From: dxf12@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas Fowler)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Coming next year...The All-Time All-Star Season!
Date: 16 Dec 1992 03:32:50 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: dxf12@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas Fowler)
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     The much dreaded day seems to be here - as projected, thw owners opened
the negotiations early.  Will there be a lockout?  With such a narrow vote
I don't know, but the prospects are such that I shall try to replace it, &
provide you, the baseball public, with something many have fantasized about -
a season with Josh Gibson, Ty Cobb, and Cy Young on the same diamond.
     I started this fantasy late in 1989 because of the threat of a strike/
lockout (so don't look for Roberto Alomar at 2nd for Toronto or anything -
teams are as of 1990), and I've continued it from time to time.  I figure
those in netland will enjoy the excitement (and humor from teams like the
Mariners and Senators - "Take me to Hapless, cabbie - everyone keeps talking
about the Hapless Senators") of the season.  Don't grill, torture, or other-
wise try to prod the pennant winner out of me.  I don't know it yet.  I plan
to finish the season over break writing on my computer.
     Binaca Blast - look out for Babe Ruth versus Doyle Alexander. (I could
be persuaded to let some team sign Jim Acker for comic relief.)  Rob Deer
lovers - out of spring training, Pete Incaviglia made the Senators/Rangers!
Will he hit his weight?  Will he fan his weight? (i.e.: Have as many K's
as pounds he weighs.)  Can Billy Martin make the Mariners respectable half
way through a bad season?  Can Ty Cobb stop being a brat long enough to lead
the Tigers to triumph?  Who is Willard Hershberger and what mysterious
force led him to return?  Where in tarnations is Boswaukta?!?  No, it's not
a country in Africa (Botswana *does* sound close), it's the "city" where the
Braves play - a combo of Boston, Milwaukee, and Atlanta.
     I'll post trades I came up with before the start of the "season" to even
out the talent a bit; there were also some during the regular season.  I do
need to know one thing - Paul Splitorff was involved in one deal (to Detroit's
All-Time Team), and I thought he was lefthanded, but someone posting about
a Royals' all-time team said he was a righty.  Within 24 hours of seeing
this post, so I'm not flooded, was he a lefty or a righty?
     BTW, I took r.s.bb.'s advice and chose Bucky Walters over a more recent
pitcher for the Reds, and am using Roy Smalley to back up Joe Cronin rather
than Zoilo Versailles; I changed the names throughout the "season" I'd
written.  As for borderline players, I'll just say hey, they had a
regular spring training and certain players played well enough to make the
club. (i.e.: Bob Ojeda for the Mets.)  I know it's a partial copout, but
it's possible, right?  I'll post the rosters at the start of the semester -
should be about Jan. 11.  I'll try to post enough so I'm through by the
time I go home for the summer, which will be mid-May.  By then, this lockout
thing should be resolved.
     Even if they don't strike, I can be persuaded to continue instead of
waiting till next winter to finish it up.  HOpe you enjoy it.
-- 
Doug Fowler: dxf12@po.CWRU.edu  : Me, age 4 & now: "Mommys and Daddys & other
    Ever wonder if, after Casey : relatives have to give lots of hugs & love
missed the 3rd strike in the poem: & support, 'cause Heaven is just a great
he ran to first and made it?     : big hug that lasts forever and ever!!!"
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