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GrimmyDee · 06-02-2009, 08:15 AM

Prelude

I really have no business writing this. I have very little spare time anymore that my wife and family doesn't already have control of. There is grass to be mowed, cars to be fixed, T-Ball games to be coached...

Yet, I just can't stay away.

I love the game of baseball. I won't lie.

Not the over-priced, over-marketed, steroid mess of today. I can do without the juiced players, the smaller ballparks and the 15-11 softball scores. You can give me a 2-1 pitching duel anytime.

Collecting baseball cards as a child, watching my heroes of the 70's & 80's on television and imagining I was one of them. Eddie Murray, Mike Schmidt, Johnny Bench, George Brett, Nolan Ryan and Fred Lynn were my idols and I wished to be just like them - smashing wiffle balls over the house and losing more than a few dozen to what we called "the ball eating tree".

Alas, bum knees and marginal ability left me to relive this era over and over in my head.

That's part of the reason I decided to start in 1977. Salaries aren't ridiculous yet, and steroids are not as much as an influence as the athletes of today. I plan on keeping the league power numbers lower to simulate just how baseball might have been in a non-steroid era.

So what can you expect from this? I'm not sure. Everybody seems to have their own favorite format when it comes to dynasties - so I decided to take what I felt were the best qualities from each. Dare I say, this is essentially 2 or 3 dynasties in one - Something for the in-depth readers, the stat-junkies and the fictional minor league managers. My hopes are that there will be something for everyone in here, (but probably everyone will hate it) and that you might feel inspired to write about your favorite players of the era.

This will be my Opus, if you will. My final dynasty work. I am just getting too damn old to be putting the month of effort in setting up my dynasty just the way I want. That being said - I will be putting all of my effort into this and not throw out a crappy product. The road may be a long one and it may take forever to get there, but it's the ride that counts and when I am old and gray, I want to be able to look back and say I was a part of history - so to speak. Because history itself doesn't change, until it happens in my retro-reality.

Next up you will get an overview of important happenings in the league circa Jan-March 1977. I won't insult you and say I wrote these, but merely transferred them from baseballlibrary.com (a great chronology resource). Then I may throw some Spring Training happenings followed by league summaries from fictional journalist Kevin Moss from the fictional USA Plain Beacon Journal Dealer Gazette Telegraph. So send any fictional hate mail his way, not mine.

06-02-2009, 08:15 AM	#1 (permalink)
GrimmyDee Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 279 Thanks: 10 Thanked 11x in 10 posts	When It Was A Game Prelude I really have no business writing this. I have very little spare time anymore that my wife and family doesn't already have control of. There is grass to be mowed, cars to be fixed, T-Ball games to be coached... Yet, I just can't stay away. I love the game of baseball. I won't lie. Not the over-priced, over-marketed, steroid mess of today. I can do without the juiced players, the smaller ballparks and the 15-11 softball scores. You can give me a 2-1 pitching duel anytime. Collecting baseball cards as a child, watching my heroes of the 70's & 80's on television and imagining I was one of them. Eddie Murray, Mike Schmidt, Johnny Bench, George Brett, Nolan Ryan and Fred Lynn were my idols and I wished to be just like them - smashing wiffle balls over the house and losing more than a few dozen to what we called "the ball eating tree". Alas, bum knees and marginal ability left me to relive this era over and over in my head. That's part of the reason I decided to start in 1977. Salaries aren't ridiculous yet, and steroids are not as much as an influence as the athletes of today. I plan on keeping the league power numbers lower to simulate just how baseball might have been in a non-steroid era. So what can you expect from this? I'm not sure. Everybody seems to have their own favorite format when it comes to dynasties - so I decided to take what I felt were the best qualities from each. Dare I say, this is essentially 2 or 3 dynasties in one - Something for the in-depth readers, the stat-junkies and the fictional minor league managers. My hopes are that there will be something for everyone in here, (but probably everyone will hate it) and that you might feel inspired to write about your favorite players of the era. This will be my Opus, if you will. My final dynasty work. I am just getting too damn old to be putting the month of effort in setting up my dynasty just the way I want. That being said - I will be putting all of my effort into this and not throw out a crappy product. The road may be a long one and it may take forever to get there, but it's the ride that counts and when I am old and gray, I want to be able to look back and say I was a part of history - so to speak. Because history itself doesn't change, until it happens in my retro-reality. Next up you will get an overview of important happenings in the league circa Jan-March 1977. I won't insult you and say I wrote these, but merely transferred them from baseballlibrary.com (a great chronology resource). Then I may throw some Spring Training happenings followed by league summaries from fictional journalist Kevin Moss from the fictional USA Plain Beacon Journal Dealer Gazette Telegraph. So send any fictional hate mail his way, not mine. Last edited by GrimmyDee; 06-06-2009 at 09:43 AM.