▲ 11 r/OOTP

Jesus christ facing the Dodgers pitching in the World Series is a nightmare

Game 1: 115/80 Ohtani

Game 2; 85/80 Skubal

Game 3: 75/80 Yamamoto

Game 4: 60/80 Snell/60/80 Bubic

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u/Vagina_Woolf — 19 hours ago
▲ 483 r/baseball

After raising $6,167,288 over the last two days, the Red Sox have broken the club record for donations to the Jimmy Fund which raises money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, supporting lifesaving adult and pediatric cancer research and patient care

Best part of the Red Sox organisation and it isnt even close

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u/Vagina_Woolf — 1 day ago

Is there a way to find the ID for this staff member so I can use a real photo for his picture? Have my whole game set up using real names and pics for everyone and seeing his shitty little 3D face render next to real photos gives me anxiey

u/Vagina_Woolf — 12 days ago

How do I build a tactic around a 2nd string Target Man striker?

So I trained Liam Delap's jumping and heading ability and got great results. The idea was to use him as a pacey target forward who will make runs from deep trying to break the offside trap, or stay pinned up top and wait for a cross from the byline

Was that never going to work, or are there some specific instructions and tactical set-up that benefits a target man striker?

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u/Vagina_Woolf — 13 days ago
▲ 327 r/redsox

A lot of you dont know what its like to fear the baseball gods and it shows

How are any of you talking about winning the World Series right now, or even the division!?

Are you all so blissfully unaware of how the Baseball Gods punish hubris?

Just look at what they did to Yankees fans for never shutting up about Judge being the greatest hitter of all time.

The gods said "Oh he's the greatest hitter? Bet. Guess he wont need to field fly balls anymore"

Thats the shit that happens when you run your mouth to the elder gods

Shut the fuck up about winning anything this season. Its bad juju

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u/Vagina_Woolf — 14 days ago
▲ 222 r/OOTP

My first ever walk-off in Game 7 of the World Series... and it's from a bases loaded walk.

u/Vagina_Woolf — 14 days ago

Just got back into FM after not playing for years. Read about how zero striker formations are broken. Made my own, expecting it couldn't be "that" broken. Kinda ruined the immersion for myself.

u/Vagina_Woolf — 16 days ago

Nightmare stuff from St George's. Twice in the last 10 years Somerset has won without them making their 2nd innings

If this game was being played in America or the UK, St George's fans would be calling for blood.

20 something runs for six wickets is the wildest capitulation I've ever seen.

Cant wait for next year cuz you knowww nothings gonna change

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u/Vagina_Woolf — 20 days ago
▲ 1.0k r/redsox+1 crossposts

Throwback to Eck and Remy getting increasingly distraught at having to watch Ryan Yarbrough pitch

u/Vagina_Woolf — 20 days ago
▲ 56 r/redsox

The outrage over Wilson crowding the plate is soft as baby shit.

Its incredible to me how anyone doesnt love this ballplayer archetype

I ABSOLUTELY want the guy who crowds the plate like a maniac, gets mad when he gets hit, and makes pitchers throw over the plate so he can jack that shit over the monster.

It hurts me that this isnt obvious to everyone

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u/Vagina_Woolf — 22 days ago
▲ 235 r/redsox

Boy if I didnt know any better, I'd say this team was winning ballgames with elite defense and pitching and great depth signings that can provide value when your big players go down to injury

Boy that kid at third base we got cuz 95 OPS+ with plus defense is super valuable sure looks like a great pick-up, dont he?

Nobody check what the Cubs are paying their third baseman for the same value

It's almost like someone had put all of these guys together deliberately, but they just forgot how to hit for a few months

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u/Vagina_Woolf — 1 month ago
▲ 8 r/OOTP

Played Nate Eaton in 95 games as a lefty platoon bat/utility man and never bothered to check his splits. Tell me why this man had a .957 OPS vs righties in 51 games, and a .671 OPS vs lefties.... feel like I should cut him on principle.

u/Vagina_Woolf — 1 month ago
▲ 111 r/buccos+1 crossposts

Rich Donnelly recalls throwing 858 pitches in 90 minutes for the 1994 Home Run Derby, when he was a coach with the Pirates

u/Vagina_Woolf — 1 month ago

'Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong' looks into the history of paleogeography and explains how concepts like the "lost" southern supercontinent, Gondwanaland, and the "lost" city of Atlantis, persisted despite evolving scientific understanding

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u/Vagina_Woolf — 2 months ago

Looking for reading recommendations to help improve my writing

I was first published at 12 and have been writing professionally as a journalist since I was 18.

And yet I've probably spent the last 15 years not doing ANY of the things a "good" writer should be doing--specifically, I've not been reading enough fiction.

Decided to change things this year and have been reading all the classics I avoided, along with some lesser known greats (see me post about Daniil Khams) and now I'm looking for more.

Really I'm looking for writers who break the mold in novel ways, like Khams. Saramago also comes to mind for his use of punctuation

Would love any recs from your personal list of writers who impacted the way you approached the form

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u/Vagina_Woolf — 3 months ago
▲ 1.7k r/writing

Recently discovered the work of Russian absurdist Daniil Khams. Many, if not most, of his stories were written with no reader in mind and published posthumously. And they are a wonderful reminder that you can write whatever the fuck you want. Like, actually

I've been writing professionally for my entire adult life and the first question I had after reading this man's work was "wait who is this for?"

It did not compute that I was reading something written by an author with zero obligaton towards me as the reader. There was no implied contract. He didnt have to explain himself to me because this work wasnt for me to read.

Honestly it was a bit of a eureka moment for me

I'll leave you with "Blue Notebook N.2"

>Once there was a redheaded man without eyes and without ears. He had no hair either, so that he was a redhead was just something they said.

>He could not speak, for he had no mouth. He had no nose either.

>He didn't even have arms or legs. He had no stomach either, and he had no back, and he had no spine, and no intestines of any kind. He didn't have anything at all. So it is hard to understand whom we are really talking about.

>So it is probably best not to talk about him any more.

I love the image of the man sitting down to write one day, because that's what writers do--they write--and jotting this down in his notebook and having a chuckle to himself.

I adore everything about him

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u/Vagina_Woolf — 3 months ago
▲ 27 r/redsox

Can someone explain Franklin Arias' hot streak? The big question has always been his lack of pop. Is this just a AA heater, or did he just add +20 Power to his MyCareer player?

I cant access and of his expected stats to see if theres anything obvious, but the guy had an ISO of 111 last year. Now its .341. Whats happened there?

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u/Vagina_Woolf — 3 months ago