Dynasty steroids

I see so many people talking shit on Waka because he relies on SS. From what I have seen this is partly a value judgement because he was born with it. People never say "if Kuroki never learned martial arts he would be fodder".
Then they say shit like "Raian without removal is still op". Like Raian doesn't have among the best genetic makeups in the verse (definetly number 1 in Japan).
Also Raian was born into the kure clan and taught martial arts, he was taught martial arts from his childhood by the best of the best. That is something he did not make himself, he literally got birthed into a fighting dynasty that gave him everything to succeed and on top of it he was naturally gifted even among his peers.
A better comparison is saying what if Raian was not a kure, he would just be a normal dude. Which is true as far as we can tell. Same thing if Julius could not take steroids, he would be fodder.

7 straight trips to the AL pennant, 4 trips to the World Series, and 2 World Series wins is pretty hard to beat. Certainly the early 2000s Yankees and 1930s Yankees beat that, but who else? Obviously the 2017 trashcan business is a factor, but since it’s been shown it was only used a few months during the regular season I’m not sure how much of a factor that should really play. What are your thoughts?
Edit3: for anyone who for some reason is reading this post 2 days later and is about to delve into the comments, it’s a shit show. Anyone that actually engaged with my arguments devolved into ad homs and refusal to engage with evidence. Some did honestly engage with evidence on the same thread I made in the mlb sub, but those that were actually good faith deleted their comments because I was able to substantiate everything I’m about to say. I’m copy and pasting this from a comment I made responding to the accusation that I’m lying by omission or suggesting that the Astros didn’t cheat in the WS by how I worded my post.

The vast majority of fans believe that the Astros deserve more hate than any other team for cheating. Whenever it’s pointed out stealing signs with tech was widespread, like the steroid era, the response is that other teams weren’t signaling batters with trash cans, and that’s why Astros deserve more hate. Most fans assume it’s true that Astros used the trashcans in the playoffs and WS. However, in the official investigation the investigators were unable to conclusively prove trashcans were used outside the regular season, and video analysis, which logged every pitch a trashcan was used for during the regular season was unable to find any during playoffs or WS.
So if you know all of this, if you’re fully informed, then my post makes perfect sense. The only reason it would sound like I’m saying something disingenuous is if you didn’t know all these details. Which I don’t think you did and I don’t think most fans do. That’s not to deride you, or anyone else, for something you didn’t know, people don’t know because it isn’t discussed. I’m not complaining about all the downvotes I got from this post because of that. But that’s exactly why I posted this and worded it the way I did. To force people to engage with the facts in order to understand the post. The alternative was making a long ass post trying to explain everything upfront and getting 20 comments from people who didn’t even read it screaming at me about the Astros being cheaters.

Edit: well this is about what I expected. Cheers to everyone who engaged with the question in good faith.
Edit2: just to respond to the question of “are the Astros even a dynasty, cheating aside”. That would completely depend on how you define a baseball dynasty. I think being the only path to the World Series for the AL for seven years straight, and being the only path in the MLB to the World Series for more than half of those years, then winning half* of those, would qualify. But I can understand how by other metrics they would not.
So far I think most people agree there were the three Yankees dynasties, then other possible dynasties are the early 2010s Giants, the 90s Braves, and the Big Red Machine. So I guess lowest spot for the Astros would be 7th, or your list ends before that. I’ll add any others if someone has one we’ve missed.

7 straight trips to the AL pennant, 4 trips to the World Series, and 2 World Series wins is pretty hard to beat. Certainly the early 2000s Yankees and 1930s Yankees beat that, but who else? Obviously the 2017 trashcan business is a factor, but since it’s been shown it was only used a few months during the regular season I’m not sure how much of a factor that should really play. What are your thoughts?
Edit3: for anyone who for some reason is reading this post 2 days later and is about to delve into the comments. You’ll find a lot of deleted comments because I can substantiate everything I’m about to say. I’m copy and pasting this from a comment I made responding to the accusation that I’m lying by omission or suggesting that the Astros didn’t cheat in the WS by how I worded my post.

The vast majority of fans believe that the Astros deserve more hate than any other team for cheating. Whenever it’s pointed out stealing signs with tech was widespread, like the steroid era, the response is that other teams weren’t signaling batters with trash cans, and that’s why Astros deserve more hate. Most fans assume it’s true that Astros used the trashcans in the playoffs and WS. However, in the official investigation the investigators were unable to conclusively prove trashcans were used outside the regular season, and video analysis, which logged every pitch a trashcan was used for during the regular season was unable to find any during playoffs or WS.
So if you know all of this, if you’re fully informed, then my post makes perfect sense. The only reason it would sound like I’m saying something disingenuous is if you didn’t know all these details. Which I don’t think you did and I don’t think most fans do. That’s not to deride you, or anyone else, for something you didn’t know, people don’t know because it isn’t discussed. I’m not complaining about all the downvotes I got from this post because of that. But that’s exactly why I posted this and worded it the way I did. To force people to engage with the facts in order to understand the post. The alternative was making a long ass post trying to explain everything upfront and getting 20 comments from people who didn’t even read it screaming at me about the Astros being cheaters.

Edit: well this about what I expected, cheers to everyone who engaged in good faith with the question.
Edit2: just to respond to the question of “are the Astros even a dynasty, cheating aside”. That would completely depend on how you define a baseball dynasty. I think being the only path to the World Series for the AL for seven years straight, and being the only path in the MLB to the World Series for more than half of those years, would qualify. But I can understand how by other metrics they would not.
So far I think most people agree there were the three Yankees dynasties, then other possible dynasties are the early 2010s Giants, the 90s Braves, and the Big Red Machine. So I guess lowest spot for the Astros would be 7th, or your list ends before that. I’ll add any others if someone has one we’ve missed.

I’m having a lot of fun with these write ups so I think I’ll continue. Korea at the EU5 start date in 1337 was called Goryeo (which gives Korea its name), and is generally considered to be a different state to the Joseon which succeeded it, the Korea we observe in the EU4 start date. Goryeo started way back in 980 AD, but it is the Yuan Dynasty era of Goryeo that is most important here. Korea was a very interesting state in this period, traditional Korean historiography (which is very xenophobic and anti-Joseon) considers this a period of humiliation and subservience - but as we shall see, Korea used this to its great advantage to preserve a lot of independence and the influence went both ways. This independence didn’t come from distance; rather the two states were incredibly intertwined. In fact, Korea was even more intertwined with the Yuan court than even any of the other Mongol states of the period, and would never again exercise so much influence in China. Korea ultimately remains one of very few examples of Mongolization we observe outside of the other steppe nomads, even as the actual Mongols Sinified, Persified, or Turkified.
The Mongol conquest of Korea had been a slow and arduous one, comparable to the conquest of China as among the most difficult campaigns fought by the Mongols. For centuries, Korea had fought endless waves of Manchu, Khitan, and Mongolic horse armies; pushing them back from their previously expansive position in Manchuria behind the Baekdu mountain range and the Yalu River. While Goryeo was ruled by the Wang family, by the 12th century the court had been usurped by the Choi family, who ruled as military dictators. The Chois dictatorial rule made them many enemies, and meant that large swathes of Korea defected early to the first Mongol invasions in 1231. Nonetheless, by moving the capital to the heavily fortified island of Ganghwa-do just off Seoul, the Mongols were never able to actually capture the new capital. The Koreans fought off 9 attempted invasions - unlike the Song, this was less through dogged defence and more by strategic retreat and armistices, which ultimately caused nearly all of Korea to be razed over 40 years. The Crown Prince was eventually forced to become a Yuan hostage, and later on the Chois and other military dictators were assassinated, leading to a wave of rebellions which were ultimately crushed with Mongol assistance, finally putting an end to Mongol resistance around 1270, and losing much of the North in the process.
This resistance meant that Korea emerged in extreme poverty and famine as one of the last vassal states of the Yuan, following the Uyghur Kingdom of Qocho, the Bai Kingdom of Dali, and fhe Karluk Kara-Khanid Kingdom. It was also by far the closest to the Mongolian capital of Dadu in modern day Beijing. This put Korea in a tricky situation. Its refusal to surrender despite a rather poor military record earned more frustration than respect, and despite large numbers of Koreans in Northern China near the capital, the Kingdom of Korea was officially considered lowest among equals within the kingdom-level vassals of the Yuan. The military was clearly also very disaffected, and the Wang family was essentially reliant on the whims and priorities of the Mongols to prevent a coup d’etat. At this point, Korea had also been forced to cede most of the North to Yuan, while the neighbouring Yuan province of Shen (now Liaodong) which had a majority Korean population was ruled by the Hong family, defectors from the first invasion who led the subsequent invasions of Korea and hated the Wang family.
To resolve the diplomatic solution, King Chungnyeol married Queen Jangmok in 1271, the youngest daughter of Kublai Khan. With the ousting of the military dictatorship, the Korean court was controlled largely by Confucian scholar-bureaucrats, who seized the momentum of having a Mongol “mother of the country”, to spread Mongol customs throughout the country in an attempt to defuse rebellious sentiment. Much of this influence remains - for example in Korean traditional dress (hanbok), which shifted from the Tang style flowing robes to a tighter and shorter version. Chungnyeol made judicious use of this political advantage. Queen Jangmok was beloved by Kublai Khan the way only a youngest daughter could be, and as the only daughter not married to a Mongol leader, Kublai gave special attention to Korean embassies led by the King and Queen. Chungnyeol managed to have all Mongol forces withdrawn from Korea by 1278, return of the ceded provinces by 1280 (though Mongol troops and governors would remain), have himself appointed as head of the Secretariat for Eastern Affairs in charge of the preparations for invading Japan, preservation of traditional Korean customs be enshrined in treaty, and a promise that all future Korean Kings would be married to Yuan princesses and receive Mongol names. Korea salvaged its prestige and income by providing large numbers of troops, engineers, and sailors for the invasions of China, Japan, and Vietnam as well as the Mongol civil war between Kaidu and Kublai, which also had the effect of keeping the military at arms length. King Chungnyeol draws a lot of hate from Korean historians, seen as a traitor and stooge, largely due to Joseon-era propaganda but also a xenophobic tradition in Korean historiography. As we will see, these moves laid the foundation for Korea’s continued independence.
King Chungnyeol’s son King Chungseon (Mongol: Ijirbukhqa) doubled down on this policy. His parents meticulously constructed a perfect political backdrop for him: First by having him marry the daughters of the three most powerful families in Korea as well as Kublai’s grand-daughter. Second by having him raised in Dadu, where his status both as Kublai’s grandson and the Crown Prince of a powerful vassal made him many friends among the Yuan court, while also shielding him from brutal palace intrigue back in Korea. This background afforded him a special unprecedented privilege - a voice at the Kurultai. For generations, the Mongol princes fought bitter behind-the-scenes political wars over succession, largely culminating in Kurultai votes. Chungseon provided critical political and financial support to two successful emperors Kuluk Khan and Buyantu Khan, receiving the title King of Shen as a reward in 1307, before becoming King of Korea in 1308. Being simultaneously King of Korea and King of Shen is a nearly unprecedented example of an Asian personal union, with one person having two independent sovereign titles. As King of Shen, he presided over the end of the Hong family rule over Shen, though only gradually though much backroom politics. The rest of Chungseon’s reign was somewhat tricky - ever considered a foreigner, his attempts to pass through Yuan Dynasty reforms including more rights for slaves, banning same-surname marriages, and improving meritocracy were considered attacks on the political power of Korean noble families. Chungseon is also much maligned by Korean historians, who blasted him for spending too much time in China, and for attempting to tyrannically circumscribe the nobility. The continued tying of Korea to Yuan though, ushered in a period of security economic integration, and significant prosperity as Korea went from being a humiliated and subservient vassal to the “Son-in-Law” kingdom (駙馬國). Chungseon’s personal popularity within Yuan actually resulted in Korean traditions flowing into China, including the first wave of the hanbok influencing Chinese traditional dress. When he died, Chungseon split his titles among his two sons and ended the personal union.
At the EU5 start date in 1337, Korea was just about to start the reign of King Chunghye (Putashri). Chunghye is most famous for raping one of his father’s Mongol princess concubines in 1343, who requested the Yuan court to save her. The act disgusted just about everybody, and so when Yuan officials arrived to arrest him, it was pretty much shrugged off, even when Chunghye died along the way. Joseon historians consider this to be a humiliating affair where Yuan authority was forced on Korea, but the reality appears to actually have been the opposite.
In a remarkable turn of events, Yuan had gone through a devastating succession war that ended in 1332. Korea had backed the losing side of Kusala Khan against Jayaatu Khan due to ties dating back to Chunjeong, leading the then Prince Toghon Temur to flee first to Korea and later to South China. After the brutal civil war, when Jayaatu Khan died, he passed the throne back to Kusala Khan’s descendants instead of his own sons, supposedly out of remorse. Toghon Temur developed affection for Korea in his time there, and fell deeply in love with his Korean concubine Lady Gi. By 1340, Lady Gi had pulled off the impossible, becoming the first non-Mongol Empress, and capitalising on Toghon Temur’s passivity and love for her to rule over Yuan in his stead, filling it with Korean officials including her brother Gi Cheol who commanded Mongol forces in the East, and was simultaneously the Prince of Rongan in Yuan, as well as a Chancellor in Korea. Empress Gi had two life goals: to put her son on the Yuan throne, and to put her brother on the Korean throne. It is highly probable that the above was engineered by Empress Gi to delegitimise the Wang family in pursuit of her second goal.
Initially this seemed to work. King Chunghye was followed by two 12 year old kings, who were powerless to the intrigues between and within the Yuan court and the Korean court. Empress Gi solidified her hold over the Yuan court, achieving her first objective by having her son Bilitigu Khan become crown prince in 1353 with great difficulty, collaborating with the great Confucian scholar and general Toqto’a to banish and assassinate the powerful general and prince Bayan. We should not weep for Bayan or condemn Toqto’a- Bayan was an insane warlord, and Toqto’a (his own nephew) was only convinced to participate in his assassination because Bayan had the idea that executing 10% of all Chinese people would be the best way to reduce unrest. Toqto’a later went on to lead several engineering and agricultural projects, write the histories of the preceding dynasties, and successfully suppress the Red Turban Rebellion which broke out in 1351. He opposed the naming of Bilitigu Khan as Crown Prince, who would clearly have become a puppet of the Empress, and so Empress Gi manoeuvred to have him arrested and executed on false charges right on the eve of his final extermination of the Red Turban rebels. This was one of the big what-if moments of history - the Red Turbans eventually came back and took down the Yuan and created the Ming dynasty, along the way taking down Empress Gi and her son. Could she have convinced Toqto’a to support her, could the Gi family have built the Habsburgs on steroids ruling over both Yuan and Goryeo potentially for centuries?
The Gi family was also ultimately responsible for rupturing the symbiotic relationship between Goryeo and Yuan. As King Chungjeong died as a child, King Chunghye’s brother King Gongmin (Bayan Temur) rose to the throne in 1351. Having grown up in Dadu under the watch of Empress Gi, he was likely initially judged to be manipulatable, and the early part of his reign was marked by the Gi family’s further ascendancy in Korea including extensive deployment of Korean forces in China against the Red Turbans. All of this changed in 1356 when Gongmin invited the entire Gi clan to a feast and then murdered all of them Red Wedding style before proceeding to purge the entire administration of pro-Yuan officials. Still reeling from civil war, hit by plague epidemics, flood, famine, and rebellion, Empress Gi sent an army in 1364 led by her son to take back Korea, attempting to install the elderly son of King Chungjeon with her nephew as Crown Prince, but they were defeated. Eventually, Toghon Temur died in 1370, her son did take the throne but by then Yuan was lost and he retreated into Mongolia putting up a successful resistance. Empress Gi died along the way.
Empress Gi is the subject of a lot of slander by both Chinese and Korean sources, largely because the Confucianism of the era had the idiotic concept that women in power were evil. We have every reason to believe that her political ambitions did not come in the way of her effective governance. She is recorded to have personally devised tax reform, handled logistics for famines, commissioned infrastructure projects, and suppressed multiple rebellions. Despite being an outsider, she was immensely popular; spreading Korean culture deep into Yuan China, and encouraging large numbers of Korean-Mongol marriages. While Empress Gi was probably exceptionally intelligent and talented, women in Turco-Mongolic societies traditionally held levels of economic, military, and political authority which were seen as offensive to Western observers. Empress Gi appears to have followed in a tradition of powerful Korean-Mongolian women dating to Queen Jangmok. It’s important to note that the unpopular one at the time was not Empress Gi but actually King Gongmin, who pissed off generations of entrenched Korean-Mongol families with what seemed like an arbitrary and dishonorable act of extreme violence against a relative; especially as King Gongmin continued to refuse pleas for help from the Yuan and murdered many of their envoys. To make things worse, the Red Turbans invaded Korea twice, and though they were repulsed after capturing the capital at Kaesong, it was clear that Yuan and Korea were fighting the same enemy. He was later assassinated by pro-Yuan officials, with all kinds of scandalous rumours floating about how and why. The most commonly accepted one is that as he was infertile, he arranged for four young nobles to impregnate the Queen, with the intention of murdering them afterwards, though they got to him first in 1374.
Gongmin was succeeded by his 12 year old son King U, who was really controlled by the pro-Yuan faction. Nonetheless, it was not clear what to do as the Yuan had already been pushed back into Mongolia, and so the military launched a more moderate counter-coup against both factions. The military was essentially controlled by two generals, Yi Seonggye whose father was originally the Yuan official in charge of one of the Northern provinces of Korea, and Choi Yong who had served in China as part of Korean expeditionary forces against the Red Turbans before King Gongmin went on his murder spree. Choi Yong had been the one to report to King Gongmin that the Yuan was extremely fragile, later leading the successful defeat of the Yuan army sent by Empress Gi, and the retaking of the Northern provinces. In 1388, Choi Yong pushed for an invasion of the Ming, eventually ordering Yi to lead the army north and takeover Shen.
In what is now known as the Retreat from Wihwado, a pivotal founding myth of modern Korea, Yi took the army to the Yalu River on the border with China which was flooding from the rains, and noped straight back to Kaesong where he arrested and executed Choi Yong, and the other officials who opposed him, before declaring himself King, swearing fealty to the Ming Emperor, and founding the Joseon Dynasty which would last until the Japanese annexed Korea in 1910.

