Below .500 - Page 2

darkcloud4579 · 08-16-2015, 03:58 PM

You all who like playing with losers, do you play every game out? What is the trick to staying interested managing a bad team in perpetuity? I've only done that in online leagues and it's painful.

Westheim · 08-16-2015, 04:05 PM

I love raccoons, and I love the Raccoons. I will never be able to start another Raccoons dynasty, so I have to soldier through with these Raccoons. I never claimed I liked it, nor that it was fun, nor that I wouldn't prefer to win.

I mean, how can you NOT love raccoons!?

Gotta keep going!

Doc_Brown · 08-16-2015, 04:17 PM

It's more fun when you're below .500 makes the game more interesting.

IsaacR · 08-16-2015, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Doc_Brown

It's more fun when you're below .500 makes the game more interesting.

It's most fun for me when you're competing for a playoff spot, and win/lose by only one or two games. Hopeless teams are also fun to run, but I tend to burn out after a while.

Honorable_Pawn · 08-16-2015, 04:27 PM

I'm the king of 2nd place.

I usually pull the trigger too soon on free-agents because I'm so worried about getting fired.

Raidergoo · 08-16-2015, 07:04 PM

Have you considered sacrificing a goat?

Honorable_Pawn · 08-16-2015, 07:46 PM

No, but I did try some Kentucky Fried chicken wings.

sreem · 08-16-2015, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Raidergoo

Have you considered sacrificing a goat?

I did......the cubs still lose

bwburke94 · 08-16-2015, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by sreem

I did......the cubs still lose

Oh, come on, it's only been 107 years. Any team can have a bad century.

IsaacR · 08-16-2015, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by IsaacR

Is this not the place to post that I've won 7 straight division titles?

And said streak ended today. .500 record. I'll join everyone in mediocrity soon.

Assos · 08-17-2015, 10:42 AM

I have won a championship one year, kept the same base of young, sub 30 players and have had 3 years of sub .500. Talk about winning it all hangovers.

NYYANKS98 · 08-17-2015, 08:54 PM

Played my first season as the 2015 Yanks last month and somehow finished 92-70 despite my rotation sucking behind Tanaka and Pineda (won over 40 games combined with ~2.7 and 3.00 ERAs) and Gardner, Teixeira and A-Rod being way worse than IRL. Headley was a 6+ WAR alongside Tanaka and I guess my defense and BP helped my weak offense and rotation because I don't know how I managed to win the WS with that roster.

Oh and then I went back to sucking

battists · 08-17-2015, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by NYYANKS98

Oh and then I went back to sucking

Good, otherwise we would have to kick you out of this thread.

Assos · 08-17-2015, 09:01 PM

Battists, you can say that this guy was one of the greatest managers in history. But look at his final record and look at the teams he managed.

Gene Mauch Managerial Record | Baseball-Reference.com

Doc_Brown · 08-17-2015, 09:02 PM

I must leave this thread now and join the one about winning records. Until I'm no doubt back, later losers!

Déjà Bru · 08-17-2015, 10:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Assos

Battists, you can say that this guy was one of the greatest managers in history. But look at his final record and look at the teams he managed.

Gene Mauch Managerial Record | Baseball-Reference.com

I forgot Gene was the inaugural manager of the Montreal Expos. Imagine losing 110 games the first season, followed by six more years of sub .500 finishes before he was put out of his misery.

Gene was also the manager for this:

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In late September 1964, his Phillies had a record of 90–60, a 6 1/2 game lead in the National League with 12 games left to play, and were starting a 7-game home stand. Mauch decided to start his two pitching aces, Jim Bunning and Chris Short, in 7 of the last 10 games, 4 of those starts on 2 days rest (all of which they lost). The Phillies faded, losing 10 games in a row before winning their last 2 games to finish tied for second place with the Cincinnati Reds, one game behind the St. Louis Cardinals in a collapse infamously known as the "Phold."

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In 1982, his Angels team won the American League's Western Division, and won the first two games, at home, in a best-of-5 ALCS against the Milwaukee Brewers. The Angels needed only one more victory to advance to their first World Series. Chances were great, since no team had ever lost the ALCS after winning the first two games. But Milwaukee came back to win all three remaining games (in Milwaukee) and the AL pennant. Some blamed Mauch, who chose to start Tommy John and Bruce Kison, winners of the first two games, in Games 4 and 5 on three days' rest each.

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In 1986, the Angels again won the Western title, and led in the fifth game of the (by now best-of-7) ALCS against the Boston Red Sox, just one strike away from the Fall Classic, but Boston's Dave Henderson hit a home run off Angels reliever Donnie Moore to put the Red Sox ahead. The Angels tied the game in the bottom of the 9th, but the Red Sox went on to win the game in extra innings as well as the remaining two games in Boston to take the Series, and denied Mauch his last real chance to win a pennant and a World Series championship.

