2021 MLB Season Baseball • Page 23

protect Greinke at all costs

 

God I hope this asshole has a terrible year

 

The joy of fake sports

At its heart, The Game Band’s Blaseball is a baseball simulation with some basic game features on top of it. There are (imagined) teams with (imagined) players who play through a simulated season once a week. You can follow along with game play-by-play on the bare-bones Blaseball website if you want, but it quickly gets overwhelming: 99 games a week, starting on the hour, each lasting about 30 minutes.

What makes Blaseball brilliant is its fan culture, a small portion of which is facilitated by the game itself, but most of which is facilitated by the tools of internet fan culture itself. In the game, users can place bets on teams (using virtual currency—no real money changes hands) in order to earn coins that can be used to buy votes in elections that alter the rules of the game and the fates of the players and teams.

Over a dozen seasons, the game-within-a-game of Blaseball has evolved, as Blaseball fans vote in changes that cause deviation from traditional baseball rules. (At one point there was a fourth strike and a fourth base.) Players come and go via various absurd in-game mechanisms. With each tweak to the basic simulation engine, there are new narrative possibilities.

this is fascinating to me

 

In related news the Angels just banned bachelorette parties

 

Gimme a 5.xx ERA and him confined to the pen by July

 

Braves, O's OF Markakis retires after 15 seasons

 

Wow, modern pitching is killing these arms.

 

Get his ass Steve

 

seems bad!

 

To be fair I've never seen anybody take longer to get their arm going. He always started spring like around 91 or 92 mph with the Yankees

 

has kyle hendricks been teaching arrieta some new tricks

 

my god if they had bought the mets

 

if they can't make it work, what hope is there for the rest of us

 

some say that if he'd just gotten rid of the centaur painting it all would have worked out

 

Arrieta is back on the Cubs?

 

holy shit

 

yes sir 1 year deal for 6 million + mutual option for 2022

 

Stroman doesnt deserve any of the hate he gets lol