Incredibly tight races in the Pacific Division and the Wild Card down the stretch.
The Rookie Prospects list is complete. 40 amazingly talented rookies are waiting to join the BNBL next season. You can check out their stats by viewing the roster of the Season 29 Prospects team.
Correct answer! And thanks for catching the error, I’ll get that corrected.
And thanks for the All Star recap! At first I thought it was still last years, looks like both of the headlines regarding the ASG say season 27 but refer to season 28.
Name that Minnesota Twin - Andre David?
Congrats to Zach Miner, voted on to the SP All Star team.
lol. 😂 Nice!
No issue on the delay Gus, the pop up Pool asking " Rate your Commissioner will be downgraded accordingly without calling you out or anything like that -- LOL
Maybe. So much stuff going on in other leagues right now as well. I’ve been spreading myself too thin. Plus work. Plus life. But they’ll be coming when they come. Haven’t forgotten yet in 28 seasons.
gus, any prospects coming soon?
Congrats to Nate Schierholtz for being voted on to the NEA team for ASG28. SP poll is up now.
… after Day 93.
All Star break coming up.
In the BNBL, even the penthouse is kind of like an outhouse. 😁
Ah, from the penthouse to the outhouse. Oh well. Potential silver lining of two extra seasons and the top pick. Sigh.
That’s the second no-hitter this season, also the second for Long Island (Jimmy Wiggs).
Congrats to Howard Ehmke of the Iced Teas for tossing a no-hitter against Savannah. Nicely done!!
Congrats to Cesar Geronimo and Jason Bere, our two newly elected BNBL Hall of Fame members. Full voting info can be seen in the story below the chat box.
Nice run, Dom!
It was FUN ⚾️⚾️⚾️12W⚾️⚾️⚾️
C’mon Sheik. Soup wants to play. He’ll likely be a top shelf performer for you. He’ll stir the pot! He’s all warmed up!
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I couldn't pass up Soup Campbell - sitting there in the FA's looking delicious 😋😋😋
And we’re underway! Play ball! Good luck to all this season. And get those Hall of Fame votes in before the deadline this evening at 9pm central. Check my previous message in your inbox for the ballot.
Long Island has picked a really bad player (as have many of us), and the draft is now over. Yay!
Pilots pick is in, Pathletics are now on the clock
Rookie Prospects have been added to FA. Rank some players for the draft.
Progressions have been run for all teams and FAs (stats didn't change, just ages)
Peace Frogs cut Dutch Schiebler and Gene Stechshulte. They were just tired of trying to pronounce their names.
Vixens cut Eric Anthony and Joe Beimel.
Commish is making final cuts for two teams. They won’t appear in transactions but will be posted here in chat.
lol. So filthy.
The most obscene 2B in league history - studied under Rogers Hornsby 😉😉😉
Huh. That's weird and hilarious. The SIM apparently doesn't like C-A-S-S - M - I - C- H - A - E - L - S name as they censored it in my previous post.
Charlie Browns retire two - All Star Paul Sorrento, and C****ichaels. Michaels starred at second base for Woodstock his whole career and ended up 17th all-time in hits but was never selected to an All Star team.
Wingnuts retire four - Craig Worthington, Bill Buckner, and All Stars Red McKee and Bret Barberie.
Vixen have no retirements.
Silver Sox retire Mike Mimbs and All Star Dave Mlicki.
Pilots retire Felix Doubront, Joe Marty, and Bryan Little.
Peace Frogs retire Roman Colon.
No retirements for the South Philly Pathletics.
Mudville Nine retire three - Pep Harris and All Stars Hod Lisenbee and Mike Hegan.
Mud Hens retire Ryan McGuire, Bill Bonham, and Season 24 Cy Young winner and 5-time All Star Rick Waits, who retires with 203 BNBL Wins.
No retirements for last season's champion Knights. Uh oh!!
Isotopes retire three - Dan Peltier, Micah Bowie and 2-time All Star Rheal Cormier.
Long Island retires 4 - Manny Delcarmen, Paul Bako, and All Stars Fred Luderus and Roger Repoz.
