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moe: "I promise to get a life someday when I grow up."
Growing up is good. Losing touch with the positive life-passions of our youth would be sad.
The thrill I get when Sandy Koufax strikes out Willie McCovey in the 9th inning to nail down a 3-2 win, or when Norm Cash takes down a young Jim Palmer with a 3-run bomb, or when Chico Salmon gets hot and helps the Tribe sweep the Senators... who can describe it?
To me baseball is story, not statistics. It is story. Each simmed season becomes a unique story unfolding as I play it out. I guarantee you in my '66 sim Houston was the story of the first two months of the season. Everybody played out of their mind for two months. But the really volatile statistics mostly settle down by the end of July.