ISLANDIAN PRO ALLIANCE (RUTHLANDIA and TYCOBBIA BASEBALL UNIONS) - Page 481

Eugene Church · 07-09-2023, 11:04 PM

AROUND THE TOWN IN THE IPA

WYNNAMAC SUNDOWNERS

Owner: Granger Co-Operative Association
GM/Manager: Nioka Inkamara

Wynnamac is a town of 86,000 residents and can be found about 50 miles inland from the Valerian Ocean, which is near the eastern coast of Ruthlandia. It is located in the northeastern part of the country in the Central Plains, which spans east to west across it and is a well-known farming region, filled with seemingly endless fields of ripe golden wheat and rustic farms. It is the "Breadbasket of Ruthlandia". Settled by a diverse band of hearty and hardworking Canadian and Australian immigrants, who worked "sunup to sundown". They became known as "Sundowners" because of their great work ethic and love for the land...and for their love of baseball and the homestanding Wynnamac Sundowners. The area is also a center for meat packing and dairy industries.

Life hasn't changed much here for several hundred years and probably won't change much in the next hundred years. Wynnamac is a member of the IPA's Ruthlandian East Division. The club plays at Granger Field, which is built right next to a grain processing plant with huge silos and a water tower with a gigantic ear of corn on it, all visible from the ballpark. The Sundowners are owned by the Granger Co-operative Association, farmers banded together for the common good and welfare.

At the concession stands you get nothing fancy. Just soda pop, hot dogs, hamburgers, popcorn, peanuts, crackerjacks and ice cream. However, they do serve a gourmet delicacy, a roasted ear of corn slathered in butter, mayonnaise, too, if you like...No beer or alcoholic beverages are permitted at the stadium. It is against the law in Wynnamac county and strictly enforced.

In 2066 Sundowner superstar and Hall-of-Famer Nioka Inkamara took charge of the baseball operations and is also the skipper. Inkamara had a colossal career in the IPA, playing with Wynnamac the first 12 years and the final two with the Bayview Vikings of the Tycobbian West. His career covered the period 2038 to 2051. Inkamara boasts a .303 lifetime BA with 488 home runs and 1385 RBIs. He was voted into the Islandian Pro Alliance Hall of Fame in 2057... Inkamara was a 5-time All-Star, 3-time Ruthlandian MVP, 2-time Golden Glove and the 2039 RU Rookie of the Year.

As skipper Inkamara has sparked the Macs to 6 Ruthlandian East pennants and garnered two Pro Cups. In 2070 the Sundowners defeated the Turon Typhoons for the overall IPA title. Wynnamac copped another IPA title in 2076. It was the 4th time in its IPA history that Wynnamac won the Pro Cup Trophy. That year they whipped the San Alejo Montaneros.

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Dimensions:
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Left Field - 375
Left Center - 415
Center Field - 404
Right Center - 375
Right Field - 350
Right Field Line - 325

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Eugene Church · 07-10-2023, 08:28 PM

Post Deleted... Playoff Schedule Problem.

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Playoff Schedule Fouled Up... Will try to revise it and save the season.

Dark Horse · 07-10-2023, 11:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Eugene Church

Dark Horse... had to look him up... a wrestler with a catchy name.

I see you are in four leagues... is there any way to follow them?
I'm sure they must be good ones if you and your Rock Hounds are in them.

Those are my Perfect Teams. i have been working on something. i'm trying to figure out how to present it. i'll post something during v24...

Eugene Church · 07-11-2023, 11:57 AM

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Those are my Perfect Teams. i have been working on something. i'm trying to figure out how to present it. i'll post something during v24...

Looking forward to seeing them.

