Amaroq
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Joined: 8/3/2005 From: San Diego, California Status: offline
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Oh, absolutely - the year-to-year aspect is what compels me to keep playing. Its why I love this genre, honestly. Do you know the theory of a "finite game" versus an "infinite game"? So, a baseball game is a finite game - after nine innings (or more, or less, depending), you have a winner and a loser. A baseball season is a finite game - after 162 games and a postseason, we've crowned one winner, and N-1 "losers". Baseball is an infinite game. There's always next year. Came in in the cellar? Well, there's nowhere to go but up. Won the world series? Great - now can you repeat? Getting bored with winning it all on the Yankees' payroll? Great - try doing that in Pittsburgh. Or better yet, move to Toronto, where you'll have the joy of facing the Yankee juggernaught you've assembled with a team that's not doing as well to begin with, and doesn't have the financial resources. I always get caught up in the 'Should I give him just one more year?' with aging greats - do I give him playing time to continue his Hall of Fame stats, possibly breaking that record, or do I move him aside for somebody younger with more to offer, in the constant quest for victory? That isn't much of a tug-of-war in the first few years of a career, but when you've gotten fifteen or twenty years in and you have a 37-year-old who you discovered, drafted, groomed through the minors, turned into an All-Star, and he's just 40 home runs shy of the all-time record... its a lot more difficult to turn him out to set the record for a different team, even if you know that doing so is likely to result in more victories next year. Good fun!
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