Yankee4Life

9 out of 10, 52 seconds. Smart? No, just very lucky today. 😲

Have mercy Jim!

10 out of 10, 32 seconds. Finally a good day. Finally!

7 out of 10, 59 seconds. Again another sub-par day.

7 out of 10, 79 seconds. My God I just can not get going.

5 out of 10, 46 seconds. These &^%$#&^ questions!

7 out of 10, 61 seconds. Another lousy day. And the tough ones start tomorrow. 🤥

10 out of 10, 43 seconds. I got to start somewhere. This week will help determine if I can get back on track.

7 out of 10, 58 seconds. A continuation of a bad month.

I was surprised to see this too. This game has an option where they are in charge of substitutions and I neglected to disable that feature. Next thing I know this lazy sack of crap was in the game. 😄

9 out of 10, 44 seconds. This is not my month.

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5 out of 10, 60 seconds. Now the pressure is on me tomorrow to get a good score.

8 out of 10, 52 seconds. Well, it's a start. Jim's got me by four points.

2 out of 10, 53 seconds. These questions ate me alive today. I had no chance.

6 out of 10, 75 seconds. These were really tough today but I was lucky I got two that were easy ones.

Oh that's good! 😅 😂

9 out of 10, 49 seconds. A complete collapse today.

Thank you. I got lucky.. Two days in a row with ten out of ten.

10 out of 10, 48 seconds. I am thrilled with this because there's quite a few very difficult days ahead for me (Monday through Thursday.)

10 out of 10, 35 seconds. Thank you for Fridays. That is the only thing that bailed me out.

If this happens I am giving up baseball.

7 out of 10, 72 seconds. Thankfully they threw in three baseball questions and that bailed me out.

This came up and I had to comment on it right away before the next edition of Random Thoughts. ...Send in the Clown, Dept: Either baseball commissioner Rob Manfred is clinically insane or he is half way there. The rules that have been introduced in the last few years have not been agreeable to baseball purists out there which I am one of. Again, I won’t get into them because they’ve been covered before but now Manfred is talking about something called the “Golden At-Bat” which is a rule that would allow each team one chance per game to swap in its best hitter for an at-bat, even if it is not his turn. Manfred was very quick to point out that this rule was, in his words “still in the conversation-only stage” which did not comfort me at all because when people like him come up with ideas like this it is only a matter of time that they run with it and the people at FOX act like it is the greatest thing ever for the sport. I immediately thought back to my grammar school days when we played baseball and the kid who could not hit was due up. Somebody else on the team would make an announcement telling all of us that “Jimmy’s hands hurt so he will hit for him today.” Everyone knew he was lying but instead of arguing about it we played on. I may have been the one who hated it the most because I was the one on the mound. Maybe that’s where I began to bean the opposition with regularity but who knows? The point is this is a playground move that baseball wants to do and it should never be considered. Can you imagine the first team to screw up this rule if it ever takes place? Of course I’m thinking of the Yankees because Boone is the manager. If they make the playoffs he’ll give Judge more at-bats and all that’ll mean is he will strike out more. Players all around baseball are slamming this “conversation-only” rule and I don’t blame them. What’s next after this? The bookie sites make baseball give the underdog teams some runs before the game starts? Today’s Orioles - White Sox game begins with the Orioles down 3 - 0. Or how about no Golden at-bat and one time per game you substitute the other team’s pitcher with the batting practice pitcher from your team and he feeds you some meatballs until you jack one over the fence? Sounds ridiculous? So is Manfred. My God all this time I thought Bud Selig and even Bowie Kuhn were bad. My apologies to both. This is a sport that eliminated the shift because their players were too stupid to learn to hit to the opposite field. They want to attract younger viewers but they don’t want to start post season games earlier, like maybe four or five o’clock. And if you want to watch your team all the time you need an account from Apple, Amazon Prime and MLB. Did I forget any? My point is it’s going to cost you if you want to watch baseball. Address that and fans will notice. These gimmicks will not win over players or fans and as far as traditional baseball fans like myself nothing will surprise me.

I agree it was a good game but when the computer throws the fastball I have no chance. I scored my runs on the off speed pitches. Well yes and no. There are a handful of players that I added to the incomplete rosters that you had that when I finished the rosters I found they are now on two different teams. Here is a good example. You have Lu Blue (who is a future candidate to be covered in The Players thread) on the Detroit Tigers where he played from 1921 to 1927 but when I was building up the 1929 Browns I put him on that team by mistake. He played for them from 1928 until 1930. There are about four more players like this and I do not know if I should let it be.