I've noticed that Shane has very good taste when it comes to games.
It's not surprising that he's a fan of the sports titles, but i was pleasantly surprised to hear him reference Mount & Blade Bannerlord. He's also referenced Age of Empires, Oregon Trail, Tropico, and Cities Skylines as games he's played so I'm inclined to believe he's a PC guy as well as console. And it seems like he's gotten into Sifu as well.
Recently i found an excellent college football simulator called Football Coach College Dynasty that i think some of you may enjoy. You gotta load in the real schools + logos but once you've got that it becomes NCAA 14 Dynasty mode on steroids.
It's similar to games like Out of the Park Baseball or Football Manager and if you're into that kinda shit + like college football, this game is like crack cocaine.
If you guys have any recommendations for games that are dope let me know.

Buckle up because this is a long one. I wrote a much, much longer version.. that Reddit just so happened to glitch on, thereby erasing half of the important context. Oh, what the hell.
For anyone who claims I’m a Nazi, here’s a post I made very recently criticizing Nazi Occultism—the real issues with them.. your blanket term Nazi is lazy. Yeah they were horrible. What will it take for you to come and accept that US/NATO is much, much worse.. Smiles a lot though. Partly as a result of Nazi infiltration.. paradox for the ages.
https://www.reddit.com/StrangeEarth/s/SP04KakzqL
TLDR ONE: I don’t intend to derail the conversation, but I feel convicted to offer this response to what I see clearly as an attempt by a death cult, to carry out a wholesale erasure of all the good in this world. I love America, my city on the hill, that was, or could have been—but yeah, the USG is pretty much Satan, the Zionists worked with Hitler, the Soviets were Jews and way worse than Nazis, yet get romanticized, the Orthodox World has always been under attack from 2-3 fronts, it’s entire existence, and the Bolshevik takeover of Russia was the trial run for what the cult intends on implementing world wide.
I imagine the 1984 model has been correctly assessed as untenable (too many people to kill too quickly. So, the next communist utopia will look more like this ——
https://youtu.be/rOyy9nNsbFc?si=ClIeZ59erg9xWbBQ
And they really wanna have the United States do the honors.
TLDR TWO: Think of the US/UK as legit the same thing, because literally they are. I usually frame it like that, above^ … ever looked into the UN?
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First Off, Context——
I have to get this part out of the way—God Bless the Jews that are not Zionists. I thank for the example of resilience and commitment to the Creator.
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This, my democrat friends, is what communism, which you unknowingly or willfully champion, leads to—
Katyn Massacre, Poland
https://youtu.be/Ab-xojH2PKQ?si=ZsOp2Fp-upJ9ZcQe
Communism was formulated by Marx, a Sabbatean Jew.
And to you my republican friends, I give Sabbatai Zevi, the originator of the death cult, the Sabbateans, who have managed to takeover “the West” and world of finance—all explained concisely (2nd half of this video) by a rabbi a freaking hero—because any Jew who stands up to Zionism and it’s Kabbalistic, Talmudic, Sabbatean origins is a hero. On the flip…The State of Israel you support? This is their ideology.
https://youtu.be/pg2kry-DzNw?si=rnaCQy_j-6y-ifP2
Do you guys—I’ll just say democrats— really reflect on what this movement or group of movements is accomplishing? Are we less racist/insert other thing as a whole? Yes, and we should be. Are we experiencing the most invasive forms of mind control and being stripped of our history on a daily basis? Yes and that should anger you and terrify you. I’m speaking to those who apply the term “Nazi” to anything that dares to defy NovaCommunism, or CommunismLite— not realizing that commies within a commie revolution usually get cut loose.
Ever heard of the Spanish Civil War?
https://youtu.be/rrsGHdnVN40?si=g5yt-D2-pQbWgBf_
Anyone incapable of recognizing the equivalency of inhumanity showcased during the 20th Century by virtually every major state actor, is under severe Stockholm Syndrome. Nazism, Fascism, Communism, Socialism, Zionism, Capitalism itself——these are all abuses on a Monday and atrocities on a Tuesday. Imagine God’s shock and horror at hundreds of millions of us little children killing and dying in the hellpits of WWII.. all for what? Isms? I’ll tell you for what. For the death cult.
Now let’s pick on republicans for a second. I mean do I really need to? Israel is in our faces carrying out the most horrific modes of war crimes, everyone knows and yet you people (and fuckin.. me too) PAYS Israel for the honor of being its submissive sugar daddy’s little tax farm piglets. These are the people who have surrendered their own will and agency over to one crooked, shiesty, obvious, COINTELPRO made-to-lose-in-swag-Fall-Guy who I need not name. In 2015-2016 I liked what he said too! Then the first time he didn’t follow through in like 30-90 days, I did the sane thing. Stopped listening. I’ve never casted a vote, and I almost thought about it. Guess you guys should work maybe just stop livin in la la land?
Here’s another history lesson. It was never for you—the United States.
https://youtu.be/9x4BySWBwos?si=-oePxKfmc3I-9GIz
The paradigm we’ve lived in over the last 90 years was neartly orchestrated at Yalta, at Jekyll Island, in the Protocols of Zion, etc etc, in the Club of Rome.
But it’s been cooking for some time. Since about 1200-1350 CE. That was stage one. There was a synthesis between the Khazars, or todays majority Jews in US an Europe, and Venice, the Black Nobility, who’ve loomed over the Mediterranean World since before Pharaoh—this flirtation began with the Mongol Invasions and Black Death, two events the Venetians (Phoenicians) capitalized on, and then banking/usery was formally adopted. The Khazarian Jews fleeing the Mongols were chosen as scapegoats.
And walah, enter the Renaissance, the Inquisition, the Atlantic. Slave Trades selling Africans and Slavs primarily, with the Barbary States and Crimean Khanate. No one finds it strange that there is heavy Jewish involvement in all of these.
The Pharaonic/European dynasties then merged with the Khazar leaders. By the 17th Century their Kabbalah, and then much more ominously, Sabbatai’s teachings began spilling into the European aristocracy. John Dee was prototype. Freemasonry was born amidst this 2-3 century process.
(I’m not writing a whole historical epic on each of these major factors.. again… just for Reddit to delete my post, so just go with this, skip off and do your own research, or just listen close__)
Venice was the transition.
https://youtu.be/yTiztUNrhhM?si=EHk5tYi942Pw7Chm
We’ll be dissecting the US/UK hydra, but to be clear the Soviet Union was definitely worse in its heyday under Stalin—it’s just that.. the USSR collapsed. It’s gone. Right now, and back then, US/UK hydra is daddy, and he’s very invested in what you think about him, and you won’t like what it does when its wittle feewingz get hurt.
I just wanna start with this little humorous, and abjectly horrifying piece of information— which shockingly, astonishingly, some how could have made WWII so much worse if not for the courage displayed by a minority within the British High Command, who refused to carry out an order. In 1940 Winston Churchill green-lit the testing of the “Anthrax Bomb.” Yes it’s as bad as it sounds. They tested it in 1942 on a Scottish island; the island was completely contaminated until *1986** and all wildlife perished within days.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruinard_Island#:~:text=In%201942%2C%20the%20island%20became,it%20was%20decontaminated%20in%201990.
Later, as the war escalated more and more, insane, out-of-touch-with a-reality-drunk-off-his-ass Churchill gave the order for widespread use of the bombs on German cities. The British command revolted and it didn’t happen. If it had happened, as declassified documentation from 1997 revealed, Central Europe would be completely destroyed, and uninhabitable.
This man is celebrated in the West. Let that sink in.
Dresden-style firebombings were the ghoulish consolation.
https://youtu.be/iOeD-28VHpY?si=Hpg6zFx9YRXie4_d
FDR was better at hiding it, but the Morgentau Plan demonstrates his equivalency as a villain.
The only reason these men were restrained from unleashing higher levels of unseen horror was they had to cope with large, Christian populations who had to be duped to go to wars in the first place.
Russia was the same, and so the communists murdered 60 million Russians Christians, and other primarily Siberian/TataUralic groups.
I’d say that explains Russia’s demeanor on its own—never mind the fact that all of these events are related and that the Soviets were coddled by the US/UK hydra from day one.
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Distrusting the West is a wholly rational approach to geopolitics for any nation, coming from an American—one who values the freedom and loathes the indignity borne from it.
And frankly, Russia may not justified in their attack on Ukraine per se, but how could any rational person blame them for feeling threatened when NATO makes every move a psychopathic hydra would make, if it wanted to destroy you, and have the world smile at the sight? The answer? They couldn’t.
Hypocrisy seems to be the new(?) religion in the West as well, as the blood of (hundreds) millions of Natives still dries, and lays juxtaposed in time beside tens of millions of (German civilians in Dresden?—cough) Serbian, Vietnamese, Korean, Laotian, Cambodia, Nicaraguan, Panamanian, Iraqi, Lebanese, Afghan, Somali, Pakistani, Libyan etc etc etc etc etc civilians. I won’t even mention Israel because that’d be punching down.
And for the record, I’m no fan of most of these countries, I have no special reason to care about them besides my adherence to humanitarianism, and if not that, every people’s God-given right to self-determination.
If any one wants to face the facts, allow me to say it plainly. The steroids clone of the UK..I mean the United States, while also paradoxically doing lots of good and having the soundest possible government structure by mortals ever conceived, continues to both carry out, and get away with, static crimes against humanity on a daily basis. The USG was the original discoverer and administer of eugenics. Elements of our wildly unregulated, untouched ruler / donor caste have financed or orchestrated every war in your lifetime, and many before..
Wonder what thread, may tie this quilt of dread
Why? …why?
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FDR was a little shit psychopath like Ol’ Himmler with big big ideas—except he had 10x maybe 100x resources—he did everything he could to get the Morgenthau Plan into action, a truly NKVD-level eugenics-themed policy which would have exterminated endless Germans, erasing the idea of the German nationality altogether through concentration camps and “reconditioning.” We’re talking 100% of the German population that was allowed to live (30-50%).
It’s quite insane that the Soviet Union was offered lend lease free of charge while democratic Britain during its lend lease was bled dry and coerced to giving up its empire entirely (which however unjust, had been won by right of conquest) through the machinations of this wise “anti-imperialist” who oversaw the United States as it financially cannibalized the British Empire and Europe, and as the OSS/CIA got to work interfering with other countries elections, and everything else. He got the b-b-ba-ball rollin’
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So…. How in bed together are these pieces
https://youtu.be/xv5s_VEmZd0?si=9oimGdYJ6NyXDVSS
You tell me
At the end of the day facts are facts.
The Israelites of the Bible are everyone west of the Tarim Basin’s spiritual and intellectual fathers. All of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. They might’ve been black..we’ll just brush past that part because you’ll all be realizing it soon, that a lot “Black” History has been erased.
I assume the 10-15% (increasing) of modern Jews that are not bought into Zionism are the most courageous, devout people on Earth.
Because Zionism.. is the actual source of… everything. Let’s just spitball.
….. ……..
Why did the number of Jewish NGOs and public organizations within Germany drop from 400+ to 1 from 1929-1939, with the Zionist Federation of Germany as the sole survivor?
Why was the Nazi party making shady deals with this Zionist cohort and setting select Jews up nice and cozy in British Mandated Palestine, and why is the lead up to German-Jewish tensions with Germany so committed to leaving out this fact—that the Zionists were intimately engaged with the Nazis?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement
Why do we routinely leave out the fact that as many as 150,000 Jews fought for the Wehrmacht?
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/hitlers-jewish-soldiers/
Where were you when Zionist extremists killed over 1,000 Jews for no reason in 1940, off the coast of France?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patria_disaster
Why did Nakam plan to contaminate far reaching water supplies and kill thousands or potentially millions of innocent German civilians just to poison a couple of Waffen-SS colonels in jail?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakam
Why did all of these events happen amidst the completely disregarded and forgotten about US/UK Jewish boycotts on Germany pre-1933 which had little (nothing) to do with Jews being abused as it hadn’t got going yet, and everything to do with the trend Germany was showcasing In freeing itself from economic subservience to Western Banks?
And why do the Zionists have immunity from your “faux-liberal dog whistlers,” who seems capable of labeling everything as “Nazi Nazi Hitler” except… the people who actually are. (I.e. CIA, Israel, everyone attached to these monsters).
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/19150/did-nazis-and-zionists-temporarily-join-forces
^{From this}
”The Nazi agenda always included ridding Germany of its Jews, but it didn't always include mass murder. Prior to 1939, before the outbreak of World War II, the plan was to get Germany's 500,000 Jews to leave voluntarily.”
WAIT HOLD UP
You said…500k? Hmmmmm. How many Jews did Poland have? Wait.. were there even 6mill in Europe at all? Wait.. no there were not. So wait.. that means that a lot of those people kllred in camps could of been.. regular prisoners of war or refugees or both? and wait you’re telling me that there was no official policy of extermination and that the situation was heavily localized with palaces like Auschwitz and Dachau just happening to be run by psychopaths, who coincidently don’t mind having Jewish SS guards so long as they’re Zionists..
Whew.
So, USSR was a big ol’ Jewish revenge against Nazis for an atrocity that hadn’t happened yet?
Trotsky was Jewish. And the Jews in Russia had every reason to revolt against the Tsar and the persecution of pogroms, in theory. So,I’m not even gonna get started on the fact that the Bolsheviks were 50% Jewish, with large segments of Tatars and Siberians, meaning the event in 1917, all the way through 1954 at Stalin’s death was an international endeavor, a hell they planned on exporting worldwide.
Instead we have the USA, my home sweet home, which quietly achieves similar monstrous heights, makes you pay for it, and daily kisses the scrotum of a death cult that took over Jewish society. (And I add, is a never ending hardship on many Jews who are good/great/virtuous/pious/peaceful people—and that tragedy goes ignored because of Zionism’s successfully hoaxing of the last century).
Zionist role in the Holocaust. Needs to be addressed.
Everything.. needs to be addressed
Samson Option lookin more likely every day
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option
Do your worst

