The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

FMJRA 2.0: Agonizing Reappraisal

— compiled by Wombat-socho Well, after looking over the 1974 cards for my players (and those available to me as rookies) I posted my keepers: SP Pat Dobson SP Bill Lee SP Carl Morton SP Jim Kaat RP Charlie Hough 1b Dave Kingman 2b Cookie Rojas 3b Bill Madlock ss Ed Brinkman cf Del Unser […]

FMJRA 2.0: Preparing For The Draft

— compiled by Wombat-socho I’m actually feeling pretty good about the upcoming 1974 draft in Pete’s league. Aside from having given away my second-round pick for Steve Braun (boy, that was dumb) I have a solid front four and a stud reliever, plus a solid infield bolstered by rookies Mike Hargrove at first and Jim […]

FMJRA 2.0: Birds Win! Birds Win!

— compiled by Wombat-socho The Reds took it to seven games, but in the end Al Bumbry and Rich Coggins were unstoppable and the O’s won the World Series in the 1973 season of Pete’s DLB league. We’ll probably get a week or two off until Pete gets the 1974 cards sorted, assigns the rookies, […]

FMJRA 2.0: World Series ’73 Week Two

— compiled by Wombat-socho As I write this the Cincinnati Reds & Baltimore Orioles are tied at two games apiece for the World Championship in Pete’s Dynasty League Baseball League. We’re still looking for managers for next season’s Cubs and Expos. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt. RussiaGate: ‘But I Didn’t Know […]

FMJRA 2.0: 1973 World Series

— compiled by Wombat-socho While I’m sorting through my roster trying to figure out which ten -I think it’s ten- players I want to keep*, the Cincinnati Reds are playing the Baltimore Orioles for all the marbles in Pete’s league. The Chicago Cubs (79-83) and Montreal Expos (66-96) are looking for new managers, so if […]

FMJRA 2.0: Wait Until Next Year

— compiled by Wombat-socho Ironically, though both Pittsburgh and I wanted to play our last series hands-on, the Dynasty League computers had other ideas, and we logged in Thursday night to find the games had already been played. I dasn’t complain too loudly; while we lost the opening game 4-3 when Dave Sells coughed up […]

FMJRA 2.0: Not Long Before The End

— compiled by Wombat-socho After a week like this, I’m tempted to let the robot run the team for our last series on Thursday in Pittsburgh, but that would be dishonorable. We lost two out of three to the Red Sox. the sole win coming as Dave Sells vultured a win off Jim Kaat by […]

FMJRA 2.0: Kiss .500 Goodbye

— compiled by Wombat-socho Even though we ended up 2-4 on the week, it actually went better than expected, since with our records against the A’s and Dodgers, I fully expected to go 0-6 on the week, Still, Blue Moon Odom vultured his fifth win in relief of David Clyde against Jim Palmer & the […]

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