Friday, May 30, 2003
I'm semi-addicted to playing Baseball Mogul. For a baseball stats junky it's a great game - low-grade graphics, no control over actual 'game' play, but you're in charge of everything else - the roster, the lineup, calling players up from the minors, demoting others to the minors, making trades, cutting players - all through careful monitoring of player stats game by game, week by week, and through watching player development over time.
When I first started playing, I moved the Expos franchise from Montreal to Salt Lake City (I had to increase the city size from the Salt Lake-only number of around 300,000 to the wasatch-front number of around 1 million in order to attract sufficient crowds to the games - plus operating for many years with drastically reduced ticket prices). I suffered through three or four years of rebuilding - key move: not signing Vladimir Guerrero when his contract was up for renewal - the salary demand was too much for a small-market club trying to rebuild. After a few years of pumping mega-bucks into the farm system, the up and coming players started to really produce dividends. Pitching was always suspect due to the high elevation (the Colorado Rockies effect), but I managed to put together some competitive teams that actually started regularly making the playoffs and even winning the world series! good times.
my wife just shakes her head when I get zoned out in the game.
When I first started playing, I moved the Expos franchise from Montreal to Salt Lake City (I had to increase the city size from the Salt Lake-only number of around 300,000 to the wasatch-front number of around 1 million in order to attract sufficient crowds to the games - plus operating for many years with drastically reduced ticket prices). I suffered through three or four years of rebuilding - key move: not signing Vladimir Guerrero when his contract was up for renewal - the salary demand was too much for a small-market club trying to rebuild. After a few years of pumping mega-bucks into the farm system, the up and coming players started to really produce dividends. Pitching was always suspect due to the high elevation (the Colorado Rockies effect), but I managed to put together some competitive teams that actually started regularly making the playoffs and even winning the world series! good times.
my wife just shakes her head when I get zoned out in the game.
Friday, May 23, 2003
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Musings on all things Baseball
(well, all things baseball that I find interesting)
Musings on all things Baseball
(well, all things baseball that I find interesting)