Generals retire three - Steve Dillard, 2-time All Star Emil Yde, and Cy Young winner and 6-time All Star Jason Bere, who won 202 games in his BNBL career.
Chiefs retire three - 9-time All Star Hee Seop Choi, and 1-time All Stars Darren Dreifort and Darryl Kile.
Both Milligan and Karchner were actually 3-time All Stars. Guy Bacci tricked me with one of his new updates. A player with a long career now only shows some of his seasons when you click on his name. You have to go to the top of his stats and click "see full career" and then it shows all seasons. You learn something new every day! Or, in my case, you learn something new every other month or so. :)
Canadians retire Season 21 All Star Randy Milligan.
Bananas retire Season 22 All Star Matt Karchner.
Four position players have been retired from Free Agency including Tim Laudner
Reminder - deadline for naming your extra season tags is Friday evening at 9pm central time. Still a few teams out there who haven't sent their requests. I'll be starting retirements right away too.
I definitely approve! The Pilots did have some unremarkable players but also some ex-Twins like Don Mincher and Rich Rollins and Sandy Valdespino and a couple others, so that’s awesome (to me). Plus the two Tommys that I had baseball cards of when I was young and I could never keep them straight - Davis and Harper, or was it Harper and Davis? 😆
Seattle Pilots. For no real reason other than they only existed for one year, and I remember having a complete team set of baseball cards when I was a kid. I remember they had a lot of unmemorable players. One exception being Jim Bouton who authored “Ball Four” which was based on a journal he kept on that season in 1969.
Did you have something specific in mind?
I’ll miss the Flibs, but I wouldn’t stand in the way of a change, as long as it’s not inappropriate or gross or something I hate like the Yankees! lol. When the league started I tried to choose team names that kind of fit with the Bad News Bears theme - underdogs, historically bad teams, etc, if that helps.
Any objections to me updating my club's name and details? I see it's one of the founding clubs that's been left unchanged through multiple ownership groups but not sure I'm really representative of a Flibbertigibbet.
Welcome aboard in780 ... to the BEST league of Pennant Chase ⚾️⚾️🏆⚾️⚾️
Welcome, new guy!!! Hope you enjoy the league, and all of these crazy yahoos! 😁
Hey, I'm the new guy.
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Arlo has left every league !! He's hanging out at Alice's Restaurant 😎😎😎
Arlo has left the league. Just waiting for a new owner for the Flibs and then we'll get started with off-season stuff. Thanks for your patience!
congrats to the Knights!
Congrats Knights!
Congrats to rookie SP Ryan Drese for being named the WS MVP. Drese had 2 wins in the series including the clincher, pitching 16 1/3 innings, allowing 12 hits, 4 earned runs and striking out 11. Nicely done!
Thanks everyone. Congrats to the LIITs as well on a great series and season!
Forgot to post this earlier, but the Regular Season Major Awards went to Bob Turley of the Isotopes (Cy Young) and Brian Daubach of the Peace Frogs (MVP). Congrats!
Congrats Knights !!
Great World Series! Congrats Gman! Nicely done! And yes, great season for Lasershow as well.
Super job lasershow , better luck next season 👍 ⚾️⚾️⚾️
Congratulations Gman15 for the Championship ⚾️⚾️🏆⚾️⚾️
Rookie Ryan Drese goes for Brooklyn versus 11-time All Star and former Cy Young winner Jimmy Wiggs.
Big Game 7 of the BNBL WS coming up. Good luck to both teams!
Day off granted ahead of Game 6.
Day off granted ahead of Game 3.
Amazing Atlantic Division this season. All 4 teams made the playoffs, and the WS has the Atlantic’s 3rd and 4th place finishers facing off. If Long Island wins they’ll be the first team to finish last in their division but win the World Series. First in baseball history maybe?
lol. Can’t wait for next season to start, I guess?
Some reason thought that was the WS lol
And Ice Teas!
Congrats Knights!
Congrats Teas !!
Congrats Knights, well done!
Day off has been granted ahead of the WS.
Congrats to our finalists. World Series begins on Saturday morning at 9am central.
Day off granted ahead of Game 3.
