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  1. Not gonna lie, I tried this Dodgers idea at least twice, and I'm not proud of either version even though that Brooklyn uniform is among my favorites. I think this version works a bit better than either of mine, though...now a Mets fauxback version I made, I'm a lot more proud of. Weirdly, the plaid uniforms the Giants wore at about the same time, I could actually make a San Francisco version look great, even choosing to use violet plaid like the 1916 Giants did (yeah, I later made a Mets version of that too, complete with violet).
  2. I know of it, but never looked into it.
  3. I got one of those super tank printers back in the summer and have barely used it...such is life. Anyway, figured I'd play one of the many games I've downloaded but had yet to actually play. Highlight Maker Baseball, not to be confused for History Maker Baseball, is another of Soren Narnia's offerings, and it's unusual in that the vast majority of baseball games simulate every plate appearance. Highlight Maker doesn't, instead using an inning launch table to either get through scoreless half innings or pick things up with the batting team in a promising position, and from there you go through different batter tables until the side is retired or a result is the last key moment of the inning. Also unusual is that it differentiates between the two teams, but not individual athletes, a trait shared with Fast Inning Baseball, which I know of but have yet to try (so if you wonder why I don't say any player names, that's why). I don't play series very often, but figured I'd give it a shot, so I pitted the Orioles against the Rangers, live from Arlington. In game 1, the first key moment came up in the top of the 3rd, with two out but men on the corners...the first batter I rolled for drew a walk, and the next batter singled in a run, but Texas was able to get out of the inning afterwards, and then the Rangers tied the game at 1 with a single scoring a man from third. Baltimore scored again in the 4th, but Texas would respond in the 5th. Entering with two outs and a man on first, the runner stole second on a play so close the Orioles manager ran out to argue, to no avail. The runner would then score on a single to once again tie the game at 2-2. In the top of the 6th, the Orioles put some distance between themselves and the Rangers with a 3-run bomb, only for Texas to respond with 3 runs of their own to maintain the tie ballgame, 5-5 at this point. The 7th inning was not so lucky for the batters, as the Orioles struck out with the bases loaded, while the Rangers grounded out with a man on second, but the O's would draw final blood in the 8th via a solo homer. The Rangers managed a double in the 9th, but couldn't get the runner home, so game 1 ended Baltimore 6, Texas 5. Game 2 had fewer moments, though they mostly favored Baltimore, beginning in the first inning, where the O's loaded the bases with one away. To the Rangers' credit, they only gave up one run on a wild pitch, though not much happened until the top of the 4th. The Orioles were able to get a man on first all the way home, making it 2-0. After a homer made it 3-0, Texas finally got a run across on a 6th inning fielder's choice, as Baltimore tried for the double play but could only get the force at 2nd. The Rangers were able to keep it within striking distance, surviving a bases loaded scare in the 7th and throwing out a runner at home in the 9th, but their comeback attempt was hampered by a double play. A subsequent triple gave them some hope, which was dashed with a groundout to end the game, Orioles 3, Rangers 1. On getaway day, the Orioles didn't wait, they homered to start the proceedings. The Rangers responded in the 2nd with a sac fly, but Baltimore hit a 2-run homer in the 3rd, a lead they would never relinquish. Texas responded in the bottom half with an RBI single to make it 3-2, but that's as close as they would get, as after two more Oriole home runs sandwiching a 5th inning Rangers score, it would be Baltimore 5, Texas 3 to start the 7th inning. A 3 run bomb didn't make things any easier for the Rangers, who now trailed 8-3. In the bottom of the 9th, Texas led off with a home run, but the side was otherwise retired to give the Orioles the sweep. Gotta say, this was a novel experience. For the most part, if you don't really feel like making any decisions for either side and just want to spectate, this one's for you, about the only decisions I made were whether to have the infield in or not, and whether or not either team should trot out an Ace pitcher, which I did for Texas in game 2 and the Orioles in game 3...the Rangers might have had a better shot at avoiding the sweep if I'd chosen differently. No guarantees, but I might pull the trigger on the soccer management game Eleven in the near future.
  4. You mean like this? Granted, neither uses the 93-94 Patriots font, but both use similar 1s
  5. It was basically entirely an AFC thing...most notably, the Bengals and Dolphins had them for most of the late 80s and early 90s. The Patriots and Jets both used sock wordmarks for one season (1989), and the last team to use them was the Chargers, the lone team to take them into the 2000s. Doesn't look like the Eagles' sock wordmarks even made it to the preseason, which would have made them the lone NFC team to use them, as well as the only instance of wordmarks on both the socks and jersey.
  6. But did he ever start a fight while being blown out and not get ejected for it? (Yes, while everybody else is irrationally angry about the camera cutting to Taylor Swift every now and then, I'm still irrationally furious about that one time Stafford started a fight while the Bears were blowing the Lions out and somehow didn't get tossed for it.)
  7. Anyway, liked the effort on his rendition of Viva Las Vegas, but hopefully he leaves the music to Taylor.
  8. As someone else who's done a Murray State concept, I applaud this. Probably would've gone in another riding silk inspired direction in baseball, maybe poca dots, but a very fitting set overall.
  9. It's only the Rising Stars game, but I like how they based it off one of the Pacers' ABA sets.
  10. Been a Bears fan basically my whole life, also been a Packers fan since middle school. The Vikings admittedly annoy me slightly less than Dallas, they just have more opportunity to be annoying. Also grandson of a Kentuckian, so I probably should hate the Pacers for still existing while the Colonels folded.
  11. You know what must now be done...the Admirals must dust off the skating fridge sweaters in retaliation
  12. Well, you're a Viking fan, so you're halfway there already I kinda flip flop on who I find more contemptible between you guys, the Cowpokes and the Niners depending on the year before just going with YES.
  13. Part of me was hoping the Pack loses this one...because holy crap Joe Barry's gonna save his job if they win, isn't he?
  14. The Packers and Bears went about three and a half quarters before either team had a penalty called on them tonight. Though it's not uncommon for one team to go through a game penalty free, only four times in NFL history have the refs kept the flags in their pockets all game. Shockingly, all four happened in two year intervals from 1934 to 1940, and then never again. Two of these games involved the Steelers, two involved the long defunct Brooklyn Dodgers, and two involved referee Bill Halloran, who in between penalty-free games infamously called a Washington field goal wide right in the last week of the 1939 season, a "miss" that sent the Giants to the Championship game and so infuriated the men in burgundy that one of them allegedly punched Halloran after the game ended.
  15. If you ever come across it, read "The Punch."
  16. As some might miss the context, I was talking about the Bears' first half ending hail Mary. The second half one, my only issue with it was that they screwed up enough that they even needed to try a second hail mary at all...but that was a situation where that was the only real option they had. 4th quarter, down 3, no timeouts left, and out of field goal range. End of the 1st half, tied at 7, and you just got in your kicker's range? Not hail Mary time, normally.
  17. Great....of course going for the first half hail Mary when they didn't need to bit the Bears in the backside. That and blowing the lead again, but of course this happened. Eberflus you glue sniffer
  18. Bears-Browns...what. was. That. I know Cairo Santos doesn't have the strongest leg, but there was no reason to go for a hail Mary there.
  19. I'm partial to the time his idiotic decision making almost snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in Cleveland, mostly because I saw it and was wondering what on earth they were doing.
  20. Thought that might happen...partly because there was already a lacrosse team called the New England Chowderheads (shout-out to Son of Gorton).
  21. This Tommy DeVito cat...name wise, a Houston Texan by that name would be weird. A New York Giant by that name is so perfect it's ridiculous
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