SirFozzie
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1921-1940 in: Some notable hall of famers:
Larry Doby (.310, 192 HR, 1304 RBI, 2844 Hits) (1912-1933) 94.7% (1st year on Ballot)
Chris Carpenter (209-152, 12 SV, 2.73 ERA) (1913-1929) 79.9% (3rd year on Ballot)
Robin Yount (.271, 38 HR, 931 RBI) (1905-1925) (7th year on Ballot)
Oil Can Boyd (279-223, 12 SV, 2.98 ERA) (1911-1926) 82.5% (Fifth Year on Ballot)
Sid Fernandez (221-149, 16 SV, 2.60 ERA) (1914-1929) 90.1% (first year)
And funny story about one of the new features, in 1931 Jamie Moyer (221-179, 2.55 ERA) was in his 8th year of 10 years on the ballot. He had built up slowly in the Hall of Fame Voting:
1924: 39.3%
1925: 49.3%
1926: 53.8%
1927: 57.8%
1928: 58%
1929: 66%
1930: 73.5%
So he had three years left to get in. Shoe in, right? Except, he got even CLOSER to the magic 75% in 1931, 74%, and then fell off in the last couple years. (67.5%, 57.9%). Sad thing was in 1931 NO one got elected (no one got in from 1914-1918 (obviously, the game had just started, five year waiting period AFTER a hall of fame career, etcetera), but no one got in 1924, 1929, 1930-1931, or the year that the writers hated everyone, 1938 (when the top vote getter, gets 55% of the vote, you know that there's not a legit Hall of Famer in the group)
Record holders of note
Single season batting average (.426) Eddie Collins, 1930, who is still chugging along at age 36 next season (1941) with 3,580 hits and a LIFETIME batting average of .369 (also tops)
The ex-Miracle Met, Art Shamsky holds the single season HR record with 40, Fred Luderus holds the career record with 354.
El Guapo, Rich Garces holds the records for most games pitched (926) and saves (112)
Bryan Rekar holds the record for both most wins (383) and losses (311)
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Yeah, 2010. I don't get that decision at all. It's not even that cheap.
Arlie posts over at FOFC, a text-sim board I hang out at.. he said he is trying to use Steam to build awareness amongst gamers but wants to hold out on putting newer games on the service because the margins are lower on Steam then elsewhere. Personally I think you'd make it up in volume, but...
and in my OOTP Universe
Players seen include Yasiel Puig, Thurman Munson (the current Hit King with 2745), Pete Rose (imported at Age 26 in 1901, so, sorry no Hit Dog), Scott Brosius (the current HR King with a career total of.. 102.), the current all time leader in Wins ABove Replacement (and 11 time Gold Glover) Robin Yount.The three Hall of Famers (remember, five years retired, so you had to be imported young, and play as close to 1915 as possible).Class of 1919:Johnny Sain (201-130, 2.29 ERA) 77.6% of votesAlex Fernandez (254-204, 2.53 ERA) 85.7%Class of 1920:Steve Carlton (201-178, 2.54 ERA) 76.1 % -
The first thing I do each year with OOTP is a "Random Debut Historical League" sim from 1901 to the present year.
What that does is, takes all the players in history, and assigns them random debut dates. They are normalized to the era, so Babe Ruth would be a power hitting legend now matter what era he played in, but he might hit 60 homers in the modern day.. but if he played in the deadball 1900's, 10 might be a record.
It's running the first batch of sims now (from 1901-1921), but just from the sidebars of the league leaders as the game sims, I can see the following players in the first few years: Boog Powell, Thurman Munson, Ernie Banks, Pete Rose (Sr, the Hit King), and Yasiel Puig.
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So, Out of the Park 16 came out for PC today (if you pre-ordered, three day jump).
I so want to do a small 8 or so team DVDVR league.
Any interest?
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Matchday Six:
England (+37) vs France
Ireland (+33) At Scotland
Wales (+12) At Italy
Italy @ Wales first, Ireland @ Scotland second, and England vs France last. So, in each case the team will know what the previous team did and what they need to do.
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Other than that, how did you like the play Mrs Lincoln?
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Nice to see Rooney has a asense of humor about being KTFO
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So with one game left, it's a three way tie between England, Ireland and Wales.. who respectively play France, Scotland, and Italy. It is legitimately anyone's tourney to win.
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Well, since I had a bit of time, I bought and read Kevin Pietersen's auto biography on Kindle. I have a jumble of thoughts about it, but this is most prevalent.
A) Kevin Pietersen is a diva. He is the epitome of the modern cricket superstar. A bit prone to creating drama and needs careful management. He straight up admits he has no interest in warm up games (he calls them Harvey Norman or "Zero Interest Down" games), and dislikes ODI's.
BUT..
B ) What we saw in England this World Cup is just the end result of bad decisions five+ years ago where cliques basically destroyed the Ashes winning side of 2009. When you get modern superstars on one side, and dyed in the wool, conservative stick in the mud types running the show on the other, things are going to break down. Hard. They failed to develop the next Freddy Flintoff (or Kevin Pietersen for that matter, even if he is South African), and the current generation of players are just not up to the challenge. I feel like they're going to wilt hard under the pressure of this summer's Ashes series.
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The Rangers situation in Glasgow gets more and more ridiculous
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/derek-llambias-sandy-easdale-barry-5304134
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Andrew and Fresh, send me a friend invite on PSN (SirFozzie)
Mucked around a bit on Helldivers with my friend Josh (you may remember him from RB3 or ME3)... we had to use Laptop google voice because I didn't have a PS3 headset (could have used USB, but it's a shorter cable, and with my leg, standing for lengthy amounts of time is contraindicated.