Buckle up because this is a long one. I wrote a much, much longer version.. that Reddit just so happened to glitch on, thereby erasing half of the important context. Oh, what the hell.
For anyone who claims I’m a Nazi, here’s a post I made very recently criticizing Nazi Occultism—the real issues with them.. your blanket term Nazi is lazy. Yeah they were horrible. What will it take for you to come and accept that US/NATO is much, much worse.. Smiles a lot though. Partly as a result of Nazi infiltration.. paradox for the ages.
https://www.reddit.com/StrangeEarth/s/SP04KakzqL
TLDR ONE: I don’t intend to derail the conversation, but I feel convicted to offer this response to what I see clearly as an attempt by a death cult, to carry out a wholesale erasure of all the good in this world. I love America, my city on the hill, that was, or could have been—but yeah, the USG is pretty much Satan, the Zionists worked with Hitler, the Soviets were Jews and way worse than Nazis, yet get romanticized, the Orthodox World has always been under attack from 2-3 fronts, it’s entire existence, and the Bolshevik takeover of Russia was the trial run for what the cult intends on implementing world wide.
I imagine the 1984 model has been correctly assessed as untenable (too many people to kill too quickly. So, the next communist utopia will look more like this ——
https://youtu.be/rOyy9nNsbFc?si=ClIeZ59erg9xWbBQ
And they really wanna have the United States do the honors.
TLDR TWO: Think of the US/UK as legit the same thing, because literally they are. I usually frame it like that, above^ … ever looked into the UN?
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First Off, Context——
I have to get this part out of the way—God Bless the Jews that are not Zionists. I thank for the example of resilience and commitment to the Creator.
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This, my democrat friends, is what communism, which you unknowingly or willfully champion, leads to—
Katyn Massacre, Poland
https://youtu.be/Ab-xojH2PKQ?si=ZsOp2Fp-upJ9ZcQe
Communism was formulated by Marx, a Sabbatean Jew.
And to you my republican friends, I give Sabbatai Zevi, the originator of the death cult, the Sabbateans, who have managed to takeover “the West” and world of finance—all explained concisely (2nd half of this video) by a rabbi a freaking hero—because any Jew who stands up to Zionism and it’s Kabbalistic, Talmudic, Sabbatean origins is a hero. On the flip…The State of Israel you support? This is their ideology.
https://youtu.be/pg2kry-DzNw?si=rnaCQy_j-6y-ifP2
Do you guys—I’ll just say democrats— really reflect on what this movement or group of movements is accomplishing? Are we less racist/insert other thing as a whole? Yes, and we should be. Are we experiencing the most invasive forms of mind control and being stripped of our history on a daily basis? Yes and that should anger you and terrify you. I’m speaking to those who apply the term “Nazi” to anything that dares to defy NovaCommunism, or CommunismLite— not realizing that commies within a commie revolution usually get cut loose.
Ever heard of the Spanish Civil War?
https://youtu.be/rrsGHdnVN40?si=g5yt-D2-pQbWgBf_
Anyone incapable of recognizing the equivalency of inhumanity showcased during the 20th Century by virtually every major state actor, is under severe Stockholm Syndrome. Nazism, Fascism, Communism, Socialism, Zionism, Capitalism itself——these are all abuses on a Monday and atrocities on a Tuesday. Imagine God’s shock and horror at hundreds of millions of us little children killing and dying in the hellpits of WWII.. all for what? Isms? I’ll tell you for what. For the death cult.
Now let’s pick on republicans for a second. I mean do I really need to? Israel is in our faces carrying out the most horrific modes of war crimes, everyone knows and yet you people (and fuckin.. me too) PAYS Israel for the honor of being its submissive sugar daddy’s little tax farm piglets. These are the people who have surrendered their own will and agency over to one crooked, shiesty, obvious, COINTELPRO made-to-lose-in-swag-Fall-Guy who I need not name. In 2015-2016 I liked what he said too! Then the first time he didn’t follow through in like 30-90 days, I did the sane thing. Stopped listening. I’ve never casted a vote, and I almost thought about it. Guess you guys should work maybe just stop livin in la la land?
Here’s another history lesson. It was never for you—the United States.
https://youtu.be/9x4BySWBwos?si=-oePxKfmc3I-9GIz
The paradigm we’ve lived in over the last 90 years was neartly orchestrated at Yalta, at Jekyll Island, in the Protocols of Zion, etc etc, in the Club of Rome.
But it’s been cooking for some time. Since about 1200-1350 CE. That was stage one. There was a synthesis between the Khazars, or todays majority Jews in US an Europe, and Venice, the Black Nobility, who’ve loomed over the Mediterranean World since before Pharaoh—this flirtation began with the Mongol Invasions and Black Death, two events the Venetians (Phoenicians) capitalized on, and then banking/usery was formally adopted. The Khazarian Jews fleeing the Mongols were chosen as scapegoats.
And walah, enter the Renaissance, the Inquisition, the Atlantic. Slave Trades selling Africans and Slavs primarily, with the Barbary States and Crimean Khanate. No one finds it strange that there is heavy Jewish involvement in all of these.
The Pharaonic/European dynasties then merged with the Khazar leaders. By the 17th Century their Kabbalah, and then much more ominously, Sabbatai’s teachings began spilling into the European aristocracy. John Dee was prototype.
(I’m not writing a whole historical epic on each of these major factors.. again… just for Reddit to delete my post, so just go with this, skip off and do your own research, or just listen close__)
Venice was the transition.
https://youtu.be/yTiztUNrhhM?si=EHk5tYi942Pw7Chm
We’ll be dissecting the US/UK hydra, but to be clear the Soviet Union was definitely worse in its heyday under Stalin—it’s just that.. the USSR collapsed. It’s gone. Right now, and back then, US/UK hydra is daddy, and he’s very invested in what you think about him, and you won’t like what it does when its wittle feewingz get hurt.
I just wanna start with this little humorous, and abjectly horrifying piece of information— which shockingly, astonishingly, some how could have made WWII so much worse if not for the courage displayed by a minority within the British High Command, who refused to carry out an order. In 1940 Winston Churchill green-lit the testing of the “Anthrax Bomb.” Yes it’s as bad as it sounds. They tested it in 1942 on a Scottish island; the island was completely contaminated until *1986** and all wildlife perished within days.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruinard_Island#:~:text=In%201942%2C%20the%20island%20became,it%20was%20decontaminated%20in%201990.
Later, as the war escalated more and more, insane, out-of-touch-with a-reality-drunk-off-his-ass Churchill gave the order for widespread use of the bombs on German cities. The British command revolted and it didn’t happen. If it had happened, as declassified documentation from 1997 revealed, Central Europe would be completely destroyed, and uninhabitable.
This man is celebrated in the West. Let that sink in.
Dresden-style firebombings were the ghoulish consolation.
https://youtu.be/iOeD-28VHpY?si=Hpg6zFx9YRXie4_d
FDR was better at hiding it, but the Morgentau Plan demonstrates his equivalency as a villain.
The only reason these men were restrained from unleashing higher levels of unseen horror was they had to cope with large, Christian populations who had to be duped to go to wars in the first place.
Russia was the same, and so the communists murdered 60 million Russians Christians, and other primarily Siberian/TataUralic groups.
I’d say that explains Russia’s demeanor on its own—never mind the fact that all of these events are related and that the Soviets were coddled by the US/UK hydra from day one.
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Distrusting the West is a wholly rational approach to geopolitics for any nation, coming from an American—one who values the freedom and loathes the indignity borne from it.
And frankly, Russia may not justified in their attack on Ukraine per se, but how could any rational person blame them for feeling threatened when NATO makes every move a psychopathic hydra would make, if it wanted to destroy you, and have the world smile at the sight? The answer? They couldn’t.
Hypocrisy seems to be the new(?) religion in the West as well, as the blood of (hundreds) millions of Natives still dries, and lays juxtaposed in time beside tens of millions of (German civilians in Dresden?—cough) Serbian, Vietnamese, Korean, Laotian, Cambodia, Nicaraguan, Panamanian, Iraqi, Lebanese, Afghan, Somali, Pakistani, Libyan etc etc etc etc etc civilians. I won’t even mention Israel because that’d be punching down.
And for the record, I’m no fan of most of these countries, I have no special reason to care about them besides my adherence to humanitarianism, and if not that, every people’s God-given right to self-determination.
If any one wants to face the facts, allow me to say it plainly. The steroids clone of the UK..I mean the United States, while also paradoxically doing lots of good and having the soundest possible government structure by mortals ever conceived, continues to both carry out, and get away with, static crimes against humanity on a daily basis. The USG was the original discoverer and administer of eugenics. Elements of our wildly unregulated, untouched ruler / donor caste have financed or orchestrated every war in your lifetime, and many before..
Wonder what thread, may tie this quilt of dread
Why? …why?
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FDR was a little shit psychopath like Ol’ Himmler with big big ideas—except he had 10x maybe 100x resources—he did everything he could to get the Morgenthau Plan into action, a truly NKVD-level eugenics-themed policy which would have exterminated endless Germans, erasing the idea of the German nationality altogether through concentration camps and “reconditioning.” We’re talking 100% of the German population that was allowed to live (30-50%).
It’s quite insane that the Soviet Union was offered lend lease free of charge while democratic Britain during its lend lease was bled dry and coerced to giving up its empire entirely (which however unjust, had been won by right of conquest) through the machinations of this wise “anti-imperialist” who oversaw the United States as it financially cannibalized the British Empire and Europe, and as the OSS/CIA got to work interfering with other countries elections, and everything else. He got the b-b-ba-ball rollin’
———-
So…. How in bed together are these pieces
https://youtu.be/xv5s_VEmZd0?si=9oimGdYJ6NyXDVSS
You tell me
At the end of the day facts are facts.
The Israelites of the Bible are everyone west of the Tarim Basin’s spiritual and intellectual fathers. All of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. They might’ve been black..we’ll just brush past that part because you’ll all be realizing it soon, that a lot “Black” History has been erased.
I assume the 10-15% (increasing) of modern Jews that are not bought into Zionism are the most courageous, devout people on Earth.
Because Zionism.. is the actual source of… everything. Let’s just spitball.
….. ……..
Why did the number of Jewish NGOs and public organizations within Germany drop from 400+ to 1 from 1929-1939, with the Zionist Federation of Germany as the sole survivor?
Why was the Nazi party making shady deals with this Zionist cohort and setting select Jews up nice and cozy in British Mandated Palestine, and why is the lead up to German-Jewish tensions with Germany so committed to leaving out this fact—that the Zionists were intimately engaged with the Nazis?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement
Why do we routinely leave out the fact that as many as 150,000 Jews fought for the Wehrmacht?
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/hitlers-jewish-soldiers/
Where were you when Zionist extremists killed over 1,000 Jews for no reason in 1940, off the coast of France?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patria_disaster
Why did Nakam plan to contaminate far reaching water supplies and kill thousands or potentially millions of innocent German civilians just to poison a couple of Waffen-SS colonels in jail?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakam
Why did all of these events happen amidst the completely disregarded and forgotten about US/UK Jewish boycotts on Germany pre-1933 which had little (nothing) to do with Jews being abused as it hadn’t got going yet, and everything to do with the trend Germany was showcasing In freeing itself from economic subservience to Western Banks?
And why do the Zionists have immunity from your “faux-liberal dog whistlers,” who seems capable of labeling everything as “Nazi Nazi Hitler” except… the people who actually are. (I.e. CIA, Israel, everyone attached to these monsters).
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/19150/did-nazis-and-zionists-temporarily-join-forces
^{From this}
”The Nazi agenda always included ridding Germany of its Jews, but it didn't always include mass murder. Prior to 1939, before the outbreak of World War II, the plan was to get Germany's 500,000 Jews to leave voluntarily.”
WAIT HOLD UP
You said…500k? Hmmmmm. How many Jews did Poland have? Wait.. were there even 6mill in Europe at all? Wait.. no there were not. So wait.. that means that a lot of those people kllred in camps could of been.. regular prisoners of war or refugees or both? and wait you’re telling me that there was no official policy of extermination and that the situation was heavily localized with palaces like Auschwitz and Dachau just happening to be run by psychopaths, who coincidently don’t mind having Jewish SS guards so long as they’re Zionists..
Whew.
So, USSR was a big ol’ Jewish revenge against Nazis for an atrocity that hadn’t happened yet?
Trotsky was Jewish. And the Jews in Russia had every reason to revolt against the Tsar and the persecution of pogroms, in theory. So,I’m not even gonna get started on the fact that the Bolsheviks were 50% Jewish, with large segments of Tatars and Siberians, meaning the event in 1917, all the way through 1954 at Stalin’s death was an international endeavor, a hell they planned on exporting worldwide.
Instead we have the USA, my home sweet home, which quietly achieves similar monstrous heights, makes you pay for it, and daily kisses the scrotum of a death cult that took over Jewish society. (And I add, is a never ending hardship on many Jews who are good/great/virtuous/pious/peaceful people—and that tragedy goes ignored because of Zionism’s successfully hoaxing of the last century).
Zionist role in the Holocaust. Needs to be addressed.
Everything.. needs to be addressed
Samson Option lookin more likely every day
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option
Do your worst

