Da Techguy's (no longer backup) Blog

Here is the current state of the table top baseball leagues I run. All leagues are 162 game seasons with one 3 game series scheduled per week If you click on a team link you can see their stats, injuries, leaders etc.

As of this week I am adding the wild cards standings for the play-in game

League one All Futility League (all teams lost 96 + games) 2nd Season. Scheduled series time Thursday Mornings.

Teams AL Division A	W	L	PCT	GB	Available	WCGB
1970 Milwaukee Brewers	47	37	.560	—–	No	N/A
1970 Chicago White Sox	43	44	.494	5 1/2	No	2
2002 Tampa Bay Devil Rays	39	48	.448	9 1/2	Yes	6
2003 Detroit Tigers	34	50	.405	13	No	10

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Teams AL Division B	W	L	PCT	GB	Available	WCGB
1970 Kansas City Royals	48	36	.571	—–	No	N/A
2012 Minnesota Twins	47	40	.540	2 1/2	No	+2
2008 Seattle Mariners	45	42	.517	4 1/2	Yes	—–
1973 Texas Rangers	32	52	.381	16	Yes	11 1/2

Teams AL Division C	W	L	PCT	GB	Available	WCGB
1967 Kansas City A’s	44	40	.524	—–	No	n/a
1957 Washington Senators	43	41	.512	1	No	1/2
2009 Cleveland Indians	43	44	.494	2 1/2	No	2
2019 Baltimore Orioles	37	37	.500	1/2	No	1 1/2

*Division Winner automatically makes playoffs

Teams NL Division A	W	L	PCT	GB	Available	WCGB
1998 Montreal Expos	55	29	.655	—–	Yes	N/A
2009 Washington Nationals	48	36	.571	7	Yes	+ 2
2001 Pittsburgh Pirates	41	43	.488	14	Yes	5
1998 Florida Marlins	35	49	.417	20	Yes	11

Teams NL Division B	W	L	PCT	GB	Available	WCGB
2015 Atlanta Braves	43	41	.512	—–	No	n/a
2012 Houston Astros	41	46	.471	3 1/2	Yes	6 1/2
2017 San Francisco Giants	36	48	.429	7	No	10
2000 Philadelphia Phillies	35	49	.417	8	Yes	11

Teams NL Division C	W	L	PCT	GB	Available	WCGB
1982 Cincinnati Reds	52	35	.598	—-	No	n/a
1993 New York Mets	46	38	.548	4 1/2	No	—–
1974 Chicago Cubs	42	42	.500	8 1/2	No	4
1993 San Diego Padres	38	46	.452	12 1/2	Yes	8

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The SD Jones memorial .500 teams league is a league (all teams were no better than 2 games over .500 or no worse than 2 games under) Initial season . Games are scheduled for Tuesdays. AM

Teams AL East	W	L	PCT	GB	Available	WCGB
1993 Boston	35	25	.585	—–	No	n/a
1973 New York (A)	29	31	.483	6	Yes	—-
1957 Baltimore	26	34	.433	9	Yes	3
1967 Washington	25	35	.417	10	Yes	4

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Teams AL Central	W	L	PCT	GB	Available	WCGB
2010 Detroit	39	21	.650	—–	Yes	n/a
1975 Cleveland	28	32	.467	11	No	1
1973 Minnesota	24	36	.400	15	No	5
1998 Chicago (A)	22	38	.367	17	No	7

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Teams AL West	W	L	PCT	GB	Available	WCGB
2010 Oakland	37	23	.617	—-	Yes	n/a
2017 Kansas City	36	24	.600	1	Yes	+7
2005 Toronto	29	31	.483	8	Yes	—–
2018 Los Angeles (A)	28	32	.467	9	Yes	1

Teams NL East	W	L	PCT	GB	Available	WCGB
2018 Washington	38	25	.603	—-	No	+5*
1967 Pittsburgh	38	25	.603	—-	No	+5*
1975 New York (N)	30	27	.526	5	Yes	——
1957 Philadelphia	30	30	.500	6 1/2	Yes	1 1/2

Teams NL Central	W	L	PCT	GB	Available	WCGB
1975 St. Louis	31	29	.517	—–	Yes	n/a
1996 Cincinnati	28	29	.491	1 1/2	No	2
2000 Colorado	28	32	.467	3	Yes	3 1/2
1973 Houston	26	37	.413	6 1/2	Yes	7

Teams NL West	W	L	PCT	GB	Available	WCGB
1975 San Francisco	40	20	.667	—–	Yes	n/a
2012 Arizona	27	33	.450	13	Yes	3
2007 Los Angeles (N)	27	36	.417	14 1/2	Yes	4 1/2
1982 San Diego	22	38	.368	18	Yes	8

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3rd League All time any time Great Teams League (3rd season) Games scheduled Friday evenings

Teams AL East	W	L	PCT	GB	Available	WCGB
1970 Baltimore	18	9	.667	—–	Yes	n/a
1993 Toronto	18	12	.600	1 1/2	No	+3 1/2
1961 Yankees	13	14	.481	5	No	——
1999 Boston	7	11	.389	6 1/2	No	2

Teams AL Central	W	L	PCT	GB	Available	WCGB
2010 Texas	18	9	.667	—–	Yes	n/a
1954 Cleveland	12	15	.444	6	Yes	1
2006 Detroit	11	16	.407	7	Yes	2
1974 Oakland	6	9	.400	4 1/2	Yes	1 1/2

