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Note: Jeff has been really busy, so here are clipped excerpts from e-mail notes. I have also put a list of teams by league at the bottom to get you aquainted with team names and structure.
Yes, everyone forgot. No one attended the funeral. We're not even sure it happened. All we know for sure is that he's dead.
Did you get my update about
how the Angels are about to teeter out of first place? They haven't
yet. They pulled out one game against the Cardinals to save
themselves, and now face the troublesome but beatable Padres then '29
Cubs. I'm so excited. I seem to have a pennant race on my hands.
From: Tom
To: Jeff
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Subject: Mookie Wilson RIP
Date: Friday, November 10, 1995 12:24AM
Hey,
Paging through old messages (accidnetally, my finger got stuck on up arrow), and what did I see. I had forgotten about him, has everyone else? Is the player's fund still sending his widow flowers? Does he have a widow?
Tom
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 95 14:28:10 PDT
From: Jeff
To: jay, tom
Subject: Something like an update
In the UL, the mighty, mighty '87 Twins have won three games in a row, a veritable miracle in this, their year of shame. They beat the '65 Dodgers twice, and then the '29 Cubs. They're doing it with Puckett and Hrbek, hitting .320 and .316 respectively, and also with the power that kept them afloat in reality: Puckett, Hrbek, Brunansky, and Gaetti are all perfectly capable of popping the long ball. If someone actually happens to be on base at the time, all the better. Anyway, this makes their current record 14-35, which means they can now only tie for the worst record of all time (14-56, the '86 Red Sox in Season V...but look what they went on to become), and probably, God willing, will do better than that. Meanwhile, the '29 Cubs and Padres both seem to be collapsing (Cubs at 21-21, Pads at 14-16), which means the Mariners, in 6th place, at 26-31, still have a chance to take themselves out honorably. Weird. I really had them figured for the absolute cellar, the Twins at 7th and the Dodgers in 6th. Aw, go figure, huh?
In the OL, the Mets are slated to play a makeup game with the '31 A's,
and then a three-game series with the '70 Orioles. Should be
interesting. Am very curious about how Cobb will affect their
fortunes. There's a dogfight shaping up over 4th place (read: survival
for another season) between the Orioles and the '41 Yankees. Tsk, tsk,
who to cheer for.
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 95 15:45:56 PDT
From: Jeff
To: tom
Subject: RE: Fresh news...
I'm busy anyway and currently mired in relatively uninteresting games. For example, if I wasn't ... I would be witnessing a matchup between the '87 Twins (11-35) and the '65 Dodgers (can't think of the record, but they're in 7th place)...at the Metrodome, which means there's not even weather to relieve the tedium. Oh, well, this is like doing the sky in a jigsaw puzzle, right? Somewhat tedious but ultimately rewarding. Something like that. How's everything? Have you and Connie talked any more about moving in? Let me know when you get a chance. Talk to you later. ----------
Currently in my season it's a lot of boring games, 7th place teams vs. 8th place teams and like that, which has made them easy to put off. It also means I'm seeing more than I want to of the '87 Twins (11-35, it's breaking my heart) and '65 Dodgers (with two big stats leaders, Maury Wills and Sandy Koufax, nearly doubling their closest competitors in the stolen base and strikeout categories, but they have nothing else whatsoever going for them) in the UL; and, in the OL, the '89 A's (what are they doing here?). I can't believe what I'm hearing about Aaron. I thought his mediocrity was the one thing all of us could count on.
Everyone forgot Mookie Wilson's funeral and are now living uncomfortably with the guilt. Some have suggested calling the cemetery to make sure he actually was buried, but no one has been willing to do it.
Anyway, Tyee had his debut last night and the man from the Money Store
had a thing or two to say about it, stopping him 0-4, and helping the
'70 Orioles to a 3-2 victory. Hopes are still extremely high for
"Corn," of course, but he was looking like the rest of his team last
night--a loser. Other Mets, meanwhile, are practicing their ballroom
maneuverings at the prospect of dancing on Mookie's grave before
heading to Baltimore for another 3-game series soon.
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From: Jay
To: Jeff
Subject: RE: Mookie Wilson R.I.P.
Date: Tuesday, August 08, 1995 8:10AM
MOOKIE'S DEAD, MOOKIE'S DEAD, MOOKIE'S DEAD, MOOKIE'S DEAD!!!!!!
I think Mookie's hallucinations point to a hidden (well, not so hidden now) drug problem. I must admit, I'm not sorry to see him go; hopefully Hubie Brooks is next. ----------
In the UL, the Blue Jays took two out of three from the weakening Angels (who seem to be losing pop in their lineup ... I really doubt whether Lajoie and Ott can carry them, but their pitching is solid). If the Blue Jays had swept it would have put them in a tie for first place, so there definitely seems to be a pennant race shaping up.
In the OL, meanwhile, news that I think we can all agree is good: Mookie Wilson died. Yes, while flagging down a routine fly he suddenly hallucinated that second base was beyond the fence and that he was stealing it. He ran into it hard, crushing all the vertabrae in his backbone simultaneously. He died wheezing something unintelligible ("Wally's safe at third, safe at third"?). The funeral is Wednesday.
Taking his place is the as yet untried rookie Ty Cobb (Strawberry will be moving his mediocre self to center). Expectations are high that Cobb will fill the leadoff role that Wally Backman has held down so sturdily lo these many years (currently he is hitting .235, though he does walk and steal...in fact, he is currently second behind George Sisler in steals).
All in all, it was a good day for the Mets, who were in the process of picking two close ones off the '70 Orioles when the centerfield wall beckoned to Mookie. Dwight Gooden defeated Warren Spahn 2-1, and then Sid Fernandez went the distance in a 1-0 nailbiter (Frank Robinson went down for the Orioles in the first game, which hardly helped matters for them). The third game of this set, to be played at some undetermined time in the future (read: next chance) will feature the debut of Doktor Herr Cobb.
Wee-heee! More news later.
.Old Timers League
Red Sox Mets '27 Yankees '41 Yankees '70 Orioles '89 A's '74/75 RedsUpStart League
Blue Jays Angels Cardinals Padres Mariners Padres '29 Cubs '65 Dodgers '87 Twins All teams without a year are 1984/85 mixes.
In the Old Timer's league, the top 4 teams stay, the bottom 4 teams go.
In the UpStart League, teams finishing in 4th and 5th place are gone. Teams finishing 6th, 7th or 8th receive "juicing". When juiced, a team receives a hand-picked player from the Hall of Fame cards. A current player can be summarily dismissed.
By the way, if someone dies, they are replaced by a Hall of Fame card as well, which seems to come by chance. The Mets, saddened by the untimely passing of Mookie Wilson, are hoping a southern rube by the name of Cobb can fill his gap in the outfield. Likewise, the '70 Orioles are trying to fit a thin young lefthander called Spahn into their rotation. Memorials for Davey Johnson can be addressed to the club.
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