12 games, one day (we don’t get 15 games because we can’t have nice things). Aces of varying quality on the mound. 162 games to October. Buckle up.

Major League Baseball 2K13 is an offensively recycled product and an embarrassment to sports video games. In my five years as Kotaku’s sports writer, I’ve spent a good deal of time in comments defending the genre, and those who make its games, from the worn-out slur that annual sports titles are nothing but reskinned roster updates. Yet that is exactly what MLB 2K13 is, and its existence is forever an argumentative trump card to any advocacy I can make for sports…
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After a four-year hiatus from running a successful, twenty year-old simulation league, I am recreating a 16 team online simulation league using Mike Cieslinski’s Dynasty League Baseball Online. My old league originally played his Pursue the Pennant board game, moved to Strat-O-Matic for a number of years, and then turned to Dynasty League Baseball board game the last few years. Unfortunately, as the league participants aged, real life responsibilities made it difficult to find time to meet ...

Ha! Kickstarter was Billy Miller & Miriam Linna...and they need the help more than La Russa!

A New Kind of Baseball Game from Legendary Big League Manager Tony La Russa and Pioneering Designer Don Daglow

How does a Manager design a Baseball game?

Tony La Russa knows how to manage in real life – he’s won more games than any other manager in the last century. But he’s not an engineer and he doesn’t code. How does he “design” a game?

Starting with the best-selling Tony La Russa ...