Congrats to our Final Four. Next round will begin on Wednesday morning at 9am central time.
thanks @bush484! heck of a series, 5 one-run games!
Congrats Peace Frogs! Good luck the rest of playoffs.
An Early Exit for the Silver Sox, I admit I must have missed the notice the Playoffs were starting, my failure to check
Day off granted ahead of Game 6.
Day off granted ahead of Game 3.
Playoffs begin this morning. Exciting!! Good luck all!
Derry was cold as ice, but pretty good anyway.
Dempsey - lol, nice!
Russ Derry had his best season as an Isotope, hitting 45 HR's last season - he did not have even one game where he was on "Fire".
My team has been off for the last 46 days. We scoff at your piddly offer of two.
Congrats to Bob Turley of the Isotopes for setting a brand new BNBL single-season strikeout record this season. Previous record was 200 Ks by Bill Monbouquette, but Bob struck out 208 this year. Nicely done!
Two days off have been granted before the playoffs and the playoff schedule is set up. Playoffs begin on Sunday morning. Get your MVP and Cy votes in by Saturday evening.
Been a while since the Isotopes have played past 162......
Congrats? lol
The North Star Vixen have tied for FIRST place in the race to win the most and still get 2 tags next season!!! As fans continue to dig themselves out of the completely unnecessary blizzard last week, the Vixen FO sent out a statement of thanks to the loyal frozen fans who cheered us on to this thrilling victory!!!
No, there’ll be 40. Just have been really busy with work and family and then sick for a week on top of it. I’ll get to it.
Gus, are we done with Prospects? I only see 26, there's usually 40?
Ignore that last one - wrong league.
Round 1 is Best of 5 - don’t forget. Begins this morning.
Great time for a 6-game losing streak Chuck Browns. Good Grief!!
We have a heck of a playoff push ahead
But yes, the goal is always two tags and zero boring playoffs each time!!!
Excuse me, Mr. Commish….. the Mill City Vixen do not “lose” anything! Sometimes, we just don’t win…….
Isotopes win 11 of 12 after threats of physical violence from Manager Sideshow Bob........
Aly was 2 and a half games ahead in the wild card and then remembered how much she hates the playoffs so decided to go on a 7-game losing streak. Nicely done! Gotta keep those 2 tags for next season.
Congrats Dan Gladden!
BeDazzler has cracked the top ten in BNBL career hits leaders!!!
More Zoo Glitter!!! The weather in Minneapolis has been mired in a deep freeze, but the Vixen have been hot! We have now won more games than we haven’t, which is the first goal every time!
After 2 season of being "Terrible", the Isotopes has elevated themselves to "Mediocre" status !!
Also, because the Zoo loves Glitter…. BeDazzler has tied some unknown retired player for 11th all time on the BNBL hits list! Wayyyy earlier this season, he passed King as the Vixen’s all time hit leader! He will pass some other rando to be in the top ten soon (no jinxes Gus!!!!) and maybe can retire at number 8!
At least you didn’t let my players get beat up by rowdy fans this time!
The ASG is over? I don't even remember leaving Philly.
Nice writeup! Thanks Gus
Everything about this league is offensive.
Not a very offensive All Star game. but a good close game
Yay!!! One more than I expected! Thanks JS.
I care Gus
The All Star game is in the books but I haven't finished the write-up yet. Should be sometime Wednesday, at which time I'll post the story and the box score and the replay for anyone who cares. (sound of crickets chirping)
Bleh is actually the highest level a team can attain in the BNBL. Congrats to those who have reached it! Many other teams (and schlubs) can only dream of one day being bleh.
A lot of bleh teams this year - just like it should be in a league like this. Good job, Gus. Gives hope to every schlub out there.
Congrats to Mike DeJean who has been voted on to the SouthPacific team.
Congrats to Hee Seop Choi for being voted on to the All Star team. The other vote will be up shortly. Deadline for it is Friday evening, 9pm central time.
That makes perfect sense (said no one, ever, to Aly) 😁😁😁
The goal of the Vixen is the same as in ATX: win more than we don’t, and avoid the boring playoffs at all costs!!!
That’s perfectly bananas.
