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Do you think any baseball writers play this game?
I listen to ESPN Radio every day almost all day and after listen to guys like Buster Olney, Peter Gammons, Jayson Stark and Tim Kurkjian. I never heard the passion of baseball like I hear from these guys. With the exception of Gammons, due you think anyone plays or has played this game. I here Kurkjian speak and he says he is a 100% stat junkie and I think this game would be right up his alley. Jayson Stark wrote the book the Stark truth where he talked about the most overrated and underrated players at each position in history. Buster Olney I know is also a stat Junkie.
I wonder if either of these three have heard of the game. And I would bet if they where given a setup league they would fall in love with it like all of us. Matt |
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I believe legendsport writes for mlb.com. And given all the fantastic dynasty threads he writes here, I think it's safe to say he plays this game.
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Since they are immersed in real baseball, I would think writers would gravitate more toward games that aim to replicate real baseball than ones that concentrate more on fictional baseball worlds. OOTP is not the best tool for pitting classic teams against one another or capturing the feel of using past players. While it can do these things, Strat-O-Matic, Diamond Mind, and others do it better. OOTP is more of a "fictional" game, even in its historical mode.
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Actually, I have it on good authority that battists is actually Baseball Tonight's own Joe Morgan.
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I also wonder if any MLB players are into this game.
I remember reading a few years back that Curt Schilling was a big fan of Front Page Sports Baseball. He used to pass the time playing it on his laptop when he was on the road. |
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Schilling still seems to be a big gamer, but from what he says it seems he gravitates towards MMORPGS more than anything.
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On a note more cogent to this topic, a few months ago, I know Marc (and I, too) sent an email letting Bill Simmons (the Sports Guy on Page 2 espn.com) know about the game. He's always talking about being the GM of a team. Guess no response there, though. |
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Why is everybody so down on Joe Morgan? I've heard him do a couple of Mets' games lately on ESPN, and he's okay. Not good, but not bad. Not as good as any of the four current Mets' broadcasters (including Keith's mustache) or Tim McCarver/Bob Costas, but fully as good as Tom Seaver or most other retired ballplayers.
The guy who's REALLY bad is his booth partner. That white guy is turn-off-the-sound-and-turn-on-the-radio bad. He somehow manages to sound surprised on every play, no matter how routine, and he has NOTHING to add to the 'booth banter'. He makes me wish Joe would talk more.
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