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I'm aware of that, jg2977. But now that we're down two championships in comparison to reality, I'll have to hope to make up the difference in other later seasons where we didn't win in reality. We being the Cardinals, of course. If it hadn't been for the major injuries to a few of our key players, I think we could perhaps have earned at least ten to fifteen more victories during the season. But when you have key players out for weeks, if not months, it makes it so much more difficult, often, to succeed, don't you think?
Hopefully 1935 and future seasons will prove to be fruitful ones. We have Mize, Medwick, and others who are still young, so there may be potential success ahead for us soon. However, I don't think we will be doing much on the free agency front for a while, because in order to get rid of some older players in 1934, we had to eat salary, and not just a little either.
I think we'll have to eat a good deal of dead money for a few years, at least, Possibly even into the late 1930's or early 1940's, if memory serves me correctly. We shipped off Tony Lazzeri and Jim Bottomley, both of who were 30 and over, but their contracts weren't inexpensive ones, to say the least. The best I can probably hope for is that they either retire or opt out of their current contracts, where they can, in the near future. IF they do, then we won't have to pay all of the money currently due them over the next few to several years, of course.
Please watch for a new dynasty thread to be potentially be created very soon featuring the 1935 St. Louis Cardinals in the relevant saved game. Hope you decide to check it out and comment periodically on it as well, for that matter, jg2977. In the meantime, please feel free to check out the thread subtitled Building the Next in the Dynasty Reports thread, if you like. CD out.
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