#strat-o-matic

[joegeniusblog]

PASSING/MLB: Johnny Jeter

Johnny Jeter passed away on January 16th. of this year. This flew under the radar of the national media and even my brother and sister MLB nerds over at Baseball Fever didn’t find out until July of the passing of Mr. Jeter who passed of undisclosed causes in his native Louisiana where he had attended Grambling University. Baseball was the thread in the fabric of this 12 year-olds summer of…

[theultimatefan]

Strat-O-Matic Clubs Mark One Year With Huge Player Interest, Growth

Last summer, Strat-O-Matic (@strat-o-matic), the market leader in sports simulation games, announced Strat-O-Matic Clubs, its first ever unified national club program. Players from across the U.S. got on board, with groups quickly forming.

A year later, more than 20 Strat-O-Matic Clubs, including the charter Clubs in Connecticut, New Jersey, Detroit, Philadelphia, Kansas City and Long Island (N.Y) are thriving, with hundreds of participants across all the Clubs. And more than 50 are developing, with fans inquiring about beginning their own in new locations daily.

“When we launched the Clubs program, we were confident that Strat-O-Matic players were looking for like-minded fans who enjoy getting together to enjoy their favorite game,” said Adam Richman, CEO, Strat-O-Matic Media. “We have been overwhelmed with the tremendous feedback, with many referencing the social nature of the Clubs, how they have met new players and how their groups continue to expand, with some participating in multiple Clubs every month.”

Fans interested in leading or joining a Strat-O-Matic Club are encouraged to email StratClub@Strat-O-matic.com, and check out details of current clubs and locations at https://www.strat-o-matic.com/strat-clubs. Club members receive discounts on game sets and other SOM merchandise, a personalized game card, exclusive Zoom with a Strat-O-Matic personality and other perks.

In addition to the Connecticut, Central New Jersey and Long Island locations, some of the most popular and active Strat-O-Matic Clubs are running in Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina, North New Jersey, North Kentucky, Georgia and California. Interest has been shown in more than 30 other states.

[shaneplays]

YouTube link (The audio of the podcast, no video, for the convenience of some listeners) Strat-O-Matic Baseball might be one of the biggest games you’ve never heard of, and three-time champion William "Bill" Meinhardt joins to share his passion for playing it. How long has the game been around, and how many people play it? What’s the one mechanic Bill wishes was in this beloved game? Is there a link between Strat-O-Matic Baseball and Fantasy (Rotisserie) Baseball? Is there a link between Strat-O-Matic and tabletop roleplaying games? At its heart, what is the game of baseball? And for the really hard-hitting question, does Bill do the Chicken Dance??

[ltwharfy]

What's your favourite 2 player board game?

Oh, this is such a fun question! Thanks for asking!

I'm a little embarrassed that the first answer that springs to mind shows off a very specific aspect of my nerdiness: Strat-O-Matic Baseball.

For anyone who is not familiar with it, the game simulates baseball by creating cards for all the players, and then you roll dice (including a d20 in some situations), and consult charts and move pieces and around and...when I was teaching it to one of my best friends he asked, "Is this like a baseball version of D&D?" and my answer was "Kind of..."

So, yeah it is incredibly dorky, but as a combination baseball nerd and board game nerd I love it!

(And to tie into "Bob's Burgers" because that's my main thing here, I will note that in one of my fics I mention Rudy owning a copy of the game. Because, yeah, he would.)

Thanks so much for the ask!

[curlytemple]

additional propaganda:

once argued that robert redford was the hottest actor of all time without taking even a moment to consider it

cries every christmas eve watching george bailey learn how good he’s got it (pictured above with the it’s a wonderful life blanket he also cried upon receiving last christmas)

still disgustingly in love with his MIDDLE SCHOOL sweetheart (my mom)

named me after his best friend charlie that died tragically when they were in their early 20s

also named my brother after his other best friend that died tragically when they were in their early 20s

still talks about how good the 2009 jonas brothers show he took me was

former catholic, played strat-o-matic baseball with the priest when he was an alter boy

beach boys stan

[billscheft]

I am soooo nourished by the great outpouring of well-deserved love and praise for Tim McCarver. I dug up this 1999 piece I wrote about him for the Times (complete with easy-to-read cut and paste).....

Let's clear up a few things right off the bat:

This is not about money.

This is not about my relationship with Bobby Valentine.

This is not about my tendency to be fair, yet critical.

That said, it's all over between me and the Mets. It was nice. Sixteen years, eight in fair weather. But like Odysseus at sea, I was drawn by a voice, and I sail in the direction of that voice.

In other words, I go with Tim McCarver.

Do you have any idea what this means? This means I have to watch 42 Yankee games on Fox this season. That's the deal. Forty-two New York Yankee games.