"This fellow Roy Johnson should be a wonderful ball player. He is as fast as a streak and as strong as a young bull. He has a wonderful throwing arm and has tremendous power. He has natural ability enough to be a major league star.” -- Lefty O'Doul

Roy Johnson was the less celebrated brother of Hall of Very Good player Bob Johnson, but Roy accomplished something Bob never did: he wore the pinstripes.
At least for a little while, until a snarky comment got him released!
Roy Cleveland Johnson was born on an Indian reservation -- but despite his middle name and his ancestry, never played for the Cleveland Indians.
Johnson was born on February 23, 1903, on his family's farm in Oklahoma Territory, about 35 miles east of Tulsa. (Oklahoma became a state four and a half years later.) According to Native Americans in Sports by C. Richard King, Johnson's mother was "Anna Blanche Downing (or Dirtthrower)", and she was of Cherokee descent.
Roy was one of eight children, four boys and four girls, and sometime during his childhood the family moved from Oklahoma to Tacoma, Washington. There he attended school -- but apparently not high school, as he later said his highest level of education was eighth grade -- and played baseball. He pitched and played outfield, had a tremendous arm, and "could run like a rabbit." Although he threw right-handed, early in life a coach made Roy a left-handed batter to take advantage of his speed.
He played semipro ball throughout Washington and Northern California, getting the attention of a Yankees scout who tried to sign him. Johnson turned him down, wanting to stay closer to home, and in 1926 signed with the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League. (With better weather, easier travel, and competitive salaries, there were many in those days who preferred staying on the West Coast even if it meant not playing in the Show.)
The Seals had three future major leaguers in the outfield in 1928: Johnson, future Hall of Famer Earl Averill, and the memorably named Smead Jolley. The Los Angeles Times deemed Johnson to be "the greatest prospect of the three." That year, Johnson hit .360 with 22 home runs in 650 at-bats, and sure enough the majors came calling again.
At the time the Pacific Coast League was like the Japanese League is nowadays, almost but not quite a third major league, and the leagues honored each other's contracts. So to get a player from the PCL, you had to make a deal with his club. In 1929, the Detroit Tigers paid $75,000 to the Seals to acquire Johnson's contract. It was one of the largest purchase prices in PCL history. Six years later, the Yankees would acquire Joe DiMaggio from the same team for $50,000 and the rights to five players -- though Johnson's salary was just $4,500, compared to $8,500 for Joe D.
Roy was an immediate success in Detroit, hitting .314/.379/.475 (118 OPS+, 3.4 bWAR) as a rookie and leading the league in at-bats and doubles. Had there been a Rookie of the Year Award back then, surely he would have been in the running -- though he likely would have lost out to Averill, his former Seals teammate, who hit .332/.398/.538 with 43 doubles and 18 home runs in 597 at-bats (4.4 bWAR) in his debut that season with the Cleveland Indians.
In three and a half seasons in Detroit, Roy hit a solid .287/.355/.438 (102 OPS+), and, showing off his strong arm, led the league in outfield assists twice and in outfield double plays once. But as good as Roy was, the Tigers struggled to reach .500 each season.
In 1932, Roy got off to a slow start, hitting .251/.324/.390 (81 OPS+) through the first two months of the season. The Tigers traded him and first baseman Dale Alexander to the (trigger warning) Red Sox for veteran outfielder Earl Webb.
The trade worked out great for Johnson, who responded by hitting .298/.378/.484 over the rest of the year. Overall, in three and a half seasons with the Red Sox, he hit .313/.386/.458 (117 OPS+).
But once again, Johnson's numbers couldn't help the Red Sox, who only finished above .500 once -- 78-75 -- in his time in Boston. Perhaps hoping for a big name to draw in fans, prior to the 1936 season the Red Sox traded Johnson to the Washington Senators for the 34-year-old Heinie Manush, a future Hall of Famer who had been a star player with the Tigers and Browns. (He also had been roommates with Red Sox manager Joe Cronin when both were players for the Senators.)
But Johnson never suited up for Washington. A month after the deal, he was swapped to the New York Yankees along with pitcher Bump Hadley for pitcher Jimmie DeShong and outfielder Jesse Hill.
Since his major league debut in 1929, Roy had played for losing teams, but he'd been an everyday player, averaging 141 games and 620 plate appearances a season; with the Yankees, he was finally on a winner, but buried on the depth chart behind Joe DiMaggio, George "Twinkletoes" Selkirk, Jake Powell, and previously forgotten Yankee Myril Hoag.
Johnson had just 147 at-bats with the Yankees in 1936, and more than half of them came in the first three weeks of the season, as DiMaggio's major league debut had been delayed by a foot injury. When the Yankee Clipper finally had his first at-bat on May 3, Roy -- despite hitting .306/.403/.419 -- was on the bench. He wouldn't get another start until July 31. Seeing limited duty as a pinch hitter and defensive replacement, he was hitting just .226/.318/.323 by the end of August. He went 9-for-14 in September to raise his final line to a more respectable .265/.361/.367, but it was a disappointing season for the veteran outfielder.
Deemed a "hot head" as far back as his semipro days, Roy later grumbled about his lack of playing time to the New York World-Telegram and “was not one bit backward in expressing his chagrin over having been traded by the Red Sox.” Not exactly how you want to endear yourself to Yankee fans! Alas, it wasn't the last time Roy's mouth would get him into trouble.
At least he'd finally made the post-season for the first time in his career. But as befitting the kind of season it was for Roy, he didn't get a start in the World Series against the New York Giants. He was used as a pinch runner for Red Ruffing in Game 3, but was stranded at second base and replaced the following inning by pitcher Pat Malone. In Game 4, with the score tied 4-4 in the bottom of the sixth and a runner on first base, he struck out as a pinch hitter, again for Ruffing, and again was replaced after the inning by Malone. (The Yankees won the series in six games.)
In 1937, it looked like Johnson would finally get the chance to contribute as he opened the season in the Yankee lineup, platooning in left field with Hoag. Through his first 12 games, he was hitting a solid .294, though with just a .353 slugging percentage (three doubles).
But once again, the "hot head" got himself into trouble. According to Joe McCarthy: Architect of the Yankee Dynasty (2005) by Alan H. Levy, McCarthy was in a foul mood after the Yankees dropped four games in a row to fall to 8-7 on the season. The fourth loss was particularly galling, a 2-1 defeat to the woeful White Sox in which the Yankees made a first inning error to allow an unearned run.

After the fourth loss, McCarthy walked into the clubhouse in Chicago in a very crusty mood. There he overheard outfielder Roy Johnson complaining to a teammate: "What, does McCarthy expect us to win every game?" McCarthy detested any sort of complacency. He liked that fact that he had to tell Red Ruffing to slow down in the hustling way he chased down fly balls during outfield practice. But he would not stand for such a mediocrity-inducing attitude as Johnson's. Within 24 hours, Roy Johnson had been sold to the Boston Bees. "I don't care who you get," McCarthy fumed to Ed Barrow. "Just get him out of here." (Barrow only got the waiver price for Johnson.)

Johnson was replaced on the roster by a 24-year-old left-handed hitting outfielder named Tommy Henrich who had hit .346/.411/.560 the previous year while in the minor leagues with the Cleveland Indians. "Ol' Reliable" would play for the Yankees until 1950, hitting .282/.382/.491 (132 OPS+) for 39.5 bWAR despite missing three seasons due to World War II, and winning six World Series rings!
As for Johnson, he went to the Boston Bees -- as the Braves were known that season -- and hit .277/.369/.365 playing nearly every day as their left fielder. Once again he was playing every day, but for a bad team.
The following year, the Boston Globe reported Johnson had arrived at spring training in excellent shape, and he had an outstanding spring training -- despite getting hit in the eye by a badminton shuttlecock, an injury severe enough it put him in the hospital for four days.
After getting off to a 5-for-29 (.172) start, the Bees sold his contract to the minor league Milwaukee Brewers. Johnson was reportedly "disconsolate" and considered quitting instead, but ultimately played that and three more seasons in the minors. During World War II, Johnson worked at the San Diego Naval Shipyard. He played his final two years of pro ball with the Seattle Rainiers in the Pacific Coast League, retiring after the 1945 season at the age of 42.
After baseball, Roy's life was tough. After getting divorced, and having two children die young, Roy in his final years lived alone in "an old shack," drank heavily, and could no longer work. His brother, Bob, supported him as best he could. Roy died September 10, 1973, at age 70. The cause of death listed on the death certificate was "Chronic Alcoholism."
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• Roy and his little brother, Bob, had kind of a Peyton and Eli thing going on, ragging on each other through the press. Bob was married and working as a firefighter in California when he heard that Roy had signed with the Tigers. "I’d probably be chief of my company by now if that brother of mine, Roy, hadn’t kidded himself that he was a ball player," Bob said in 1931. "I was always better than Roy. When he stuck with Detroit, I knew I was good enough for the big leagues. That’s why I’m here." Two years later, Bob said: “By all the gods of the Cherokee, if Brother Roy can get away with it in the big leagues, so can I.”
  
• As seen above, both Bob and Roy liked to play up the "Indian" angle, to an extent. In the press, one was "Indian Bob" and the other "Cherokee Roy". Reporter John Drohan once engaged Roy in a conversation in broken English, greeting him by holding up his palm and saying "How." He then asked: “How many base hits you ketchum today?” Roy jokingly responded: "Injun no know, but him keep swingin’ just the same. He like white man pitcher, but if white man pitcher get ‘um mad, just too bad. Injun know you can’t get ’em hit with tomahawk on shoulder. But if Injun swing ’em, ketchum base hit." After a few more minutes, however, Roy told Drohan: "Cut it out, you’ll have me talking that way permanently."
  
• The April 1, 1937, issue of The Sporting News reported Johnson had a good spring training game against the Boston Braves, with two singles, a triple, and a home run. The performance was "much to the delight of Colonel Ruppert, who said that never before had it been his luck to be present at a game in which the Chief had made a hit."
  
• Later in his career, Bob -- who once boasted "me, through whose veins the blood of the Cherokee warriors flowed" -- downplayed his Native American ancestry, saying his mother was not half Cherokee as he had always claimed, but 1/16th, making himself 1/32nd.
  
• Reporters apparently assumed the father of the Johnson boys was of Swedish descent; newspapers referred to Roy as "the Swedish Indian," "the Scandinavian Cherokee," and "the Cherokee-Swede," and Bob was once called "a big-footed Swede" after looking clumsy in the outfield. ("If I knew that writer’s house were burning," the former firefighter said, "I would have let it burn.") But on a questionnaire, Roy listed his ancestry as “Scotch, French, Cherokee Indian quarter breed.”
  
• Bob liked to tease Roy about how much better a ball player he was... and he was right. Roy played 10 seasons and had a 108 OPS+ and 17.3 bWAR... Bob Johnson played 13 years, most of them with the Philadelphia A's, and was an eight-time All-Star. He hit .296/.393/.506 (139 OPS+) with 396 doubles, 288 home runs, and 1,283 RBIs. His career OPS+ ranks 95th all time, and his 55.5 bWAR is tied for 153rd all time, five spots ahead of Hall of Famer David Ortiz, who did steroids.
  
• In 1929, Roy set the Detroit Tigers franchise records for most runs by a rookie (128) and most doubles by a rookie (45).
  
• The trade that landed Johnson on the Yankees was a good one, but not because of Roy. The other guy in the deal, 31-year-old pitcher Bump Hadley -- a previously forgotten Yankee -- went 49-31 with a 4.28 ERA (104 ERA+) in 753.1 innings with the Yankees and won four World Series rings!
  
• The two guys the Yankees gave up, pitcher Jimmie DeShong and outfielder Jesse Hill, were worth a total of 1.0 bWAR for the Senators; for the Yankees, Bump was worth 4.9; Roy was exactly replacement level, 0.0.
  
• Roy wore #1 his first year with the Yankees. He was the third #1 in Yankee history, after Earle Combs and George Selkirk. But he gave up Numero Uno for Frankie Crosetti, who had been wearing #5 but it was given to Joe DiMaggio (who initially wore #9). Crosetti later wore #2, and kept wearing it as a Yankee coach; it was his from 1945 to 1968! After #1, Roy switched to #22. When he was released, his roster spot -- and his jersey number -- were given to Tommy Henrich. Ol' Reliable kept #22 just that one year, and later wore #17, #7, and #15.
  
• Roy played on the Yankees with Joe DiMaggio and on the Braves with Vince DiMaggio, but he was on the Red Sox five years too early to complete the set and play with Dom DiMaggio.
  
• Of course you know the best Oklahoman in Yankee history is Mickey Mantle, followed by Bobby Murcer and previously forgotten Yankee Lindy McDaniel. There's also Allie Reynolds and Ralph Terry.
  
• Johnson was inducted into the Tacoma-Pierce County Hall of Fame in 1960 and posthumously into the State of Washington Sports Hall of Fame in 1978.
  

Happy birthday Roy!

I’m a dynasty / franchise guy exclusively in all sports games and this is the best feature in any sports game right now. If you’re unaware 2k now let’s you start a dynasty from 4 different eras, the Magic/Byrd era, Jordan, The Kobe era, and modern. This Woukd be perfect for the show. You don’t have to go crazy, we don’t need OOTP level historical replay, but maybe let us start up a steroid era save around the turn of the century, maybe a 70s small ball era start, maybe an integration era as well.
Let the community supplement the rosters if needed. And make sure potential varies a bit. I’d love to see a save where maybe Bonds never quite pans out and Mark McGuire is the home run champ or something.

The extraordinary thing about the last repeat world champions is that there’s really not any monster individual performances. For example, there was only one 30-home run season during those three seasons at the height of the steroids era. There were a lot of good steady well-rounded performances. And the Yankees rolled through most of their playoff series.
So this question occurred to me, which player or players were really so essential that had the Yankees not had them, they would not have had this dynasty?