First Mission, 0:42 fail. you realllly have to retrain your fire discipline when playing this game
Edit: PS3 headset is coming tomorrow
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Yep, Angel Di Maria wins stupidface of the week award, when you're losing, you don't want to A) get booked for diving and then B ) Put your hands on the ref to Protest A. Congratulations, Stupidface!
(and I think Villa above was referring to Aston Villa with the two goals (and the idiot fans), not David Villa
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So Muta dropped the Wrestle-1 title to KAI this week
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Yeah, that's where the "Magicka level of Chaos" comes in
This is a description of a couple missions of a friend of mine (I haven't played it yet myself)
Mission Set 1
Important lessons that the Not Ponies have learned from last night's play session:
- Quinc is no longer allowed to use shotguns.
- Make sure that everyone knows where the run button is before setting the fuse on a nuclear demolition charge.
- Diving for cover is not an effective defense against flamethrowers.
- Quinc is no longer allowed to use flamethrowers.
- Turrets come out when all else fails.
- The previous statement is reversible.
- Quinc is no longer allowed to use sniper rifles.
- Although it seems like a good idea, there is no reason for Jackie to triple-check each input when calling for evac.
- Quinc is no longer allowed to use bazookas.
- ... or hand grenades.
- In fact, you know what? Just stand behind us and concentrate on calling down support.
- If you die while attempting to call down close air support, everyone else should flee the area as quickly as possible.
- The correct time for Stantz to check the latest intel reports is not during a firefight.
- ... even if the information would be useful.
- Friendly fire isn't.
- Close air support is often very close. Especially when Quinc's calling it down.
- No one actually can remember the Konami code when being assaulted by cyborgs.
- What the heck is that thing? Some kind of giant lobster?
- It spotted us! The lobster spotted us!
- Bullets just make it angrier.
- Quinc, grab the flamethrower! Grab the flamethrower!
- I know what I said!
- Ignore what I said! Do what I say!
- Yes, I know that made no sense!
- Arrggh! (gurgle.)
Mission 2
It turns out that this game has vehicles! That just makes it even better, since it allows us to have complete clusterfucks like this afternoon.
The Not Ponies are attempting our first Medium Difficulty mission on our first ice planet against the Bugs. We'd just unlocked Mecha Armor two missions prior, so our plan for everything was was to summon Mecha Armor, jump in, stomp around a bit, and finish the mission after all hostiles in the AO is dead. So, we land in a defensible position a little bit away from the first objective, and start calling in everything we need for the mission. Quinc calls in her Mecha suit, we all start loading up on ammo, and then the winds pick up. The Mecha Suit lands off-target, on top of Quinc. Splut.
I start making a request to send down a new Mech pilot, but before I punch in the last command, a bug patrol spots us. We all fall back to defensive positions, when we notice that the bugs aren't actually attacking us. They're more interested in taking out the big armored robot while it's just sitting there. Jackie grabs a flamethrower and charges forward to defend the Mech.
And then the winds pick up again.
Quinc's drop pod lands off target. On top of the Mecha. In fact, it lands with enough force that every single rocket sitting in the untouched, pristine rocket pod detonates, shredding Jackie into chunks. Quinc crawls out of the pod just in time to be swarmed by bugs. With 40 seconds left before the next time I'm allowed to call down reinforcements and out of machine gun ammo, I turn around a start running for it. Right into another bug patrol.-
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Oh it will go great... great for the people watching.
Time until at least one person in the game is reduced to muttering random obscenities? I set the over under at 17 minutes.
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So.. I think all Team Leeroy Jenkins with a PS4 or vita need to pick up Helldivers NOW.. because the amount of insanity and laughter this game could potentially cause is amazing.
(the level of Chaos from Magicka, combined with Starship Troopers the Movie), and yes, you can end up killing each other by mistake. (sometimes for example, when you call in an orbital ammo drop and it accidentally lands on your teammate)
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Oh shit, another player collapses mid game. (Swansea-Tottenham)Worrying signs as Gomis has collapsed in the centre circle before play got underway after the goal, the medics have rushed on and he is getting treatment.Gomis was just jogging back to the halfway line when he collapsed and now the players are all standing around in the centre circle as the medics tend to the striker. It looks like he is being put on to the stretcher and the stadium is silent.Spurs players have their hands on their heads but Gomis is moving.Now there's applause as Gomis is taken off on a stretcher. He is being given oxygen but appeared to nod his head and is moving. Remember it was only three years ago that Fabrice Muamba suffered a cardiac arrest at this ground.
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So, MLS looks to go on strike after tonight, the only owner proposal for free agency is "Age 32 and up, 10+ years at same club". Players are (rightly) laughing at that.
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Liverpool with a huge win.
Remember when Brendan Rogers was on the hot seat?
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That's no fun! Bah!
But big game today, are 'Pool contenders or pretenders
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And before I go to bed, one little bit from the 1941-1960 sim that's complete
Apparently Shoeless Joe Jackson can't get a break in any universe, real or OOTP.
He comes in at age 17 in 1943 and hits .383 for the White Sox. Year after year, he churned out great hitting (by year, .369, .376, .371, .349, .366, .372)
Then came that fateful day: May 12th, 1950: In a game against the New York Yankees, Jackson is hit by a pitch, and suffers a career ending fractured skull. He was hitting .400 in the early part of the season too.
Despite the fact that he holds the career batting average mark of .370, the writers refused to consider him for the Hall of Fame, because players had to have 10 years in the league.
In this case, I'm glad there's still a manual override, because damnit, the story's too good.