Did I mention I was a Red Sox fan? Are you beginning to get the point? Having to watch 42 Yankee games in one year is the Red Sox fan's equivalent of the Witness Protection Program: it's no way to live, and if you're lucky, no one will find you. But these are the sacrifices you make.

They are not the same sacrifices as making time for those less fortunate or telling people with a straight face that Jose Offerman is the missing piece of the puzzle, but they are sacrifices nonetheless. I go where I'm called and I go where I'm wanted. And Tim McCarver wants me to care about the game as much as he does.

I became a Met fan because of Tim McCarver, and now I move on for the same reason. I'll try to leave with class and without rancor, as he did, but it's darn tough. Forty-two Yankee games and I'm not even counting however many additional times Fox carries them on the Saturday afternoon national game. Or the playoffs. But that's my problem. My sacrifice. My growth. My willingness to accept change and all that other healthy hooey.

It is not my intention to go on and on in praise of McCarver. Why, that is the most common criticism viewers have of his analysis: he tends to go on and on about a specific point, endlessly belaboring the same piece of minutiae over and over again to where it is redundant and repetitious and repetitive of the thing that he said moments ago. Like that.

Here's a bulletin: baseball is pieces of minutiae that need belaboring. If that annoys you, you're not paying attention. And people who don't pay attention need to be told things over and over again. Good. Now, what was I just talking about?

Before I heard McCarver, I thought I knew everything about watching baseball. I was doing the double-switch in Strat-O-Matic years before Whitey Herzog thought he invented it. 

Unteachable, all-prescient and wrapped in a shroud of second-guessing, I would sit in the sanctity of my underwear and spew insight faster and keener and certainly more literately than any former player turned broadcaster/cheerleader/stooge of management. And that was just fine, because one of the joys of baseball is the comfort of seeing a familiar face in the booth, and the smugness of feeling superior to that guy. Come on, admit it. You loved Phil Rizzuto because he was always there, and because you knew who was on deck, a better recipe for red sauce and a quicker route to the bridge.

When the Red Sox were coughing up leads throughout the 1970's, their television broadcast team was Dick Stockton and Ken (Hawk) Harrelson. Stockton handled the play-by-play, Harrelson did your rooting for you. My favorite Hawk shill moment came during a game in 1976, when he said, ''You know, I came out to the ball park a little early today, and let me tell you, Doug Griffin put on a show in batting practice.''

(I loved it, and I loved it a dozen years later when Harrelson, now in the Yankee booth, made the same observation, only this time, the guy ''putting on a show'' in batting practice was Wayne Tolleson.)

That's what I grew up with. And that was fine. I didn't question it. Tim McCarver did, and he was willing to involve me.

Who knew there were two schools of thought about guarding the line in the late innings?

Who knew there was one school? Who knew the open-mouth/closed-mouth signal between shortstop and second for covering the bag? I played infield and remember just yelling, ''You take it!'' Who knew that brown patch in right field at Shea Stadium was because Darryl Strawberry didn't adjust to different hitters?

 And who knew that Ralph Kiner could be funny on purpose?

A few years ago, McCarver and Kiner were filling in the pauses during some faceless July night in the National League. There was a shot of a vendor, and McCarver started talking about when he sold peanuts in the stands at Memphis Chicks games as a boy for ''half a cent a bag.'' Kiner rejoined with memories of selling peanuts at polo matches in Palm Springs to celebrities like Will Rogers. The following is the rest of their exchange:

McCarver: ''Will Rogers. Never met a man he didn't like.''

Kiner: ''Well, he never met Fran Healy.''

The next sound you heard was a guy laughing as he fumbled for his cough button.

That's the sound I'm following. To 42 Yankee games. Feel free to pity me.

[strat-o-matic-fanatic]

Chuck D and Tom Morello playing Strat-O-Matic baseball 30,000 feet in the air.

[yessoupy]

processed some more of my grief over losing Kyle. went on a date today, we went to a coffee place that also serves food and my date brought some board games. one was strat-o-matic and I played the 2017 A's. it's a game of chance, but my A's still completed some Very Athletics feats — Manaea struck out 10 batters, but we lost 3-0 and only got one hit. also, stranded a runner at third.

seeing all those names on those cards and remembering that 2017 team brought back MEMORIES. I caught myself thinking about telling Kyle about this date, and what he'd say about it, and how there's not REALLY anyone in my life right now who would read that first paragraph up there and UNDERSTAND it. so that's sad!!

but the processing part is that I AM seeing this guy, and we have so much in common, and I guess I'm building new neural pathways around baseball a little bit at a time the more I interact with the sport with others who have no connection to Kyle whatsoever.

[foursword-manga-fan-18]

explaining the anarchy X's (2/8):

Team strategic approach(S-A for short):

Second team recommended to beat

A team filled with cold hard strategists!

