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History is usually not too kind way-too-early mock drafts. Spencer Rattler, Eli Ricks and many more have opened the draft cycle as highly-touted prospects who failed to live up to expectations. Many more have seen their "stock fall" in large part because their tape is put under the microscope, revealing that they never should have been that highly regarded in the first place.
And so, it is time for one of my favorite exercises. I am taking my way-too-early mock draft for 2024 and comparing it to what happened at the draft in Detroit. It is a great way to see how much has changed in a year. Several prospects lived up to the hype, many more fell off and others still came from way off the radar to be high draft picks.
1. Way-too-early pick: Arizona Cardinals - Caleb Williams, QB, USC Actual draft pick: Chicago Bears via Carolina Panthers - Caleb Williams, QB, USC
This one should come as no surprise. Williams was seen as the top quarterback in this draft from the very beginning, and while some will argue Drake Maye was worthy of the top pick, there was never really any doubt that Williams would be the first selection. Turns out the Cardinals were a bit better than we all expected and the first year of the Bryce Young experience was a bitter disappointment.
2. Way-too-early pick: Arizona Cardinals via Houston Texans - Marvin Harrison Jr., WR, Ohio State Actual draft pick: Washington Commanders - Jayden Daniels, QB, LSU
Remember when we all thought the Cardinals could have the top two picks in the draft? Don't blame me, blame the sportsbooks. Turns out the Texans were way better in C.J. Stroud's and DeMeco Ryans’ debut campaign. Still, the Cardinals did wind up taking Harrison, just at No. 4, not No. 2. As for Daniels, he was a player I was really excited about heading into the 2024 draft cycle, but I did not have him in the first round of this mock. He took a huge step as a passer and leader in his second season at LSU, propelling him into this spot.
3. Way-too-early pick: Indianapolis Colts - Olu Fashanu, OT, Penn State Actual draft pick: New England Patriots - Drake Maye, QB, UNC
Fashanu entered the 2024 in a fierce competition for Joe Alt for the top tackle spot. Alt took some major strides in 2023. Fashanu had the same issues pop up regarding his play strength and overall power. In the end, Fashanu still wound up going in the top half of the first round. For the Colts, expectations were low after drafting Anthony Richardson. Even when the No. 4 pick in the 2023 draft went down, Shane Steichen got this team to compete and really turned the outlook for Indianapolis around heading into 2024. We will talk more about Maye in just a moment.
4. Way-too-early pick: Tampa Bay Buccaneers - Drake Maye, QB, UNC Actual draft pick: Arizona Cardinals - Marvin Harrison Jr., WR, Ohio State
I will admit, I did not see Baker Mayfield leading the Buccaneers to the playoffs and landing a big extension in the offseason. Let's remember that he opened training camp in a quarterback battle with Kyle Trask! That was put to bed quickly, Tampa wound up winning the division and knocking out Philly in the wildcard round before falling short against the Lions. Maye came into the cycle with a top of hype, but ultimately had an uneven year with a worse supporting cast. I believe in his upside, but he is a bit of a project as he heads to New England. Harrison was my top player on the board heading all the way back in May of 2023. That never changed and he was the first non-quarterback off the board.
5. Way-too-early pick: Tennessee Titans - Brock Bowers, TE, Georgia Actual draft pick: Los Angeles Chargers - Joe Alt, OT, Notre Dame
Bowers was a known quantity heading into this draft cycle. Injuries and a lengthy debate about his positional value pushed him down the board. He might be the best tight end prospect we have had in nearly two decades, but given the lackluster impact of Kyle Pitts so far (more of a coaching issue than a talent issue it seems), teams backed off taking Bowers so early. Alt, who I mentioned before when talking about Fashanu, was seen as a top-10 candidate given his size, length and experience. He made some small improvements as a pass blocker in 2023, which I think gave him the edge over the rest of the tackles in the draft class.
6. Way-too-early pick: Washington Commanders - Quinn Ewers, QB, Texas Actual draft pick: New York Giants - Malik Nabers, WR, LSU We have found our first major outlier from the way-too-early mock. Ewers had an up-and-down season, ultimately deciding to return to Austin for his senior year. I clearly learned nothing from this exercise, because I projected Ewers at No. 6 in my 2025 way-too-early mock, coincidentally to the Giants. Meanwhile, Nabers put together another impressive season, leading to months of debate as to who WR1 in this class truly was. I stuck with Harrison, but Nabers was one of the highest graded players I scouted in this draft cycle. He has superstar potential in New York.
7. Way-too-early pick: Atlanta Falcons - Jared Verse, EDGE, Florida State Actual draft pick: Tennessee Titans - J.C. Latham, OT, Alabama
I promise, I am not trying to draw anymore attention to the fact that we all expected the Falcons to draft an edge rusher in the top 10. We all know by now what Atlanta opted to do instead, so let's focus on Verse. He had top-15 buzz in the 2023 draft, but returned to school for one more season. I don't know that it hurt him in any way, because there is a chance a deeper dive into his film and the pre-draft process could have seen him slip down the board a bit. He had another impressive year at Florida State and wound up going inside the top-20 to the Rams. As for Latham, this was the first real reach of the draft for me. I think he is a bit raw and I have questions about his ability to thrive at tackle in the NFL in general, much less making the switch to playing left tackle. He goes to a great situation with Bill Calahan to lead his development, but this is a risky proposition to say the least.
8. Way-too-early pick: Chicago Bears via Carolina Panthers - Joe Alt, OT, Notre Dame Actual draft pick: Atlanta Falcons - Michael Penix Jr., QB, Washington
This was the biggest stunner of the draft. We have picked apart why that is ad nauseam by this point. Let's talk more about Penix. He was iffy to be a first-round pick, much less a top-10 selection last summer. He was still only a year removed from an injury-plagued career at Indiana at that point. This is an interesting position for him to land in, but I am a big fan of the player.
9. Way-too-early pick: Los Angeles Rams - Bo Nix, QB, Oregon Actual draft pick: Chicago Bears - Rome Odunze, WR, Washington
I was a bit too high on Nix heading into the 2023 season, but this wound up being only three spots earlier than he was actually selected. I thought he would have been a good candidate to eventually replace Matthew Stafford, who has struggled with injuries in recent seasons. Los Angeles still has not identified an heir apparent, but the Rams also had a much better season than this projection expected. The Bears ended up in this slot, taking one of the most entertaining players in college football in Odunze, who I had mocked just a little later on. He will form a terrifying trio with Keenan Allen and D.J. Moore in Chicago.
10. Way-too-early pick: New England Patriots - Emeka Egbuka, WR, Ohio State Actual draft pick: Minnesota Vikings via New York Jets - J.J. McCarthy, QB, Michigan
There is a lot to unpack here. For starters, Egbuka had an injury-riddled year and wound up returning to school. He figures to be in the conversation to go in the first round in 2025. The Patriots had a much worse season than this, thanks in part to Mac Jones flaming out. Then there is McCarthy. He was not talked about a ton as a legitimate candidate to be drafted. He had shown flashes as a true sophomore, but keep in mind that he wasn't the designated starter to open the 2022 season. That was Cade McNamara. He saw a massive jump in his completion percentage and made big plays in key moments as Michigan won a national championship. He is going to need some seasoning and it will be interesting to see what happens when he is asked to be more than a game manager. The talent is there and this is a great landing spot for him under Kevin O'Connell.
11. Way-too-early pick: Pittsburgh Steelers - Kool-Aid McKinstry, CB, Alabama Actual draft pick: New York Jets via Minnesota Vikings - Olu Fashanu, OT, Penn State
McKinstry was the top corner on my radar heading into the 2023 season. He had his moments of brilliance, but struggled at points too, specifically against Adonai Mitchell. Additionally, his medical exam at the NFL combine revealed a Jones fracture in his foot, which likely pushed him down boards slightly. He landed in the second round with the Saints on draft day and has every chance to earn a starting spot.
12. Way-too-early pick: Las Vegas Raiders - Kalen King, CB, Penn State Actual draft pick: Denver Broncos - Bo Nix, QB, Oregon
This projection did not work out well. King had a rocky 2023 campaign, highlighted by a really rough showing against Marvin Harrison Jr. A poor pre-draft process, including subpar measurables and testing numbers saw King slide all the way to the seventh round. Perhaps he will bounce back and recapture some of his 2022 form in Green Bay, but his draft stock tanked throughout the season. For the Raiders, corner was and still is a need for them, but they opted to offense early before taking Decamerion Richardson in the fourth round.
13. Way-too-early pick: Chicago Bears - Laiatu Latu, EDGE, UCLA Actual draft pick: Las Vegas Raiders - Brock Bowers, TE, Georgia
Latu was one of my favorite prospects throughout the draft process. He was my highest rated defender heading into the draft and ended up being the first defender selected just a couple picks after this spot. He is about as technical a pass rusher we have ever seen coming out of college. Chicago chose to go offense instead with its two first round picks, but Latu would have been an excellent fit across from Montez Sweat.
14. Way-too-early pick: Green Bay Packers - J.C. Latham, OT, Alabama Actual draft pick: New Orleans Saints - Tailese Fuaga, OT, Oregon State
Turns out, Jordan Love was a lot better than we anticipated and the Packers were picking nowhere near this point. Latham actually came off the board before this point, so the Saints turned to Fuaga instead. He was a major riser this season, hat tip to Trevor Sikkema for championing him earlier than anyone else I can remember. His fluid movement skills for a player his size makes him an intriguing option to eventually flip to left tackle in the NFL.
15. Way-too-early pick: New York Giants - Rome Odunze, WR, Washington Actual draft pick: Indianapolis Colts - Laiatu Latu, EDGE, UCLA
It was no secret the Giants needed wide receiver help. We knew that way back in May of 2023. New York's season ended up going much worse than this, with Daniel Jones struggling early before suffering a season-ending injury. The Giants were actually heavily linked to Odunze throughout the draft process and he would have been a great fit.
16. Way-too-early pick: Seattle Seahawks - Jer'Zhan Newton, DL, Illinois Actual draft pick: Seattle Seahawks - Byron Murphy, DL, Texas
Clearly, the sportsbooks nailed this one. I will give myself some partial credit here as well. Seattle needed defensive line help in a big way. They traded for Leonard Williams at the deadline and still wound up selecting Murphy on draft day. Newton wound up sliding into the second round, which surprised a lot of analysts. He had a great season for Illinois and looked like a first-round pick, even if not quite this high. Meanwhile, Murphy lands in a perfect situation to thrive at the NFL level.
17. Way-too-early pick: Minnesota Vikings - Dallas Turner, EDGE, Alabama Actual draft pick: Minnesota Vikings via Jacksonville Jaguars - Dallas Turner, EDGE, Alabama
It's better to be lucky than good. I would love to take credit here for projecting a first draft pick nearly a year ahead of time, but I think this is an excellent illustration of how difficult it is to predict what will happen in the NFL draft. I had Turner as the third edge rusher off the board in my way-too-early mock, behind Verse and Latu. When the draft actually rolled around, I expected Turner to be the first edge rusher selected, likely in the top 10. A historic run on offensive players pushed him down the board to this point. He had a really strong 2023 season and has elite athleticism. His ceiling is incredibly high at the next level.
