Post-Strike Baseball Tournament: WORLD CHAMPION SKITCHP!

[Lament]

Damn, Phil & Skitch mean business already about the Franchise tournament. I'll start a sign up thread so we can start planning this out.

[philpritchard]

Are you sure you want starters in your bullpen phil? It'll never pitch them.

I'll do some test games and see what happens. Although now that you mention it, I had a couple starters in this tournament that didn't get used.

Here's something that makes me not too worried: there are 19 different pitchers who have had a 3.5 WAR season without starting a single game. Three of them are in my bullpen.

[BigRedLedbetter]

My Starting 8(forgot there is no DH).....

C-Pudge Rodriguez 2000
1B- Will Clark 1994
2B- Julio Franco 1991
SS- Michael Young 2005
3B- Adrian Beltre 2012
LF- Rusty Greer 1996
CF- Josh Hmailton 2010
RF- Juan Gonzalez 1998


Bench.....

OF- Ruben Sierra 1989
C/1B- Mike Napoli 2011
2B- Mark McLemore 1996
UTL- Frank Catalanotto 2001
SS- Elvis Andrus 2011
OF- Gabe Kapler 2000

Rotation.....
SP- Fergie Jenkins 1974
SP- Gaylord Perry 1976
SP- Nolan Ryan 1989
SP- Yu Darvish 2013

Everyone Else.....

P- Sparky Lyle 1979
P- Jim Kern 1979
P- Mitch Williams 1987
P- John Wetteland 1997
P- Jeff Zimmerman 2001
P- Francisco Cordero 2004
P- Derek Holland 2010 (Going with this year because he came out of the pen some)
P- Neftali Feliz 2010

(until further notice) My Lineup against righties.....
LF- Greer
C- Pudge
CF- Hamilton
RF- Juan Gone
3B- Beltre
1B- Will Clark
2B- Julio Franco
SS- Michael Young

(until further notice) My Lineup against lefties.....

LF- Greer
C- Pudge
CF- Hamilton
RF- Juan Gone
3B- Beltre
2B- Julio Franco
1B- Mike Napoli
SS- Michael Young

[@SkitchP]

bump

[Norah]

we need to run this one again

[@SkitchP]

we need to run this one again

stop trying to take my title away!

[Norah]

we need to run this one again

stop trying to take my title away!

be willing to defend your title

[@SkitchP]

Honestly, I plan on putting very little thought into this and I'm just gonna go with guys I like.

oh man

[@SkitchP]

we need to run this one again

stop trying to take my title away!

be willing to defend your title

Talk to me about title defense when you have more than half of one.

[Norah]

we need to run this one again

stop trying to take my title away!

be willing to defend your title

Talk to me about title defense when you have more than half of one.

go fuck yourself

[numbers]

we need to run this one again

stop trying to take my title away!

be willing to defend your title

Talk to me about title defense when you have more than half of one.

go fuck yourself

Yeah.

[Jorge]

And since Skitch ran my team that one time and I got second place, it's almost like he has 1.25 titles

[Jorge]

I know that's not how it works, I just wanted to reveal publicly that Skitch ran my team.

[EJ]

I know that's not how it works, I just wanted to reveal publicly that Skitch ran my team.

Who's gonna run it this year?

[Jorge]

Me.

[Lament]

So I stared this thread on August 26th, 2014. We've officially completed one full year of WhatIf on RM. It's actually kinda neat reading through the first few pages knowing the monster we were unknowingly creating.

I kinda think we should be proud of ourselves, guys. I still maintain that we're the most functional portion of this entire board.

[Lament]

I've never done anything on WhatIfSports, but it sounds like the kind of thing that could consume and gradually ruin my life.

I'm so in.

And of course, the very first reply in the thread for our very first tournament is the one that best sums up the experience so far.

[Lament]

I enjoyed some of these other posts leading up to the draft as well...

Question, though: are we allowing the Red Sox fans to participate? Maybe we should have a vote.

If you guys still need someone I'll do this, even though I haven't read the thread and don't understand it.

this is silly and I wont research, but sure!

It might be the first tournament in RM history where the interest doesn't completely die after the draft.

This is as much fun as a dude can have with clothes on.

And even though it has nothing to to with the Tournament, this was too good to leave out...

Oh my god, can you imagine the SkitchP twitter account on Cory Lidle day?

[BigRedLedbetter]

HA! I forgot I said that.

we need to run this one again

stop trying to take my title away!

be willing to defend your title

Talk to me about title defense when you have more than half of one.

I laughed.