Sky blue ink color

Team leader: low-vert

A cold but respectable octoling boy

Reeflux main (forgor how to spell it)

Loves strategy

Army but better (/hj)

ALWAYS has a plan b, c and d

If those fail, he'll go full panic mode

OCD

Clean freak

Loves to bake

Homosexual (he/him)

Team coleader: button-up

A chill and funny octoling girl

52 gal main

Low-vert's twin sister

Always trys to calm him down when he freaks out

Strong girl boss

Loves to talk about stuff she watches

Bisexual (she/her)

Teammate: cap

A soft and fancy octoling boy

Tri stringer main

Always follows orders

Doesn't know what to doo when he isn't told what to do

Always looks like he's gonna cry (don't worry, he's okay, he just had very big wet cat energy)

Pansexual (he/him)

Teammate: 3-strap

Cocky and out there octo girl

Splash-o-matic main

Loves the spotlight

Bff's with unoi and button-up

May be rude but great at following orders

Team Strats:

Follow the plan, if something goes wrong, go with plan b, don't stop trying and always follow the plan and keep calm!

Quotes: "Are plan is fool proof! And do is are backup plans! If we'll even need them!"- Low-vert "Can't forget about me!"- button-up "I m-must follow the plan till the end..!"- cap "Let the REAL star show you how it's done!"- 3-strap

(Silly blue Bois and gals)

Fun fact 2:

Button up is the older twin but is both shorter and less popular (sad)

I love these teams! All these details!? I could never do this😭❤️

[collectingbaseballcards]

HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN STRAT-O-MATIC BASEBALL CARDS?

[diogenescynic2288]

It's not fantasy in the wizards sense but there's been role play as a baseball team's general manager games since about the same seventies or eighties time period that OD&D originated in.

The biggest brand name I know of is Strat-O-Matic. I think that one even uses a d20 in its resolution system.

I bet somewhere along the way someone managed to kludge together a way to adapt one game's tropes into the other and vice versa.

I think a funny thing to do would be to just have baseball in your fantasy setting. Completely unchanged if you'd like.

[theultimatefan]

A.L. Shuts out N.L. in Strat-O-Matic All-Star Game Simulation

Run-scoring singles by Toronto’s Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in the fourth and Tampa Bay’s Isaac Paredes in the sixth lifted the American League to a 2-0 shutout win over the National in the simulation of the 2024 All-Star Game performed by Strat-O-Matic (@strat-o-matic), the market leader in sports simulation games. The Nationals were limited to three hits by nine different A.L. hurlers.

Guerrero Jr.’s hit  followed a one-out triple by Cleveland’s Jose Ramirez off Chicago’s Shota Imanaga with what proved to be the game-winning RBI. Then two innings later the hosts built a run on a bases-empty, two-out single and stolen base by Cleveland’s David Fry and ensuing hit by Paredes to double the A.L. lead to 2-0.

That’s all the impressive Junior Circuit staff would need, though they totaled just five strikeouts in the game, two by Oakland breakout star Mason Miller. Two errors and a walk loaded the bases with two outs in the ninth, but Texas closer Kirby Yates induced a game-ending popout by Colorado’s Ryan McMahon.

Guerrero Jr. had two of the American League’s eight hits in the simulation.

National League. 0 0 0  0 0 0  0 0 0  -  0  3  0

American League. 0 0 0  1 0 1  0 0    -  2  8  2

WP: Crochet; LP: Imanaga; SV: Yates

HR: none

[news247planet]

#Featured #Kansas #Oakland #Baseball Is 2023 Oakland Or Kansas Metropolis The Worst Crew Ever? Strat-O-Matic Simulates Sequence https://news247planet.com/?p=522966

[donaldtincheruniverse]

1940s DG Tournament: 1948 Indians at 1941 Yankees

Editor’s note: The 1940s Diamond Gems Tournament games are being played with Strat-o-Matic cards and dice. Injuries will only be used during the game when they occur. For this tournament, the rules include a three-man pitching rotation using the best lineups available. A three-run homer by Ken Keltner provided a boost as the 1948 Cleveland Indians defeated the 1941 New York Yankees in the…

[tatsports]

Gift Ideas for the Baseball Fan in Your Life (Part 2)

Gift Ideas for the Baseball Fan in Your Life (Part 2)

Are you looking for the perfect gift Ideas for the baseball fan in your life? If so, you’ve come to the right place. It can be hard for baseball fans to shop, but with a few simple tips, you’re sure to find something they’ll love. First, consider their favorite team. If they’re an avid fan, they’ll likely have a favorite team they follow. You can find a huge variety of clothes and accessories featuring their favorite team’s logos and colors. If you’re feeling more generous, you can always splurge on tickets to a match. Here are some perfect ideas for baseball fans in your life.