Well.... What a hell of a journey this has been. Still is really. Growing up I was told fables about my ancestry. What where those myths? Primarily that I had allot of Native through my dad's dad. Specifically Hopi. Given the fact that my dad was adopted, I had no way to track this guy down and make my own conclusions. In other words, I had no other choice but to take what I was being told at face value. I was told to be proud of it, as one should be, but ever since home DNA kits are available, I got one. Well, my husband bought two tests from Ancestry.com. He didn't have as many questions about his family as I did. Once the tests arrived in the mail, we both gave our saliva samples and sent them out the together. Then we waited. A few weeks later, my husbands results came back and nothing he saw was out of sorts. But where was mine? We sent everything out together at the same time. Was mine lost?
The week I waited for my test to come back was excruciating. I thought that I was never meant to find out where I come from, I'll never find out who my fathers parents are, I'll never find out what kind of people my birth mother came from. I was losing hope. But then, finally, my results came in. Now, my cataracts were becoming a problem. My vision was going because of the steroids needed to fight covid. They had graduated from being a mild nuisance to hazy block colors. The details were disappearing. Reading was only possible by taking screenshots of my phone, blowing up the picture and reading everything one letter at a time. Tedious AF! But it worked... for a time. And the timing was awful! I had just got my DNA results and now I can't clearly see what I've been looking for my whole life. Despite my disability, I was able to find familiar names from the family trees my DNA matches had created. I come from a fertile bunch on my birth mothers side. Cousins for days!
Soon enough I would undergo cataract surgery, which meant that I could gather more information and finally start a dialog with genetic relatives. Hopefully. So far, there have been no replies, but here's hoping. Ancestry would eventually disappoint by way of wanting a membership fee. I cannot afford a membership fee for anything. I saw that roadblock and stared to google other DNA sites, leading me to mytrueancestry.com and genomelink.com. They want membership fees too, but the majority of the information on these sites is free. Sold!
Once I downloaded my raw DNA file from ancestry, I uploaded it to MTA and genome, and waited to see what they had to say. I was blown away in every way. Now, on Ancestry, I had seen Sir, Lord, Lady so-and-so of France, giving me clues to nobility in my genetic background. Well, MTA would find allot of nobility in my genes. Not only did MTA narrow down that I have Celtic roots, but also that I come from a long line of high status people, including Andrew I of Hungry. Prince Andras of the Arpad Dynasty. I grew up thinking I came from middle class white trash, but I would learn that I have ancient noble roots. I have something to be proud of, I have something to live up to that's really, genuinely mine. I have a ton of research to do, but eventually I would find that I have another relation that goes further back in the same area. She is labeled as "High Status female" by the archeologists who found her burial site in modern Hungry. She dates back to the seventh century! Fortunately, information on these two ancestors are easy to come by such as academic papers and Wikipedia. Andras more so than my High Status ancient nanna. Either way, I have allot of reading to do ahead of me and I could not be more excited.
If you want to help me on my journey to find my roots, follow my linktree in my bio. Follow me all over.

Welcome back, kindred spirits!
I'm so excited to start the New Year with you in our first discussion of Anne of Windy Poplars, and to be helping out as a Read Runner for the first time! Today we will be discussing The 1st Year - Chapters 1 to 12. The Marginalia post is found here.
You can find the schedule here. Next week, u/Pythias will lead the discussion for 1st Year Chapter 13 - 2nd Year Chapter 8, followed by the conclusion of the book with u/Liath-Luachra the week after that.
Below is a recap of this week's chapters. Enjoy the discussion below! Please mark spoilers not related to this week's chapters using the format > ! Spoiler text here !< (without any spaces between the characters themselves or between the characters and the first and last words).
Background: This the fourth novel in the Anne series if you go chronologically by Anne's life, but it was the seventh book written by L. M. Montgomery. She wanted to call it Anne of Windy Willows but her publisher thought that was too similar to The Wind in the Willows. The book takes place from 1887-1890, starting when Anne is 22 years old. It is set in Summerside, PEI which is a seaside town that was incorporated in 1877, which was just 10 years before the book takes place. It has a history of ship-building and is today the second-largest city in PEI. The real life Summerside had about 2,000 citizens in the 1880's (compared to about 8,000 in Charlottetown, PEI's capital, and just a few hundred people in rural communities like Avonlea back then).
Summaries - The First Year:

• Chapter 1 - Anne writes a letter to Gilbert (her *dearest*!) with news of her new posting as principal of Summerside High. She's moving up in the world! After some difficulty finding a place to board, Anne has success by following the copious tips provided by a friend of Mrs. Lynde's: she settles in at Windy Poplars, the home of two widows - Aunts Kathy & Chatty - on Spook's Lane. Rebecca Dew, their housekeeper and cow-milker extraordinaire, seems to be the one in charge, although the aunts insist they manage her. We also get an ominous hint about the Pringle family, who seem to run/own the town and who did *not* want Anne to get the principal job.
• Chapter 2 - Here we discover that the Pringles, those Pyes-on-steroids, do in fact run the town and do in fact hate Anne before they even meet her. They all use dinner invites and letters to tell her she is a little too young, a lot too female, and 100% not Pringle (among other complaints). The Pringle pupils are giving Anne a hard time, playing pranks and refusing to do work, while their parents make excuses and accuse Anne of malpractice. There is even a rumor going around that Anne is a foundling. As Anne says, “You can't reason with prejudice.” Her fantasy revenges range from the mild (forcing them to reveal a family-secret cake recipe) to the criminal (locking up a student on bread-and-water rations or giving the entire clan poisoned beer ala the Borgias. Dark! But at least she loves many of her non-Pringle students, gets on very well with the Windy Poplars ladies, and gets acquainted with the motherless Little Elizabeth. Several pages of letters are censored due to steamy, romantic content - how scandalous! Also Anne thinks Aunt Chatty's grandma's love letters are romantic because they are addressed to “Honored and Respected Sir” and signed “Your Obedient Servant”. Way to fight the patriarchy, Anne!
• Chapter 3 - Anne gets called up to the Big Leagues (I am not a sports fan, but I am told this is a baseball reference): she gets an invite to visit the most important Pringles, Sarah & Ellen, the daughters of family patriarch Captain Abraham! They show her tons of family daguerreotypes and a truly appalling item called a hair-wreath, made of the hair of all the Pringles who ever lived… gross! The house is magnificent and, Anne being Anne, she finds the matriarchs interesting and empathizes with them even though she gets a cold reception. Back at Windy Poplars, she brings Little Elizabeth her milk every day and they chat across the gate while being spied on by Elizabeth's great-grandmother and “The Woman”, who both care for and scare the crap out of Elizabeth, while her absentee father ignores her existence.
• Chapter 4 - Anne is not invited to the big Pringle dance. She struggles on with the Pringle students, which keeps her so busy she has little time for writing fiction. Also, Rebecca Dew keeps ruining her pens by using them to copy recipes, which limits her romantic letter-writing. The main conflict in this chapter is all the pumpkin preserves (P. P. for short - does she hear herself?!) that are forced on Anne at dinners after she praised them once, to the point that she must bury the leftovers at night! She misses Gilbert terribly, but Christmas break is getting close!
• Chapter 5 - The war between Anne and the Pringles has reached a tipping point. Anne has the students put on a play about Mary Queen of Scots and Jen Pringle has the title role. On the day of the performance, Jen's family announces she has tonsillitis which Anne just knows is a lie to take her down. Luckily, Anne has secretly been rehearsing a non-Pringle, Sophy Sinclair, as understudy and the play goes on as planned. Everyone is amazed at Sophy's transformation (which foreshadows her eventual fame as an actress) and Anne enjoys having bested the Pringles… at least until Jen uses a class assignment to blantantly insult her. Anne suspends Jen until she apologizes, and she is sure this will lead to her dismissal. Later, while strolling through the graveyard, Anne meets Miss Valentine (not a Pringle) who reassures Anne that not everyone in the town is against her, and some are rooting for her to topple those tyrants. She also gives Anne all the good gossip on the dead Pringles including refusing heaven to avoid a sister, eating an ugly hat, potential spousal poisoning, and other scandals. We discover that Abraham Pringle's monument cost $900, which would be about $24,000 in today's money! WOW!
• Chapter 6 - Anne writes to Gilbert about the graveyard visit and considers the relationship between love and hate, unable to believe a couple could truly hate each other for 50 years. Elizabeth keeps coming for milk and wishing for her father and Tomorrow, a time she fantasizes will be perfect when it arrives. Rebecca Dew keeps fighting with the cat, who falls down on the job of keeping away mice. Anne laments that geometry and her fear of being unable to solve a problem in class have stifled her literary ambitions.
• Chapter 7 - Anne is invited to a turkey dinner at the house of a beloved student. While visiting, she discovers an old diary of a Pringle cousin who sailed with Captain Abraham, the Pringle patriarch. The diary reveals many fine details of time with the Captain, as well as the scandalous story that the crew once survived by resorting to cannibalism. Anne debates whether or not to share the diary with Sarah and Ellen, since she thought they would enjoy most of it and knew how proud they were of their father. When she does send it, the Pringles think she is trying to blackmail them and agree to do whatever she wants: Jen will apologize, all the complaints and mistreatment will end, and even the cake recipe will be turned over! Anne explains her good intentions, and peace is made, with the Pringles keeping their word to be on Team Anne from now on (just in case she ever were to tell others about the cannibal of the family). Anne is respected by her pupils and given invitations to all the social events of the town, with everyone amazed at her victory.
• Chapter 8 - The Pringle truce is holding, Anne tells Gilbert in her next letter, and her social life improves as a result. She is starting to like the family as she knew she would, Anne being the kind and positive force of nature we've all come to adore. Apparently the Pringles now agree! Anne braves Mrs. Campbell and The Woman, and gets permission to take Elizabeth for a short walk. Between the walk and the kiss she gets from Anne, this is just about the best day of Little Elizabeth's life. She and Anne take in the sunset and have a very imaginative discussion of Tomorrow and clouds and sunset lands, which reminds Anne of her former pupil and semi-orphan, Paul (whom Elizabeth is pretty nearly a direct copy of). Elizabeth admits that she knows she is not loved by her guardians, and Anne promises to kiss her every day, since The Woman scrubs her kisses off. What a dismal childhood that girl has!
• Chapter 9 - Anne is invited to dinner at the home of her friend, Trix Taylor, to help make the evening a success. Trix wants Anne to attend because she is the only one smart enough to talk to their guest, Dr. Lennox Carter, a Redmond professor who the family hopes will propose to Trix's sister Esme. Additionally, Anne will be a good influence on Trix's father, Cyrus, who is a real piece of work. He is the kind of guy that sulks and intimidates his family for offenses such as putting his pajamas in the wrong drawer or wearing the wrong color dress at dinner. This is apparently better than other men in the Taylor family who like to mock & verbally abuse their spouses. Trix attributes this temperament to Pringle blood which, typical. Anne agrees to attend because she is a saint and because she feels Mr. Taylor may be misunderstood. (Really?)
• Chapter 10 - Friends, I do not know what to make of this chapter. The dreaded Taylor dinner begins and Mr. Cyrus Taylor is having a sulking fit because he lost a game of checkers and as Anne says, he is a nursery-rhyme-level brat. He won't speak to anyone at dinner, not even to greet Dr. Carter or say grace. Everyone is paralyzed with fear and even talkative Anne can't keep up a conversation. To break the spell, she asks Dr. Carter if he had heard Mr. Taylor had gone deaf (careful not to say he really *was* deaf). This strategy is picked up by Trix and Pringle (yes, they named their son Pringle; confusing, right?). They follow up with a series of ever-wilder statements that all begin “What would you think of a man who *insert ridiculous action*”, phrased for plausible deniability. Cyrus sits and takes it for a while but when his wife announces he took up crocheting when he had lumbago, he loses it! He yells until his wife (calling him Poppa, *gags*) apologizes and assures everyone he is the best provider ever. Then, he starts laughing about Anne having bested him by getting him to talk, and he is perfectly pleasant for the rest of the evening and for days after. Anne declares Cyrus a better father than Trix deserves - what?!? So I guess it's all okay...
• Chapter 11 - Esme gets engaged to Dr. Carter after all, and Trix attributes it to Anne's help at dinner. Anne writes to Gilbert about how well she is getting along with all the Pringles, even Jen.She also recounts her time with Elizabeth drawing maps of fairyland with its many happy time zones (such as new moon time, mountain time, and half-past-kissing time). Anne has discovered that all the ladies of Windy Poplars, even Rebecca Dew, engage in buttermilking to improve their complexions but wish to keep it secret for fear of being considered vain. Elizabeth is eager to try this beauty regimen herself. Rebecca Dew thinks Anne might not be the best influence on Elizabeth because she encourages her silly imaginative tendencies, but honestly that child needs some escape from the house of doom and gloom she lives in.
• Chapter 12 - Anne tells Gilbert about her visits to friends of Marilla's, Pauline Gibson and her difficult mother. Pauline is a lovely, patient woman but Mrs. Gibson is a wheelchair-bound, 80-year-old misery. Mrs. Gibson doesn't let Pauline do anything without her consent and manipulates her to doing everything Mrs. Gibson wants. So when Pauline wants to go for just one day to a silver wedding celebration, but Mrs. Gibson forbids it, Anne determines to make it happen for Pauline. Anne inserts fantastic responses to Mrs. Gibson's opinions on collarless dresses being indecent (“Item - I was wearing a collarless dress.”) and on men kissing their wives in inappropriate places (“Are you sure you kiss me in suitable places, Gilbert? I'm afraid Mrs. Gibson would think the nape of the neck, for instance, most unsuitable.”) Anne also updates Gilbert on Esme's recent marriage and Anne's friend Sally's engagement, who has asked Anne to be a bridesmaid! Also, the cow had a calf. I am sure Gilbert is riveted.

Now, let's pop open a can of Pringles (sorry, had to) and get down to discussion! Edited: formatting

im hearing the siakam to the pacers rumour and oh god jarace walker would be an a-m-a-z-i-n-g fit to this raptors team. i extensively scouted the class of 2023 because i had like 6 picks in my fantasy dynasty league (lol) and my personal favourite was jarace so let me report.

1. he is a tank, defensively think of him (physically) as a draymond on steroids can pretty much guard 1-5 by switching or as a help defender. 2.01 broad shoulders fast as fuck can blow-by big guys and outmuscle smaller.
2. he plays smart is unshelfish and a LEGIT great passer, just check out highlights. will have great a/to ratio.
3. he is a passable shooter (mid 30%s 3 on low volume type) with potential to be actually good.

100% certain he will be the super valuable archetype of 1 threepointer 1steal 1block with mid scoring and rebound and great efficiency in scoring and a/to ratio.
also as a fit he will have the super important role bobby portis has with the bucks. with the superstar being a ball dominant 4 (giannis-scottie), jarace will give 30ish super high intensity minutes by either playing at the 5 in a smallball situation or coming from the bench at the 4.
the pacers are crazy for not investing in him as he is an amazing fit to a haliburton-led team as well but oh well. forget about mathurin or anyone else, jarace is the guy in this potential trade!!!

