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Diamond Mind Baseball by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/30/2011, 8:53pm PDT I've been playing Diamond Mind Baseball for the last five years. I've never even come close to making the playoffs. League rules: 84 games, AL-only. 8 teams. 3 teams make the playoffs: the 2nd and 3rd place ones have a single-game playoff, and then the winner takes the #1 seed in a best-of-seven series. We use stats from two seasons prior, so we've got the 2009 versions of guys at the moment. 32 player rosters, up to 20 keepers. Here's our current stats, and if you substitute years down to 2005, you can see the other ones. Coming into the last series of the year, I needed to win two of the last three to force a pre-playoff playoff, as we'd have three teams tied with 41 wins. (My team is the Rochester Radiation, and I was playing the Quebec City Citadelles.) Let me quote what I sent the mailing list: =-=-=- In game one, Rochester takes a 4-3 lead into the 7th. The bases are loaded against Josh Beckett, and Beckett walks in the tying run! Whoops. Former Citadelle Joe Nathan* comes in to pitch, and lets up a single down the right field line to Jamie Carroll. Citadelles win 6-4, and the Rads now need to win both games to force the playoff before the playoff. In game two, Rochester gets 7.1 inexplicably effective innings from David Price**, giving them a 6-1 victory. Game three. It all comes down to this. I picked up LHP Jason Vargas right before the deadline to hold players for next year because I wanted more options and you can never have enough starting pitching. Vargas, going into game three, was 4-1 for me with a 1.88 ERA. Madness! He was available for the last game so I figured I'd see if he had magic one last time. Dennis rocked the living hell out of him, though, and took him for 5 runs when I threw up my hands and put in Andrew Bailey in the second innings. Bailey threw 29 pitches but let up 3 runs. I scored in the bottom of the 3rd, but it was 8-1 Quebec City at that point. And it was going into the bottom of the 8th as well. I scored six runs in the bottom of the 8th, three of them charged to former Radiation pitcher Sean White. Adam Lind drove in two, Travis Hafner one, and Cliff Pennington (!!!) homered in three. Phil Coke and Joe Nathan pitch a clean top of the ninth, and I have my 9-1-2 hitters up. Polanco pops up, one out. Ryan Sweeney walks. Miguel Cabrera flies out for the second out. At this point I put in Akinori Iwamura to run, as he had marginally better stats than Sweeney on the basepaths. I didn't have the balls to have him steal, though. With a 1-0 count and two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Adam Lind homers to right, and the Rads win 9-8. I then lost my goddamn mind and drank some scotch. =-=-=- * I traded Dice-K and Jeremy Guthrie to the Citadelles for Joe Nathan and Matt Thornton in mid-season, because I was sick of having cruddy middle relief, and was willing to sacrifice starting pitching for it. I later traded RP Sean White to the Citadelles for a 5th round pick next year because I believed I was out of it. **2009 David Price was OK, not great, and had an ERA of over 7 coming into the game. the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey!

Diamond Mind Baseball by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/30/2011, 8:53pm PDT