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baseball and pirates and stuff, oh my
Oct. 28th, 2003 02:43 amLast night we all said goodbye to the Azure Ocean on PP. It was a madhouse. Carl and I stood in the downstairs of the Alpha Palace for the final countdown. Whee.
Today at lunch, most of our group was sitting around and Brent, our team's project manager, started telling us stories about when he used to be a pro baseball player. I had no idea! It was SO cool, it turns out he used to be a catcher in the farm system for the Toronto Blue Jays from 1991-1995 or so! Wow! So he's like "Yeah, I got to go to the major league camp for a few weeks, and MAN is that cool... I was catching as an alternate for Pat Borders." Wowie! He was saying how he'd actually played baseball against John Olerud in college (UW vs. WSU) and they were friends, and so when Brent got called back down to the minors, Olerud gave him a whole bunch of batting gloves and other stuff just because hey, he had 'em because so many companies gave him free stuff. (I guess that happens when you win the batting title.) But man, that must have been exciting to be in the farm system for a team that went to two World Serieses. And of course, I was rooting for the other side at the time (Remember, Toronto played against Philadelphia in the '93 series)... but Brent's like "oh, yeah! Well, remember Kevin Stocker? He was my roomate for several years." That floored me... Stocker was the shortstop for the '93 series Phillies. Damn. That's just so cool. Brent rose about ninety thousand cool points today. I didn't think I had anything in common with him (well, to be fair, I don't) but hey, baseball. Duuuuude.
Oh yeah, incase you don't already know, Daiei Hawks won the Japan series. Not really THAT surprising... but what I think is interesting about the series is that both teams won all of their home games. Tigers won their three games at Koshien and Hawks won the rest at Fukuoka Dome. But eh, all things considered, a Miracle team does not a Series Champion team make. And the Hawks are pretty damned good (they outscored the Tigers 37-16 in the series overall); my theory is that they're a well-balanced team and they have a pretty good manager in Sadaharu Oh (the Japanese baseball legend, home run king, god, etc). So, oh well. My main question is what all of those huge Tigers merchandise stands are going to do now :)
In other news, choir got cancelled tonight, so I came home and played Puzzle Pirates pretty much from around 7:30pm until 2:30am. The new ocean is exciting. My crew has 3 ships now. Some people were being pissy at each other in my crew, so I went around with Farren for a while instead. Then I went back and pillaged for a while. Ended the evening with this GREAT battle where the ship ran into several rocks AND I was 5 for 5 in shooting them. By the time I came up to intercept, they had full damage... so we sat and watched them die. Ahh, Spinn is proud of me for being a good student of the School of Blam.
The only thing that sucks is wondering whether to job people, since the stats are utterly unhelpful now, but all in all, in theory, anyone on Midnight right now should be a non-stupid person who is paying to play, and most of our jobbers have been good, so we've been taking everyone, pretty much. The main thing is that we want to try to recruit people into our crew and flag. We're looking for smart people and crews with personality, who are interested in working together on trading and whatnot. (And for people whose crews don't realize their real worth. You know who you are :) )
Or, as Spinn put it, join Looterati because:
1) Our crews are intelligent and fun.
2) Our flag will sponsor and run many events, frequently unique and brain-challenging ones.
3) We're the only flag with trochaic octameter.
If your crew has a wittier-than-average name, if your crew is full of personality, if your crew generally knows how many letters are in the word 'you', and if you can laugh in the appropriate places at the king's jokes, this flag is for you. Whenever politics or tension or other pointless stresses rear their ugly heads, we will remember: it all comes back to having fun. Be absorbed, be involved, but we're not about 'power' or 'influence' as these things are fleeting and silly when you're a little Playmobil pirate knocking colored blocks back and forth.
Today at lunch, most of our group was sitting around and Brent, our team's project manager, started telling us stories about when he used to be a pro baseball player. I had no idea! It was SO cool, it turns out he used to be a catcher in the farm system for the Toronto Blue Jays from 1991-1995 or so! Wow! So he's like "Yeah, I got to go to the major league camp for a few weeks, and MAN is that cool... I was catching as an alternate for Pat Borders." Wowie! He was saying how he'd actually played baseball against John Olerud in college (UW vs. WSU) and they were friends, and so when Brent got called back down to the minors, Olerud gave him a whole bunch of batting gloves and other stuff just because hey, he had 'em because so many companies gave him free stuff. (I guess that happens when you win the batting title.) But man, that must have been exciting to be in the farm system for a team that went to two World Serieses. And of course, I was rooting for the other side at the time (Remember, Toronto played against Philadelphia in the '93 series)... but Brent's like "oh, yeah! Well, remember Kevin Stocker? He was my roomate for several years." That floored me... Stocker was the shortstop for the '93 series Phillies. Damn. That's just so cool. Brent rose about ninety thousand cool points today. I didn't think I had anything in common with him (well, to be fair, I don't) but hey, baseball. Duuuuude.
Oh yeah, incase you don't already know, Daiei Hawks won the Japan series. Not really THAT surprising... but what I think is interesting about the series is that both teams won all of their home games. Tigers won their three games at Koshien and Hawks won the rest at Fukuoka Dome. But eh, all things considered, a Miracle team does not a Series Champion team make. And the Hawks are pretty damned good (they outscored the Tigers 37-16 in the series overall); my theory is that they're a well-balanced team and they have a pretty good manager in Sadaharu Oh (the Japanese baseball legend, home run king, god, etc). So, oh well. My main question is what all of those huge Tigers merchandise stands are going to do now :)
In other news, choir got cancelled tonight, so I came home and played Puzzle Pirates pretty much from around 7:30pm until 2:30am. The new ocean is exciting. My crew has 3 ships now. Some people were being pissy at each other in my crew, so I went around with Farren for a while instead. Then I went back and pillaged for a while. Ended the evening with this GREAT battle where the ship ran into several rocks AND I was 5 for 5 in shooting them. By the time I came up to intercept, they had full damage... so we sat and watched them die. Ahh, Spinn is proud of me for being a good student of the School of Blam.
The only thing that sucks is wondering whether to job people, since the stats are utterly unhelpful now, but all in all, in theory, anyone on Midnight right now should be a non-stupid person who is paying to play, and most of our jobbers have been good, so we've been taking everyone, pretty much. The main thing is that we want to try to recruit people into our crew and flag. We're looking for smart people and crews with personality, who are interested in working together on trading and whatnot. (And for people whose crews don't realize their real worth. You know who you are :) )
Or, as Spinn put it, join Looterati because:
1) Our crews are intelligent and fun.
2) Our flag will sponsor and run many events, frequently unique and brain-challenging ones.
3) We're the only flag with trochaic octameter.
If your crew has a wittier-than-average name, if your crew is full of personality, if your crew generally knows how many letters are in the word 'you', and if you can laugh in the appropriate places at the king's jokes, this flag is for you. Whenever politics or tension or other pointless stresses rear their ugly heads, we will remember: it all comes back to having fun. Be absorbed, be involved, but we're not about 'power' or 'influence' as these things are fleeting and silly when you're a little Playmobil pirate knocking colored blocks back and forth.