Yes, I can certainly see battists continuing in the tradition of Gene Mauch.

Saul Goodman · 08-18-2015, 04:01 PM

Started the season with the Angels 2-12 (.143) including a record of 1-9 in 1 run games.

Currently on a 6 game losing streak and all 6 losses have been 1 run losses. Texas: 5-6, Houston: 6-7, 7-8, 4-5, Oakland: 2-3, 1-2.

Safe to say I haven't quite enjoyed my start to the season, is 14 games too early for a panic trade?

battists · 08-18-2015, 07:44 PM

Haha I started off solid this season. Made it to 9-10, and man, i could SMELL .500!

Then of course the top team in the league, the 13-5 Fremont Foresters, rolled in for a three game set.

Now we are 9-13, looking up at a .500 that seems much farther away.

Déjà Bru · 08-18-2015, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by battists

Haha I started off solid this season. Made it to 9-10, and man, i could SMELL .500!

Then of course the top team in the league, the 13-5 Fremont Foresters, rolled in for a three game set.

Now we are 9-13, looking up at a .500 that seems much farther away.

Seriously, are you still managing in the minor leagues? Because that would explain a lot. You really cannot control your own destiny very much down there - you sort of drift with the breeze and live off the crumbs your GM sends you. Literal crumbs, as in crummy players, much of the time.

battists · 08-18-2015, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

Seriously, are you still managing in the minor leagues? Because that would explain a lot. You really cannot control your own destiny very much down there - you sort of drift with the breeze and live off the crumbs your GM sends you. Literal crumbs, as in crummy players, much of the time.

That's half the fun for me. I am in low A know. In four more seasons I will be in the bigs.

08-16-2015, 03:58 PM	#21
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08-16-2015, 07:46 PM	#27
Honorable_Pawn Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Tampa Bay Posts: 6,407	No, but I did try some Kentucky Fried chicken wings. __________________ PBA Quickstart for OOTP Background Images Collection All PBA games broadcast live on Steam.

08-18-2015, 07:44 PM	#38
battists Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 18,506	Haha I started off solid this season. Made it to 9-10, and man, i could SMELL .500! Then of course the top team in the league, the 13-5 Fremont Foresters, rolled in for a three game set. Now we are 9-13, looking up at a .500 that seems much farther away. __________________ Come check out my dynasty report, Funky Times!

08-16-2015, 04:17 PM	#23
Doc_Brown All Star Starter Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 1,326	It's more fun when you're below .500 makes the game more interesting.

08-16-2015, 07:04 PM	#26
Raidergoo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 9,005	Have you considered sacrificing a goat?

08-17-2015, 10:42 AM	#31
Assos All Star Starter Join Date: May 2004 Location: Just on the fair side of the foul pole! Posts: 1,772	I have won a championship one year, kept the same base of young, sub 30 players and have had 3 years of sub .500. Talk about winning it all hangovers.

08-17-2015, 08:54 PM	#32
NYYANKS98 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Aug 2015 Posts: 128	Played my first season as the 2015 Yanks last month and somehow finished 92-70 despite my rotation sucking behind Tanaka and Pineda (won over 40 games combined with ~2.7 and 3.00 ERAs) and Gardner, Teixeira and A-Rod being way worse than IRL. Headley was a 6+ WAR alongside Tanaka and I guess my defense and BP helped my weak offense and rotation because I don't know how I managed to win the WS with that roster. Oh and then I went back to sucking

08-17-2015, 09:01 PM	#34
Assos All Star Starter Join Date: May 2004 Location: Just on the fair side of the foul pole! Posts: 1,772	Battists, you can say that this guy was one of the greatest managers in history. But look at his final record and look at the teams he managed. Gene Mauch Managerial Record \| Baseball-Reference.com

08-17-2015, 09:02 PM	#35
Doc_Brown All Star Starter Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 1,326	I must leave this thread now and join the one about winning records. Until I'm no doubt back, later losers!

08-18-2015, 04:01 PM	#37
Saul Goodman Minors (Double A) Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Perth, WA Posts: 125	Started the season with the Angels 2-12 (.143) including a record of 1-9 in 1 run games. Currently on a 6 game losing streak and all 6 losses have been 1 run losses. Texas: 5-6, Houston: 6-7, 7-8, 4-5, Oakland: 2-3, 1-2. Safe to say I haven't quite enjoyed my start to the season, is 14 games too early for a panic trade?