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[coachmcneil71]

(05-03-2024, 10:44 PM)kevin Wrote: I hope not.  There were a ton of pitcher injuries before the clock.  I hated the 4 or 5 hour games. I came to hate baseball. I hated players looking at their shift cards.  I love the game faster, more like the faster games in 1960's and 1970's.   Keep the pitch clock, because there were a ton of pitching injuries without it.  Keep the game going faster, I hated how slow the game had became before the pitch clock was put in.  They took the slowest and most boring game in sports and made it fast paced and exciting again.  Pitching injuries have always been there.  Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson had injuries.  For Reds, Jim Maloney, Gary Nolan, Don Gullett, Mario Soto, Jose Rijo, Johnny Cueto, all had injuries, and that is off the top of my head, many more that that.  The 1970 Reds were 70 and 30, but by World Series they had lost many of their pitchers to injury.  Jim Merritt, Wayne Simpson, the pitching Reds had early in season was a MASH Unit come World Series and Sparky had to try to get by without his best pitchers.  Pitching injuries have always been a part of baseball.  It ain't the pitch count clock, and I love the game going faster again.

I agree! I like the games going faster. I'm just not sure that the players, especially the pitchers will agree. I think it's a combination of the clock and a crackdown on the sticky stuff. It may just be my perception of it as well, but just seems like a lot of arms have been injured in the past couple of years. 

[TecmoBengals]

Another loss for me this past week. The league has two strong teams emerging and then there is the rest of us with a .500 or losing record.

[coachmcneil71]

(05-06-2024, 09:03 AM)TecmoBengals Wrote: Another loss for me this past week. The league has two strong teams emerging and then there is the rest of us with a .500 or losing record.

Just gotta keep chopping wood and play opponents one at a time. I've rolled through regular seasons, been like 18-3 or whatever, and then be bounced in the first round. Six get in, after that it's up for grabs! 

[TecmoBengals]

My pitchers had -47 points last night.  

[coachmcneil71]

Every matchup is tight going into the weekend except for one.

[TecmoBengals]

I am now below .500 for the season.

[TecmoBengals]

Not looking good for my team. Another week, another L.

[kevin]

There is a lot of season left Tecmo. Everybody is still in the play-off hunt. No weak teams. I can vouch for no weak teams because even though I have scored more points than anybody, I have had more points scored on me than anybody. The 8 teams that have played me so far, all put up a ton of points. So for this, I am at 4-4 on the season. It's good I'm scoring points, or I would be 0-8 considering all the points scored against me.

It's a long season. We aren't even to the 2 week marathon we play over the All-Star break. It will come down to who makes the play-offs and who is HOT in September, not who was HOT in April. We will be into Fantasy Football week 3 or 4 by time our World Series happens. So you are not out Tecmo. Nobody is out. I can testify to that by the 8 teams that have scored more points on me than any other team. Every team has the ability to put up huge points. I have the most points on the season, but I am only at 4-4, because nobody is close to the points scored against them as I've gone through. Well, it's a good tough league, with a long way to go.

[TecmoBengals]

(05-20-2024, 02:31 PM)kevin Wrote: There is a lot of season left Tecmo.  Everybody is still in the play-off hunt.  No weak teams. 

I'm headed into Wednesday with -20 points. I might be a weak team.   I'd be doing better by not even trying.

[coachmcneil71]

(05-20-2024, 12:07 PM)TecmoBengals Wrote: Not looking good for my team. Another week, another L.

It's early! My pitching completely took the week off last week and I still only lost by about 40. One or two good starts by my staff and I would have been right there. Keep chopping!

[TecmoBengals]

(05-22-2024, 11:43 AM)coachmcneil71 Wrote: It's early! My pitching completely took the week off last week and I still only lost by about 40. One or two good starts by my staff and I would have been right there. Keep chopping!

Bro, I'm losing 235 to 29 as I type this. I'm comfortable admitting I suck.

[kevin]

Tecmo, don't give up. You have 3 pitchers to start today to move from bench to start. You also have a reliever to move to top pitcher spot that can be starter or reliever.

If you have given up on this week, look to Monday line-up.

You have a good team. You might want to look at your 3 IL players, and is there one you can dump and move an active injured to IL. Is Carroll hot, or would he be better on the bench, and get another OF in there. Not drop, but bench. there are F/A OF with 150 to 200 points and 4 points a game or more Look at F/A and see if any players having a good year or a good last 30 days. Are there any F/A players who others have dropped, who you think could have a good last 4 months.

Your team doesn't need a lot of adjustments. You have hitters with good season points and good game averages. You have pitchers with good season points and good game averages.

