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Originally Posted by Stanley Kuppchaser

There will be delay in the posting of crowns and other hardware on the forum today because I am in hospital (so British, no?), hopefully being discharged today. I had a supposed out-patient gall bladder removal on Thursday, but a minor complication created a need for clean up on aisle bile duct on Friday and got me a room with a view. All is going well and I am suspecting I'll be discharged today, but the timing may affect my ability to post. I got my son to load OOTP onto my laptop, but forgot to ask him to also put in my files and graphics program. I am surprised at how little pain I am experiencing, consider the pre-operative cautions thrown my way by others, including the medicos. Haven't needed anything stronger than tylenol to keep the discomfort quite minor. Sorry for the gory details, but it seemed an explanation was better that just saying something came up.

On the team front, the additions to the Mundys did not create the firepower hoped for. Roy Sievers was solid, but Socks Seybold suffered through rookie jitters and struggled. The Port Ruppert brain trust still has expressed confidence in him and GM Ulysses Fairsmith held a presser to announce that the Mundys had prevailed in a prolonged bidding war to add Daryl Kile to the rotation for 2026.

On the field,Tommy Greene paced the pitchers with a 15-7 mark, while Max Lanier chipped in at 14-9. The offense was highlighted by Frank Baker's return to the 20-20 club. He had entered the last two Septembers with 17 and 19 homers, respectively, and stalled on those numbers. He has never slipped below 30 steals in any year, and swiped a personal record 44 this year. He batted .319 with 84 RBI, so perhaps he might be in line for some post season honors.

Only 10 packs to open later, but given those I have the past two days, I'm not gonna miss much.

Glad to hear all is well. Take as much time as you need, OOTP can wait.