The Atlanta Braves Thread IV

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#9,805
#9,805
also... april 12,13,14 3 game set braves in DC. april 29,30may1 3 game set nats in ATL. kicking it off twice in the first month.

also, randomly mixed in AL games is gonna mess with my mind.
 
#9,806
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zjcvols said:
That's the worst part. Time Warner screwed the Braves for 25 years.
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Yeah they did. It sure would help though if we could sell out more. Some days during the week which I understand not everybody can make it, looks on par with Marlins. Not to mention a ton of Braves fans don't even live near Atlanta.
 
#9,807
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005 said:
also... april 12,13,14 3 game set braves in DC. april 29,30may1 3 game set nats in ATL. kicking it off twice in the first month.

also, randomly mixed in AL games is gonna mess with my mind.
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That's gonna mess mine up too. It's gonna be weird.
 
#9,809
#9,809
All right, OOTP. It's a giant simulation of everything. You cannot actually go up there and swing the bat, arcade-style, like you could in Earl Weaver Baseball (previous titleholder of Best Baseball Game ever), but it's got everything else. You can be the manager and have the computer be your GM. You can be the GM and let a "computer manager" manage the team. (To the point where you can hire and fire managers based on different criteria.) You can be both the GM and the field manager, which is what I liked to do, although I let the computer simulate most of the games so it didn't take six months to play a season. I always played as the GM, set up parameters for my computer manager as to how often I wanted him to issue IBBs, bunt, play the infield in or out, etc etc etc, and then step in myself to manage big meaningful series or the playoffs. You can really control as much or little of it as you like. Trades, amateur draft, minor leagues, player development -- it's all there. I have always played by myself, but my understanding is that you can set up a league with one human-controlled team, a few of them, or all of them. Whatever you want.

You can start with real teams/players and go from there if you want. Players age and retire; the computer generates new guys to replace them for the draft. Maybe I'm weird, but I've always preferred to go with the tabula rasa and play with completely fictional teams and players. It seems purer that way.

I used to spend a ton of time on it during the offseason, and then it was one of the things that got elbowed out of the way for the kid(s). I still buy the new version every year, mostly to support the product; I update my team and league; and then I rarely play it. Great game though.
 
#9,810
#9,810
Vercingetorix said:
All right, OOTP. It's a giant simulation of everything. You cannot actually go up there and swing the bat, arcade-style, like you could in Earl Weaver Baseball (previous titleholder of Best Baseball Game ever), but it's got everything else. You can be the manager and have the computer be your GM. You can be the GM and let a "computer manager" manage the team. (To the point where you can hire and fire managers based on different criteria.) You can be both the GM and the field manager, which is what I liked to do, although I let the computer simulate most of the games so it didn't take six months to play a season. I always played as the GM, set up parameters for my computer manager as to how often I wanted him to issue IBBs, bunt, play the infield in or out, etc etc etc, and then step in myself to manage big meaningful series or the playoffs. You can really control as much or little of it as you like. Trades, amateur draft, minor leagues, player development -- it's all there. I have always played by myself, but my understanding is that you can set up a league with one human-controlled team, a few of them, or all of them. Whatever you want.

You can start with real teams/players and go from there if you want. Players age and retire; the computer generates new guys to replace them for the draft. Maybe I'm weird, but I've always preferred to go with the tabula rasa and play with completely fictional teams and players. It seems purer that way.

I used to spend a ton of time on it during the offseason, and then it was one of the things that got elbowed out of the way for the kid(s). I still buy the new version every year, mostly to support the product; I update my team and league; and then I rarely play it. Great game though.
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That sounds like so much fun.
 
#9,814
#9,814
Watching the color orange again for the 4th or 5th time and I know we've sucked for a while now but damn I love UT football.
 
#9,815
#9,815
Here is Earl Weaver Baseball for the Amiga, which I played hundreds of hours of when I was a teenager. You guys are going to want to throw up, but this was the greatest baseball computer game ever until OOTP. Skip the opening sequence, watch a little of the setup, and then skip ahead to 2:55 for "gameplay."

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKp_fP06f0Q[/youtube]
 
#9,817
#9,817
On any potential sale: If the Braves start drawing better crowds (and I'm aware of the roadblocks that partially explain the attendance issues) and could manage to win a World Series with this group, that would make them a much more attractive product and could maybe attract more buyer interest.

On Freeman: Don't forget about the bomb he hit off of Halladay for his first career HR. Crushed.

On OOTP: Never played it, but if it's anything similar (sounds even better) to doing a sim league at whatifsports.com, it should be a blast.
 
#9,818
#9,818
Vercingetorix said:
Here is Earl Weaver Baseball for the Amiga, which I played hundreds of hours of when I was a teenager. You guys are going to want to throw up, but this was the greatest baseball computer game ever until OOTP. Skip the opening sequence, watch a little of the setup, and then skip ahead to 2:55 for "gameplay."

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKp_fP06f0Q[/youtube]
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That's just awesome.
 
#9,819
#9,819
Vercingetorix said:
It can be a hell of a lot of fun. I always wanted to play against other people, but I don't know anybody in real life who would have any interest in playing. Hardcore baseball simulation fans are pretty thin on the ground.
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None of my friends would play, I'd probably just go against a computer. Can you create your own team name or what not? Would totally create the Tennessee Smokies.
 
#9,820
#9,820
if Tbrown, zjc, verc and any others on the board get the new one in April we should kick off a league in here.
 
#9,823
#9,823
005 said:
if Tbrown, zjc, verc and any others on the board get the new one in April we should kick off a league in here.
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That'd be a lot of fun. I doubt we could get 30 though :) but we can just have the computer do the rest.
 
#9,824
#9,824
zjcvols said:
None of my friends would play, I'd probably just go against a computer. Can you create your own team name or what not? Would totally create the Tennessee Smokies.
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My team in my solo league is the Knoxville Growlers. Set that up years ago before you could actually get beer growlers in Knoxville. Pretty sure I made it happen.
 
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