Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Lookout Landing: Lookout Landed (Jeff Sullivan retires)
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posted on March 13, 2013 at 11:50 AM by Esoteric throws a 'hard slider' to hall of fame, obituaries, seattle mariners
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I’m genuinely gutted. Sullivan was hands-down my favorite baseball writer on the internet.
Read More...For a guy who makes his living as a professional writer, I don’t know a whole lot about quality writing. This is one of the reasons I don’t like to self-identify as a writer, not that “blogger” is any better. But I do know that, when reporting news, you’re supposed to lead with the substance. This is why they call it the “lead”, or the “lede” if you want to seem smarter. With that in mind, my lede: this ...
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1. depletion posted on July 03, 2012 at 06:17 PM # hit 0 | hit 0(If so, do they manufacture that set, or did someone else make it, or what?)
Yep. It's not a set made by SOM. Many people have done unofficial SOM sets for other baseball leagues such as the minor leagues, Negro Leagues, AAGBL, and the Japanese Leagues, and there are AAGBL sets for the 1944, 1945, and 1947 seasons. I used Sams's card from 1947. My solitaire draft league uses players from all leagues, from the 1860 NABBBP through 2011 MLB, plus the Negro Leagues, Japanese Leagues from 1936 to the present, and a few AAGBL players. I know that it's not "accurate" to mix and match in that way, but it's my league, it's purely for fun, and I enjoy it.
That "league" is really neat!
Nope. I read that as my own name for a second there.
I'd hate to think. I've been playing and expanding it since 1997, so i don't have to start new all the time. And the computer takes care of a lot of it for me - the teams are drafted using the autodraft feature. I'll manually draft one team, and the computer drafts the rest (and then later make trades between the teams), and then in the league I'll manually play one team and have the other games autoplayed. But I tend to pretty much devote almost all of my free time to it for a month or so, and then I'll take a break for a couple of months. But it has devoured a lot of my free time over the past decade and a half...
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