18. Way-too-early pick: Denver Broncos - Maason Smith, DL, LSU Actual draft pick: Cincinnati Bengals - Amarius Mims, OT, Georgia
Smith was such a projection pick this early in the process. Then again, I guess every pick was. Anyway, Smith is such a rare athletic talent, but he was coming off a torn ACL this past season. He had a fine season, but nothing that warranted a first-round selection. He landed in the second round with the Jaguars. Perhaps, Smith will look even better two years removed from his injury. On the other hand, we have Mims, who is still a relative unknown. He has ideal traits and size to be a high-level starter in the NFL. However, due to injuries and talent ahead of him at Georgia, he only has eight collegiate starts. He will essentially get a redshirt year in Cincinnati, assuming Trent Brown can stay healthy, before likely taking over at right tackle in 2025.
19. Way-too-early pick: New Orleans Saints - J.T. Tuimoloau, EDGE, Ohio State Actual draft pick: Los Angeles Rams - Jared Verse, EDGE, Florida State
Ohio State messed with a lot of the depth in this draft class, bringing back a ton of draft eligible talent for another run. Tuimoloau is a strong player, but he hasn't really shown much development as a pass rusher. He has 12 career sacks in three seasons, and it is not for a lack of opportunity or playing time. For what it is worth, I did not include him in my way-too-early mock for 2025. I think he projects more as a Day 2 rotational player than a potentially impact starter.
20. Way-too-early pick: Houston Texans via Cleveland Browns - Jeremiah Trotter Jr., LB, Clemson Actual draft pick: Pittsburgh Steelers - Troy Fautanu, OT, Washington
It turns out, we might have overrated the Clemson defense a little bit. Trotter is a fun player, flying around and getting to the ball, but he is undersized and lacks the ideal agility required to start at the NFL level. I will say, I do love that he landed with the Eagles, where his dad spent the majority of his career. While Trotter's stock slipped throughout the season, Fautanu's skyrocketed. Thought by most to be a guard, he put those questions to rest at the combine, measuring in with longer arms than Joe Alt. He is a brawler with great play strength. He fits Pittsburgh so well and has the potential to be the team's long-term starter at left tackle.
21. Way-too-early pick: Los Angeles Chargers - Ja'Tavion Sanders, TE, Texas Actual draft pick: Miami Dolphins - Chop Robinson, EDGE, Penn State
When you look at where the Chargers were expected to be picking and then compare it to where they actually picked, you get a pretty clear picture as to why Brandon Staley was fired. Los Angeles is still in need of a tight end, with Will Dissley and Hayden Hurst the top two options at the position, but that will wait until next year, maybe until when Jim Harbaugh can draft Colston Loveland. Sanders wound up sliding all the way to the fourth round, which felt a bit harsh for a player as dynamic in space at the position. That being said, first round was too rich a projection as well. He lacks physicality and struggles as a blocker. As for Robinson, I did not have him in my way-too-early mock. I watched him against Ohio State in 2022 and did not see a first-round talent. I was low on Robinson throughout the process and thought this was a little earlier than he should have gone. He is a great athlete, but he is unrefined and had little production at Penn State.
22. Way-too-early pick: Miami Dolphins - Raheim Sanders, RB, Arkansas Actual draft pick: Philadelphia Eagles - Quinyon Mitchell, CB, Toledo
This one did not pan out so well for me. I loved Sanders coming into the process. He had over 1,700 yards from scrimmage and 12 touchdowns for Arkansas in 2022. He followed that up 284 yards from scrimmage and two touchdowns in just six games due to injury. His yards per attempt also plummeted from 6.5 to 3.4. He wound up transferring to South Carolina. We will see if he can bounce back and get himself back into top 100 consideration for 2025. Meanwhile, Mitchell went the other direction. He was a small school star with some consideration, but he proved he could contend at the Senior Bowl and wound up being the first corner selected. He could be a Day 1 starter in Philly.
23. Way-too-early pick: Jacksonville Jaguars - Cooper DeJean, CB, Iowa Actual draft pick: Jacksonville Jaguars via Minnesota Vikings & Houston Texans - Brian Thomas Jr., WR, LSU
The Jaguars ended up picking here after a trade down with the Vikings. DeJean inexplicably slid out of the first round, but he was definitely a first-round talent. Even after suffering a season-ending injury at Iowa, he returned for a great pre-draft workout and his tape is first-round caliber. He landed with the Eagles in the second round. Thomas benefitted from Jayden Daniels' Heisman season and a clear spot in the starting lineup. He entered the 2023 season with 770 yards and seven touchdowns through his first two years combined. He posted 1,177 yards and an FBS-leading 17 touchdowns in a monster breakout season. He will be a great field-stretching option in Jacksonville.
24. Way-too-early pick: Detroit Lions - Jack Sawyer, EDGE, Ohio State Actual draft pick: Detroit Lions via Dallas Cowboys - Terrion Arnold, CB, Alabama
The offseason hype around the Lions turned out to be warranted. Detroit had to trade up to pick at No. 24. They took Arnold, which fills a huge void on their defense. He is a hard-nosed tackler with good ball skills. He started the year in Kool-Aid McKinstry's proverbial draft shadow, but ended up surpassing his teammate by the time the draft rolled around. Meanwhile, Sawyer, like J.T. Tuimoloau, returned to school for another year. He is similar in that he has great strength, but lacks the production to go with it. He has a future as an edge setting defender, but he does not generate enough pressure to warrant first-round consideration heading into the 2024 season.
25. Way-too-early pick: Baltimore Ravens - Michael Hall Jr., DL, Ohio State Actual draft pick: Green Bay Packers - Jordan Morgan, OT, Arizona
It is funny now to look back and think the Ravens had a pressing need at defensive tackle. Justin Madubuike had a breakout year with 13 sacks that resulted in All-Pro honors, a Pro Bowl spot and a massive contract extension. Hall wouldn't have been the pick anyway. He is a great interior pass rusher, but is undersized and struggles to win consistently at the point of attack. He landed with Cleveland in the second round. Regarding the pick that did happen, Morgan looked much sharper in his second year removed from a torn ACL suffered in 2021. There are some concerns about his length when it comes to his ability to play tackle in the NFL, but the Packers have never shied away from moving college tackles into interior offensive line spots.
26. Way-too-early pick: Dallas Cowboys - TreVeyon Henderson, RB, Ohio State Actual draft pick: Tampa Bay Buccaneers - Graham Barton, OL, Duke
Projecting an Ohio State running back to the Cowboys isn't the worst thing I could have done. Dallas still desperately needs running back help after passing on the position entirely. Henderson returned to Columbus for another year after an inconsistent season and will compete for touches in a backfield that now features Ole Miss transfer Quinshon Judkins. Barton is another college offensive tackle whose future lies on the interior of the offensive line at the NFL level. He was on the radar, but had a great pre-draft process to push him into the first round.
27. Way-too-early pick: Green Bay Packers via New York Jets - Andrew Mukuba, S, Clemson Actual draft pick: Arizona Cardinals - Darius Robinson, DL, Missouri
Mukuba had a lot of traction heading into the season, but injuries led him to returning to school and transferring to his hometown team in Austin. The Packers had a clear need at safety as well, signing Xavier McKinney to a big deal this offseason. As a Jets fan, just a quick moment to savor when the Jets were thought to be Super Bowl contenders with Aaron Rodgers, which is why this pick was projected to belong to the Packers. For Robinson, this was a surprising rise for a player with very little production or fanfare heading into the season. He broke out with 8.5 sacks and then had a phenomenal week at the Senior Bowl. This was still a bit early for my liking, but he has the versatility and power to hang around the league for a long time.
28. Way-too-early pick: Cincinnati Bengals - Calen Bullock, S, USC Actual draft pick: Kansas City Chiefs via Buffalo Bills - Xavier Worthy, WR, Texas
Bullock is a ball-hawking safety with excellent ball production from his time at USC. However, one of the biggest issues for him, and most of the USC defense, was his inability to tackle. A big part of that is that at 188 pounds, he is in the second percentile for weight at the safety position. He wound up landing with Houston in the third round as a result. Meanwhile, the Chiefs traded up with the Bills again to land a speedster at wide receiver. More on Worthy in just a second.
29. Way-too-early pick: Buffalo Bills - Xavier Worthy, WR, Texas Actual draft pick: Dallas Cowboys via Detroit Lions - Tyler Guyton, OT, Oklahoma
Oh how close this was to actually happening. Worthy was on the board for the Bills at 28 and they needed a receiver in a bad way. Instead, Buffalo traded down and Worthy is now the newest weapon for Patrick Mahomes. The Texas star has a very slight frame, but broke the 40-yard dash record at the combine this year. He will change how teams have to defend Kansas City. His draft stock clearly did not shift a whole lot from where he was initially projected to where he landed. The same cannot be said for Guyton. He was not really in the conversation heading into the 2023 season, but he has exciting intangibles despite his lack of experience. In a couple years, he could look like a steal at this spot.
30. Way-too-early pick: San Francisco 49ers - Akheem Mesidor, DL, Miami Actual draft pick: Baltimore Ravens - Nate Wiggins, CB, Clemson
Mesidor remains a prospect I will be watching closely for the 2025 draft. He had a great first season with Miami in 2022 after transferring from West Virginia. Unfortunately, he suffered a season-ending injury just three games into the 2023 season. I did not have Wiggins in my way-too-early mock, and in retrospect, I probably should have. He was the Clemson defender I overlooked. He has great speed, impressive effort and top-tier ball skills. He lasted to the end of the round because of his slight frame and questionable tackling in space. I have no doubt Baltimore will find a way to get the most out of him.
31. Way-too-early pick: Philadelphia Eagles - Kingsley Suamataia, OT, BYU Actual draft pick: San Francisco 49ers - Ricky Pearsall, WR, Florida
Philly picked much earlier than this on draft day as their Super Bowl hangover finally hit in the second half of the season. I was high on Suamataia heading into the season, but he still has a bit of a ways to go from a development standpoint to make it to be a starter. He landed with the Chiefs in the second round. The 49ers got back to the Super Bowl, but fell short and John Lynch decided he wanted more firepower on offense. Whether this means Brandon Aiyuk or Deebo Samuel is on the way out or not, Pearsall should have a role in this offense early. He is a reliable playmaker with inside-outside versatility.
32. Way-too-early pick: Kansas City Chiefs - Troy Franklin, WR, Oregon Actual draft pick: Carolina Panthers via Buffalo Bills & Kansas City Chiefs - Xavier Legette, WR, South Carolina
The Chiefs did wind up selecting a wide receiver in the first round, just not Franklin. It was a bit of a shock to see Franklin slide as far as he did. He was not a first-round talent as I had initially thought, but I figured he would go mid-to-late second round, not in the early fourth. He was very productive at Oregon, but a slight frame and small hands likely pushed him down draft boards. That being said, I like his landing spot with his college quarterback in Denver. On the other hand, Leggette was on no one's radar heading into the season. In his first four seasons at South Carolina, he was largely a special teamer with 423 career receiving yards. He exploded with 1,255 receiving yards and seven touchdowns. He is a hometown kid with a chance to play a major role in his first season. He should be one of Bryce Young's top targets this year.