Teams AL Other	W	L	PCT	GB	Available	WCGB
1924 Washington	16	14	.533	—–	No	n/a
1977 Kansas City	13	14	.481	1 1/2	Yes	—-
2009 New York (A)	12	15	.444	2 1/2	No	1
1967 Minnesota	13	17	.433	3	Yes	1 1/2

Teams NL East	W	L	PCT	GB	Available	WCGB
1998 Atlanta	16	14	.533	—-	No	n/a
2019 Washington Nats	13	14	.481	1 1/2	Yes	2
1955 Brooklyn	12	15	.444	2 1/2	Yes	3
1975 Cincinnati	12	15	.444	2 1/2	Yes	3

Teams NL Central	W	L	PCT	GB	Available	WCGB
1957 Milwaukee	17	10	.611	—–	Yes	n/a
1971 Pittsburgh	16	11	.593	1	Yes	+1
1985 St. Louis	13	14	.481	4	No	2
2003 Cubs	11	16	.407	6	Yes	4

Teams NL Other	W	L	PCT	GB	Available	WCGB
2016 Chicago (N)	19	8	.704	—-	No	n/a
2001 Arizona	15	12	.556	4	Yes	—–
1977 Philadelphia	12	15	.444	7	Yes	3
2007 Colorado	11	19	.367	9 1/2	Yes	5 1/2

If you are interested in taking over the management of any of these teams contact me in comments.

China ratcheted things up a notch or two in Western Pacific on Friday, with the Taiwan defense ministry reporting that twenty Chinese military aircraft violated Taiwan’s air defense identification zone, including four nuclear-capable bombers and 10 fighter jets. Taiwan sent warnings and no confrontation was reported. This was the largest violation yet by China, which has made a habit of testing Taiwan’s air space.

This comes only hours after China hit the United Kingdom with sanctions in retribution for the UK daring to criticize China’s multitude of human rights depravities in the western province of Xinjiang.

Which comes as China disappears major Western retailers Nike, Adidas, Burberry and H&M in retaliation for the companies refusing to source cotton from Xinjiang, where the local Uighurs are enslaved on cotton farms.

Which comes just days after Chinese diplomats came to Alaska and mocked American strength to American Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s face. Blinken took it, surprising no one.

Meanwhile, China’s military is trying to create biologically enhanced supersoldiers, experimenting with the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR.

So it seems a strange time for the U.S. military to worry about maternity outfits for pilots, weakening competencies for women soldiers, and providing “gender reassignment surgery” for military members. But then, the Biden Administration is making all kinds of strange decisions. The depressingly progressive military leadership seems so concerned about making safe spaces for wokesters they’ve forgotten their duty is to make the United States itself a safe space, and that’s done through actual physical strength and force.

It should be an interesting few years, in no small measure because China itself is facing a steep population decline, which could make its widely predicted global dominance a short-lived thing — and offer a shorter window for reclaiming Taiwan, for instance, than perhaps they previously expected. Seems the one-time one-child policy worked a little too well. Pity.

Well, we had an American Century. How bad could a Chinese Decade be?

One of my favorite shows as a kid was the British 8 part mini series of James Fenimore Cooper’s classic tale The Last of the Mohicans which was shown on WGBH channel 2 as PBS’ Masterpiece Theatre series.

There were many classic moments in the eight part series but one came to mind this week when South Dakota governor Kristi Noem did an abrupt about face on a bill to protect women in women’s sports.

In episode 2 Hawkeye and the Mohegans having recused Major Heyward’s party consisting of the daughters of Col Munro, his batsman and a traveling Psalmist are hiding in a cave bedding down for the night. Heyward is venting to concerning the mistake he made in trusting Magua the Huron to a listening Hawkeye and suggests to him that his is foolish to trust the Mohegans Chingachgook and his son Uncas. This leads to this speech by Hawkeye that has always stuck with me. (emphasis mine)

Hawkeye: I’ve known Chingachgook since we were both young. I knew Uncas’ mother. I’ve known Uncas since the day he was born. Major Hayward I do not know you! If we had to fight back to back, it’s possible that you might run. Oh I don’t think you would, but you might. I’ve fought back to back with these Mohegans and they didn’t run!

Last of the Mohegans episode 2 1971

This had been the reason why I had supported Ted Cruz over Donald Trump in 2016. Both were saying all the right things but I had already seen that Ted Cruz wouldn’t run and didn’t know about Trump. Of course we figured out pretty quick that President Trump didn’t run from a fight either and I was happy to support him in 2020.

We still don’t know who the GOP nominee will be in 2024 but it’s imperative that both the nominee for President and Vice President are people who will not run when the left, or the media or the NCAA goes after them.

Kristi Noem has done us a great service just as Nikki Haley did by showing that when the chips were down and if we had to fight back to back, they would run. Noem’s handling of the COVID crisis in her state has been excellent and she deserves credit for it. Haley certainly did a fine job at the UN and she deserves credit for it too and in a different era that might be enough.

We are however now at a point where conservatives and conservatism are literally fighting for our lives and we can’t be looking for someone hoping to get JFK library awards for throwing us off the bus.

It’s just as well we learn this now before we invest time, effort and most importantly money on them.