6. Baseball movies: Some classic baseball movies include “Field of Dreams,” “The Natural,” and “Bull Durham.”

Baseball movies are a fantastic gift idea for any baseball fan. Some of the most beloved films of all time, such as “Field of Dreams,” “Bull Durham,” and “The Sandlot,” are all centered around the sport. These films capture the essence of baseball, depicting its values of teamwork, perseverance, and passion. They are not only entertaining but also provide insight into the history and culture of the sport. Watching a baseball movie can be a great way for fans to connect with the game and remember their favorite moments and players. Gifting a baseball movie is a thoughtful way to show your appreciation for the sport and the fan’s love for it

7. Baseball video games: Consider purchasing a baseball video game like MLB The Show or RBI Baseball.

8. Baseball art: Consider purchasing a baseball-themed painting or print to decorate your baseball fan’s home or office.

Baseball art is an excellent gift idea for any baseball fan who appreciates the beauty of the sport. Whether it’s a painting, photograph, or sculpture, baseball art can capture the essence of the game, depicting its energy, emotion, and culture. Art can also celebrate the history and iconic moments of the sport, immortalizing legendary players and teams in a way that photographs and videos cannot. Gifting a baseball art piece shows that you understand and appreciate the fan’s love for the sport and their desire to incorporate it into their home or office decor. It’s a thoughtful and unique way to connect the fan’s passion for the game with their appreciation for art.

9. Baseball card collection supplies: If your baseball fan collects baseball cards, consider purchasing storage boxes or binders.

Baseball card collection supplies are an excellent gift idea for any baseball fan who collects and values their baseball cards. These supplies can include protective sleeves, binders, and storage boxes that can help keep their cards safe, organized, and in good condition. For serious collectors, these supplies can be essential in maintaining the integrity and value of their collection. Gifting baseball card collection supplies shows that you understand and appreciate the fan’s passion for the sport and their desire to collect and preserve baseball history. It’s a practical and thoughtful way to support their hobby and ensure that their collection is well-maintained for years to come.

10. Baseball-themed board games: There are several baseball-themed board games available, such as Strat-O-Matic and Baseball Highlights 2045.

If you’re looking for a unique gift for a baseball fan, a baseball-themed board game might be just the ticket. These games come in a variety of styles and levels of complexity, from simple and fun games for kids to more strategic games that will challenge even experienced gamers. Some popular options include “MLB Showdown,” “Baseball Highlights: 2045,” and “Bottom of the 9th.” These games can be a great way to bring the excitement of the baseball diamond into your living room, and make for a fun activity for family and friends to enjoy together.

[awesomeforever]

The Striker HSS, Striker Figured HSS Floyd Rose and Striker Figured HSS Stoptail have been added to Kramer's store. Kramer has announced its high-performance Striker electric guitar collection, featuring three different configurations for guitarists to choose from. The Striker HSS, Striker Figured HSS Floyd Rose and Striker Figured HSS Stoptail feature a satin-finished maple neck with a Kramer K-Speed SlimTaper C profile, with an optional hardshell case available on purchase. The Striker HSS comes in left and right-handed configurations, with three Alnico 5 pickups including a zebra-coil bridge humbucker and two single coils. The guitar also features a licensed Floyd-Rose locking vibrato and is available in Jumper Red, Ebony, and Majestic Purple colourways. The Striker Figured HSS Floyd Rose boasts two single coil pickups in a set-up Kramer says is designed for a wide range of styles. The guitar comes with a licensed Floyd-Rose locking vibrato, while the Striker Figured HSS Stoptail features an Epiphone LockTone Tune-O-Matic bridge and Stop Bar tailpiece. Kramer has also released a video introducing the Striker collection. Watch it below. The Striker collection is available via Kramer’s website and at authorised dealers nationwide in the US. The Striker HSS retails at $349, the Striker Figured HSS Floyd Rose at $399 and the Striker Figured HSS Stoptail at $379. Guitar.com previously featured Kramer’s Custom Graphics Series Baretta ‘Feral Cat’ & The 84 ‘The Illusionist’ on The Big Review, giving the 1980s-inspired guitars an 8/10 overall score for their “outrageous” sound. Reviewer Darran Charles called the guitars “two of the best-sounding and most immediate rock guitars we’ve played”, praising the grunt, power, definition and clarity offered in the tone of both guitars. In other recent guitar news, Squier has released a selection of new Vintage Edition models as part of its wide-ranging 40th anniversary celebration. The collection includes a Tele, Strat and a Jazzmaster, as well as Precision and Jazz bass models, featuring aged chrome hardware, paired with satin urethane finishes to project subtle Road Worn vibes. The limited edition selection retails for a slightly higher price than what we normally get with Squier at an RRP of £499. Guitar.com is the world’s leading authority and resource for all things guitar. We provide insight and opinion about gear, artists, technique and the guitar industry for all genres and skill levels. © 2022 Guitar.com is part of NME Networks. source