Thought it might be nice to have a reference to check over the next few days. With the help of u/RichyVersace ‘s comment and this article with links to sources here are the players who had top 30 visits with the Colts:
WR Malik Nabers CB Deantre Prince CB Decamerion Richardson CB Jarvis Brownlee Jr. CB Qwan'tez Stiggers CB Jarrian Jones OL Dalton Tucker EDGE Marshawn Kneeland DL Khristian Boyd LB Jamal Hill OT Giovanni Manu DT Keith Randolph Jr. S Millard Bradford S Mark Perry WR Xavier Worthy WR Ramel Keyton DB Chris Edmonds OT Theo Benedet OL Mike Jerrell WR Xavier Leggette OT Patrick Paul
Let me know if anyone was left out

YANKEES

#	Player	W	L	ERA	G	GS	IP	SO	Whip	SVS
1	Quincy Salerno	16	6	3.78	34	29	179.2	211	1.178
2	Chris Diaz	11	6	3.96	30	30	166.1	135	1.283
3	Phillip Young	12	9	3.89	32	29	155.2	167	1.403
4	Johnny Hall	10	3	3.09	20	20	111	132	1.136
5	Gary Evans	7	3	5.13	23	16	97.2	63	1.452
6	Walter Lopez	3	2	5.2	9	9	50.1	36	1.493
CL	Tyrell Levin	4	2	2.38	60	0	62.1	54	1.117	30
RP	Dion Partridge	7	5	3	45	12	117	92	1.191	3
RP	Monte Earls	3	2	5.1	56	0	69	65	1.352	3
RP	Paul Powell	5	3	3.31	54	0	47.2	43	1.429	4
RP	Kevin Campbell	4	3	2.83	48	0	42.1	38	1.08	1
RP	Jimmy Perez	1	3	2.99	37	1	54.1	50	1.264	2

Player	Position	HR	SB	BA	OPS	OBS	SLG%	RBI	R	AB	BB	2B	3B
Jake Thompson	RF	36	41	238	0.780	0.821	0.476	78	94	520	38	24	4
Marcus Rodriguez	3B	39	41	261	0.820	0.861	0.501	92	105	540	44	28	5
Ryan Johnson	1B	51	26	200	0.710	0.740	0.480	110	82	500	48	22	3
Tyler Martinez	2B	37	26	230	0.770	0.800	0.490	85	88	480	40	30	2
Brandon Davis	DH	24	54	219	0.760	0.800	0.440	65	72	430	50	15	6
Jordan Smith	CF	13	8	230	0.670	0.690	0.380	40	55	360	20	12	3
Alan Garcia	SS	12	20	217	0.710	0.751	0.430	50	65	420	35	18	3
Chris Anderson	LF	12	11	237	0.710	0.721	0.440	48	60	400	30	20	2
Matt Thompson	C	20	11	231	0.730	0.751	0.480	60	45	380	25	15	1
Kyle Walker	C	8	2	187	0.590	0.609	0.330	25	28	320	15	10	1

DODGERS

#	Player	W	L	ERA	G	GS	IP	SO	Whip	SVS
1	Steve Smith	5	16	5.42	31	31	169.2	104	1.571
2	Alan Hill	7	13	6.25	30	30	154	83	1.575
3	Carl Barnes	4	10	5.64	23	23	120	75	1.496
4	Harry Gonzales	4	6	5.17	21	17	96	50	1.606
5	Aaron Bailey	2	5	6.23	14	14	66.1	49	1.541
6	Gary Ramirez	2	5	6.78	34	7	70.1	49	1.673
CL	Minh Mackay	5	3	1.44	63	0	83.2	109	0.934	35
RP	Mauro Peak	8	5	1.97	55	8	112.1	104	1.051	15
RP	Gino Wadsworth	5	4	2.89	40	8	97	72	1.092	12
RP	Charley Mcmillan	7	2	1.37	54	0	74	98	0.915	15
RP	Yong Elmore	4	2	2.39	45	0	60	52	1.144	8
RP	Jerold Hulsey	1	2	2.28	27	0	41.2	41	1.231	5

Player	Position	HR	SB	BA	OPS	OBS	SLG%	RBI	R	AB	BB	2B	3B
Liam Jackson	3B	16	16	263	0.730	0.746	0.427	58	65	480	35	20	2
Nathan Smith	SS	15	11	260	0.710	0.731	0.420	55	60	460	30	18	1
Ethan Miller	LF	30	9	263	0.780	0.799	0.520	90	85	550	45	25	4
Ryan Garcia	RF	13	33	291	0.840	0.873	0.530	70	110	480	60	22	3
Justin Perez	1B	18	20	241	0.720	0.752	0.440	65	70	490	40	24	3
David Thompson	CF	7	13	275	0.740	0.767	0.420	40	55	400	25	15	2
Eric Romero	2B	24	34	251	0.770	0.804	0.470	75	80	520	50	28	3
Matthew White	C	17	14	207	0.650	0.674	0.400	45	40	420	20	10	1
Jason Brown	UT	16	13	235	0.700	0.723	0.460	50	65	450	30	22	1
Daniel Wilson	C	5	2	245	0.610	0.631	0.350	20	25	300	10	8	0

METS

#	Player	W	L	ERA	G	GS	IP	SO	Whip	SVS
1	Reynaldo Walter	20	6	2.35	33	33	222	189	0.989
2	Anibal Witt	21	4	2.43	33	33	211.1	168	1.076
3	Heath Spruill	18	8	3.11	32	31	198	169	1.133
4	Carey Whited	17	7	3.53	27	26	156	147	1.12
5	Abe Reiter	16	5	3.04	26	23	150	149	1.138
6	Joseph Leggett	6	2	3.71	8	6	34	32	1.437
CL	Werner Gavin	2	7	3.42	59	0	59.1	69	1.139	25
RP	Terry Miller	5	3	3.68	59	1	64.2	59	0.952	1
RP	Patrick Perez	4	6	3.27	65	0	61	67	1.179	4
RP	Henry Gray	4	5	5.4	44	0	47.2	57	1.465	0
RP	Randy Alexander	2	2	5.24	35	0	33.2	30	1.274	1
RP	Clarence Allen	3	2	3.47	31	0	29	43	0.946	2

Player	Position	HR	SB	BA	OPS	OBS	SLG%	RBI	R	AB	BB	2B	3B
Ryan Anderson	LF	24	6	312	0.840	0.861	0.550	80	85	530	55	28	3
Ethan Johnson	2B	16	3	304	0.780	0.791	0.510	60	70	450	40	18	1
Ryan Martinez	3B	12	1	328	0.800	0.808	0.490	45	55	380	30	20	0
Jordan White	CF	10	2	308	0.750	0.767	0.450	35	50	360	25	15	1
Chris Brown	OF	14	16	266	0.760	0.791	0.480	65	80	500	45	20	3
Alex Garcia	SS	5	16	297	0.730	0.766	0.430	40	55	400	35	18	2
Matthew Davis	1B	12	2	267	0.720	0.741	0.440	50	60	450	40	22	1
Daniel Smith	IF	6	3	282	0.720	0.741	0.450	35	45	400	25	15	1
Andrew Taylor	RF	8	5	255	0.680	0.702	0.400	40	50	380	30	18	1
Michael Johnson	OF	2	0	250	0.600	0.600	0.350	15	20	320	15	10	0

RAYS

#	Player	W	L	ERA	G	GS	IP	SO	Whip	SVS
1	Zane Hayden	16	8	2.72	35	34	244.1	195	0.991
2	Esteban Mcgowan	15	11	3.19	34	33	215	172	1.093
3	Valentine Mccutcheon	11	6	3.52	28	26	159	98	1.239
4	Nelson Norton	8	7	2.97	24	23	135	95	1.116
5	Luke Jackson	7	5	3.52	24	17	105.2	75	1.313
6	Julio Soto	3	2	4.16	8	8	44	41	1.306
CL	Peter Schneider	1	5	5.45	52	0	49.2	64	1.282	19
RP	Dexter Schwartz	5	4	4.61	68	1	83.1	63	1.319	1
RP	Christopher Marsh	4	8	5.71	54	5	76	65	1.354	5
RP	Jim Pierce	3	5	5.23	58	1	65.1	45	1.358	0
RP	Juan King	2	3	5.88	50	0	45	41	1.721	0
RP	Mark Griffin	1	6	6.64	26	6	56	46	1.43	0

Player	Position	HR	SB	BA	OPS	OBS	SLG%	RBI	R	AB	BB	2B	3B
Jason Rodriguez	3B	31	9	391	1.010	1.046	0.661	100	120	520	60	35	4
Adam Martinez	DH	20	2	357	0.890	0.908	0.590	70	80	450	40	22	1
Chris Johnson	RF	26	7	339	0.910	0.941	0.590	85	90	480	55	30	2
Tyler White	LF	14	11	356	0.900	0.936	0.570	60	70	420	45	20	3
Daniel Thompson	1B	23	0	319	0.830	0.845	0.540	75	65	480	35	25	0
Ryan Garcia	C	26	5	300	0.850	0.876	0.570	80	75	500	40	30	0
Justin White	CF	13	13	343	0.890	0.922	0.580	55	80	430	50	25	2
Michael Brown	OF	17	6	351	0.920	0.946	0.590	65	90	480	55	28	2
Derek Ortiz	SS	8	2	339	0.810	0.831	0.510	45	60	400	30	18	1
Jason Davis	LF	10	3	326	0.820	0.842	0.520	50	65	410	35	20	1

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YANKEES

#	Player	W	L	ERA	G	GS	IP	SO	Whip	SVS
1	Quincy Salerno	16	6	3.78	34	29	179.2	211	1.178
2	Chris Diaz	11	6	3.96	30	30	166.1	135	1.283
3	Phillip Young	12	9	3.89	32	29	155.2	167	1.403
4	Johnny Hall	10	3	3.09	20	20	111	132	1.136
5	Gary Evans	7	3	5.13	23	16	97.2	63	1.452
6	Walter Lopez	3	2	5.2	9	9	50.1	36	1.493
CL	Tyrell Levin	4	2	2.38	60	0	62.1	54	1.117	30
RP	Dion Partridge	7	5	3	45	12	117	92	1.191	3
RP	Monte Earls	3	2	5.1	56	0	69	65	1.352	3
RP	Paul Powell	5	3	3.31	54	0	47.2	43	1.429	4
RP	Kevin Campbell	4	3	2.83	48	0	42.1	38	1.08	1
RP	Jimmy Perez	1	3	2.99	37	1	54.1	50	1.264	2

Player	Position	HR	SB	BA	OPS	OBS	SLG%	RBI	R	AB	BB	2B	3B
Jake Thompson	RF	36	41	238	0.780	0.821	0.476	78	94	520	38	24	4
Marcus Rodriguez	3B	39	41	261	0.820	0.861	0.501	92	105	540	44	28	5
Ryan Johnson	1B	51	26	200	0.710	0.740	0.480	110	82	500	48	22	3
Tyler Martinez	2B	37	26	230	0.770	0.800	0.490	85	88	480	40	30	2
Brandon Davis	DH	24	54	219	0.760	0.800	0.440	65	72	430	50	15	6
Jordan Smith	CF	13	8	230	0.670	0.690	0.380	40	55	360	20	12	3
Alan Garcia	SS	12	20	217	0.710	0.751	0.430	50	65	420	35	18	3
Chris Anderson	LF	12	11	237	0.710	0.721	0.440	48	60	400	30	20	2
Matt Thompson	C	20	11	231	0.730	0.751	0.480	60	45	380	25	15	1
Kyle Walker	C	8	2	187	0.590	0.609	0.330	25	28	320	15	10	1