Eugene Church · 07-11-2023, 08:36 PM

EC was really disappointed that I lost this year's playoffs in the First Round... I was so depressed I considered dropping the IPA for good... yep, EC is very spoiled by OOTP... it has been working very well for me since I first lost it in season 2056 due to Microsoft installing Windows 10 without officially being told it would happen... nope, I never would have approved it... Microsoft just did it without approval... Windows 10 froze my computer and I had to buy a new one... several months later fortunately I accidently discovered an OOTP backup that ran through season 2052... so I only lost 4 seasons.

The 2078 IPA playoff stats will probably be messed up, but I think I will be able to play it and get a legitimate champion... the individual stats will be messed up... I deleted the games I had already played and recreated the playoff schedule... I think it will work... but I couldn't remove the player stats for the first round games I deleted.

Eugene Church · 07-11-2023, 09:54 PM

MY LIFE IN 2023
EC's Life's Filled with Glee in '23

EC is on a losing streak... the last few baseball books have been boring... I only read about half of Baseball: The Early Years by Harold Seymour... much too much about the business of baseball... didn't really enjoy Long Gone, a fictional story about a lifetime minor league player-manager and a rookie second baseman in the Class D Alabama-Florida League in the 1950s... it was too much booze and sex and not enough about baseball... it was written by Paul Hemphill, a country music historian that authored The Nashville Sound and Lovesick Blues: The Story of Hank Williams... Hemphill should stick to writing about country music... Nashville Sound was very good... Hank's story was despressing... he was one of our greatest songwriters ever... sadly he was a drunk at age 12 and stayed that way for the most part of his depressive life... yet he was a fabulous entertainer... his audiences loved him and his music... however, when Hank Williams went into the recording studio, he was sober and serious... Thank goodness.

My current book is Only the Ball Was White by Robert Peterson... it's the story of the Negro Leagues and their players... EC didn't enjoy the first third of the book... too much baseball business and not enough about the players... I will read half way... if it doesn't improve by then, I will get me another book.

EC is beginning to think I am getting too hard to please... don't really enjoy current day movies and TV series... don't enjoy the restaurants in my home town much anymore... EC had gone back to an old standby from high school -- boloney and mayonnaise sandwiches... lately that's my favorite meal... and yep, EC gave up on pop and rock music in the early 80s... and gave up on country music in the early 1990s... modern-day music and artists don't do anything for me... give that oldtime music and give me that oldtime religion... they were good enough for my mama and daddy and they are good enough for me.

Thank goodness for pop, rock, rhythm and blues, and country Golden Oldies music and OOTP... EC sure would be bored without them.

EC did learn some things from the Negro League book... the caliber of Negro League players... were they equal to the MLB players... were the teams equal to MLB teams?

"Wit, Quips and Quotes from the Diamond Minds"

Excepts from Only The Ball Was White by Robert Peterson:

There is general agreement that among men who played in the Negro Major Leagues that the level of play on the field was equal to Triple A Baseball, the highest minor leagues in Organized Baseball.

Major League Hall of Famer and 1920s Negro League star third baseman Judy Johnson:
"Not day in and day out, but of course you could have picked enough players then to put a team in each major league -- a whole colored team in each league and they would have been the same caliber as the other big-league teams. The Hillsdale Club that played in the Negro World Series in 1934 would have belonged in Triple A because there were a couple of positions where men would have had to be replaced. We had men in some positions who weren't major-league caliber."

Major League Hall of Famer Buck Leonard, a star Negro League first baseman, whose career spanned the 1930s and 1940s:

"We didn't have star men at every position. We didn't have -- as the majors did -- two good catchers and six or seven good pitchers. We had about four good pitchers and about two or three mediocre pitchers. We also had pitchers that we pitched in a league game and we had pitchers that would pitch against white semi-pro teams. We called them Sockamayocks.

The best team was the Homestead Grays from 1937, 1938, 1939 and 1940. We had another good team in 1945 when the fellas came back from the Army. -- I would say we would have been a good Triple A team for this reason -- we didn't have replacements that the major-league teams had, those fellas I was talking about who weren't first stringers. They might be Class B or C or D ballplayers. Our Sockamayocks might be Class B or D pitchers. And then our second string catcher might be Class B."