Ah, Boston. You may know this town as the modern-day megalodon of professional sports. The Celtics and Patriots having the most championships in their respective sports, the Bruins winning a championship a decade ago, and the Red Sox beating the curse four times over (oh we’ll get to Fenway), Boston is a championship city. But there is one sport that Boston overlooks: college football. Sure, Harvard has a shit ton of championships from many years ago, but they’re not FBS anymore. Not to discredit the city of Boston, I mean they have some of the highest academic standards in the world (Harvard, MIT, etc.). While every Northeast team not named Penn State or Syracuse fell into obscurity, Boston College stayed in the FBS. I think we should remind those chowder-loving bastards why college football is not their specialty. Especially since I'm a (former) New Yorker.
1893
Two undergrads, future Congressman Joseph O’Connell and Joseph Drum would form a varsity team in 1893, with Drum being head coach. In their first season, they went 3-3, beaten out by MIT and two nearby high schools. Did I mention your Running Back, James Carlin, would go on to become president of Holy Cross?
1894-1919
You spend most of your early years in mediocrity while Harvard racks up their trophy case. You played at the old Alumni Stadium with occasional games at Fenway and Braves Field.
1920
Last year, you also introduced your first long-time head coach, Frank Cavanaugh. In his second season, your team went undefeated 8-0 with a signature win over Yale and holding all opponents to 16 points all season. Unfortunately, no one gives a shit about you. Harvard gets a co-national championship honor despite having a tie in that season.
1926
Make that another season where you went undefeated with him. Two ties from Holy Cross and Haskell would give Lafayette a retroactive championship. Cavanaugh would leave and go to Fordham the next year.
1927
Turns out you will be evicted from Braves Field. Back to Fenway.
1928
Joe McKenney arrives with an undefeated 9-0 record. NOW can we have a national championship? *buzzer*. So they gave it to USC and G Tech instead. Yeah, this is why not being in a conference sucks.
1933
McKenney’s other most notable year was 1933, when BC would go 8-1 with a loss to Fordham.
1936-38
The Eagles would try their hand at transcendent Cornell head coach, Gil Dobbie. Two 6-1-2 records in three seasons and he calls it quits.
1939
Those Fordham suckers. They just let their longtime Linebacker coach Frank Leahy fall into our laps. Our team shows immediate improvement. A 9-1 record would get us to our first bowl game.
1939 Cotton Bowl
Future rival Clemson outlasts you in a defensive battle in Dallas.
1940
Our full potential is realized. Yet ANOTHER undefeated season with massive wins over ranked Georgetown and Tennessee in the Sugar Bowl. They have to be champions at this point, right? *buzzer*. We are #5?! I know Minnesota was a dynasty back then, but why not us?! They didn’t even play in a bowl game! Fuck it, let’s self-claim the natty. Auburn should do that sometime when they stake their claim for 2004. Still, as long as Leahy stays with us, we’ll be fine. After all, he just signed a contract extension.
1941 Offseason
Turns out he walked back his contract thanks to the Boston mayor and Massachusetts Governor and now he’s coaching Notre Dame. All things considered, it was the equivalent to the Boston Tea Party.
1941
Denny Myers would have big shoes to fill. Tulane and Clemson knock you out early and Tennessee would get revenge. You go 7-3.
1942
The country has gone to war, but our team has still kept together. With us shutting out our rival Terriers, we would enter our last game as #1. This is our chance to prove our legitimacy. Hell, we booked our victory dinner at Cocoanut Grove before the game even started. No turning back.
1942 BC vs Holy Cross
You got blown the fuck out at home?! What the fuck, Eagles?! This was probably the worst upset of all time! Now you have to cancel your victory dinner and the mayor will not go, either.
That Night…
Who would’ve thought the Football Gods made the right call? Turns out Cocoanut Grove burned down and killed 500 people on that particular night.
1942 Orange Bowl
Instead of getting literally immortalized, you get pelted with oranges by Bama. Cruel fate, either way.
1943-45
Denny Myers has left for war. Moody Sarno would lead the program which had literally no opponents besides Harvard. Also, you wonder why BC never played Harvard? It’s because they tied and lost in 43 and 44 respectively; BC’s all-time record against the Crimson was 0-3-1.
1946-1950
Myers comes back from war. You stumble back into mediocrity. A winless record in 1950 had him fired at the end of the season. Oh yeah, that Leahy guy that we had for two years had arguably one of the greatest dynasties in all of college football with the Irish.
Late 40s-Mid 50s
Welp, Fenway has now evicted us. Back to Braves Field. In the meantime, McKenney comes back and orders a new Alumni Stadium on campus. It will be ready in a decade.
1951
Our former fullback, Mike Holovak, comes back to his alma mater after a subpar NFL stint. In his first year, you lost 6 of your first 7 games, mainly against Southern opponents.
1954
Took you a decade, but you are back to being a good team. 5-0 start and… really? Losing to an Xavier team that had a 12-game losing streak?! And that was your only loss. Fucking hell!
September 21st, 1957
A new era of BC Football begins. The new Alumni Stadium is complete. It is indeed a new era. Getting blown out in your grand opening to a ranked Navy team.
1957
Still, you won seven straight going into your game against Holy Cross.
BC vs Holy Cross 1957
In which you get shut out. You set records by having eight fumbles in the game. What the fuck is ball security?
1958-59
Two good but not good enough seasons later and Holovak would take the pro football job with the Patriots. Two could play this game, you know. Let’s snag Ernie Hefferle from the Deadskins.
1960-1961
In his tenure of two years, you feed off the rats.
1962
Your next coach would be Jim Miller from the sinking titanic known as Detroit. Speaking of them, you shut out his former team in the very first game. You impress with an 8-2 record. Still not enough for a bowl game, though. This is why you don’t lose to Syracuse and Navy.
1963-67
Wouldn’t you guess it? More mediocrity. And Jim Miller resigned after two 4-6 seasons.
1968-69
You hire Jim Yukica. Close out the 60s with more mediocrity. At least you’re getting better.
1970
8-2 record with your only losses to ranked Penn State and Air Force. Not bad. Should be enough for a bowl game, right? *buzzer*. Of course. Strength of schedule is almost non-existent for Independents.
1971
You topped your record from last year with one more win. Now is it enough? *buzzer*. Should’ve known. Houston and Notre Dame jump you because of strength of schedule.
1972
No arguments this year. That’s because you didn’t even make it to .500. You wanted strength of schedule, you got it.
1973
Rebound with a 7-4 record. You know, if you want to get to a bowl game, why don’t you stop losing to a 2-9 Syracuse?
1974
You are back to punching in your weight class. 8-3 record. No excuses this time as all your losses are from good teams. NOW are they invited? *buzzer* The fact that rejection was the feeling you got when you didn’t get a national championship, this is the same feeling here.
1975
Mike Kruczek would have an MVP-caliber year under center. Despite this, you are once again shuffled out. You go 7-4
1976 Texas vs BC
THERE we go. An upset win over Texas to start the season. And you’re FINALLY back in the polls. Bowl game here we come!
1976
Spoke a tad bit soon. Florida State, Villanova, and Miami would upset you throughout the season. Not to mention all three teams suck back then. *buzzer* Denied once again. You’re not the only one. Remember that undefeated Rutgers declined a bowl bid that would pit them against McNeese State. It’s the system.
1977
Yukica would leave after a 6-5 season. The fact that this franchise didn’t get to a bowl game with him was astounding.
1978-80
Your new head coach is Ed Chlebek straight out of Eastern Michigan. You went winless in his first year. His three-year reign was an inconsistent one, too. This as Yukica would lead a Dartmouth dynasty in the Ivy League.
1981
Now we have to burn through Jack Bicknell. He’s not gonna be anything. After all, he just came out of lowly Maine.
1982
Well this is a turnaround. 8-2-1. Not to mention the FBS/FCS split allowed more actual competition in the ranks. For the first time in 40 years, you’re going to a bowl game.
Tangerine Bowl 1982
In your grand return, you get curb-stomped by Auburn. At least you had effort in the 4th Quarter.
1983
The Eagles are getting better. West Virginia and Syracuse may have owned you again, but a signature win in Foxborough against Bama would solidify your first ranked finish in 41 years. Oh yeah, that Flutie kid is pretty good, too. Too bad he didn’t win Heisman that year.
1983 Liberty Bowl
But what you did get was an owning session from Notre Dame in the Liberty Bowl.
1984
This is a true contender. Doug Flutie is back with revenge, and so is his younger WR brother Darren. Keep the nepotism coming as Jack Bicknell’s son would play Center. A solid Running Back in Troy Stradford. Not to mention on the defensive side, is a certain John Bosa (yes THAT Bosa) and Bill Romanowski. Another win over Alabama, this time in Birmingham, would kickstart this team. #4 in the country. This HAS to be the year.
1984 BC vs West Virginia
“Pass is away! Gieselmann down field! Can’t get it!”
Brutal. You lose to the Mountaineers again by one point, crushing your hopes and dreams of a national championship. Penn State would seal your coffin, too. Another season done, time to turn the page.
HAIL FLUTIE
“CAUGHT BY BOSTON COLLEGE! I DON’T BELIEVE IT! IT’S A TOUCHDOWN!”
Oh yeah, I forgot that Doug Flutie was HIM back in BC. That play singlehandedly clinched the Heisman for Flutie AND got you to a major bowl game. For the first time in 44 years, you won it. It was the Cotton Bowl over Houston. And just like that 1940 season, you finished 5th in the AP Polls. Fitting.
1985
Too bad all good things must come to an end. With Flutie going to the USFL, you would be left to your own devices. A 4-8 record.
1986
Despite a rocky start, Shawn Halloran would improve a lot and would lead you to 7 straight wins. That’s good enough for another bowl. You won the Hall of Fame Bowl over Georgia.
1987
You become a victim to a stacked Independent scene. Not to mention USC joins in the ass-kicking. A 5-6 season will send off the last players from that magical 1984 team.
1988-90
Bicknell turns out to be a fraud. After three straight seasons dwelling in the basement, he’s exiled to Europe.
1991
Replacing him is this little-known head coach in Tom Coughlin. Also, you finally join a conference: the Big East.
1992
Despite a tie to West Virginia, you are living up to the hype. Future NFL players in Glenn Foley, Pete Kendall, Pete Mitchell, Stephen Boyd, Chris Sullivan, and long-time Broncos center Tom Nalen. No wonder there’s a lot of talent, it’s pro-style after all. You’re back to the Top 10 again.
1992 BC vs Notre Dame
No surprise, Notre Dame makes you into their bitch. Also, Tennessee wasn’t done dealing revenge from 50 years ago, apparently.
1993
After another underwhelming start, you break out 8 straight wins. In a classic, you took down #1 Notre Dame on a game-winning kick, revenge from last year. You’re approaching the Top 10 again.
1993 West Virginia vs BC
Unfortunately, the other team that makes you into their bitch would finish the conference slate undefeated.
1993 Carquest Bowl
After defeating the Cavs, you finish the season 9-3. Too bad your head coach is leaving, first ship to the newly incorporated town of Sacksonville. Fun while it lasted.
1994
Dan Henning would take over. You run through another gauntlet start (Michigan and Virginia Tech) before upsetting Notre Dame again. 7-4-1 with an Aloha Bowl win over Kansas State.
1995-96
Back-to-back sub-.500 seasons. Henning is canned. Let’s give Tom O’Brien a shot.
1999
Took a while to get going, but Boston College is back to being formidable. Sure you lost to a weak-ass Temple, but 8-3 in the regular season is enough for us. Colorado would drop 62 on you in the Insight.com Bowl.
2000
Tim Hasselbeck would take over as starting QB. A step back from last year as the usual suspects of West Virginia, V-Tech, Miami, and Notre Dame lord over you. The good news is that you won a bowl game again. Once again in Hawaii against Arizona State.
2001
7-4 in the regular season. Once again, subpar for the course. Once again, the usual ass-whooping from Miami and V-Tech.
2001 Music City Bowl
At least you get a huge win against the Dawgs, ending a 16 game losing streak against ranked opponents. Would not blame you with how the Big East and Notre Dame would kick your ass every year.
2002
Another year that it par for the course. Miami owns you again but you get a silver lining in upsetting Notre Dame again. Your reward this time is the Motor City Bowl, beating Toledo in that game.
2003
It was a weird year to say the least. Great wins over Penn State, Notre Dame, and V-Tech, but once again not good enough. Or should I say all of the good teams from the Big East are leaving to go to the ACC. It’s only Miami and V-Tech, but that’s about it. Don’t worry, you’re gonna be with them too. Just wait an additional year. Have this San Fransisco Bowl win over Colorado State as consolation.
2004
Since you got the whole place to yourselves, how about you enjoy your only conference championship so far. You shared it with Pitt. Ranked at the end of the season and 9-3 after defeating your future rival UNC in the Continental Tire Bowl.
2005 Florida State vs BC
In your first ACC game, you hosted College Gameday. That’s about it. You pissed away that game against the Seminoles. You were co-division champions, but Florida State goes to Charlotte because of tiebreaker.
2005
V-Tech adapted better to their new digs. Follow that up with UNC getting revenge. Overall a 9-3 season. Once again good but not good enough.
2006
This stagnation is actually pissing me off. 3-1 in ranked games and yet you shit the bed against a terrible NC State team? Turns out Tim O’Brien saw the writing on the wall and would actually coach that same Wolfpack team for a few more years.
2007
Jeff Jagodzinski would come in with a chip on his shoulder. This whole team is. Last year for Senior QB Matt Ryan with a stud O-Line led by Anthony Castonzo and Gosder Cherilus. The defense led by Mark Herzlich, Jo-Lonn Dunbar, and Jamie Silva. You rise to #2 in the country and undefeated. Two back-to-back clutch wins against Notre Dame and V-Tech would give your team momentum on steroids. Plus, you’ve beaten the #2 curse, so I have absolute faith that you have what it takes to win the Natty. Besides, all of New England is salivating the thought of an undefeated NFL and college championship combo. The possibilities are endless.
2007 Florida State vs BC
And the possibilities end once you lose. And that was next week against a rebuilding Seminoles squad. And Maryland would make it back-to-back losses. At least you could win the ACC in Charlotte?
2007 ACC Championship Game
Nope. V-Tech would get sweet revenge. Have a Champs Sports Bowl win over the Spartans.
Super Bowl 42
You were wondering about that perfect season for the Patriots? Well they ended up losing in the Super Bowl. To Tom Coughlin’s Giants. You know, that coach you had for three years.
2008
With Matt Ryan leaving, the focus is now on rebuilding. Nothing less of an ACC Championship is a failure. Georgia Tech might have ended championship aspirations early, but wins over V-Tech and Florida State would allow you to go to Charlotte again.
2008 ACC Championship
Bullshit repeats itself. Virginia Tech would get revenge again. And you lose to fucking Vanderbilt in the Music City Bowl. And your head coach is leaving for the Jets. *buzzer*. So he was denied in favor of Rex Ryan. Fuck him, we’re promoting Frank Spaziani.
2009
What a shocker. Another year being good but not good enough. You didn’t even make it to Charlotte. Clemson has the honor this time, now with their new head coach Dabo Swinney. Get dissolved by USC in the Emerald Bowl.
2010
You fall back to mediocrity with five straight losses. Still good enough for a bowl game.
2010 Hunger Bowl
But not good enough to win that game. You lost to fucking Nevada.
2011-12
And now you’re shit again. Get the fuck out Spaziani. Let’s hope Steve Addiazo could at least be competent.
Super Bowl 46
By the way, Tom Coughlin won a 2nd Super Bowl with the Giants. And they did it with your former player Mark Herzlich.
2013-2019
Let’s speed this up. You mostly stayed in mediocrity around this time. The only thing of note is that Florida State and Clemson are the new overlords of the conference. Seriously, there was nothing to talk about because Boston College was that irrelevant under Addazio.
2018 First Responder Bowl
And not to mention you are back to having bad luck in bowl games. Not going to bowl games, you are still fine with that. The bowl you went to was canceled because of inclement weather. You led that game 7-0 before the storm.
Super Bowl 51
By the way, how's Matt Ryan doing?
*28-3*
No comment.
2020
Jeff Hafley would be your next head coach. Due to COVID, no one is allowed to watch the games at Alumni Stadium. Wouldn’t care anyway because you’re still mediocre. At least you’re bowl-eligible. *buzzer* So you withdrew because of COVID. That checks out.
2021
Another year, another dose of mediocrity. At least you’re undefeated in non-conference and could play in a bowl game again. *Buzzer*(COVID for East Carolina). ARE YOU SHITTING ME?!
2022
And now you’re utter shit again. I mean utter shit with a random ranked win. 3-9. What a way to waste Zay Flowers, boys.
2023
6-6. Mediocre again. And now they’re crawling back to Fenway to face off against SMU in the Fenway Bowl. Oh wait, I should say future conference rival SMU. I am bored just writing this. I mean ever since Matt Ryan, this team had been nothing. They have been in the ACC for a while, but they have done literally nothing since 2009. And unless something drastic happens, they will continue to be nothing. At least you could say Rutgers was entertainingly bad during this time. Boston College isn’t even an interesting school. It’s bland. It’s forgettable. This is exactly why everyone watches the Patriots or Celtics or Red Sox in their spare time. Have fun being in purgatory. Fuck Boston.

'Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty' gets my vote for the Soulslike GOTY.
My money has always been on Team Ninja going from bad to worse. But l was wrong.
The loot overdose thing still doesn't work. And the devs paid by how many mechanics they can introduce is as head scratching as ever. But beyond that you get above and beyond.
It's all there. Legend and history masterly situated in the same place at the same time. Combat done widescreen. And game design steroid injected with no pain no gain.
It doesn’t just improve on what they've done before. It sets a new standard for how to take on everything that’s come before.
Experience it people.

I’ve been playing the show for 16 years now and I’ve always wished I could sit down with the developers and voice my opinions as a player of baseball, the game, and a fan.
Franchise: I feel like this game mode should be the mixture of RPG and a Sports game. In the early games, you would kind of create storylines and purpose for the game mode in your head because no game had any kind of in-depth career or franchise. However, now we have seen in games like 2K it is possible to create a franchise mode that isn’t completely stale. I’m a long-haul franchise guy I’m talking 2035+ on some of my seasons and it gets so mind numbingly boring after 10 simulated years. All you can do is start a new one. Improvements - Legitimate attribute jumps. Every year in the MLB some random we have never heard of has a career year. In this franchise, other than the odd starting/relief pitcher the numbers are pretty much predictable, across-the-board - Positional switches. The ability to play God takes a lot of the fun out of the mode. Having a aging stud outfielder automatically switch to becoming a first baseman. Or an ace, past his prime switch to being a dominant Bullpen arm would make it feel more dynamic - Advanced metrics. Trying to construct a lineup and a team and all I have to work with is OPS plus and war. Out of the park, baseball has perfected advanced metrics, scouting, statistics tracking I don’t understand why the show can’t do the same -Real impact/consequences. Coaches, facilities, budget, revenue sharing, ticket prices and more would be fun ways to watch your franchise grow and feel like your decisions actually had an impact on the product. Instead, there is random coaching attributes that no one knows what they actually affect. And no real way to have an impact on the teams finances International free agents, real hand in minor-league development, true prospect development. I’ve noticed as you get deep into these franchises, farm systems become completely depleted and filled with 35 year olds, talented relievers disappear, and other than go in and manually edit attributes, there is no way to make sure that the 19–22 year olds make their debuts in a timely manner and have any impact.

1. Rtts

For the love of God, could we get storylines? Emotion? Purpose? Personality? It blows my mind that they continue to push out this soulless excuse for a career mode. Do I want the 2K park? Absolutely not. But what about having your career earnings tied to some kind of reward system? There is this Japanese baseball game on the wii (made in 2008) where you could spend your career earnings on different items and create a life outside of baseball. I’m not saying it needs to be the Sims. But it just doesn’t make me care at all. Immersion is the name of the game and the fact that they can put my face in the game and make it look exactly like me but still make me switch game modes after about 30 minutes because of how empty and boring the game mode is, is telling.
Online/Gameplay Am I an idiot or did they remove the player speed from the box in the top right corner? Why would my number one priority not be seeing how fast my guys are that are on base?
2K Baseball did this a long time ago but part of what makes playing games fun is using the players how they play in real life. Facing Mariano Rivera and having him throw 90% sliders is absolutely ridiculous. There should be a pitch usage attribute that breaks down the percentage of how often that pitcher throws that pitch. If you start to go over that percentage, that pitch gets harder to command. That’s a no-brainer.
Oh, I know, what if hot zones actually meant something? We have the PCI, hear me out; the PCI get smaller as it moves into cold zones. The idea of hot and cold zones is cute and is realistic However, if I can just set my PCI there and use a human override they don’t matter.
Home runs, my goodness the home runs. I get pretty into diamond dynasty…not as much as the other modes which I wish were better. But inevitably, after the never changing hamster wheel that is road to the show and franchise, it’s really all that’s left. I will never understand the game physics that decides the only two hits in online gameplay will be rollover singles/doubles or home runs. I don’t know if it has something to do with the PCI or the physics in the game itself but 90% of the runs I have scored and have had scored against me in the past three years online have been home runs. It’s not fun, it’s not realistic, and it’s not baseball. Instead of thinking of how to set up my next pitch, how to play to my pitcher strengths, how to move runners, or how to grind through at bats, you’re literally just playing a cat and mouse game with the PCI because if the ball gets anywhere close to it, it’s going out of the park.
Building off of that, the players and packs add to this poor experience. It is really cool to have Bob Gibson pitching to Juan Soto. However, when every team has a Bob Gibson and a Juan Soto it all feels like a waste of time. What’s the point of working for extra players when the game is just going to hand me a roster of 99s by my fifth game online. Look, I’ll level with you guys. I hate from the bottom of my core that sport games have all shifted to cater to the online player. I think games like out of the park baseball have shown that the single player RPG style of a sport game can be really, really good if the developers took a second to not care about the fast food, quick money style of gameplay, and put some thought and heart into other game modes. However, there is potential in the diamond dynasty mode. That potential is not my lineup of 120 right hand power going up against your 130 K/9 pitcher. The potential is in the live series, and having these rosters that are kind of like a mismatched fantasy draft going up against each other. User skill versus user skill. Can you take your team of mismatched MLB players and beat my team of mismatch players. Then there would be a special slot for these legends where they can have realistic attributes, still be valuable to the team, but not be overvalued. Cy Young was a hell of a pitcher, but he was not throwing 98 miles an hour. And part of the challenge should be learning how to use the legends as they played.
Sorry for the rant. I’m passionate about this game. I’ve played baseball my whole life through college and beyond and I’ve played the show since I was in elementary school. I just care about baseball in all forms. This might not even be the place for this conversation. I just needed to get it out. In comparison to the evolution of sport games, the show is starting to resemble a bodybuilder that takes way too much steroids. Amazing at first glance, basically dead on the inside. I guess, basically what I’m trying to say is; San Diego studios, give me a baseball game that IS good not just roll out empty ones that look good.
Idk, like this if you agree and maybe someone who actually does something with the game might see it lol.
What features would you guys like to see overhauled/revamped? Am I missing any that contribute to the overall experience and not just DD?