DODGERS

#	Player	W	L	ERA	G	GS	IP	SO	Whip	SVS
1	Steve Smith	5	16	5.42	31	31	169.2	104	1.571
2	Alan Hill	7	13	6.25	30	30	154	83	1.575
3	Carl Barnes	4	10	5.64	23	23	120	75	1.496
4	Harry Gonzales	4	6	5.17	21	17	96	50	1.606
5	Aaron Bailey	2	5	6.23	14	14	66.1	49	1.541
6	Gary Ramirez	2	5	6.78	34	7	70.1	49	1.673
CL	Minh Mackay	5	3	1.44	63	0	83.2	109	0.934	35
RP	Mauro Peak	8	5	1.97	55	8	112.1	104	1.051	15
RP	Gino Wadsworth	5	4	2.89	40	8	97	72	1.092	12
RP	Charley Mcmillan	7	2	1.37	54	0	74	98	0.915	15
RP	Yong Elmore	4	2	2.39	45	0	60	52	1.144	8
RP	Jerold Hulsey	1	2	2.28	27	0	41.2	41	1.231	5

Player	Position	HR	SB	BA	OPS	OBS	SLG%	RBI	R	AB	BB	2B	3B
Liam Jackson	3B	16	16	263	0.730	0.746	0.427	58	65	480	35	20	2
Nathan Smith	SS	15	11	260	0.710	0.731	0.420	55	60	460	30	18	1
Ethan Miller	LF	30	9	263	0.780	0.799	0.520	90	85	550	45	25	4
Ryan Garcia	RF	13	33	291	0.840	0.873	0.530	70	110	480	60	22	3
Justin Perez	1B	18	20	241	0.720	0.752	0.440	65	70	490	40	24	3
David Thompson	CF	7	13	275	0.740	0.767	0.420	40	55	400	25	15	2
Eric Romero	2B	24	34	251	0.770	0.804	0.470	75	80	520	50	28	3
Matthew White	C	17	14	207	0.650	0.674	0.400	45	40	420	20	10	1
Jason Brown	UT	16	13	235	0.700	0.723	0.460	50	65	450	30	22	1
Daniel Wilson	C	5	2	245	0.610	0.631	0.350	20	25	300	10	8	0

METS

#	Player	W	L	ERA	G	GS	IP	SO	Whip	SVS
1	Reynaldo Walter	20	6	2.35	33	33	222	189	0.989
2	Anibal Witt	21	4	2.43	33	33	211.1	168	1.076
3	Heath Spruill	18	8	3.11	32	31	198	169	1.133
4	Carey Whited	17	7	3.53	27	26	156	147	1.12
5	Abe Reiter	16	5	3.04	26	23	150	149	1.138
6	Joseph Leggett	6	2	3.71	8	6	34	32	1.437
CL	Werner Gavin	2	7	3.42	59	0	59.1	69	1.139	25
RP	Terry Miller	5	3	3.68	59	1	64.2	59	0.952	1
RP	Patrick Perez	4	6	3.27	65	0	61	67	1.179	4
RP	Henry Gray	4	5	5.4	44	0	47.2	57	1.465	0
RP	Randy Alexander	2	2	5.24	35	0	33.2	30	1.274	1
RP	Clarence Allen	3	2	3.47	31	0	29	43	0.946	2

Player	Position	HR	SB	BA	OPS	OBS	SLG%	RBI	R	AB	BB	2B	3B
Ryan Anderson	LF	24	6	312	0.840	0.861	0.550	80	85	530	55	28	3
Ethan Johnson	2B	16	3	304	0.780	0.791	0.510	60	70	450	40	18	1
Ryan Martinez	3B	12	1	328	0.800	0.808	0.490	45	55	380	30	20	0
Jordan White	CF	10	2	308	0.750	0.767	0.450	35	50	360	25	15	1
Chris Brown	OF	14	16	266	0.760	0.791	0.480	65	80	500	45	20	3
Alex Garcia	SS	5	16	297	0.730	0.766	0.430	40	55	400	35	18	2
Matthew Davis	1B	12	2	267	0.720	0.741	0.440	50	60	450	40	22	1
Daniel Smith	IF	6	3	282	0.720	0.741	0.450	35	45	400	25	15	1
Andrew Taylor	RF	8	5	255	0.680	0.702	0.400	40	50	380	30	18	1
Michael Johnson	OF	2	0	250	0.600	0.600	0.350	15	20	320	15	10	0

RAYS

#	Player	W	L	ERA	G	GS	IP	SO	Whip	SVS
1	Zane Hayden	16	8	2.72	35	34	244.1	195	0.991
2	Esteban Mcgowan	15	11	3.19	34	33	215	172	1.093
3	Valentine Mccutcheon	11	6	3.52	28	26	159	98	1.239
4	Nelson Norton	8	7	2.97	24	23	135	95	1.116
5	Luke Jackson	7	5	3.52	24	17	105.2	75	1.313
6	Julio Soto	3	2	4.16	8	8	44	41	1.306
CL	Peter Schneider	1	5	5.45	52	0	49.2	64	1.282	19
RP	Dexter Schwartz	5	4	4.61	68	1	83.1	63	1.319	1
RP	Christopher Marsh	4	8	5.71	54	5	76	65	1.354	5
RP	Jim Pierce	3	5	5.23	58	1	65.1	45	1.358	0
RP	Juan King	2	3	5.88	50	0	45	41	1.721	0
RP	Mark Griffin	1	6	6.64	26	6	56	46	1.43	0

Player	Position	HR	SB	BA	OPS	OBS	SLG%	RBI	R	AB	BB	2B	3B
Jason Rodriguez	3B	31	9	391	1.010	1.046	0.661	100	120	520	60	35	4
Adam Martinez	DH	20	2	357	0.890	0.908	0.590	70	80	450	40	22	1
Chris Johnson	RF	26	7	339	0.910	0.941	0.590	85	90	480	55	30	2
Tyler White	LF	14	11	356	0.900	0.936	0.570	60	70	420	45	20	3
Daniel Thompson	1B	23	0	319	0.830	0.845	0.540	75	65	480	35	25	0
Ryan Garcia	C	26	5	300	0.850	0.876	0.570	80	75	500	40	30	0
Justin White	CF	13	13	343	0.890	0.922	0.580	55	80	430	50	25	2
Michael Brown	OF	17	6	351	0.920	0.946	0.590	65	90	480	55	28	2
Derek Ortiz	SS	8	2	339	0.810	0.831	0.510	45	60	400	30	18	1
Jason Davis	LF	10	3	326	0.820	0.842	0.520	50	65	410	35	20	1

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Had some fun with this one. I gave the film review a break so I can look into FA some more during my free time. There are some exciting names that could potentially be available that’ll help fill out our roster
Disclaimer… I suck at cap/contract numbers so while I think this works but I could be entirely wrong lmao. We have a lot of expiring contracts so this took a lot of research
GM: Adam Peters
HC: Ben Johnson
DRAFT RECAP: The Bears traded to the Falcons who selected Caleb Williams. Washington is now on the clock…
1.02 Jayden Daniels, QB LSU
2.36 Quinyon Mitchell, CB Toledo
2.40 Xavier Leggett, WR South Carolina
3.67 Chris Braswell, RE Alabama
3.100 Javon Bullard, SS Georgia
4.102 Cedric Gray, MLB UNC
5.137 Javon Foster, LT Missouri
6.180 Joe Milton, QB Tennessee
7.219 Marist Liufau, WLB Notre Dame
The choice at #2 was between Daniels and Maye. A tough choice for many but I am more in favor of the JD5. The line was addressed in FA which allowed me to fill in other needs and target some of the best prospects available. Some tough decisions were made like not bringing back Curl, Fuller, and Gibson, but I believe it was for the best based on how this all turned out. I was also able to move some guys back to their natural positions. Here is the new depth chart…

OFFENSE

QB1: Jayden Daniels (R)
QB2: Sam Howell
QB3: Joe Milton (R)
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HB1: Brian Robinson Jr.
HB2: Cordarrell Patterson (FA)
HB3: Chris Rodriguez Jr.
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WR1: Terry McLaurin
WR2: Xavier Leggett (R)
WR3: Jahan Dotson
WR4: Greg Dortch (FA)
WR5: Dyami Brown
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TE1: Dalton Schultz (FA)
TE2: Cole Turner
TE3: John Bates
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LT1: Charles Leno Jr.
LT2: Javon Foster (R)
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LG1: David Edwards (FA)
LG2: Chris Paul
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C1: Ricky Stromberg
C2: Nick Gates
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RG1: Samuel Cosmi
RG2: Braeden Daniels
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RT1: Jonah Williams (FA)
RT2: Andrew Wylie

DEFENSE

LE1: Clelin Ferrell (FA)
LE2: KJ Henry
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DT1: DaRon Payne
DT2: Jonathan Allen
DT3: Phidarian Mathis
DT4: John Ridgeway
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RE1: Chris Braswell (R)
RE2: Shaka Toney
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WLB1: Khaleke Hudson
WLB2: Marist Liufau (R)
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MLB1: Patrick Queen (FA)
MLB2: Cedric Gray (R)
MLB3: Anthony Walker Jr. (FA)
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SLB1: Jamin Davis
SLB2: Jabril Cox
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CB1: Jaylon Johnson (FA)
CB2: Quinyon Mitchell (R)
CB3: Emmanuel Forbes Jr.
CB4: Benjamin St-Juste
CB5: Christian Holmes
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FS1: Quan Martin
FS2: Percy Butler
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SS1: Darrick Forrest
SS2: Javon Bullard (R)
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K: Joey Slye
P: Tress Way
KPR: D’Wayne Eskridge (FA)
Again, not much of a numbers guy. Maybe this is unrealistic but this is new for me and it was fun. Hope you all enjoy and let me know your thoughts