Eugene Church · 07-12-2023, 09:06 PM

Sorry, folks... this year's IPA playoffs are messed up... I failed to make sure the playoff schedule matched the seedings in the scheduler... my mistake... the game did not seed the teams according to their season records... so I reworked the schedule and fouled it up.

The best I can do is give you the results of each series in the first two rounds... In the Ruthlandian Union Sligo swept St. John 4-0... and Kilkenny took the broom to Wynnamac winning four in a row... in the Tycobbian Union both series went 7 games with Turon toppling Hartsdale and South Fork nipping Kenwood.

In the Ruthlandian Title Series the Kilkenny Cats bested the Sligo Rovers 4 games to 2... and in Tycobbian Title Series this year's Pro Cup-favored Turon whipped the reigning IPA kingpins South Fork 4 games to 1.

Sorry, the game didn't keep the box scores.

I will attempt to play out the IPA Pro Cup Finals between Kilkenny and Turon... we'll see if the game is in synch with the revised schedule I did.

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Sunday, October 23, 2078

2078 IPA PRO CUP SERIES OPENER TAKEN BY TURON OVER KILKENNY
The Pro Cup favorite Turon took the first game of the best-of-seven set 7-2 at home at Typhoon Stadium... the Typhoons trimmed
the Kilkenny Cats with good pitching and good hitting.

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Monday, October 24, 2078

TYPHOON TWIRLERS TOO TOUGH FOR CATS
The Turon Typhoons are off to the races with their second straight victory in the Islandian Pro Alliance Pro Cup Series... the Typhoons
skinned the Kilkenny Cats 3-1 at home Sunday afternoon taking a big step in winning their 6th IPA Pro Cup Trophy... the Cats are still
seeking their first Pro Cup... this is only the third postseason appearance for them... Turon is making its 28th appearance in the playoffs...
the Typhoons won Pro Cups in 2003, 2006, 2009, 2018 and also recently in 2072.

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jg2977 · 07-14-2023, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Eugene Church

Sorry, folks... this year's IPA playoffs are messed up... I failed to make sure the playoff schedule matched the seedings in the scheduler... my mistake... the game did not seed the teams according to their season records... so I reworked the schedule and fouled it up.

The best I can do is give you the results of each series in the first two rounds... In the Ruthlandian Union Sligo swept St. John 4-0... and Kilkenny took the broom to Wynnamac winning four in a row... in the Tycobbian Union both series went 7 games with Turon toppling Hartsdale and South Fork nipping Kenwood.

In the Ruthlandian Title Series the Kilkenny Cats bested the Sligo Rovers 4 games to 2... and in Tycobbian Title Series this year's Pro Cup-favored Turon whipped the reigning IPA kingpins South Fork 4 games to 1.

Sorry, the game didn't keep the box scores.

I will attempt to play out the IPA Pro Cup Finals between Kilkenny and Turon... we'll see if the game is in synch with the revised schedule I did.

Things like this happen with computers. I probably could have saved my last IPA but I didn't want to go through the trouble, and I didn't like how it was progressing due to the super players I started creating again. I've learned my lesson and just started a third version from scratch. It still seems like your IPA is still progressing, so that's good. Turon looks like they are on the way to hoisting another Pro Cup.

Eugene Church · 07-14-2023, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by jg2977

Things like this happen with computers. I probably could have saved my last IPA but I didn't want to go through the trouble, and I didn't like how it was progressing due to the super players I started creating again. I've learned my lesson and just started a third version from scratch. It still seems like your IPA is still progressing, so that's good. Turon looks like they are on the way to hoisting another Pro Cup.

Yep, they were the best team last year, but didn't win it.

But it would be nice to have Kilkenny win its first Pro Cup Trophy... but I don't think they have the offense to whip Turon... the Cats will have to get super pitching to win it.