Just noticed we have the best record in the league with a negative run differential. Go figure... Only in BNBL haha
All Star break is now.
All Star break coming up soon.
Dual 12 streaks, go figure
I don't know if I've ever seen this much parity in the BNBL -over half way through the season and every single team is within 5 games of a playoff spot. Even the Vixen, no matter how many jinxes I put on them. 😁 That's awesome!
The Mill City Vixen have been hot lately! We won 17 of the last 26, and Guuze is finally pitching like the superstar he is!
12 in a row now. Good job trying to keep the universe balanced, Sin. 😁
I won 12 in a row earlier, said I was awaiting the inevitable return to average, have now lost 11 in a row
All players whose seasons were changed have now been edited back to their correct ages.
All 4 of the prospects are interesting, a SP - a nice 2B whose grandson and namesake has several popular shows on Bravo TV, a decent OF with SS eligible, and a Switch Hitting 1B - I will admit submitting Cohen - LOL
Anytime now, Sin. Let’s go!! And let’s get a truly mediocre, vanilla crop this year with absolutely nothing to get excited about or to write home about!!
When are you going to start taking Prospect Guys from owners?
Two Bob's passed recently, Uecker and Veale, just like in real Life, one was really good, and the other not so much
Ditto
RIP Bob...⚾️⚾️🎤🎤🎤⚾️⚾️
WHAT?!?!?! The King of K, Sixes, and the King himself are in the Hall of Fame? Sixes had to wait wayyyyy too long, but I will spare Gus the rant because he finally got his due. King was clearly bound for the Hall, we knew that all the back in Bat City where the seats down the 3B line would be filled by fans dressed as Elvis for half price tickets. Legend has it, when King and Gambler were drafted, King lost his bats and before his first game, he pulled one out of a stone and the rest is history!
His last start, no one gets his butt kicked like Gaston...
No one hits like Gaston, matches wits like Gaston, in a spitting match, nobody spits like Gaston. (I’ve wanted to quote that song since Gaston came into the league - finally got my chance!!)
I totally missed that Milt Gaston Threw a No Hitter! Congrats
very, very true Dempsey!!
You never know what PC will throw at you. These 'worst of' Gus leagues take that up quite a few notches.
I'm waiting for the inevitable revert to norm shortly, My Pitching and Hitting has really over achieved so far
After 0-12 start, Pathletics storming back to mediocrity winning 7 of last 8. Talk about bipolar.
No, you didn't miss it - I just neglected to post it. Check out the full story below for final vote tallies, but we had 6 inductees this season - Dave Kingman, Johnny Vander Meer, Butch Wynegar, Jim Winn, Sam Jones, and Jim Presley. Congrats to all!
Hey Gus, did I miss the latest HOF Inductees? Maybe I missed it?
I told the guys I wanted a more consistent effort this season. Guess I should have been a bit more specific on that.
A Commish jinx to start the first post-King season…. I would think the Commish, who has a rl king, would be kinder to the Vixen after we lost our monarch! In fact, HE (the Commish of course) STOLE our King before jinxing us!!! What could possibly go wrong this time? Pffftttt…. 🙄😿☠️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤮🤮🤮🧚♀️💖🦋😹😹😹💅
Sorry Sheik 😬😬😂😂
Definitely 😂 🤣
Nine things could possibly go wrong. Maybe more!
Isotopes on a 162-0 pace - what could possibly go wrong 🤔🤔🤔
AlyCats appear a bit out of shape, two games played - 2 players injured.
And we're off and running. Good luck in Season 27 everyone!
On the 6th day of Christmas some rando gave to me, 6 broken clocks, 2 waving hands, and a medium-sized headache for me. 🎶🎵🎶
Sorry guys, wrong day 😬😬🙄🙄
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Yeah, I know I screwed it up my first season - I think it was on the speed rating
It’s always been that way, Dempsey. There’s no way to impose our min/max restrictions on the Sim, so it continues to show all seasons even if they aren’t allowed in this league. I just have to hope that owners know the rules, but I always have to go in and check to see if there are any players who exceed the minimums before Opening Day. Occasionally I’ll have to send a message or correct a player myself.