From Thorstad's archive:
https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/13/resources/7571
Click PDF collection inventory in top right corner.
Baltimore Conference Session, MB love and sexual repression side A, Oct-81 Scope and Contents Duration: 0:31:34 "NAMBLA conference and forum, Baltimore, proceedings plus forum, “Man/Boy Love and Sexual Repression: How the Lesbian and Gay Movement Should Fight Back,” with David Thorstad, Tom Reeves, Mel Boozer (NGTF), Frank Kameny Sexual Freedom Forum (at NAMBLA conference), Philadelphia, with Chris Bearchall, Ken Freemont-Smith, Michael J. Lavery, Pat Kuras, George Lakey, and Tom Reeves"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kameny referred to as "one of the most significant figures" in the American gay rights movement.[2]
https://www.yorku.ca/nnicol/proudlives.html - Chris Bearchell is a towering figure in the history of gay liberation in Canada. A courageous and compassionate woman, Chris began writing for the Body Politic (TBP) in 1975, and was in the forefront of founding some of the first lesbian and gay organizations in Canada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Boozer a university professor and activist for African American, LGBT and HIV/AIDS issues
https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves.html
As a follow-up to the Boston-Boise Committee, Tom organized a conference on December 2, 1978, on the issue of ages of consent. At that conference, a group later known as the North American Man/Boy Love Association was formed by a caucus of several dozen in attendance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lakey an activist, sociologist, and writer who added academic underpinning to the concept of nonviolent revolution
“An Introduction to the Man/Boy Love Issue,” forum at New York University, with Harry Hay, John Burnside, Katherine Davenport, and Michael J. Lavery NAMBLA Forum, “Sexual Liberation, NAMBLA, and the Lesbian and Gay Community”
https://www.whitecraneinstitute.org/category/radical-faerie/page/2 john burnside – hay’s lovegay rights leader.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Hay an American gay rights activist, NAMBLA activist, communist, and labor advocate. He was a co-founder of the Mattachine Society, the first sustained gay rights group in the United States
“An Introduction to the Man/Boy Love Issue,” forum at New York University, with Harry Hay, John Burnside, Katherine Davenport, and Michael J. Lavery NAMBLA Forum, “Sexual Liberation, NAMBLA, and the Lesbian and Gay Community”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Kepner
an American journalist, author, historian, archivist and leader in the gay rights movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Kight was an American gay rights pioneer and peace activist. He is considered one of the original founders of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement in the United States.
mark mcharry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys%27_Love_Manga
Gay Men's Forum tape 1 side B, 21-Jun-84 Scope and Contents Duration: 0:31:45 Gay men's forum on Man/Boy love, Government Center, Minneapolis. David Thorstad, Carl Chrisman, Phil Oxman, Moderator: Rick Huskey
Phil Oxman https://www.albertleatribune.com/2013/06/gay-minnesota-couples-nab-marriage-licenses-thursday/ https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/15/resources/10164
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Huskey a co-founder of the United Methodist Gay Clergy Caucus, alongside Gene Leggett, which later became known as Affirmation In 1971, Huskey and other college students started the Northfield Gay Liberation Front,[2] which was one of the first publicly run LGBT groups for college students.
NAMBLA 10th Conference Peter Nicholas tape 1 side A, 8-Nov-86 Scope and Contents Duration: 0:47:35 NAMBLA 10th Conf, Los Angeles, with Peter Nicholas, Dr. Frits Bernard, Jim Kepner, Morris Kight, Harry Hay, Walter Williams, Hubert Kennedy, Daniel Tsang, Bob Rhodes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frits_Bernard a clinical psychologist, sexologist and gay and pedophile activist in the Netherlands. He was also a leading member and author for the Dutch Society for Sexual Reform and established a foundation in his own name. Bernard founded Enclave Kring (Enclave Circle), which led the Enclave International Fellowship in the 1950s. This made him the founder of the first pedophile movement.
Walter williams https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2013/06/24/op-ed-how-renowned-gay-writer-made-fbis-most-wanted-list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Lee_Williams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Kennedy an American author and mathematician. https://hubertkennedy.angelfire.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_C._Tsang an American activist and scholar whose writings have been of great importance in the Asian American and LGBT political movements In 1978 Tsang attended what he described as the founding meeting of the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), a pro-paedophilia advocacy organisation.[6] He edited the 1981 volume The Age Taboo: Gay Male Sexuality, Power, and Consent, a publication that argued in favor of the legalization of sex between adults and children, child prostitution, and child pornography. Tsang has podcast at KUCI: Subversity 88.9 fm Irvine, CA
NAMBLA Conference Panel Califa, Reeves tape 1 side B, 1985 Scope and Contents Duration: 0:47:51 New York NAMBLA conference panel "The Uses of Abuse" with Tom Reeves, Pat Califia, and others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Califia an American writer of non-fiction essays about sexuality and of erotic fiction and poetry.[1][2] Califia is a bisexual trans man.[3] Prior to transitioning, Califia identified as a lesbian and wrote for many years a sex advice column for the gay men's leather magazine Drummer. His writings explore sexuality and gender identity, and have included lesbian erotica and works about BDSM subculture.[4] Califia is a member of the third-wave feminism movement.
Califia has asserted that all age of consent laws should be repealed, describing pedophilia as 'erotic initiation'.[25] In 'Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex', Califia criticized anti child abuse / anti child pornography laws because they are applied disproportionately to gay men, commenting that he 'knew several gay men who proudly called themselves boy-lovers', and criticized federal laws against child abuse imagery because they would have 'guaranteed that it [child abuse imagery] would disappear from the shelves of adult book stores'.[25] Califia additionally supported the pedophilia advocacy organization North American Man/Boy Love Association.[26] After becoming a parent, Califia reconsidered his stance on the age of consent and adult / child sex: 'I was naive about the developmental issues that make sex between adults and prepubescent children unacceptable,'; 'I've become much more cynical about the ability of adults to listen to children'; 'Perhaps because I am a parent now, I am less idealistic about the possibilities for an equal adult / child relationship'.[25]
NAMBLA Conference Boston tape 1 side A, 2-Dec-78 Scope and Contents Duration: 0:32:01 Conference on Man/Boy Love and the age of consent, Boston: Psychological Panel (Tom Reeves; Father Paul Shanley, representative of Cardinal Madeiros for Sexual Minorities; Nick Kelley, Boston gay youth; Joe Owens, S.J.; Dr. Richard Pillard, moderator); Ethics Panel (David Thorstad, moderator; Sidney Smith, artist; Richi MacDougall, gay youth and Fag Rag; Charley Shively, Fag Rag; Canon Clynton Jones; Rev. Robert Wheatley, Unitarian-Universalist Church; Ed Meade, defendant in Revere case; Lois Johnson, president, Daughters of Bilitis, Boston); Legal Panel (John Ward, attorney; Arthur Goldsmith, attorney; Robert Snyder, attorney; Curtis Mason, New York gay youth) (NAMBLA was founded at the end of this conference)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Shanley an American Roman Catholic priest who became the center of a massive sexual abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of Boston in Massachusetts. Beginning in 1967, the archdiocese covered up numerous allegations of child sexual assault against Shanley and facilitated his transfers to other states. Shanley was convicted of child rape and removed from the priesthood in 2004 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pillard a professor of psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine. He was the first openly gay psychiatrist in the United States.[1]
https://slate.com/human-interest/2017/10/remembering-charley-shively-a-gay-liberation-activist-who-rejected-equality.html a pioneering gay liberation activist on the scale, if not with the name recognition, of Harvey Milk
https://connecticuthistory.org/canon-clinton-jones-a-revolutionary-figure-in-connecticuts-lgbtq-history/ an Episcopal priest in Connecticut named Canon Clinton Jones spearheaded one of the first major LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations and mental health supports in the state.
https://www.bishop-accountability.org/accused/wheatley-robert-carroll-1975/
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/bostonglobe/name/lois-johnson-obituary?id=6791182 From her 30's until she died, Lois was a powerhouse in the gay and lesbian rights movement. For 20 years, she was President of Boston's Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), which was the only lesbian organization with chapters across the country in the 1970's.
Some of these people may not be the same person who attended NAMBLA meetings, but many certainly are

