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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
It's not so much the frequency of the plays but how they're announced. Running back and forth because you misjudged a fly ball isn't a "great play" - it might be a great save of what was about to be a horrible play, but it certainly isn't great. Climbing the ladder to catch a scorcher into left-center, though, is a great play that I pretty much never see. Or picking up a Baltimore chop barehanded and rifling it to first just ahead of a runner. Or timing your leap against the wall to rob someone of a homerun. Or (and now HERE is a play I haven't seen yet) charging in to take a grounder with eyes as a right fielder and throwing out the (slow) batter at first base.
FWIW, I see quite a few bases-loaded double plays, particularly on ground balls back to the pitcher. I haven't done a study, mind you...
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Here's a play that you may not have seen yet, Syd, but it's in there, and I could not believe it when I saw it: Jose Canseco's "that's using his head" home run assist play. To refresh memory, I went to Wikipedia:
"During the 1993 campaign, Canseco received unwanted attention for two on-field debacles that occurred within days of each other. On May 26, during a game against the Cleveland Indians, Carlos Martínez hit a fly ball that Canseco lost in the lights as he was crossing the warning track. The ball hit him in the head and bounced over the wall for a home run. After the incident, the Harrisburg Heat offered him a soccer contract." [The other debacle was asking his manager, Kevin Kennedy, to let him pitch the eighth inning of a runaway loss to the Boston Red Sox; he injured his arm, underwent Tommy John surgery, and was lost for the remainder of the season.]
Your post reminded me of seeing that play in OOTP 2006; I just went searching for it in the XML file and found it:
<TEXT_OBJECT id="5726" text="he is after it...(nl)at the track...(nl)AND THE BALL HITS HIS HEAD...(nl)AND OVER THE WALL! HOME RUN!(nl)Wow, unbelievable!" />
Whatever else is said in this thread, you can't fault OOTP for not trying to come up with some interesting PbP! Now that I have seen it once, however, I hope not see it again for quite a few seasons.