Just an FYI: When I got ot allowable seasons, I am offered some seasons which would put me over the allowable thresholds. I'd recommend turning off season changes
Let's say now. Or never. Ok, now. I wasn't sure if I was done being grumpy yet, but I think I am.
When does changing seasons start?
The Team I beat was a Monster too, although mine wasn't shabby either
Congrats, Sin. Nice!
My 28th Ring Back to Back World Series Wins in Auto League 62 No Keepers https://www.pennantchase.com/lgBoxS..
I see she has players ranked. Will be interesting.🤔
I do send Gus an e-mail with Changes I made so he can swap them back= It really is meaningless what age they display, except if you go to trade a guy using his age 27 season when he's 35....That can cause a Problem
Aly - aka "The Draft Stopper"
Aly has not been on PC in 4 days....
I hadn't thought about that - another reason why the Commish should do all season changes.
Yeah that’s what I do, but it’s a drag because a few owners like checking numerous players’ different seasons and often they change them back to the original season but the age still gets messed up so I just have to go player by player and make sure all the ages are back where they should be. No biggie. I’ll deal with it.
You can always go into the player "Card" and edit the age after changing the season..
No, I don't think so.
GUS- is it possible to prevent any age changes due to swapping seasons -by simply only applying that change at Progression?
Just a day and a half left to cast your Hall of Fame ballots. Deadline is January 2nd at 9pm central time. Check my HOF message for more details and send in your lists!
"As the player imports" is used in most league formats. In leagues where, say, pitchers have to have 35 IP to be imported, they don't import if they are 34 2/3.
I wouldn't remove the ability to change seasons - just have any request to change a player to the commissioner, and if it passes the smell test, the change is made.
Dempsey, I agree, NEITHER of the Pitchers in question have a REAL WHip of 1.40 or higher, and therefore that Season is ineligible, I benefit not all - But if the other guy enters and my guy can't also, that seems wrong. I'm done explaining, it is what it is
Can you change Marcom’s name to Sylvester Puddytat so AlyCat will draft him and get it over with. Whatever year she decides to make her pick.
I vote for that!
I’m seriously considering removing the ability to change seasons from this league after this season. My other similar league doesn’t include that ability, and it’s just such a pleasure to not have to worry about it. Not to mention in this league I have to go back and change ages on anyone who was switched. Time consuming. I’ll do a poll on it at some point and see what others think. There are only 3 or 4 owners who experiment with different seasons and I do try to import all players with their best season although that is sometimes debatable when they’ve got a few that are quite similar.
OK, jumping in here. Never been a fan of rounding 'up'. Taught at a university and the level of whining at time was embarrassing. As for Mlicki, Baseball ref has that year's WHIP at 1.394 In no world of rounding up, would that qualify. Let's take the whining out of baseball. Tom Hanks, where are you when we need you. C'mon guys, we are all better than this.
If that were true, I would be able to use Mlicki's 1997 Season though REV, this is the exact issue I have- it's not consistent
One thing that would be helpful is to mention in the rules that the stat limits are based on how they import into PC, not how they look on bbref.
It's not like Marcum is Pedro 2000 - he gave up 9.5 hits per 9 for heaven's sake !! Is he decent by BNBL standards ? Yeah, I suppose so, but let's not vote him into the HOF quite yet.
How is that simpler than what I just did? It would be much much simpler for you to decide not to argue about it.
You could simply Delete or alter Marcum's 1935 season - no longer an issue -
It's essentially just rounding in this case. BBReference uses 3 decimal places and PC only uses 2.
Looking at the See Other Seasons, his 1935 season shows his WHIP at 1.40. Yes, I would prefer that BBRef and PC match perfectly, but they don’t. So I’m going to err on the side of me doing less work and importing guys in such a way that I don’t have to keep track of a bunch of anomalies. You know that if I didn’t allow 1935, someone would trade him or forget or a new owner would get him and switch him 8 years from now, and it would just be another big mess. This seems like the obvious solution to me. Sorry if you still disagree, but Mlicki was different in the ways mentioned previously. You might not like that, but he was different in that he was already on a team. If you want to use..