Unanimous vote in the chat was to just finish off the season tonight because the only close races were in the NL East and West. Neither East owner has been able to be very active this year and DHR was in the chat at the time... and we figured Raven wouldn't much care. Anyway, the regular season is over and the playoff matchups look like this: Texas vs. *Hawaii Boston vs. Cleveland Arizona vs. *Houston Chicago vs. Sao Paulo *- best league record I'm updating all this tonight, but there's no damn way I'm generating 5 weeks' worth of box scores... sorry, Manny. Oh yeah! Excellent news for Dean... Carico can now play 2b! Badly, but nonetheless...
LINEUP: 1) S Steve Sharrow Centerfield 2) R Jerry Hernandez Shortstop 3) S Todd Linden Leftfield 4) R Joe Borchard Designated Hitter 5) R Ray Johnson Third Base 6) L Henry Lancaster Rightfield 7) L Clise Brownfield Second Base 8) R Scott Davis First Base 9) R Alex McCown Catcher STARTING ROTATION : 1) R Roy Hobbs 2) R Lum Taylor 3) L Schoolboy Vicente MOPUP RELIEVER : 1) Gene Amar 2) Russ Hammit MIDDLE RELIEVER : 1) L Len Bondurant 2) L Al Ellis 3) Gene Amar 4) Russ Hammit SETUP MEN : 1) L John Rocker CLOSER : 1) L Allan Joy
The Hitmen - Playoff Edition Lineup vs Lefties and Righties 1) Furcal 2B 2) Borunda 1B 3) Beltre 3B 4) Kearns CF 5) Johnson RF 6) Dossantos DH 7) Moreno LF 8) Rivera C 9) Bonecrusher SS Bench: Cashion, Scott, Ray Rod, Kapler Starting Rotation 1) Sheets 2) Eaton 3) Zito 4) Ponson Mopup 1) Sizer 2) Ricks Middle Relief 1) Manners 2) B. Williams 3) Moore 4) Bierbrodt Setup 1) Rodgers Closer 1) Heredia
When did this become the lineup thread? My changes is in the lineup thread. you have something to look forward to Zac.
Cubs Playoff Lineup/Rotation: (1) Ong (2) Christiansen (3) Wood (4) Rincon LINEUP VS RHP : 1) S Cristian Guzman Shortstop 2) R Alex Requena Centerfield 3) L Hee Seop Choi First Base 4) R Troy Glaus Third Base 5) S Rich Grothe Leftfield 6) R Moose Seto Second Base 7) R Willie Saine Rightfield 8) R Roy Furey Catcher 9) LINEUP VS LHP : 1) S Alex Requena Centerfield 2) R Willie Saine Rightfield 3) L Hee Seop Choi First Base 4) R Troy Glaus Third Base 5) S Rich Grothe Leftfield 6) R Moose Seto Second Base 7) S Cristian Guzman Shortstop 8) R Roy Furey Catcher 9) STARTING ROTATION : 1) L Danny Ong 2) R Ben Christensen 3) R Kerry Wood 4) R Nellie Rincon MOPUP RELIEVER : 1) L Aaron Krawiec 2) R Brian Pilkington 3) R Dan Vickers 4) R Cyclone Harley MIDDLE RELIEVER : 1) L Gene Wilson 2) R Brian Pilkington 3) R Carlos Zambrano SETUP MEN : 1) R Glenn Green 2) R Lee Liang CLOSER : 1) R Glenn Smither
Results from last night... Hawaii up 2-1 on the Rangers Red Sox up 2-1 on the Indians Arizona up 2-1 on the Astros Sao Paulo up 2-0 on the Cubs Play was stopped before the Cubs game so that Sammy would have a chance to be present or at least make changes for his game. Zac told me that he'd continue simming tonight around 8 pm. Just thought the guys that weren't around would like to know this...
Those damned Sao Pauloians! I'll try to show up around 8, just to know what happened in the early games (hard to make adjustments when you don't know what needs adjusting). But there's no guarantee I'll get off work before then. If I'm not around, just keep things the way they are. Kerry Wood starting game 3.
Well it looks like the Stros and tribe are up to their old tricks. Zac who is scheduled to throw for me? If it is #5 I want to skip that number in the rotation. Also move Kelly Johnson back into the SS position. CK
Castor - Albert Sorenson is scheduled to throw for you. Sammy - I just wanted to let you know that I did get your rotation changes in (Ong and Christensen started games 1 and 2 and Kerry is scheduled to throw today), but the lineup edit came in after I simmed the first two playoff games. That means Julio Keith started in right field for you. My apologies Your lineup and bullpen changes are in now, but I will wait until tonight to sim the game. Thanks to BGM for posting the update.
Zac, it's all good. I thought my changes were in time, since I was in chat then and I got the impression that the playoffs hadn't started yet. But anyway, it's not likely that Saine over Keith would've made a difference. Hopefully old man Kerry can pick up a win tonight and extend the series.
Zac...if I am not around tonight, don't let my absence hold up any of the playoffs. I don't care if an elimination game for my team is simmed in my absence. Incidentally, go DBacks!!!
Here's a surprise... the Salukis come back from down 3-1 to win the Series 4-3 against Hawaii. Mad props to the computer. We'll have a couple days for people to do resignings and then we'll have free agency. I'm just not exactly sure what day that will be.
Congratulations Computer/Zac on building a great team... Now it's time for my ass to go Heath on the Free Agent market...
Nothing is like the original. I will out-heath you all in buying my way to the 2nd round. I know I can't afford it, but I do have the money, atleast for one more go. Maybe a 200M payroll will sound nice next year. Well I can atleast push it to around 170M before I'm rejected the buy a playoff-series win method. Of course with a revenue of 110M I will lose money faster than anyone ever lost money. Moving the team out of Canada wont help either, as I'm not even there.
Heath, be sure you're looking at the right numbers this year. You have $22,351,920 only to spend on free agents (as in, the game will not let you offer more than that). BGM, I can't see what you'd possibly want in free agency besides MAYBE a pitcher or two. Right now, Hawaii has arguably the second-best offense in the entire league...
