commissioners are usually funny. We've never missed a sim since i joined (original owner ) and the live sims are a great get together.

05-06-2003, 12:03 PM	#131
Wildcard88 Minors (Single A) Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 79	Bumparoo __________________ Montreal Blazers GM 1973 FL Atlantic Division Champion MBBA

05-06-2003, 02:07 PM	#132
Recte44 Global Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Oconomowoc, WI Posts: 2,754	We also have a MLB defectors system in place, where each year several MLB players are lured over. This year the candidates (no one is confimed yet) include: Steve Blass, Henry Aaron, Billy Grabarkewitz, Tommie Agee, Jack Aker, Blue Moon Odom, Jim Ray Hart, Mel Stottlemyre, Dick McAuliffe, Ken Griffey, Sr., Bill "Spaceman" Lee, Carl Yastremski, Dick Drago, Catfish Hunter, Tony Conigliaro, and Dick Allen. Come join the action!! __________________ Matt Rectenwald Commissioner, GM: Las Vegas Hustlers, The Brewster Baseball Association- fictional league (JOIN NOW)

05-06-2003, 02:43 PM	#133
mad0die All Star Reserve Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: TX Posts: 912	We will be announcing any available teams this Friday, but if you want to get a heads-up on the competition, come sign up for the message board and answer some question in the New Applicants section. I promise that you will be impressed with the activity in this league. If you love killing time at work by hanging out in your OOTP league message board, this league is for you! __________________ Commish GUBA

05-06-2003, 03:36 PM	#134
Total Nirvana All Star Reserve Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: San Diego, California Posts: 750	Hot Dogs! Yeah, I'm just bumping my post count, yada yada... __________________ Total Hockey Commissioner Your Off-Topic Nightmare. Free Agent OT Player - Plays 1B/3B/OF, hits for power on all fields, great fielder, can hit .330 a season!

05-06-2003, 05:59 PM	#135
Recte44 Global Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Oconomowoc, WI Posts: 2,754	Looks like Aaron will stay in the majors.... but still plenty of superstars coming over! __________________ Matt Rectenwald Commissioner, GM: Las Vegas Hustlers, The Brewster Baseball Association- fictional league (JOIN NOW)

05-07-2003, 09:35 PM	#136
Wildcard88 Minors (Single A) Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 79	STEVE BLASS!!!!!! We'll get to see what he would do if he had another major league to try and work out his problems in. I have it on good knowledge that at least 1 team is close to being without an owner with another one as a good possibility. If you like BOSI, we just started using it. __________________ Montreal Blazers GM 1973 FL Atlantic Division Champion MBBA