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Wednesday, October 26, 2078

TURON COULD SWEEP AWAY KILKENNY FOR THEIR 6TH PRO CUP TROPHY
It is just as hard to win the first four games of the Pro Cup Series as it is to win the last four games of the Pro Cup Series... neither possibility
is likely to happen according to the laws of averages and the laws of baseball... however, both the red-hot Turon Typhoons and the ice-cold
Kilkenny Kitty Cats have a shot at those outcomes.

At the end of the first three games of the best-of-seven series Turon has a brogdingnagian edge in the Pro Cup Series and Kilkenny is a
pretty fur piece behind... it will take the Cats a leviathan leap to win the whole shebang... yep, y'all will have to look those words up in your
Funk and Wagnalls... well, maybe not quite that big of lead or that big of a deficit, EC can sometimes over-embellish things, but it's at least
a darn good lead or a big deficit, nonetheless.

Turon had to make a huge turnaround to salvage game three to take such a cyclopean 3-0 lead, but the Typhoons rose to the occasion
and did it... in a herculean effort they rallied and overcame Kilkenny 12-6.

Eat your heart out, Grantland Rice, Red Smith, Peter Gammons or Tom Verducci... you could do recaps as good as Eugene Church if you
used a Funk and Wagnalls.

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Thursday, October 27, 2078

KILKENNY STAVES OFF TURON IN PRO CUP GAME FOUR... AVOIDS ELIMINATION
The Ruthlandian Union champion Kilkenny Cats still have some fight in them... they held off the Tycobbian champion Turon Typhoons 3-2 in
game four of the Islandian Pro Alliance Pro Cup Series... the Cats still must do the almost-impossible - win four straight games - a feat only
done one time in IPA history when Turon did it in 2009, coming back to topple the Far Mountain Redhawks after losing the first three games.

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Friday, October 28, 2078

TURON IPA PRO CUP CHAMPS 2ND TIME IN 7 YEARS... TYPHOONS TAKE 6TH PRO CUP TROPHY
Riding high with some fine pitching and hitting the Turon Typhoons are the darlings of the Islandian Pro Alliance once again with their 2nd
Pro Cup in the last 7 seasons... for the 6th time in the team's IPA history they are the overall Islandian Pro Alliance champion... once again
the Typhoons are the best team in Islandia... only the Rolling Hills Racers have more Pro Cups... Rolling Hills has won the IPA crown 8 times.

Turon put the finishing touches on this year's Pro Cup Series with a 5-1 triumph in the fifth game over the Kilkenny Cats... the Typhoons won
four of the five games.

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Friday, October 27, 2078

TURON'S NEWELL EDGES OUT WARFIELD AND HAZLE FOR IPA POSTSEASON MVP
'Twas a mighty tough choice to make for the 2078 IPA postseason player of the year... this year's Pro Cup playoffs Most Valuable Player was Turon's left fielder Robert Newell... he bested a couple of his teammates, closer Odie Warfield and center fielder Robert Hazle, for the honor... all three players had prime roles in sparking the Typhoons to their 6th Pro Cup.

Newell led Turon in their IPA title run with a .384 BA (28 for 73) with 3 homers, 15 RBIs, 15 runs and 5 stolen bases in 17 games... second in the balloting was standout reliever Odie Warfield, who made 12 appearances with a 2-0 record, 2 saves and a strong 2.04 ERA in 26 innings... third in the MVP poll was Robert Hazle, who hit .301 (22 for 73) in the playoffs with 4 homers, 17 RBIs, 11 runs and 2 stolen bases.

Overall Turon was 12-5 in the IPA postseason... they whipped Hartsdale 4 games to 3 in the Tycobbian Union First Round... eliminated defending Pro Cup champion South Fork in the TU Title Series four games to one... and then captured its 6th Pro Cup Trophy by besting the Kilkenny Cats, the Ruthlandian Union champion, in five games.