Hey everyone! I do these conference rankings every year so it's finally that time when rosters are more or less set for the upcoming season. This one is focused on the ACC. I will also do the SEC, Big 12, Big Ten, Big East, Pac-12, American, WCC, MWC, A-10, and MVC. If you want me to do another one not listed let me know. As always happy to here your opinions, thoughts, suggestions, etc.
Also, I have * next to players who are injured for the start of the 2023-24 season or else confirmed to redshirt this season or out for another reason.
The ACC seems like it will run through Durham. Year 2 for Jon Scheyer looks oh so promising for the Blue Devils as they bring back ACC Freshman POY Kyle Filipowski. They combine that with long tenured guard Jeremy Roach and rising sophomores Tyrese Proctor and Mark Mitchell. This team has talent and experience. If their freshman class is as advertised and can get production from some of them this is Duke's conference to lose and also puts them as a favorite to make the Final Four and start the season ranked in the Top 5.
The next tier is highlighted by UVA, UNC, Miami. UVA bowed out of the tourney last year in disappointing fashion. Kihei Clark departs so this is now Reece Beekman's team. After finishing first or second in the conference eight of the last ten years, it's hard to doubt Bennett. They pulled some talent from the portal and have a decent returning group of players who are hungry to prove themselves. UNC has reloaded through the transfer portal with Ingram, Ryan, Withers, Okonkwo, and Wojcik. RJ Davis and Armando Bacot are ACC POY capable players and if Elliot Cadeau is as advertised and can jump start this offense with his passing UNC should return to the tourney. Miami is coming off a F4 run but did lose Isaiah Wong and Jordan Miller. FSU transfer Matt Cleveland will go well with trio of returning guards Pack, Poplar, and Joseph and Norchad Omier is back to bully his way through the ACC.
There are a lot of bubble-icious ACC teams. Leading this tier is Clemson who will lean on PJ Hall and Chase Hunter. Girard, Clark, and Heidbreder bring experience to this team through the portal. NC State proved a lot of people wrong last season (including me). They might make it back to the Dance as they add a decent amount of talent. I like MJ Rice to produce here. Syracuse finally rid themselves of Boeheim and his outdated system. Judah Mintz is back and Autry brings in ND transfer JJ Starling to form one of the best backcourts in the ACC. Losing Jesse Edwards at the 5 spot hurts but they have a shot to get back to the Tourney. Wake Forest brings back enough to compete in the ACC but do they find another gem at PG in the portal like Forbes has the past few years? Let's see if Miller and Ituka can replace Appleby. If they can watch out. Virginia Tech had a disappointing last season and one that sees them lose Grant Basile and Justyn Mutts. They are deeper this year but not sure they are more talented. Pitt loses a lot of vets but they have talent in Blake Hinson, the Graham twins, and Federiko. Oh how they have fallen. FSU has taken a major step back recently. But they were plagued by injuries and bad luck last season. I expect FSU to be better but not quite where they were a few seasons ago.
BC has Quinten Post and little else. GT is breaking in their new coach who should be able to get them higher than they have been but not this year. I do like what Stoudamire is doing thus far though.
Louisville is coming off their worst season since WWII. Kenny Payne has a better squad on paper this year with more than 1 guard and a decent bit of freshmen talent. Enough to get out of the basement but not enough to matter. ND hired Micah Shrewsberry. I like this hire for the long term but this season is going to be rough for Irish fans.
Tier Rankings:
Tier 1 (ACC Favorite) - Duke
Tier 2 (Tourney Teams) - Virginia, North Carolina, Miami
Tier 3 (Bubble) - Clemson, NC State, Syracuse, Wake Forest, Virginia Tech, Pittsburgh, Florida State
Tier 4 (No Man's Land) - Boston College, Georgia Tech
Tier 5 (Ass) - Louisville, Notre Dame
Predicted Number of Tourney Bids: 7
Here are my rankings (but keep in mind the tiers where I could realistically see those teams finishing in any order within their respective tiers):
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#1 Duke Blue Devils
Departures: Dereck Lively II, Dariq Whitehead, Jacob Grandison, Kale Catchings
Returning: Jeremy Roach, Kyle Filipowski, Tyrese Proctor, Mark Mitchell, Ryan Young, Jaylen Blakes, Jaden Schutt, Christian Reeves
Additions: Jared McCain, Sean Stewart, Caleb Foster, T.J. Power
Projected Starting Lineup: Roach, Proctor, McCain, Mitchell, Filipowski
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#2 Virginia Cavaliers
Departures: Kihei Clark, Jayden Gardner, Ben Vander Plas, Kadin Shedrick, Armaan Franklin, Francisco Caffaro, Isaac Traudt
Returning: Reece Beekman, Isaac McKneely, Ryan Dunn, Taine Murray, Leon Bond III
Additions: Dante Harris, Jordan Minor, Andrew Rhode, Jacob Groves, Black Buchanan, Elijah Gertrude, Anthony Robinson, Christian Bliss*
Projected Starting Lineup: Harris, Beekman, McKneely, Dunn, Minor
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#3 North Carolina Tar Heels
Departures: Caleb Love, Leaky Black, Pete Nance, Puff Johnson, D'Marco Dunn, Tyler Nickel, Justin McKoy, Dontrez Styles, Will Shaver
Returning: R.J. Davis, Armando Bacot, Seth Trimble, Jalen Washington
Additions: Harrison Ingram, Cormac Ryan, Elliot Cadeau, Jae'Lyn Withers, James Okonkwo, Paxson Wojick, Zayden High
Projected Starting Lineup: Cadeau, Davis, Ryan, Ingram, Bacot
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#4 Miami Hurricanes
Departures: Isaiah Wong, Jordan Miller, Harlond Beverly, Anthony Walker, Favour Aire, Danilo Jovanovich
Returning: Nijel Pack, Norchad Omier, Wooga Poplar, Bensley Joseph, A.J. Casey, Christian Watson, Jakai Robinson
Additions: Matthew Cleveland, Michael Nwoko, Kyshawn George, Paul Djobet
Projected Starting Lineup: Pack, Joseph, Poplar, Cleveland, Omier
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#5 Clemson Tigers
Departures: Hunter Tyson, Brevin Galloway, Ben Middlebrooks, Chauncey Gibson
Returning: Chase Hunter, P.J. Hall, Alex Hemenway, Ian Schieffelin, Joshua Beadle, Dillon Hunter, R.J. Godfrey, Chauncey Wiggins
Additions: Joseph Girard III, Jack Clark, Jake Heidbreder, Bas Leyte, Asa Thomas
Projected Starting Lineup: C. Hunter, Girard III, Heidbreder, Clark, Hall
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#6 NC State Wolfpack
Departures: Terquavion Smith, Jarkel Joiner, Jack Clark, Dusan Mahorcic, Greg Gantt, Ebenezer Dowouna, Isaiah Miranda
Returning: Casey Morsell, D.J. Burns Jr., Ernest Ross, L.J. Thomas, Breon Pass
Additions: M.J. Rice, Jayden Taylor, D.J. Horne, Michael O'Connell, Kam Woods, Mohamed Diarra, Ben Middlebrooks, Dennis Parker Jr.
Projected Starting Lineup: Horne, Morsell, Taylor, Rice, Burns Jr.
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#7 Syracuse Orange
Departures: Jesse Edwards, Joseph Girard III, Symir Torrence, John Bol Ajak
Returning: Judah Mintz, Benny Williams, Maliq Brown, Chris Bell, Justin Taylor, Mounir Hima, Quadir Copeland, Peter Carey
Additions: J.J. Starling, Chance Westry, Naheem McLeod, Kyle Cuffe Jr., William Patterson
Projected Starting Lineup: Mintz, Starling, Bell, Williams, McLeod
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#8 Wake Forest Demon Deacons
Departures: Tyree Appleby, Daivien Williamson, Bobi Klintman, Lucas Taylor, Damian Bradford, Robert McCray V
Returning: Cameron Hildreth, Andrew Carr, Damari Monsanto, Matthew Marsh, Zach Keller, Jao Ituka
Additions: Kevin Miller, Hunter Sallis, Abramo Canka, Efton Reid III, Parker Friedrichsen, Aaron Clark, Marqus Mitrovic Marion
Projected Starting Lineup: Miller, Hildreth, Monsanto, Carr, Marsh
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#9 Virginia Tech Hokies
Departures: Grant Basile, Justyn Mutts, Darius Maddox, Darren Buchanan Jr.
Returning: Sean Pedulla, Hunter Cattoor, M.J. Collins, Rodney Rice, Lynn Kidd, Mylyjael Poteat, John Camden, Patrick Wessler
Additions: Robbie Beran, Mekhi Long, Tyler Nickel, Brandon Rechsteiner, Jaydon Young
Projected Starting Lineup: Pedulla, Cattoor, Rice, Beran, Kidd
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#10 Pittsburgh Panthers
Departures: Jamarius Burton, Nelly Cummings, Greg Elliott, Nike Sibande, Jon Hugley IV, Nate Santos, Dior Johnson
Returning: Blake Hinson, Federiko Federiko, William Jeffress, Guillermo Diaz Graham, Jorge Diaz Graham
Additions: Ishmael Leggett, Zack Austin, Papa Kante, Jaland Lowe, Carlton Carrington, Marlon Barnes Jr.
Projected Starting Lineup: Lowe, Leggett, Jeffress, Hinson, Federiko
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#11 Florida State Seminoles
Departures: Matthew Cleveland, Caleb Mills, Naheem McLeod, Jeremiah Bembry
Returning: Darin Green Jr., Cam'Ron Fletcher, Jalen Warley, Cam Corhen, Baba Miller, Chandler Jackson*, Tom House, De'Ante Green, Jaylan Gainey
Additions: Primo Spears*, Jamir Watkins, Josh Nickelberry, Taylor Bol Bowen
Projected Starting Lineup: Warley, Green Jr., Fletcher, Miller, Corhen
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#12 Boston College Eagles
Departures: DeMarr Langford Jr., Makai Ashton-Langford, T.J. Bickerstaff, C.J. Penha Jr.
Returning: Jaeden Zackery, Quinten Post, Prince Aligbe, Devin McGlockton, Mason Madsen, Chas Kelley, Donald Hand Jr., Armani Mighty
Additions: Claudell Harris Jr., Jayden Hastings, Fred Payne, Elijah Strong
Projected Starting Lineup: Zackery, Harris Jr., Aligbe, McGlockton, Post
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#13 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Departures: Ja'von Franklin, Rodney Howard, Jordan Meka, Deivon Smith, Jalon Moore, Tristan Maxwell, Freds Pauls Bagatskis, Cyril Martynov
Returning: Miles Kelly, Dallan Coleman, Lance Terry, Kyle Sturdivant
Additions: Amaree Abram, Kowacie Reeves, Tyzhaun Claude, Jalen Forrest*, Tafara Gapare, Ebenezer Dowouna, Carter Murphy, Baye Ndongo, Ibrahima Sacko
Projected Starting Lineup: Sturdivant, Terry, Kelly, Coleman, Claude
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#14 Louisville Cardinals
Departures: El Ellis, Jae'Lyn Withers, Kamari Lands, Sydney Curry, Roosevelt Wheeler, Fabio Basili, Devin Ree
Returning: Mike James, Brandon Huntley-Hatfield, J.J. Traynor, Emmanuel Okorafor
Additions: Skyy Clark, Tre White, Koron Davis, Ty-Laur Johnson*, Dennis Evans, Kaleb Green, Curtis Williams Jr., Danilo Jovanovich
Projected Starting Lineup: Clark, James, White, Traynor, Huntley-Hatfield
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#15 Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Departures: Nate Laszewski, Cormac Ryan, J.J. Starling, Dane Goodwin, Trey Wertz, Marcus Hammond, Robby Carmody, Ven-Allen Lubin, Dom Campbell
Returning: Matt Zona, Tony Sanders Jr., J.R. Konieczny
Additions: Julian Roper II, Kebba Njie, Tae Davis, Carey Booth, Braeden Shrewsberry, Markus Burton, Logan Imes
Projected Starting Lineup: Burton, Roper II, Davis, Booth, Njie

Main hub thread with the full 131 rankings
Kicking off the top 10 is a team very happy to make it here, Clemson. The Tigers were my #2 team of the 2010’s, helping them finish higher than some expected. Funnily enough, if this series covered a 42 year period instead of 40, they might’ve snuck into the top 5 with a 21-1-1 record from 1981-82. Clemson became the class of the ACC in the 2010’s, and one of the premier teams in the country, having won 7 ACC titles since 2015. Clemson’s been known for their amazing D-Lines, damn good WRs, and Trevor Lawrence/Deshaun Watson. Also, shoutout to CJ Spiller and Jacoby Ford.

Best Seasons and Highlights

1. 2018: 1. Clemson: 15-0 (73.137) 2. 2016: 2. Clemson: 14-1 (60.037) 3. 2015: 2. Clemson: 14-1 (54.326) 4. 2019: 3. Clemson: 14-1 (53.828) 5. 2017: 5. Clemson: 12-2 (47.013) 6. 1989: 6. Clemson: 10-2 (38.054) 7. 2020: 3. Clemson: 10-2 (37.178) 8. 1988: 9. Clemson: 10-2 (34.818) 9. 2012: 12. Clemson: 11-2 (33.254) 10. 2013: 14. Clemson: 11-2 (32.365) 11. 1983: 8. Clemson: 9-1-1 (31.411) 12. 2022: 9. Clemson: 11-3 (31.054) 13. 1990: 9. Clemson: 10-2 (29.657) 14. 2014: 14. Clemson: 10-3 (28.588) 15. 1987: 11. Clemson: 10-2 (27.469) 16. 2021: 13. Clemson: 10-3 (26.617) 17. 1986: 11. Clemson: 8-2-2 (26.048) 18. 1991: 15. Clemson: 9-2-1 (25.754) 19. 2011: 21. Clemson: 10-4 (22.407) 20. 2003: 20. Clemson: 9-4 (20.625) 21. 2000: 16. Clemson: 9-3 (20.061) 22. 2007: 24. Clemson: 9-4 (17.896) 23. 2009: 23. Clemson: 9-5 (16.901) 24. 1984: 23. Clemson: 7-4 (14.863) 25. 2006: 29. Clemson: 8-5 (14.746) 26. 2005: 22. Clemson: 8-4 (13.870) 27. 1993: 26. Clemson: 9-3 (11.177) 28. 1995: 30. Clemson: 8-4 (9.681) 29. 1997: 39. Clemson: 7-5 (1.529) 30. 2001: 46. Clemson: 7-5 (1.373) 31. 2008: 47. Clemson: 7-6 (1.221) 32. 1999: 41. Clemson: 6-6 (1.035) 33. 2004: 41. Clemson: 6-5 (-0.563) 34. 1996: 38. Clemson: 7-5 (-1.032) 35. 2010: 54. Clemson: 6-7 (-3.281) 36. 2002: 54. Clemson: 7-6 (-3.709) 37. 1985: 44. Clemson: 6-6 (-4.977) 38. 1992: 52. Clemson: 5-6 (-7.668) 39. 1994: 60. Clemson: 5-6 (-11.927) 40. 1998: 81. Clemson: 3-8 (-30.657) Overall Score: 42128 (10th) 

• 356-144-4 record
• 2 national titles
• 12 conference titles
• 20-18 bowl record
• 25 consensus All-Americans
• 164 NFL players drafted

OH. MY. GOODNESS. 2018 Clemson has just SHATTERED the best team score that we’ve seen so far. I’m gonna need you to hear me out below, but that team was more dominant than I think most people realize. Also, 2016 Clemson finishing #2 makes me think I should weight bowl games more heavily, because they should for sure be ranked #1 that year. Clemson was tied for the 6th most wins of any team remaining at 356, with an average season of 9-3, or 9-4. Consensus All-Americans we won’t discuss below are DT William “Refrigerator” Perry (1983) who was the ACC Player of the Year and scored a TD in Super Bowl XX, RB Terrence Flagler (1986), K David Treadwell (1987) who hit 18 of 22 FGs, DB Donnell Woolford (1988), OL Stacy Long (1990), LB Levon Kirkland (1991), OL Jeb Flesch (1991), OL Stacy Seegars (1993), LB Anthony Simmons (1997) (no relation to Isaiah), LB Keith Adams (2000), DB Tye Hill (2005) who was a 1st round pick, DE Gaines Adams (2006) who had 12.5 sacks and was the 4th overall pick, AP CJ Spiller (2009) who had 1212 rushing yards, 503 receiving yards, 4 kick return TDs, 1 punt return TD, and 1 passing TD, and won ACC Player of the Year, DE Da’Quan Bowers (2010) who had 15.5 sacks and was the projected 1st overall pick at one point, TE Dwayne Allen (2011) who won the Mackey Award, DE Vic Beasley (2013, 2014) who’s 1st in Clemson history with 30 sacks, and AP Travis Etienne (2020) who had 1502 yards and 16 TD from scrimmage in only 12 games. Top NFL players include S Brian Dawkins, WR DeAndre Hopkins, QB Deshaun Watson, QB Trevor Lawrence, WR Tee Higgins, RB Travis Etienne, WR Hunter Renfrow, DT Grady Jarrett, WR Mike Williams, CB AJ Terrell, WR Sammy Watkins, DT Vic Beasley, DT Dexter Lawrence, DL Christian Wilkins, LB Isaiah Simmons, DT William “Refrigerator” Perry, DL Michael Dean Perry, LB Levon Kirkland, DL Trevor Pryce, DL Chester McGlockton, and P Bradley Pinion.