Disclaimer: this is an add-on from a post from a deleted account. Only right that I continue on this legacy for him due to unforeseen events with this franchise.
So another Padres owner died, huh? Well, the only way to celebrate on this subreddit is to rub salt in the wound. By wound, I mean salt on the metaphorical fries that Dodgers fans eat with their Quarter Pounder.
1969: MLB adds four new teams via expansion, San Diego is granted a franchise, and thus, the Padres are born. Like any typical expansion team, you finish your first season in the basement. At least you have the Chargers.
1970 Draft: The good thing about that season is that you get the first overall pick in the first year of your existence. You choose Mike Ivie.
1970-1977: You're still walking mediocrity. You have yet to have a winning record. And that Mike Ivie kid had to switch to first base because of blood circulation problems. The lone positive is that Butch Jones did win the Cy Young Award. And you're owner C. Arnholt Smith is selling the team despite the fact that Arnholt committed embezzlement and ended up in prison. Hooray?
1974: Your new owner is Ray Kroc. You know, that McDonalds guy?
1976 Draft: Meet the future of Padres baseball, Bob Owchinko. He was gone in four years. Well, let's hope these mid-round guys like Rickey Henderson, Jack Morris, Alan Trammell, and Wade Boggs won't turn into anything.
1978: Holy shit, you have your first winning season in franchise history. Unfortunately, you were still 11 games back from the Dodgers, no playoffs. You have a bright future though. Ozzie Smith, Dave Winfield and the Goose will guarantee you success.
1979-1981: Turns out that winning season was a farce and you're mediocre again. You trade Ozzie Smith away for some prospects, whatever he was a stooge anyway.
1982-1983: You finish with back-to-back .500 records. However you do have a bright future ahead of you with this Tony Gwynn guy. Remember that stooge Ozzie Smith? He just a won a World Series with the Cardinals and became one the greatest shortstops in baseball history. Have a McFlurry.
Jan 14th 1984: Turns out Ray Kroc had a stroke and heart failure from too much greasy burgers and has passed away. Rest in peace.
1984: Alright, everything is in place. Tony Gwynn starts to become the best contact hitter since Ted Williams, some solid players such as Bruce Bochy and Steve Garvey, and the best closer in the game in Goose Gossage. You have a 92 win season and you win the division. Impressive.
1984 NLCS: You have defeated the Cubs and you're going to the World Series! True, the Cubs choked it away more than you winning, but its still admirable. Now get it done boys. Win it for Ray!
1984 World Series: You get scorched by a historically great Detroit Tigers team in 5 games. Those guys Alan Trammell and Jack Morris walk all over you in that series, with Morris earning TWO complete game victories in that series. That's okay at least you have basketball and football to look forward to. (Clippers move to Los Angeles), really? Good luck being the Lakers bitch you guys.
1985: You finish the next season with a winning record. Unfortunately, you fail to make the playoffs. Maybe next year?
1986-1989: Or you turn back into walking mediocrity. Mark Davis does win you another Cy Young though, and Tony Gwynn continues to be a hitting machine. Not to mention that Roberto Alomar guy is a great option at 2nd.
1988 Draft: To compliment Mark Davis, let's use the first overall pick on Andy Benes.
1989 Offseason: This Joe Carter guy is prolific. Sign the man shirley.
1990: Say goodbye to the Kroc Family. You're being sold to Tom Werner. Nothing suspicious at all.
1990 Offseason: After a very disappointing season that would have you finish below .500, you blow it up. Let's trade Joe Carter and Roberto Alomar for Tony Fernandez and Crime Dog.
1991-1992: Two straight seasons hovering around .500. Maybe you should, I don't know, try harder to get to the playoffs?
1992 Offseason: If by trading Fernandez for a pitcher that's gone in two years and a fucking football player, this could go so well.
1993: *collapse* You fall back to complete shit. Everyone needs to go. Say goodbye to McGriff. He's going to the Braves. And this Gary Sheffield guy can fuck off too. He's going to the Marlins. Got an unproven pitcher in Trevor Hoffman in that trade.
1993 World Series: And watch as that Joe Carter guy win two World Series with the Blue Jays. Oh shit, he hit that walk-off in Game 7, too?
Several Years Later: Bitch Im not stopping. That Roberto Alomar guy was on those World Series teams, too, and he made a Hall of Fame career out of being a Gold Glove and All Star journeyman.
1994: The bad news is you are complete shit again. Your ace Andy Benes cratered leading the majors in losses. But Tony Gwynn is three hits shy of having a .400 average, at least you have th-- (Nope). Never mind, the players go on strike and the rest of the season is cancelled. He ends with a .394 average.
1995: You tell Jim Riggleman to fuck off. So would Andy Benes. Your new manager though is Bruce Bochy, welcome back my friend. You go 70-74 is a strike-shortened season. But you got promise. Also you have yet another new owner in John Moores.
1995 World Series: Crime Dog wins the World Series with the Braves. He became an integral part of that team in the 90s before the Rays existed.
1996 Offseason: Look everyone! It's Rickey Henderson! It may be 15 years too late but we got him!
1996: You have a 91-win season. Tony Gwynn continues to be a nightmare for opposing pitchers, Rickey Henderson is still producing, Ken Caminitti wins NL MVP, and Bochy wins Manager of the Year.
1996 NLDS: You get ass blasted by those elitist Cardinals. Yes, they still have Ozzie Smith.
1997: Follow up your 91-win season by finishing with a losing record. This Derrek Lee guy is useless to us. Get him out.
1997 World Series: That roided Gary Sheffield guy that we traded for Hoffman just won a World Series with the fucking Marlins.
1998: At least that Hoffman guy is turning into a beast. You finish with a 98-win season. Along with Gwynn, you have Kevin Brown, and sluggers in Ken Caminitti and Jim Leyritz. A challenge awaits you though with one the toughest postseason schedules in recent history.
1998 NLDS: Wow! You handily beat a 100-win Astros juggernaut led by Randy Johnson, Craig Biggio, and Jeff Bagwell. Impressive. Unfortunately, you play the 106-win Goliath in the Braves. You had a good season, getting to the NLCS was good enough.
1998 NLCS: HOLY SHIT! In one of the greatest playoff upsets in MLB history, you have conquered the beast! You win the series 4-2. You're going back to the World Series. And you gave us another reason to laugh at Atlanta again. Truly a Cinderella Story. Nothing will stop you now......
1998 World Series: .....Except for another historically great team. And by historic I mean arguably the greatest team in baseball history in the 114-win New York Yankees. Despite having your GOAT in Tony Gwynn hitting .500 in the series, it wasn't even close. You get swept.
1999 MLB Draft: But look how far the team has gotten. We need to keep going. This Jake Peavy kid will be a stud. What, you're worried about this Albert Pujols kid that the Cardinals got? He's gonna be nothing.
1999: Follow you're Cinderella season by having another losing record. You let Kevin Brown and Caminitti walk in free agency.
2000: And another losing season
2001 Offseason: Rickey Henderson is in his 40s and is a free agent? Oh why not?
2001: And now he's old and he sucks. Got his 3,000th hit though. Suckers.
October 7th 2001: Ironically, your greatest player in franchise history, Tony Gwynn, would play his final game on that same day. Good job wasting his career guys.
2002: Your old owner Tom Werner decides to join John Henry in buying the Red Sox. No big deal.
2003-2004: Two more losing seasons. You do have a nice new ballpark though! Qualcomm is the Chargers problem now. Just look away as that Derrek Lee guy wins a World Series with the Marlins and becomes a batting savant during the Mid-2000s.
2004 Draft: You use the number 1 pick in the draft on a hot young SS in Matt Bush. Turns out he blows up in your face and you dump him. Also he went to prison for almost killing someone, fucking idiot.
A Couple Decades Later: The 2nd pick in that draft was Justin Verlander, one of the best pitchers in the 21st century. I dunno, you could've used him.
2004 World Series: Remember your old owner Tom Werner? He just helped the Red Sox win a World Series for the first time in 86 Years. They did beat the Cardinals though, so...
2005: Despite being mediocre at 82-80, you make the playoffs because your division is hot garbage. Get rewarded by being swept by Albert Pujols' Cardinals.
2006: You guys win a garbage division again. Despite Dave Roberts hitting .438 in the NLDS, you lose to the fucking cardinals again. (At least you didn't get swept this time)
2006-07 Offseason: Bruce Bochy decides he's been tortured enough and fucks off to the division rival Giants. Your new manager is Bud Black, not a bad hire. Also we signed Greg Maddux!! He's past his prime and a fossil, but still GREG FUCKING MADDUX!
2007: You have a pretty good regular season. Adrian Gonzalez starts raking, Chris Young becomes a bonafide stud. Jake Peavy wins the Cy Young Award. You come up just short and the D-backs win the division, but have a comfortable lead in the NL Wild Card.
September 2007: Turns out the Rockies found some magic pixie dust and won 14 of their next 15 games. You are now tied for the Wild Card. Game 163 to settle the score.
2007 Tie-Breaker: It's been a hard-fought game, it goes into extra innings and you're up by two in the 13th. Your golden boy in Trevor Hoffman is in to finish this thing of-- you gave up a double. Just get Tulowitzki out a-- another double. Matt Hollid-- REALLY? You gave up the lead that quickly. Jesus Christ can you get one fucking guy out!? (Jamie Carroll hits a sac fly, scoring the winning run). That's not what I meant! Also Holliday never touched home! Regardless you choked it away, no playoffs for you. (YOU BLEW IT)
2007 World Series: Tom Werner and the Red Sox just won another Title. Ironically they swept those same Rockies that broke your heart.
2007-08 Offseason: We need to add to our rotation. Let's sign Mark Prior. (Career ending injuries, never plays a game for the Padres).
2008: Trevor Hoffman decides to fuck off to Milwaukee after wasting his career too. And Greg Maddux was useless he's going back to his retirement home with the Dodgers. Also you're in the basement again.
2009 Draft: This Mike Trout guy is not gonna be anything in this league. We have our newly drafted OF in Donovan Tate. Surprise surprise he becomes another bust.
2009; Another mediocre season. Jake Peavy gets traded for nothing. You have another new owner in Jeff Moorad. His first action as owner is to show GM Kevin Towers the door. You hire Jed Hoyer as your new GM, again, not a bad hire.
2010 Draft: Meet the future of Padres baseball in Karsten Whitson. He never played. And he was picked over Chris Sale.
2010: Damn, you guys are starting out hot, you are dominating the NL West. Adrian Gonzalez has a career year, same with Heath Bell. You have a 6.5-game lead in the division.
August-September: You completely prolapse and go on a 10-game losing streak, and lose 12 of 16 in September. You trail by 3 games to the Giants now, who conveniently play you in the last series of the year. Sweep and force a Tie-Breaker. You take the first two games of the series. Now sweep the fucking leg!
Game 162: Unfortunately, you get shut out in the final game of the regular season. You miss out on the playoffs by a fucking game! (YOU BLEW IT!)
2010 World Series: Congratulations! Bruce Bochy just won a World Series! With the Giants....
2010-11 Offseason: Great news guys, Jed Hoyer has decided to BLOW IT UP! Everyone must go! Most notably Adrian Gonzalez, who gets traded to the Red Sox and signs a massive contract extension. You get a nice prospect in return in Anthony Rizzo.
2011: You have another losing season. Shocker.
2011 Draft: There is a silver lining from the last draft. Whitson never signed, so we got VERY high compensation for him. They drafted Cory Spangenberg. He, too, never played for the Padres. He was picked over George Springer, Brandon Nimmo, and others.
2011-12 Offseason: Jed Hoyer decides to stick it to you and resigns. He joins his BFF Theo Epstein in Chicago to become the Cubs new GM. He takes Anthony Rizzo with him via trade with you guys. Don't worry Yonder Alonso was blocking him, you didn't need him anyway. BONUS: Another new fucking owner, this time Ron Fowler, along with Peter Seidler, who bought the team for only $800 million. I'm surprised the Padres are actually worth that much...
2012: Your new GM is Josh Byrnes. Also another losing season. At least you finished fourth this time. Yay?
2012 World Series: Bruce Bochy wins another World Series with the Giants.
2013: The good news is you finished 3rd Place. The bad news is that you still finished with a losing record. Tim Lincecum also no-hits you.
2013 Draft: Meet our new stud outfielder, Hunter Renfroe.
2013 World Series: Jake Peavy wins a World Series with the goddamn Red Sox. Tom Werner gets his third.
2014: Another losing season, Josh Byrnes is shown the guillotine. He is replaced by a young whippersnapper in A.J. Preller. Tim Lincecum no-hits you.....again.
June 2014: Your greatest ever, Tony Gwynn, has tragically passed away from cancer at the too-young age of 54. In all seriousness, it's a terrible loss not just for the Padres, but for baseball as a whole. We lost a great ambassador to the game. FUCK CANCER!
2014 World Series: Bruce Bochy and the Giants win yet another championship, solidifying themselves as a dynasty. Also Jake Peavy won another ring too.
2014-15: So they say you need to spend to compete. Well, that's the way that A.J. Preller sees it! The Padres make moves. Power hitter Matt Kemp, a young commodity in Will Myers, the Upton Brothers, James Shields. And the cherry on top, a future hall of fame closer in Craig Kimbrel. The Padres are declared offseason champions and are immediately World Series favorites. Sure you traded away your entire future, but we have the opportunity to compete for the next few years. PRELLERPALOOZA BABY!!!
2015: You disappoint BIG TIME. ANOTHER losing season. Bud Black is fired during the season. Your bench coach, Dave Roberts, had to fill in the manager role for one game. Pat Murphy is the manager for the remainder of the season. But don't be mad Padres fans, you at least have the distinction of being the 2015 Offseason Champs! Amirite? God what a fucking waste this was.
2015-16: A.J. Preller decides to go "FUCK IT" and blows it up again. Guys like Kimbrel and James Shields are gone. And worse....you don't have any prospects worth a damn to build around. If it were up to A.J., they would chuck those players over the border to Tijuana. He would get more by doing that. Also, your new manager is Andy Green.
Several Years Later: When I said the Padres traded their future, I meant it. Turns out one of your prospects you traded for Justin Upton turned out to be Max Fried. He was traded while recovering from Tommy John. He is now the ace of the Atlanta Braves.
Continued: HOLD UP IM NOT FINISHED. In that Craig Kimbrel and Melvin Upton trade, the Braves got a compensatory pick. They used it to select Austin Riley. He is now the Braves third baseman. And that Cameron Maybin guy you traded in that deal randomly won a World Series with the Astros.
Continued: STILL NOT DONE! One of your prospects that was traded for Wil Myers in a three-team deal turned out to be Trea Turner. He won a World Series with the fucking Nationals and is now the shortstop for the Phillies. I am not making this up.
Still Continued: LAUNDRY LIST STILL GOING! You traded Yasmani Grandal and Zach Eflin for Matt Kemp. Grandal being an all-star and Eflin being the AL wins leader in 2023. Let this be a lesson to any future GM, NEVER go all in during a proper rebuild, or else you let go of VERY important pieces. The ramifications of the 2015 offseason are still being felt today, if you cannot already tell. All you can think about is what could've been.
2016: You set records for offensive futility, and yes you finish with another losing record. A.J. Preller decides to tank some more and trades guys like Drew Pomeranz to Boston. What do you mean he's injured? No big deal just lie and say he's fine. No way it will backfire...
September 2016: Turns out MLB found out about your misdeeds and Preller is suspended for lying about player injuries. Fucking brilliant.
2016 World Series: Well everyone, hell has truly frozen over. The Chicago Cubs. Yes. THE FUCKING CHICAGO CUBS, won a World Series for the first time in 108 Years. And because we live a fucked timeline, the Cubs won with your old GM Jed Hoyer. Oh, and that Anthony Rizzo guy? He became an All-Star caliber player and is now a world champion. Padres fans are free to storm the bars in the Gaslamp Quarter.
2016-17: Look on the bright side San Diego, football season is st--*NOPE* (Chargers move to L.A.) Fuck you Spanos!
2017: Another year, another losing season. Also A.J. Preller is a dunce who can't develop talent. Let's give him a 3-Year Extension. Will Myers is somehow still here and is the face of the franchise. Oof.
2017 World Series: You know that Dave Roberts guy? The one who was your manager for a day? He just took the Dodgers to the World Series.
2017-18 Offseason: There is a bright future ahead for you guys. Prospects in Fernando Tatis Jr. and Luis Urias. You'll probably end up wasting their careers too. In the meantime let's give Eric Hosmer a dump truck full of money to be our first baseman. Also your old GM Kevin Towers and long time broadcaster Dick Enberg both tragically pass away. May they both rest in peace.
2018: (Eric Hosmer drops a routine infield fly ball, loses game). That is your season is a nutshell.
2018 World Series: Tom Werner wins a fourth title for a historically great 108-win Red Sox team, who had guys such as Craig Kimbrel and fucking Drew Pomeranz on their roster. They beat a Dodgers team led by, you guessed it, Dave Roberts! Woof.
2018-19: We need to make a splash. Sure our pitching is utter shit, but Preller has a better idea. Let's sign the asshole known as Manny Machado. All it cost was TEN YEARS AND $330 MILLION?! WHAT THE HELL? More importantly, how deep are those pockets that Ray Kroc kept in his safe?
2019: You start out promising. This new rookie in Fernando Tatis Jr. is living up to his namesake. Maybe a bright future is ahead.
2nd Half 2019: You tailspin the 2nd half with a 7-20 September. Your manager Andy Green was sacked in the middle of that month. Your next manager is an unproven one in Jayce Tingler.
2020 Offseason: Huh? We got rid of Renfroe. We would acquire Tommy Pham and this Jake Cronenworth kid from the Red Sox in that trade. We need to atone for our past mistakes. Let's get back Pomeranz! Want more inbreeding with the Red Sox? Your new TV announcer is the former one from Boston. Nothing suspicious at all.
2020: COVID would scrap all plans for a normal season. Despite this shortened season, this talent is blossoming. Tatis, Machado, Cronenworth, and Hosmer with the best infield in the game. This team would be nicknamed "Slam Diego" for hitting four grand slams in consecutive games, a baseball record. 2nd in the division and playoffs for the first time in what feels like forever.
2020 Wild Card: Those Cardinals gave us a run for our money, but we prevailed. You're going back to the NLDS, despite playing at a neutral site for the game. Don't worry, Petco is hosting the Rays and Yankees so the San Diego fans won't be too parched. So who's next?
2020 NLDS: No surprise, you got owned by your older brother up north again. And that team won the World Series with Dave Roberts and your former GM Josh Byrnes.
November 18th, 2020: Turns out a power move from Seidler would allow him to become majority owner as Ron Fowler transfers all his stake to him. Get ready for more spending!
2021 Offseason: Now that we know we can compete, it's time to invest in this newfound success. We need to go all in just like we did in 2015. Yu Darvish, Joe Musgrove, and Blake Snell would bolster the inept pitching; Ha-Seung Kim was brought overseas for utility in the infield. We don't need to wait until Tatis' contract year. Let's give him the yacht and women right now. By riches, I mean 14 years, 340 million. McDonalds has now been upgraded to Applebees.
2021: It's happening again. That magic that you had last season is fully realized. It's time we beat the Dodgers this time. Foot on the throat!
2nd Half 2021: For a franchise that had disappointing seasons, this was probably the most disappointing. A sub-500 July and August still kept you in Wild Card contention, but September? *implosion* 7-19 with TWO SWEEPS from the Dodgers. You finish the season with, you guessed it, ANOTHER LOSING SEASON! Have another off-season trophy with your McRib.
World Series 2021: Those guys Max Fried and Austin Riley that you pissed away won the World Series with the Braves. This was your undoing, Preller.
2021 Offseason: To make matters worse, Tatis suffered an injury in a serious motorcycle accident. Out for 3 months. It's not like A.J. Preller is gonna play down the injury and conceal details that might jeopardize his Hall of Fame bid. OH, THEY NEVER MENTIONED THAT PART, DID THEY?
August 12th, 2022: That's because Tatis tested positive for steroids that he said were supposed to treat ringworm. He would be missing out on all of the season for an 80-game PED suspension. The season is lost. Just fucking end it. *glass shatter* WHAT THE F-
A Few Days Ago: So we traded most of our depth for Josh Bell and JUAN SOTO?! God, Preller doesn't give a fuck anymore! It is borrowed time because his contract year is coming up soon, but going all in is just the way to do it.
2022: At least we are consistent this season. We made the playoffs again! Oh I forgot to mention that Mike Shildt is your new manager.
Meanwhile: Pomeranz got injured again? This time long term? We don't want a repeat from 2016. How bout we just dump him off the side of the road? Yeah, that works.
2022 Wild Card: Lol. The Mets lost to us. That was a good laugh, but the ride ends here. We play the Dodgers next again. This is gonna be another sweep, is it?
Game 2: Who the hell let this goose on the field? Get him out of here. Shouldn't make a difference, right?
Game 4: OH. MY. GOD. YOU BEAT THE DODGERS! They were the favorites to win the NL this year! No more baby steps boys! ONWARDS TO THE WORLD SERIES!
2022 NLCS: Unfortunately another Cinderella team takes your place in the Phillies. That Bryce Harper home run will be rent-free in your minds forever more.
2023 Offseason: We must make some more sacrifices. Say goodbye to Josh Bell and Wil Myers. Juan Soto is staying for one more year, but we need to bolster our infield again. Xander Bogaerts long term. That should do it. Why not knab Matt Carpenter and give Nelson Cruz his swan song? Perfection.
May 30th 2023: Turns out our TV provider, Bally, just went bankrupt and MLB has to carry the deal for them for the rest of the year.
2023: Aaaand all that promise you had came crashing down again. Third highest payroll and Sub-500 for most of the year. By August, you were nowhere close to the playoffs. It's more frustrating considering you won 14 of 16 to end the year. You miss the playoffs by two games, outshone by a Diamondbacks team that went to the World Series with Tommy Pham.
2023 World Series: And Bruce Bochy has his 4th. This time with the fucking Rangers!
November 14th 2023: *gong* and this is where we left off. Your majority owner has died at a young age of 63. Fortunately for the future ownership, the estate will still own you, but that is not necessarily a good thing, historically. After all, the McCaskey's still own the Bears. *lightning*. Even with the death of your owner, Juan Soto's future is up in the air. I just don't think you could keep him with this payroll. And guess what, after all of your high-end talent is exerted, this franchise will be back to square one. This franchise is the embodiment of the anti-thesis of fast-food in baseball: cheap ownership but with high talent; An exterior of a McDonalds and an interior of a fancy restaurant. Rest high, Seidler. You'll be flipping burgers with Kroc now while the Padres continue to be in purgatory. Could be worse, Padres. You could've been the Mets.

I'm curious. (Xbox)
Maybe close to a year ago, I progressed from Medieval Dynasty to The Long Dark. Sooooo many other people said they had the same progression.
A few days ago, I started 7 Days to Die (this game is spectacular, and in a way, is a combination of both games, on steroids, with added zombies).
So I'm curious if anyone has had that same progression of games again?

I'm curious. (Xbox)
Maybe close to a year ago, I progressed from Medieval Dynasty to The Long Dark. Sooooo many other people said they had the same progression.
A few days ago, I started 7 Days to Die (this game is spectacular, and in a way, is a combination of both games, on steroids, with added zombies).
So I'm curious if anyone has had that same progression of games again?

I'm curious. (Xbox)
Maybe close to a year ago, I progressed from Medieval Dynasty to The Long Dark. Sooooo many other people said they had the same progression.
A few days ago, I started 7 Days to Die (this game is spectacular, and in a way, is a combination of both games, on steroids, with added zombies).
So I'm curious if anyone has had that same progression of games again?