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drowtfs · 10-26-2009, 03:25 PM

This interview was posted, after star 1B Andy Walt hit his 600th career home run in the POTD league:
"As soon as I hit it, I knew it was gone. I was happy to move on. Now I can go and have some fun. It is a weight lifted off my shoulders," Walt told the press. He admitted just how much pressure he had been feeling. "Especially every time you'd get out of the hotel, everybody would say, 'Hey, when are you going to hit it?'"

I think this is extremely boring, it's so incredibly cliched, what's the point of having it?
I think the whole focus of the automatically generated news articles should be humorous... I mean, it's not real, so at least it should be extremely silly, otherwise why would anyone want to read it?
So, really I think you guys should shift the focus of the game-generated news articles to humour. Maybe if some people are so uptight and retarded that they want to read these ridiculously bland articles, then make it an option you can turn off: Silly news articles: on or off... there...
I mean, there's already a little bit of it, with the silly injury reports like when a player hurts himself while chasing after his girlfriend on a beach... I think that's good, but there should be loads more, it should be all over the place... there should be not a single serious news article...
like, 600th career home runs and the player will say something like oh yea, but really my life's dream was to be an accountant, or anything really absurd
or like a player signs with a new team during the winter and the GM will say "well, we really were hoping to sign someone better, but he was the only one we could afford, I guess we'll just have to bear with him..." or the player will say like "the GM drugged me and next thing I knew I was in the hotel spa wearing a jockstrap on my head and a copy of the signed contract in my butt..." of course it doesn't have to be exactly like that, but you get the idea...
I just think the news articles are an unused value slot, so you need to plug some value in there...
I guess it would be hard to get someone to write all that stuff for you with quality, but you could always take contributions from the forum here and make your selection, I'm sure there's enough silly people to write a few hundred thousand words of gibberish...
I am imagining also a parody of Scott Boras making appearances in the news articles...

10-26-2009, 03:25 PM	#1 (permalink)
drowtfs Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 23 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2x in 2 posts	Silly News Articles This interview was posted, after star 1B Andy Walt hit his 600th career home run in the POTD league: "As soon as I hit it, I knew it was gone. I was happy to move on. Now I can go and have some fun. It is a weight lifted off my shoulders," Walt told the press. He admitted just how much pressure he had been feeling. "Especially every time you'd get out of the hotel, everybody would say, 'Hey, when are you going to hit it?'" I think this is extremely boring, it's so incredibly cliched, what's the point of having it? I think the whole focus of the automatically generated news articles should be humorous... I mean, it's not real, so at least it should be extremely silly, otherwise why would anyone want to read it? So, really I think you guys should shift the focus of the game-generated news articles to humour. Maybe if some people are so uptight and retarded that they want to read these ridiculously bland articles, then make it an option you can turn off: Silly news articles: on or off... there... I mean, there's already a little bit of it, with the silly injury reports like when a player hurts himself while chasing after his girlfriend on a beach... I think that's good, but there should be loads more, it should be all over the place... there should be not a single serious news article... like, 600th career home runs and the player will say something like oh yea, but really my life's dream was to be an accountant, or anything really absurd or like a player signs with a new team during the winter and the GM will say "well, we really were hoping to sign someone better, but he was the only one we could afford, I guess we'll just have to bear with him..." or the player will say like "the GM drugged me and next thing I knew I was in the hotel spa wearing a jockstrap on my head and a copy of the signed contract in my butt..." of course it doesn't have to be exactly like that, but you get the idea... I just think the news articles are an unused value slot, so you need to plug some value in there... I guess it would be hard to get someone to write all that stuff for you with quality, but you could always take contributions from the forum here and make your selection, I'm sure there's enough silly people to write a few hundred thousand words of gibberish... I am imagining also a parody of Scott Boras making appearances in the news articles...