'hold up,' you say? When did i acquire a major league baseball team? i didn't. i play strat-o-matic baseball, a roll playing game based upon major league statistics from the season before. I play in a seven man league and we have a website and everything—http://nylistratleague.tripod.com/ for those who care...
yeah, i play a roll playing game. So does Keith Hernandez. Countless baseball luminaries play as well. Celebrities, rich and poor, what have you...
my eldest brother and i played a bit back in the days of yore, we both have a love of baseball and both real baseball through our high school years. When I got to college I found friends who enjoyed playing the game. i hadn't played since i was a tyke but i was interested in getting back into it. It has turned into is a labor (and i do mean labor) of love and a way to keep in touch with people that i'm not sure i would even think of—without...
judge Roughneck, who would like to take credit for creating the earth and the heavens—if he could, is responsible for bringing it all together back then at St John's, where a majority of the league members were matriculated. He and i were playing yesterday here at the headquarters, that is, before we decided to abuse ourselves playing one-on-one basketball (real basketball that is). We had been in discussions about making a deal that would improve both of our clubs for the rest of the year and when talk like that happens you tend to want to make a deal just to make a deal. The discussions are nothing more than semantics in this forum but suffice to say i made the deal i made listed above...
the Judge is my best friend, like it or not. We once were debating so loudly at the Irish Cottage that the bartender came over and offered us both a beer—'violence is not the answer, fellas' he said, as he went about the business of buying our next round. We laughed because we were not going to fight we are just married to our opinions. We got a free beer out of the deal, so, what the hell. We go from bar-to-bar looking for free drinks now. We have talked each other off the ledge time and time again on any number of issues. Without strat, we'd still be this close, i mean, i was the best man at his wedding for crimony's sake. Everyone else in the league though, i couldn't tell ya', or maybe i can—i wouldn't know half of them and the other half, they would be the people on facebook who you accept their friend request because you don't want them to feel bad. And the Judge and i were in one of their wedding parties! Its crazy what time can do—What separation can do. Time and separation have taken a close friend and made him a stranger outside of playing a 12 game series in and 84 game season. What used to be an exchange of ideas, dreams and anecdotes has turned into the rolling of dice and the declaration of 'four-eight lefty,' and the reply of 'normal home run 1-4, double the rest.' A cordial pat on the back and an occasional ride home from the day...
time and separation has also given me a bolt of lightning relationship with a woman who i couldn't possibly have thought i would be involved with at this point of my life. Without the time and separation involved between us, i don't think we would have what we have, which for me has been life saving...
its the penultimate, time and separation, it deepens cuts and heals all wounds, it allows you to forget and strengthens bonds, its a line out max or a one-four home run—straight up. Its a trade deadline...
who are you trading today?...
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I'm passing on Aaron Hill. I'm already locked into a long-term deal with a right handed second baseman (Ian Kinsler). If he had a shorter contract, I may have taken him.
Other than the snarky comment about creating the Earth and heavens, I'm glad you at least publicly recognize my role in forming the league and keeping this loose confederacy of dunces together, for better or worse. It's no fun when someone puts all his chips on "2.5 kids and the White Picket Fence" at the expense of everything else, but the league at least keeps him in the loop. The alternative is having him simply fade away, a lost character remembered only by old pictures and Show Mes.
I always wished Dylan would've gotten involved with Strat. I think he would've liked it and it would've helped my friendship with him after college. He's a guy I'd like to see more often, but it just doesn't seem to be in the stars.
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