Top 5 Seasons

Worst Season: 1998 (3-8 overall, 1-7 ACC)
The 1998 Adam Sandler movie “The Waterboy” mentions the South Central Louisiana State University Mud Dogs beating Clemson 6-3. That’s actually pretty believable for 1998 Clemson. 6th year head coach Tommy West was a nice guy and well liked, but wasn’t cutting it on the field. 2 shutout losses of 0-38 to Virginia Tech and 0-48 to #6 Florida State marred the year, while 5 of the other 6 losses were by one possession. I guess it was a very hit or miss season for Clemson, as they were able to shutout Maryland 23-0, so over 25% of Clemson’s games featured a shutout. And, in Tommy West’s final game, he beat South Carolina 28-19, so it really couldn’t have been that bad of a year. That Palmetto Bowl might’ve been between 2-8 Clemson and 1-9 South Carolina, but a win over your rival is a win over your rival. Freshman Woodrow Dantzler was on the team, but just a backup at the time. Starting QB Brandon Streeter threw for 1948 yards 13 TD 14 INT, which might explain his QB development as Clemson’s QB coach over the last few years. DB Antuan Edwards and WR Rod Gardner were 1st round draft picks. West was fired after the season and Tommy Bowden took over with Rich Rodriguez as his offensive coordinator.
5. 2017 (12-2 overall, 7-1 ACC)
The Kelly Bryant year. Kelly had the unfortunate circumstance of being sandwiched between two generational QBs in Deshaun Watson and Trevor Lawrence, but still led Clemson to a great year with a #1 regular season finish and 12 wins. The defense was still otherworldly, with one of the best defensive lines of the decade. That was evident in a week 2 14-6 win over #13 Auburn, holding Jarrett Stidham to just 79 yards on 24 passes, and the Auburn team to 38 rushing yards on 42 carries. After that, when Kelly Bryant was healthy, Clemson was actually the best team in the country. Wins of 47-21 over #14 Louisville, 34-7 over Boston College, and 31-17 over #12 Virginia Tech followed. Bryant went out with an injury against Syracuse, and Clemson ended up losing 24-27, their worst loss in 8 years. Because Bryant didn’t play the whole game, Clemson was viewed favorably in the polls, ending up at #1 by the end of the regular season with wins of 38-31 over #20 NC State, 34-10 over #24 South Carolina, and 38-3 over #7 Miami (FL) in the ACC Championship. Playing against #4 Alabama for the 3rd straight postseason, the Tide took a 2-1 series lead with a 24-6 win, shutting down Kelly Bryant for just 124 passing yards and 2 INTs.
By Clemson standards, they left a lot to be desired offensively even though they averaged 33.3 PPG. The defense was as good as ever with 13.6 PPG allowed. Opposing QBs straight up did not have a good time facing 1st Team All-American DE Clelin Ferrell, 1st Team All-American DE Austin Bryant, and 1st Team All-American DT Christian Wilkins. Even LB Dorian O’Daniel was 2nd Team All-American. QB Kelly Bryant threw for 2802 yards 13 TD 8 INT with 665 rushing yards and 11 TD. The RBs were by committee with Travis Etienne, Tevin Feaster, and Adam Choice sharing carries.
2017 Clemson is my 82nd best team since 1983.
4. 2019 (14-1 overall, 8-0 ACC)
How good was Clemson from 2015-19 that a season where they started 14-0 and lost in the National Championship is just their 4th best in that span? A 69-5 record in 5 years with 4 National Championship appearances is unreal. In 2019 they were coming off a 15-0 season and returned most of their key players (Trevor Lawrence, Travis Etienne, etc.), leading to a #1 preseason ranking. They wouldn’t fudge it up either, sweeping the regular season at 13-0. 2019 was one of the strongest College Football Playoff fields we’ve ever seen with 13-0 LSU, 13-0 Ohio State, and 13-0 Clemson, with the Tigers being #3. Only #3, and they averaged 46.5 PPG while giving up just 10.6 PPG! 11 of their 13 wins in the regular season were by 30+ points, most notably 45-10 over 8-5 Louisville, 52-3 over 8-5 Wake Forest, 38-3 over South Carolina, and 62-17 over #23 Virginia in the ACC Championship. They overcame a 0-16 deficit to beat #2 Ohio State 29-23, with a heroic performance that included a 67 yard rushing TD and a game-winning 94 yard TD drive. His TD run is still the best play I’ve seen live. Unfortunately, Clemson’s 29 game win streak came to an end with a 25-42 loss to #1 LSU in the natty, which was basically inevitable with the way LSU had been playing.
8 players were 1st Team All-ACC. Trevor Lawrence threw for 3665 yards 36 TD 8 INT with 563 rush yards and 9 TD, finishing 7th in Heisman voting. Helping him out was ACC Player of the Year RB Travis Etienne, who had 2046 yards and 23 TD from scrimmage. Etienne would eventually leave with the most yards in ACC history (6107) and 4th most TDs in NCAA history (78). WR Tee Higgins was 1st Team All-ACC and is now tearing up the NFL with Joe Burrow, and WR Justyn Ross was a former 1st round prospect who had 865 yards and 8 TD. LB Isaiah Simmons was a do-it-all player, notching 104 tackles, 8 sacks, 16.5 total TFL, 8 PBU, and 3 INT, winning ACC Defensive POTY and the Butkus Award.
2019 Clemson is one of my top 50 teams since 1983. The full list will be revealed as more teams come up.
3. 2015 (14-1 overall, 8-0 ACC)
When Dabo Swinney first took over in 2008, Clemson was all right, stagnant for nearly 2 decades at that point. QB Tajh Boyd helped them become a good/great team from 2011-13, but the play of QB Deshaun Watson in 2015 turned them into the power we know them as today. Watson flashed with crazy potential as a freshman in 2014, and Clemson fans knew all they had to do was keep him healthy and the 2015 team could be special. #12 Clemson had a good start, going 6-0 with a win over #6 Notre Dame, but it wasn’t until a 58-0 win over Miami (FL) that the media would really take them seriously. “Clemsoning” was still a thing at the time, and the 58-0 beating dug Miami coach Al Golden’s grave and elevated Clemson from fringe top 5 team to top 3. A few weeks later, Clemson faced their first 1st-half deficit of the season, down 6-10 to #16 Florida State, but continued to shake the “Clemsoning” moniker with a 23-13 comeback win. Ranked #1 and 12-0, Clemson got their 2nd win over a top 10 opponent, beating #8 North Carolina 45-37 thanks to 318 combined rushing yards from Watson and RB Wayne Gallman. #1 Clemson faced a sophomore Baker Mayfield and #4 Oklahoma, who was also having their best year since 2008. A 21-0 second half from the Tigers led to a 14-0 record with a chance to go 15-0 with a national title, something that’d never been done. In a classic game with #2 Alabama, the Tide did just enough for a 45-40 win thanks to TE OJ Howard’s 208 receiving yards, Heisman winning RB Derrick Henry’s 158 rushing yards, and some great special teams play. Watson played his butt off with 405 passing yards and 73 rushing yards, but didn’t get the happy ending he wanted.
Finally Clemson had broken out and gotten past that 2-3 loss ceiling to just 1 loss, in the National Championship. Dabo won his first of 3 Paul “Bear” Bryant Coach of the Year awards, as well as a bunch of other national COTY awards. Watson was a consensus All-American, throwing for 4109 yards 35 TD 13 INT with 1105 rushing yards and 13 TD. He finished as the best QB in Heisman voting, 3rd to Derrick Henry and Christian McCaffrey. RB Wayne Gallman never went down easy, and put up 1740 yards and 14 TD from scrimmage for a 2nd Team All-ACC season. 2015 Clemson didn’t have the 1st/2nd round talent receivers that a lot of other Clemson teams had, but they had some dawgs: WR Artavis Scott (93 catches 901 yards) who is Clemson’s all-time catch leader, walk-on freshman WR Hunter Renfrow who had a breakout 88 yard 2 TD game against Alabama, WRs Charone Peak, Deon Cain, and Ray-Ray McCloud who were all late round NFL draft picks, and 2nd Team All-American TE Jordan Leggett (525 yards 8 TD). DE Shaq Lawson was a consensus All-American and 1st round pick, leading the NCAA with 25 total TFL, 12.5 of which were sacks. CB Mackensie Alexander and S Jayron Kearse were 3rd and 2nd Team All-Americans, respectively.
2015 Clemson is one of my top 50 teams since 1983. The full list will be revealed as more teams show up.
2. 2016 (14-1 overall, 7-1 ACC)
To lose in the National Championship in 2015, only to come back the next year and win it against the same team that beat them the previous year, doesn’t get talked about enough. 2016 Clemson somehow managed to have a chip on their shoulder despite being preseason #2, something Dabo Swinney’s been good at with his “Little ol’ Clemson” talk. A so-so 4-0 start dropped Clemson from #2 to #5 due to close wins over Auburn and Troy. Meanwhile, Louisville had leapfrogged them at #3, and was captivating the nation with QB Lamar Jackson leading them to a 63-20 win over #2 Florida State and 63.5 PPG. Clemson’s experience would win out though, beating Louisville 42-36 thanks to 397 yards and 5 TD from QB Deshaun Watson. As good as this Clemson team was, they had their fair share of troubles. NC State missed a game winning 33 yard FG with 0 seconds left, Clemson winning 24-17 in OT. Clemson also needed a late TD to beat #12 Florida State 37-34. Finally things came to a head against Pitt, stunned 42-43 in Death Valley at the foot of Pitt kicker Chris Blewitt, who nailed a 48 yard FG with 6 seconds left. Still, they won out to get into the Playoff at 12-1, with a 56-7 win over South Carolina and 42-35 win over #23 Virginia Tech in the ACC title game. Clemson was back in the top 4, but could they get as close to the title as they did in 2015, and potentially even win it? #3 Ohio State entered the game as the favorite over #2 Clemson, but the Clemson defense absolutely destroyed geriatric OSU QB JT Barrett, holding him to 125 yards on 44 pass/run plays. Clemson won 31-0.
Finally, it was #1 Alabama vs #2 Clemson in the National Championship. Alabama came in as 6.5 point favorites, regarded as perhaps the best team of the Saban era with a 14-0 record. TE OJ Howard scored a 68 yard TD to put Alabama up 24-14 late in the 3rd, shades of 2015 coming back to haunt Clemson. Deshaun “the human helicopter” Watson played his ass off, leading Clemson to a 28-24 lead with just 4:30 left. Jalen Hurts did the same for Alabama, scoring a 30 yard rushing TD with 2 minutes to go, but Watson went right back to work, getting them 2 yards from the end zone with essentially 1 play left. Either they score and are immortalized in Clemson history forever, or they don’t and they hit a FG and try their luck in OT. In a cheeky move by former walk-on WR Dabo Swinney, WR Hunter Renfrow got the game winning 2 yard TD pass, 35-31 with 1 second to go. Clemson gets their 2nd ever national championship, and their 1st since 1981. Watson had 463 yards and 4 TD, finally getting the happy ending he wanted.
I have Clemson finishing #2 in 2016, but hell no, this team should be #1 and I need to add more weight to postseason games. Watson finished 2nd in Heisman voting, throwing for 4593 yards 41 TD 17 INT with 629 rush yards and 9 TD. He added the Davey O’Brien, Johnny Unitas Golden Arm, and Manning awards to his trophy case. RB Wayne Gallman had 17 TDs, future 7th overall pick WR Mike Williams had 1361 receiving yards and 11 TD. The defense as usual, did their job. Held OSU to 0 points in the playoffs and allowed just 18.0 PPG. DE Carlos Watkins was a 1st Team All-American, DT Christian Wilkins was a 1st Team All-American, and CB Cordrea Tankersley was a 2nd Team All-American. Vocal leader of the defense, LB Ben Boulware, won the Jack Lambert Trophy after leading the Tigers with 116 tackles. This is probably the most satisfying Clemson season on the list.
2016 Clemson is one of my top 50 teams since 1983. The full list will be revealed as more teams show up.
1. 2018 (15-0 overall, 8-0 ACC)
All right. Let’s talk about 2018 Clemson. I’m genuinely surprised they’re not mentioned more in the “GOAT team” discussion, as they nuked basically every team in front of them, including their Playoff opponents. Maybe it’s because they were starting a true freshman Trevor Lawrence at QB? Clemson struggled a bit with QBs early on, with Dabo hesitant to give the reigns to a true freshman due to his loyalty to 2017 starter Kelly Bryant. A 28-26 win over Texas A&M wasn’t going to cut it, especially if this team was going to be one of the greatest ever. A few weeks later, Trevor went out with an injury against Syracuse, and Clemson escaped by the skin of their teeth 27-23, overcoming a 13-23 4th quarter deficit. So, how exactly did they end up with a 73.137 score, the highest we’ve seen so far? Because every game after the first 5 was…chefs kiss. They followed the Syracuse win up with a 63-3 destruction of a Wake Forest team that’d go on to win a bowl game. #16 NC State was regarded as a potential upset bid, but the game was over by halftime with Clemson winning 41-7. Games against Florida State and Louisville were historically bad, for them, not Clemson. The Tigers held a 59-3 lead over FSU with 13 minutes to go, and beat Louisville 77-16. A 27-7 win over #17 Boston College evoked mixed feelings, as the game was never close, but BC starting QB Anthony Brown went out early with an injury. The Eagles scored their only TD on a 74 yard punt return and gained just 113 yards to Clemson’s 424. Clemson then dispatched 7-3 Duke 35-6, 6-4 South Carolina 56-35 (744 yards from Clemson), and Pitt 42-10 in the ACC title game.
As good as these wins all were, it was the Playoffs where Clemson would truly establish themselves as an all-time great. A 30-3 win over #3 Notre Dame saw Clemson outgain the Irish 538-248. In the National Championship, all the talk was about #1 Alabama potentially finishing 15-0 and being one of the greatest teams ever. The Tide were 5.5 point favorites despite Clemson’s 14-0 record. In a performance nobody saw coming, Clemson had a 44-16 lead by the end of the 3rd quarter, and just spent the 4th watching a #1 Alabama team trip over their own feet. If you told me before the game that Clemson would pull their starters in the 4th, I’d have thought Clemson was blown out. I don’t think we truly realize just how rare that national title game was, with such a beatdown of a Saban-coached team.
To recap, 2018 Clemson beat 9-4 Texas A&M 28-26, 10-3 Georgia Southern 38-7, 7-6 Georgia Tech 49-21, 10-3 Syracuse 27-23, 7-6 Wake Forest 63-3, 9-4 NC State 41-7, Florida State/Louisville by a combined 136-26, 7-5 Boston College 27-7, 8-5 Duke 35-6, 7-6 South Carolina 56-35, 7-7 Pitt 42-10, 12-1 Notre Dame 30-3, and 14-1 Alabama 44-16. That’s 12 wins over teams with a .500 record or better, with an average score of 40-14.
2018 Clemson averaged 44.3 PPG and allowed 13.1 PPG against the 19th most difficult schedule. Trevor Lawrence, a true freshman who was the #1 recruit of 2018, completed 65% of throws for 3280 yards and 30 TD to just 4 INT. RB Travis Etienne popped off for 1658 rushing yards and 24 TD on 8.1(!) YPC, wining ACC Player of the Year. WRs Justyn Ross, Tee Higgins, and Hunter Renfrow have all either played like Pro Bowlers in the NFL or should have played like one if not for injuries. OT Mitch Hyatt was a consensus All-American and 1st Team All-ACC for the 3rd straight year. Another fantastic Clemson D-line featured consensus All-American DT Christian Wilkins (5.5 sacks, 8.5 TFL), consensus All-American DE Clelin Ferrell (11.5 sacks, 8.5 TFL, ACC DPOTY), and All-American DT Dexter Lawrence (1.5 sacks, 5.5 TFL). LB Isaiah Simmons was the leading tackler. Dabo Swinney won his 3rd Paul “Bear” Bryant Coach of the Year Award in just 4 years.
2018 Clemson is one of my top 50 teams since 1983. The full list will be revealed as more teams come up.