The Tycobbian Union leads the series 44-34 overall... Turon has made the Pro Cup Finals 11 times with 6 titles... Kilkenny has made the postseason playoffs only 3 times in its history and has never won the IPA title... this the first time the Cats reached the Pro Cup Finals.

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Eugene Church · 07-19-2023, 06:53 PM

Just figured out how to stop the wide white gaps between my box score posts.

You have to mark off the section you want on the screen... cut it and paste it into paint software... I inadvertently skipped the step where you should crop your post right before you save it.

It works fine when you know what you are doing.

EC is now at peace with the world of technology once again.

Eugene Church · 07-19-2023, 07:03 PM

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07-09-2023, 11:04 PM	#9601
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 36,032	AROUND THE TOWN IN THE IPA WYNNAMAC SUNDOWNERS Owner: Granger Co-Operative Association GM/Manager: Nioka Inkamara Wynnamac is a town of 86,000 residents and can be found about 50 miles inland from the Valerian Ocean, which is near the eastern coast of Ruthlandia. It is located in the northeastern part of the country in the Central Plains, which spans east to west across it and is a well-known farming region, filled with seemingly endless fields of ripe golden wheat and rustic farms. It is the "Breadbasket of Ruthlandia". Settled by a diverse band of hearty and hardworking Canadian and Australian immigrants, who worked "sunup to sundown". They became known as "Sundowners" because of their great work ethic and love for the land...and for their love of baseball and the homestanding Wynnamac Sundowners. The area is also a center for meat packing and dairy industries. Life hasn't changed much here for several hundred years and probably won't change much in the next hundred years. Wynnamac is a member of the IPA's Ruthlandian East Division. The club plays at Granger Field, which is built right next to a grain processing plant with huge silos and a water tower with a gigantic ear of corn on it, all visible from the ballpark. The Sundowners are owned by the Granger Co-operative Association, farmers banded together for the common good and welfare. At the concession stands you get nothing fancy. Just soda pop, hot dogs, hamburgers, popcorn, peanuts, crackerjacks and ice cream. However, they do serve a gourmet delicacy, a roasted ear of corn slathered in butter, mayonnaise, too, if you like...No beer or alcoholic beverages are permitted at the stadium. It is against the law in Wynnamac county and strictly enforced. In 2066 Sundowner superstar and Hall-of-Famer Nioka Inkamara took charge of the baseball operations and is also the skipper. Inkamara had a colossal career in the IPA, playing with Wynnamac the first 12 years and the final two with the Bayview Vikings of the Tycobbian West. His career covered the period 2038 to 2051. Inkamara boasts a .303 lifetime BA with 488 home runs and 1385 RBIs. He was voted into the Islandian Pro Alliance Hall of Fame in 2057... Inkamara was a 5-time All-Star, 3-time Ruthlandian MVP, 2-time Golden Glove and the 2039 RU Rookie of the Year. As skipper Inkamara has sparked the Macs to 6 Ruthlandian East pennants and garnered two Pro Cups. In 2070 the Sundowners defeated the Turon Typhoons for the overall IPA title. Wynnamac copped another IPA title in 2076. It was the 4th time in its IPA history that Wynnamac won the Pro Cup Trophy. That year they whipped the San Alejo Montaneros. Capacity: 7,965 Dimensions: Left Field Line - 355 Left Field - 375 Left Center - 415 Center Field - 404 Right Center - 375 Right Field - 350 Right Field Line - 325 Attached Images

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07-11-2023, 08:36 PM	#9608
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 36,032	EC was really disappointed that I lost this year's playoffs in the First Round... I was so depressed I considered dropping the IPA for good... yep, EC is very spoiled by OOTP... it has been working very well for me since I first lost it in season 2056 due to Microsoft installing Windows 10 without officially being told it would happen... nope, I never would have approved it... Microsoft just did it without approval... Windows 10 froze my computer and I had to buy a new one... several months later fortunately I accidently discovered an OOTP backup that ran through season 2052... so I only lost 4 seasons. The 2078 IPA playoff stats will probably be messed up, but I think I will be able to play it and get a legitimate champion... the individual stats will be messed up... I deleted the games I had already played and recreated the playoff schedule... I think it will work... but I couldn't remove the player stats for the first round games I deleted. Last edited by Eugene Church; 07-13-2023 at 11:09 AM.

