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Originally Posted by UltimateAverageGuy

I'm not even exaggerating when I say this is as good an "ongoing novel" I've ever read. This thread has made a lot of long train rides home more tolerable and I thank you for your incredible work. If you have a PayPal to donate to I'll be more than happy to give.

Aw, you really shouldn't support my absolutely reprehensible behavior in here.

Yet... If you must insist on dropping a coin into my jar, shoot me a PM.

Originally Posted by UltimateAverageGuy

One question, do you write as you play? What is your exact method?

The main part of each week with the games is basically written top to bottom, with few exceptions when I realized I missed some particular thing in the introduction to a series, as each game is unfolding. I usually play a few innings in to get a feel for things, especially if pitching is dominant.

The news section gets filled as articles pop up (although I ignore most, f.e. all shutouts which are worse than a 3-hitter, except for special circumstances like back-to-back shutouts, which are really rare), and I skim over the line scores of the week right at the end to not get completely out of the game-to-game rhythm. I only look at the boy score if the line score looks interesting.

The complaints section gets filled as things crop up. "That guy did this and that, oh that reminds me, back in 1999 blubber-blubber-blubber." Sometimes nothing crops up, then I complain about the offense. It's worked for two score and change, which sounds a lot like a Raccoons box score.

Which now actually DOES remind me of something that came up in the office today, when I was doing accounting for a client and came across an invoice from a company that sounded vaguely like "Pooky". Being the freak that I am (honestly, you should see the office walls, raccoon pictures everywhere), I was reminded of Raimundo Beato of course, and then wasn't sure anymore when exactly he played for the Raccoons, but it was the early 90s. Guessed 90-94, which was wrong, he didn't come over until '92 (good timing!). Which actually brings me to the point, because I then found out that he was the return in the discard trade of Raúl Castillo. The three games that Castillo played as a Raccoon were the infamous reward for the Hall of Fame career of Dennis Fried we traded to the Blue Sox a year earlier.

Of course, it also helps that I'm - I don't know whether any of you ever noticed - in an advanced stage of nuts.

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Update shall come tomorrow. There was no real game on today, so I bothered about other stuff I can't couple with a real game.