2003 Regular Season 19 SIM Complete - Next SIM Saturday 10/12

[BradZ]

Next SIM Saturday

- Files due by 11 am ET | 8 am PT, SIM time 8 AM PT unless otherwise noted
- HTML in a few minutes

[Spear]

Sakamoto got his big pay day. Now time to save up our cash to bring the fences in.

[Delandis]

War of attrition in the Porter. My God.

[BradZ]

War of attrition in the Porter. My God.

Standard OOTP elasticity SIM. Bring things a little closer together as the season winds down.

[Delandis]

4 of the 5 best records in the IL are in the Porter.

[funclown]

War of attrition in the Porter. My God.

Check the 2003 "Funclown" predictions. It said it all.

[funclown]

Pawtucket 5-2.

The state of the Ale right now:

• Maine went against what made them so good.

• Hartford is rebuilding

• Pitt....I don't know what is happening. They seem to be regressing.

The wildcard seems to be playing out in the Pilsner. How things change.

Oh and VOTE 1B Jon Montalvo for New Brew!!! (Yes I figure I'd pimp now_

[Delandis]

1-5 for Baltimore.

-Got beat up badly by a young and scary Batavia squad.
-Lost a couple of late games to Cali due to stupid errors.
-Colin Reed is playing out of his mind this year. Not going to win SS, but has at least made it interesting.
-Love all of my midseason trades as they are all playing well and keeping us in the run with Cali and surging Philly and Batavia.

[Delandis]

Also, my projected final balance went from -9m to -1m last sim. Did you see a change, Z?

[funclown]

Also, my projected final balance went from -9m to -1m last sim. Did you see a change, Z?

Shows +3million for him now.

My whole thing including projected balance went really good also.

Lol, sometimes the finances goes all silly.

[Lintyfresh85]

The Porter is rough.

[Z]

Also, my projected final balance went from -9m to -1m last sim. Did you see a change, Z?

Yeah . . . too little, too late though.

[funclown]

Yeah . . . too little, too late though.

My wife always says its best to spend it while you still have it. Works out real well for us at home

[Pat]

The Stout is pretty impressive. Wilmington and Morgantown are both fielding under the radar competitive teams...it will be awhile for Death Valley but that should be expected.

Washington continues to struggle with the bullpen. Might be our achilles heel come playoff time.

[Z]

Maine went against what made them so good.

Our problem is that guys who are in or entering their primes and who are career .700-.800 OPS hitters with DWI-caliber defense are OPSing in the .500s and .600s and have been for the entire season.

Obviously it would be nice to have Memmoli or Reyes on this team right now. I thought that Munoz would give me most of that production for a fraction of the price.

And you know what? I was right! He's given me a 148 OPS+ for $5M.

Unfortunately, he hurt his ankle and missed a month, and no one else in my lineup has been able to do anything even though I quite reasonably expected them to OPS around their career averages.

I thought guys like Suarez, Watkins, Sherrod, Lebron, Romarigues, and Shumway, most of whom are in their mid- or late-20s, would give me the kind of production I was accustomed to from them, or better.

It didn't work out that way, and now I have to decide what to do going forward.

So in hindsight, yeah, we would have been better off getting another bat.

But I figured in advance that what ended up happening was an unlikely worst case scenario that I could rectify by signing Reyes or trading for someone like Sakamato.

Unfortunately, some financial analyst in our organization secretly invested $9M of our budget money with Bernie Madoff or something, and we went from having plenty of budget room to add an impact player or two, to not being able to take on any salary at all, without any kind of warning.

So there wasn't anything I could really do other than ride it out and hope for guys to start hitting like they should, which I'm still waiting for.

This season's been a perfect storm of things going awry. The one bright spot was nabbing Twinkle Toes 17th in the draft.

Depending on what we decide to do with Warren, we'll either have a lot of money to spend or A LOT of money to spend. I'm ready to just forget about this season and move on.