2006 Schedule - sneak peak

With this season coming to an end everyone needing to decide who to release and sign, I've posted the outline of the 2006 Beer Cap schedule.

A couple of highlights:

• no divisions and no dummy teams
• balanced schedule, each team is played 10 times (two 3-game home and away series, two 2-game home and away series)
• 36 night games, 14 day games
• 6 off-days (including all-star game)
• off-days synchronized for easier make-up games
  
• 10 day games following a night game
• one travel day during and between playoff games
• 4 or 3 games played per (real) week (2 AL and 2 NL games or one 3 games series in either the AL or NL)

A random draw will be made to determine match-ups. Comments or suggestions welcome.

NL All Star Voting

The NL season is complete. Please return your all-star selections ASAP.

Thx

Texas places John Olerud on waivers

All of Doug's deals left him with one player over the 40 player max. To remedy that, he has placed John Olerud on waivers.

The last place team in the AL has the first option of signing him then second last and so forth. If no one signs him he goes back into the free agent pool for next year. Doug however still must pay his full salary for this year and half his salary for next year unless he's picked up on waivers. If Olerud is picked up then Doug pays 3/4 of this year's salary and the new owner pays the remaining 1/4. The new owner would also be responsible for Olerud's next year contract.

Olerud is on the second year of a $15 a year, three year deal.

Deals deals and more deals

Drop your AL deadline trades in a comment to this thread and I'll keep the main post updated.

Texas and Minnesota
 
To Minnesota: Susuki (RF)      To Texas: Delgado (1B)
              Cabrera (3B)               Jones (OF)
                                         Blalock (3B)
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Detroit and Texas
 
To Texas: Takatsu (RP)         To Detroit: Speier (RP)
          #1 2005 draft pick               #7 '05 draft pick
          #2 2005 draft pick               #8 '05 draft pick
                                           $6

1986 World Series Game 6 Re-Enacted in RBI Baseball

This is very cool. A fella by the name of Conor Lastowka recreated the the bottom of the tenth inning of the Mets-Red Sox World Series games 6 using the old Nintendo 'RBI Baseball' game.

The game of course wasn't recreated by chance but by repeating scenerios over and over until he got the right result. For example it took him over 200 attempts to get Keith Hernandez to fly out to centre. Voice over is done using the original broadcast commentary by Vince Scully (so turn your sound on).

For those of you who don't remember the particulars of the game, this is the game the Red Sox needed only one out to win their first World Series since 1918 but the pitchers fell apart then the Mets' Mookie Wilson hit a dribbler to Bill Buckner who let it go through his legs scoring the winning run. The Mets would win game seven and the Red Sox had to wait another 18 years before getting another shot at the title.

Here's another link to the file on YouTube. Also you can watch the orginal final play here.