07-11-2023, 09:54 PM	#9609
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 36,032	MY LIFE IN 2023 EC's Life's Filled with Glee in '23 EC is on a losing streak... the last few baseball books have been boring... I only read about half of Baseball: The Early Years by Harold Seymour... much too much about the business of baseball... didn't really enjoy Long Gone, a fictional story about a lifetime minor league player-manager and a rookie second baseman in the Class D Alabama-Florida League in the 1950s... it was too much booze and sex and not enough about baseball... it was written by Paul Hemphill, a country music historian that authored The Nashville Sound and Lovesick Blues: The Story of Hank Williams... Hemphill should stick to writing about country music... Nashville Sound was very good... Hank's story was despressing... he was one of our greatest songwriters ever... sadly he was a drunk at age 12 and stayed that way for the most part of his depressive life... yet he was a fabulous entertainer... his audiences loved him and his music... however, when Hank Williams went into the recording studio, he was sober and serious... Thank goodness. My current book is Only the Ball Was White by Robert Peterson... it's the story of the Negro Leagues and their players... EC didn't enjoy the first third of the book... too much baseball business and not enough about the players... I will read half way... if it doesn't improve by then, I will get me another book. EC is beginning to think I am getting too hard to please... don't really enjoy current day movies and TV series... don't enjoy the restaurants in my home town much anymore... EC had gone back to an old standby from high school -- boloney and mayonnaise sandwiches... lately that's my favorite meal... and yep, EC gave up on pop and rock music in the early 80s... and gave up on country music in the early 1990s... modern-day music and artists don't do anything for me... give that oldtime music and give me that oldtime religion... they were good enough for my mama and daddy and they are good enough for me. Thank goodness for pop, rock, rhythm and blues, and country Golden Oldies music and OOTP... EC sure would be bored without them. EC did learn some things from the Negro League book... the caliber of Negro League players... were they equal to the MLB players... were the teams equal to MLB teams? "Wit, Quips and Quotes from the Diamond Minds" Excepts from Only The Ball Was White by Robert Peterson: There is general agreement that among men who played in the Negro Major Leagues that the level of play on the field was equal to Triple A Baseball, the highest minor leagues in Organized Baseball. Major League Hall of Famer and 1920s Negro League star third baseman Judy Johnson: "Not day in and day out, but of course you could have picked enough players then to put a team in each major league -- a whole colored team in each league and they would have been the same caliber as the other big-league teams. The Hillsdale Club that played in the Negro World Series in 1934 would have belonged in Triple A because there were a couple of positions where men would have had to be replaced. We had men in some positions who weren't major-league caliber." Major League Hall of Famer Buck Leonard, a star Negro League first baseman, whose career spanned the 1930s and 1940s: "We didn't have star men at every position. We didn't have -- as the majors did -- two good catchers and six or seven good pitchers. We had about four good pitchers and about two or three mediocre pitchers. We also had pitchers that we pitched in a league game and we had pitchers that would pitch against white semi-pro teams. We called them Sockamayocks. The best team was the Homestead Grays from 1937, 1938, 1939 and 1940. We had another good team in 1945 when the fellas came back from the Army. -- I would say we would have been a good Triple A team for this reason -- we didn't have replacements that the major-league teams had, those fellas I was talking about who weren't first stringers. They might be Class B or C or D ballplayers. Our Sockamayocks might be Class B or D pitchers. And then our second string catcher might be Class B." Last edited by Eugene Church; 07-13-2023 at 11:14 AM.