You ran into a buzzsaw in a team scoring a lot of points this week. At least look to Monday, Get going on next weeks line-up. Don't give up. You really have a pretty good team of players. Some moves you might want to make, but really not that many. I'm not going to suggest free agents, because there are a couple that I have my eyes on grabbing, maybe.

Keep On Truckin'

[kevin]

(05-22-2024, 09:45 PM)TecmoBengals Wrote: Bro, I'm losing 235 to 29 as I type this. I'm comfortable admitting I suck.

Yes, you are getting hit again by points this week.  Doing something with your IL problem could let you add a player to help you next week. It is hard to carry 4 IL players.  If you go to most points for season on hitters and pitchers and don't like what  you see, then click on most points last 30 days in May.  Doing both should pop up a player that might help you.  

You have Edward Cabrera on IL who is only on 4 % of rosters. He has put up no season points.  He is far away from returning. Him you could drop and probably add back later, since not on many rosters. You could drop an IL player into his spot on your IL.  That lets you add the best F/A you can find to help you next week. 

Just a suggestion....It is hard to carry 4 players on IL and only  2 IL spots, and put up points.  ....Don't give up, and good luck.  I will probably regret saying that because you play me soon and you are due to score a ton of points on somebody, probably on me, everybody else has big weeks against me. 

[coachmcneil71]

I lost 5 SPs to the IL in the past 5 days. Two of them on the same day. MLB don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining with the pitch clock rule.

[TecmoBengals]

(06-04-2024, 01:39 PM)coachmcneil71 Wrote: I lost 5 SPs to the IL in the past 5 days. Two of them on the same day. MLB don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining with the pitch clock rule.

Pitching injuries are brutal lately. 

[kevin]

and yet I like that the games aren't going 4 or 5 hours on an average. That was too boring and I refuse to watch a game that takes that long to play. I was a kid in the great baseball days of 1960's and games went about 2 hours. Pitchers went every 4 days and the good ones went complete games of few injuries and long careers. I think there are other factors why those pitchers pitched more innings, had short fast games, and fewer injuries compared to todays pitchers. Could be too many try to break the radar gun every pitch, that is not needed. Some of the best pitchers back then had curves, sliders, forkballs, sinkers, screwballs, knuckleballs and saved the heater for now and then, not the heater every pitch. Dibble had nothing but the heater, but he didn't last long. I think that 100 MPH pitch burns their arms out faster. They really need to learn different pitches like the pitchers like Whitey Ford and Bob Gibson.

Anyway, I like that the game is more around 2 to 3 hours and not that 4 to 5 hour crap. Players standing around looking at their shift cards was boring. I got to where I just refused to watch 4 to 5 hour games, I have a life. Bengals game is about 3 hours. It was where if Bengals and Reds both started at 1 PM Sunday, Bengals would be over and Reds still just in 5th inning. Baseball had to speed that up, baseball was never that long decades ago.

[kevin]

Tecmo is putting up points and ahead of me going into Friday and Weekend. See, everybody puts up points against me. I lead league in points scored, but I lead the league by a mile in points scored against them. No team is even close in that one. Everybody has big weeks when they play me.

One thing about injured pitchers. I lost some like Shane Bieber also. I had an open IL spot and a batter on IL that could be cut. I added Kershaw and Eduardo Rodriquez who could return in July and put them on my IL. I the added Shane Baz who is off IL and the 24 year old could be with Rays very soon. I'm out of moves this week now, and no DH, but I can add one Sunday night for next week. I wanted to add 2 good IL pitchers who look to be back in Kershaw and Rodriguez. Rodriguez is not an arm injury, so that was in his favor. Good news just came in on Kershaw. This Baz for Tampa has star potential at age 24, and is pitching rehab in minors ready to come up. If Tampa ever has a healthy Baz, he will be one of the great young pitchers like Hunter Greene.

So on injured pitchers, I took a good hard look at which injured pitchers could come back and be tough this season. I wasn't that happy with some of the pitchers I've been forced to carry either. Baz I have to carry as a bench player since Tampa already took him off IL, and are close to bringing him back to Rays. I also looked at Musgrove, but he had a setback. Still, Musgrove would be good on some teams IL if they can make an IL spot for him.

[coachmcneil71]

Two days into the Tecmo vs Dizzles week and both teams are averaging a whopping 30ish points per day. It's a race to mediocrity! Lol

[TecmoBengals]

(06-19-2024, 02:05 PM)coachmcneil71 Wrote: Two days into the Tecmo vs Dizzles week and both teams are averaging a whopping 30ish points per day. It's a race to mediocrity! Lol

Yeah, my season is over. I drafted a bad team.

[TecmoBengals]

I had a pitcher score -38 points today.