This is surely the last year in LA for me. We've got too many holes really to try to rig this hitch for another few years, at least at the level we've been at and I'm going to retire my current GM guy and create a new one, since having a guy exist for over 100 years would be strange.

I think we'll be fine qualifying for the playoffs, the real story is going to be whether I've arranged the team appropriately to outlast everyone else in a playoff run. It's a crapshoot, but...I'd like...

ON FIRINGS...

I took a cue from this thread about firings in multi-player to create a formula for myself to determine how I keep my job from year to year.

It's developed from the start of my career, though if I wanted to, I could start from scratch after each gig too. I'm not yet, but could in the future since I've had such a long career.

In any case, the formula starts like this:

(Season Wins + 50) - (Previous Season Wins + 75)
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1872 LOS ANGELES SERAPHS
TEAM PREVIEW

Incoming:
2B Justin Cripps (FA)
3B/SS Mat Johansen (FA)
CF Mark Wilkinson (Trade)

We decided if you can't beat them, steal them. I don't keep up with upcoming free agents on other teams, so much to my delight, Mat Johansen was a free agent and I was hellbent on doing whatever I had to, in order to...

A look at some team names:


EAU CLAIRE PAWS

The Eau Claire Bears were a minor league team from 1933-1942 and again from 1946-1962. I loved their logo and decided immediately I had to have a team there, but wanted to deviate from the Bears name since it was so generic, so I called them the Paws.

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