07-12-2023, 09:06 PM	#9610
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 36,032	Sorry, folks... this year's IPA playoffs are messed up... I failed to make sure the playoff schedule matched the seedings in the scheduler... my mistake... the game did not seed the teams according to their season records... so I reworked the schedule and fouled it up. The best I can do is give you the results of each series in the first two rounds... In the Ruthlandian Union Sligo swept St. John 4-0... and Kilkenny took the broom to Wynnamac winning four in a row... in the Tycobbian Union both series went 7 games with Turon toppling Hartsdale and South Fork nipping Kenwood. In the Ruthlandian Title Series the Kilkenny Cats bested the Sligo Rovers 4 games to 2... and in Tycobbian Title Series this year's Pro Cup-favored Turon whipped the reigning IPA kingpins South Fork 4 games to 1. Sorry, the game didn't keep the box scores. I will attempt to play out the IPA Pro Cup Finals between Kilkenny and Turon... we'll see if the game is in synch with the revised schedule I did. Last edited by Eugene Church; 07-13-2023 at 11:16 AM.

07-12-2023, 10:55 PM	#9611
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 36,032	Sunday, October 23, 2078 2078 IPA PRO CUP SERIES OPENER TAKEN BY TURON OVER KILKENNY The Pro Cup favorite Turon took the first game of the best-of-seven set 7-2 at home at Typhoon Stadium... the Typhoons trimmed the Kilkenny Cats with good pitching and good hitting. 2078 Islandian Pro Alliance Pro Cup Series - Game 1 Last edited by Eugene Church; 07-12-2023 at 11:03 PM.

07-12-2023, 11:14 PM	#9612
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 36,032	Monday, October 24, 2078 TYPHOON TWIRLERS TOO TOUGH FOR CATS The Turon Typhoons are off to the races with their second straight victory in the Islandian Pro Alliance Pro Cup Series... the Typhoons skinned the Kilkenny Cats 3-1 at home Sunday afternoon taking a big step in winning their 6th IPA Pro Cup Trophy... the Cats are still seeking their first Pro Cup... this is only the third postseason appearance for them... Turon is making its 28th appearance in the playoffs... the Typhoons won Pro Cups in 2003, 2006, 2009, 2018 and also recently in 2072. 2078 Islandian Pro Alliance Pro Cup Series - Game 2 Last edited by Eugene Church; 07-12-2023 at 11:18 PM.

07-14-2023, 08:47 PM	#9615
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 36,032	Wednesday, October 26, 2078 TURON COULD SWEEP AWAY KILKENNY FOR THEIR 6TH PRO CUP TROPHY It is just as hard to win the first four games of the Pro Cup Series as it is to win the last four games of the Pro Cup Series... neither possibility is likely to happen according to the laws of averages and the laws of baseball... however, both the red-hot Turon Typhoons and the ice-cold Kilkenny Kitty Cats have a shot at those outcomes. At the end of the first three games of the best-of-seven series Turon has a brogdingnagian edge in the Pro Cup Series and Kilkenny is a pretty fur piece behind... it will take the Cats a leviathan leap to win the whole shebang... yep, y'all will have to look those words up in your Funk and Wagnalls... well, maybe not quite that big of lead or that big of a deficit, EC can sometimes over-embellish things, but it's at least a darn good lead or a big deficit, nonetheless. Turon had to make a huge turnaround to salvage game three to take such a cyclopean 3-0 lead, but the Typhoons rose to the occasion and did it... in a herculean effort they rallied and overcame Kilkenny 12-6. Eat your heart out, Grantland Rice, Red Smith, Peter Gammons or Tom Verducci... you could do recaps as good as Eugene Church if you used a Funk and Wagnalls. 2078 IPA Pro Cup Series - Game 3 Last edited by Eugene Church; 07-14-2023 at 08:57 PM.