07-03-2003, 04:23 PM	#137
Recte44 Global Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Oconomowoc, WI Posts: 2,754	MBBA vs. MLB a report Special thanks to SpaceNinja for writing this compelling article on behalf of the Montgomery Brewster Baseball Association (MBBA) Major League Baseball has been an American institution since before the turn of the century. It's brought us the Red Sox and Yankees, Dodgers and Giants, Mantle, Mays, Jackie Robinson and Babe Ruth. It has persevered through war and through national tragedy, overcome racial prejudice and financial upheavals, and time-and-time again defied nay-sayers by continuing to provide a wealth of dreams and memories for a generation of sports fans. So why is Major League Baseball running scared? The answer is Montgomery Brewster, multi-millionaire playboy and beloved political figure. Having withdrawn from the New York City mayoral campaign, Brewster made the latest in a long series of seemingly-ridiculous investments: a brand new baseball federation, in his own name and image. The MBBA was seemingly doomed from the start, up against the impossibly-entrenched MLB. And yet, in just three years, Major League Baseball is already showing signs of fear. Although Commissioner and all-around jerk Bowie Kuhn has yet to mention the rival league by name, there can be no question that they have begun cutting sharply into MLB's market share. Game seven of last year's Cartwright Cup was the single highest rated baseball game of the year, as the heavily advertised showdown of Willie Mays and the Washington Bobwhites against the upstart Marquette Suns and Japanese superstar Hayfu Sobah attracted a mammoth worldwide audience. Although MLB still has the vast majority in terms of of national airtime, the exciting cinderella story of Marquette attracted far more attention than the unlikable Athletics' third consecutive world series. Washington D.C. has clearly been the biggest source of pride for MBBA diehards and the biggest sticking point for the MLB. Kuhn and the rest of Major League Baseball spent decades trying to make baseball profitable in the nation's capital before finally giving up for good in 1972. In just two years, Brewster had put together for Washington a team of some of the best players in the world, and had them playing in front of sell-out crowds every night. But despite the undeniable star power of players like Mays, controversial defector (or 'traitor' as some have branded him) Dick Allen, and 22-year-old hearthrob Steve Nebraska, the real draw for the MBBA has simply been a solid, entertaining game. "The simple fact is, going to an MLB park to see a game isn't a lot of fun," said sports analyst Horace Brainstettler. "The parks are either old and cramped or revoltingly artificial and sterile. The game is slow, the pitchers don't hit, and the players are more concerned about their next paycheck than the outcome of the game." The MBBA has taken advantage of the growing resentment towards the MLB's new direction. MBBA games are typically fast-paced, strategic affairs, and the players are mostly fresh-faced and fun loving. No surprise considering most of them are former amateurs or journeymen finally getting a shot at national exposure. The league has also benefited from their stadiums, many of which are attractions all by themselves. Designed with the fan in mind, the beautifully designed state-of-the-art parks are all wonderful places to watch a ball-game, from the comfortable seats to the carefully aligned dimensions. Another feather in Montgomery Brewster's hat has been his cornering of the tourism market. Whereas years ago people traveled from far and wide to see a ball-game, Major League Baseball has become an introverted, localised sport. The MBBA has instead chosen to focus on building exciting franchises in towns such as Las Vegas, Honolulu and New Orleans. Getting a drink at Moe Fugger, catching a Phoons game and betting on the number of sac bunts that New Orleans will lay down is quickly becoming as big a part of the tourist experience as casinos, beaches, or the French Quarter. Also raking in money for the MBBA is their relative success in Canada. Although they have yet to achieve any massive breakthroughs, franchises across the great white north have each managed in one way or another to turn a profit, something the MLB has yet to pull off with the beleaguered Expos franchise. Indeed, Montreal's now infamous Fire and Brimstone have taken to the Blazers so strongly that Les Expos may have to move southward to a less competitive market. Kuhn has not yet acknowledged the success of the MBBA, but the concern is clearly there. Just last week, it was announced that Major League Baseball had awarded two expansion franchises, one in Toronto, and one in Seattle. Toronto is the only major Canadian market that the MBBA has not already cornered, and Seattle has been the home of MBBA's most troubled franchise, and the one that the MLB will have the least trouble choking out. It is clear that Kuhn hopes that these new organizations will be able to loosen the MBBA's vice-like grip on the Great White North. Montgomery Brewster still has a long way to go before people whisper his name in the same breath as Doubleday and Cartwright, but there's no denying one thing: professional baseball just got a lot more entertaining. When contacted for a quote on his latest miraculous financial success, Brewster merely cursed a lot and screamed "WHY!?!" __________________ Matt Rectenwald Commissioner, GM: Las Vegas Hustlers, The Brewster Baseball Association- fictional league (JOIN NOW) Last edited by Recte44; 07-03-2003 at 04:27 PM.

07-03-2003, 04:33 PM	#138
A.J. Holz All Star Reserve Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 650	If Major League Baseball thinks the Mariners and their goofy-ass pitchfork logo will even come close to snuffing out the fire the Storm put into the people of Seattle this season, well, they're dead wrong. __________________ NABA - Tijuana Toros / Commish ORB - Oakland Athletics (former owner) MBBA - Seattle Storm JOBL - Grand Forks Varmints (former owner) FIBB - Chicago Fire TMBU - Tulsa Tomcats (former owner) ACL - Oakland A's (former owner) ACB - Rockville Superbas

07-03-2003, 04:38 PM	#139
mad0die All Star Reserve Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: TX Posts: 912	Who needs the MLB?! __________________ Commish GUBA

07-03-2003, 07:59 PM	#140
ImpossibleDream Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 18	The MLB is all about flannel uniforms and fat guys fom the 1920s. The MBBA is the league of the future.