07-15-2023, 07:12 PM	#9616
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 36,032	Thursday, October 27, 2078 KILKENNY STAVES OFF TURON IN PRO CUP GAME FOUR... AVOIDS ELIMINATION The Ruthlandian Union champion Kilkenny Cats still have some fight in them... they held off the Tycobbian champion Turon Typhoons 3-2 in game four of the Islandian Pro Alliance Pro Cup Series... the Cats still must do the almost-impossible - win four straight games - a feat only done one time in IPA history when Turon did it in 2009, coming back to topple the Far Mountain Redhawks after losing the first three games. 2078 IPA Pro Cup Series - Game 4

07-17-2023, 06:38 PM	#9617
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 36,032	Friday, October 28, 2078 TURON IPA PRO CUP CHAMPS 2ND TIME IN 7 YEARS... TYPHOONS TAKE 6TH PRO CUP TROPHY Riding high with some fine pitching and hitting the Turon Typhoons are the darlings of the Islandian Pro Alliance once again with their 2nd Pro Cup in the last 7 seasons... for the 6th time in the team's IPA history they are the overall Islandian Pro Alliance champion... once again the Typhoons are the best team in Islandia... only the Rolling Hills Racers have more Pro Cups... Rolling Hills has won the IPA crown 8 times. Turon put the finishing touches on this year's Pro Cup Series with a 5-1 triumph in the fifth game over the Kilkenny Cats... the Typhoons won four of the five games. 2078 IPA Pro Cup Series - Game 5 Last edited by Eugene Church; 07-17-2023 at 06:41 PM.

07-19-2023, 06:24 PM	#9618
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 36,032	Friday, October 27, 2078 TURON'S NEWELL EDGES OUT WARFIELD AND HAZLE FOR IPA POSTSEASON MVP 'Twas a mighty tough choice to make for the 2078 IPA postseason player of the year... this year's Pro Cup playoffs Most Valuable Player was Turon's left fielder Robert Newell... he bested a couple of his teammates, closer Odie Warfield and center fielder Robert Hazle, for the honor... all three players had prime roles in sparking the Typhoons to their 6th Pro Cup. Newell led Turon in their IPA title run with a .384 BA (28 for 73) with 3 homers, 15 RBIs, 15 runs and 5 stolen bases in 17 games... second in the balloting was standout reliever Odie Warfield, who made 12 appearances with a 2-0 record, 2 saves and a strong 2.04 ERA in 26 innings... third in the MVP poll was Robert Hazle, who hit .301 (22 for 73) in the playoffs with 4 homers, 17 RBIs, 11 runs and 2 stolen bases. Overall Turon was 12-5 in the IPA postseason... they whipped Hartsdale 4 games to 3 in the Tycobbian Union First Round... eliminated defending Pro Cup champion South Fork in the TU Title Series four games to one... and then captured its 6th Pro Cup Trophy by besting the Kilkenny Cats, the Ruthlandian Union champion, in five games. The Tycobbian Union leads the series 44-34 overall... Turon has made the Pro Cup Finals 11 times with 6 titles... Kilkenny has made the postseason playoffs only 3 times in its history and has never won the IPA title... this the first time the Cats reached the Pro Cup Finals. Last edited by Eugene Church; 07-19-2023 at 06:32 PM.

07-19-2023, 06:53 PM	#9619
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 36,032	Just figured out how to stop the wide white gaps between my box score posts. You have to mark off the section you want on the screen... cut it and paste it into paint software... I inadvertently skipped the step where you should crop your post right before you save it. It works fine when you know what you are doing. EC is now at peace with the world of technology once again. Last edited by Eugene Church; 07-19-2023 at 07:06 PM.

07-19-2023, 07:03 PM	#9620
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 36,032	2078 Islandian Pro Alliance Playoff Tree Last edited by Eugene Church; 07-19-2023 at 07:05 PM.