5th Quarter

How would you re-order Clemson’s top 5 seasons, if at all? Does the 2018 team deserve to be rated as highly as I have them? Is the 2018 team underrated in greatest all-time team conversations? Which season was more fun, 2016 or 2018? Who is the more beloved RB, CJ Spiller or Travis Etienne? Who was the more beloved QB, Trevor Lawrence or pre-allegations Deshaun Watson? Where does Dabo rank among coaches of the last 25 years for you? Does he rank above guys like Urban Meyer, Pete Carroll, Bill Snyder…even Nick Saban…? Which team’s up next?
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Two weeks ago, I spoke on the phone with Tom Ono, the manual writer for Heroes of Might and Magic III. As usual, Tom asked how things were going. I said things were good... then proceeded to whine and complain for the next five minutes (much to Tom's amusement).
When the conversation concluded, Tom said, "Don't complain too much. Some people would give their eyeteeth to be in the game industry." I responded, "Who are these people and why haven't they been beaten for their own good?"
My name is Gregory Fulton, game designer for Heroes of Might and Magic III (developed by New World Computing, published by 3DO). You may call me Greg. Like most game designers, I'm sure you'll find me a bitter and cynical man, aged beyond my years, full of sarcasm, and inexplicably drawn to the horrors of game production like a lobotomized moth to the "pretty" flame.
As I guide you through your weekly tour of my memories, I promise the recollected images will be truthful and sincere but written with a smirk and a wink.
Undoubtedly, we will interact with the following animals: artists, level builders, managers, producers, programmers, testers, and monkeys. To help ensure your safety, I request you fasten your seat belts, keep your hands to your sides at all times, and be sure to not make any quick and sudden movements. Remember... we will be passing through the game production process.

12/05/98
It's Saturday. I'm at work with three other members of the Heroes3 team. I'll be in again tomorrow.
Smells like "crunch time."
Everyone in the game industry knows the term "crunch time." Those not in the industry may ask, "What is crunch time?" Long hours: 10-18 each day. We're starting our fourth crunch month. We have at least one more after this.
Bad take-out food: Mexican and Chinese food are New World's favorites. Today we had Taco Bell and Domino's pizza as part of NWC's "work for food" program.
Social Life: To work in the game industry you must already have some form of social retardation. When crunch mode begins, you may only speak in code to coworkers. Immediate family and friends may be seen on brief occasions so they don't file a missing-persons report. I'm one of the lucky ones; I don't remember having any friends or family.
Hygiene: Haircuts and showers become optional in favor of more sleep time. For me, showers are a must, but my hair is sprouting wings and a tail. Pretty soon I'll look like the lead singer from Flock of Seagulls.
Stress: Anger and frustration are frequent companions. If bridges are burned, this is usually the time. Earlier this week morale was low. In a fit of anger concerning team interactions, I was heard shouting, "I feel like a kindergarten teacher. Can't everyone just keep their hands to themselves and play nice!"
Murphy's law: Any potential hazard will be encountered. I'm writing this diary from the NWC conference room. My computer refuses to function for more than five minutes without seizing up.
12/06/98
This weekend I'm taking care of my PR duties (hence this diary). Not the most exciting stuff, so I'll relate a short story from earlier this week.
David Mullich (producer), Mark Caldwell (NWC vice president and programmer), Jon Van Caneghem (NWC president, creator of all things Might and Magic, and company design visionary), and I found ourselves crowded into the sweltering office of Scott White.
Scott did all the town screens in Heroes III except the Rampart, Necropolis, and Fortress. Since he finished his 3D duties, he's turned his skills to the game's interface. Believe it or not, we were in Scott's office arguing about color: interface colors and player colors.
After much arguing about the interface colors, we decided to leave it virtually untouched. Player colors were a different subject.
Originally, we used light blue, dark blue, red, green, purple, brown, black, and white. These colors needed to change. Light blue looked like the blue used in the main menu. Brown clashed with the brown used in the general game interface. Game text disappeared against white. Black and green disappeared with the terrain colors shown on the game mini-map.
OK. We agreed some of the colors needed to change. After this, the agreements stopped. I don't know what is more ridiculous... arguing over what colors to use or the twisted logic behind the arguments. Red, blue, and dark green were safe choices. We still needed five other colors. The conversation went something like this....

"I don't want yellow. Yellow is the urine color."
"What about brown?"
"I don't like brown."
"Brown is the s**t color."
"What about pink?"
"Pink is a sissy color."
"We won't call it pink. We'll call it 'rose'."
"Rose?"
"The rose player?"
"I don't know. If I saw a pink hero, I'd turn and run away. You know any hero secure enough to use pink as his color is bad ass."
"What about magenta?"
"What about cobalt? What about cadmium?"
"Have we accounted for all the fecal colors?"
"What about orange?"
"Phelan (our art lead) doesn't like orange. It looks bad."
"So. I don't think it looks bad."
"Fine. You tell her you want orange."
"She'll kick your ass."
"Oh. Fine. We won't use orange."

So it went. Fifteen minutes later everyone agreed to disagree, and Jon was made the final judge. Here are the final colors: red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, aqua, and rose (pink).
12/07/98
Today we stopped all map production. From here until we ship, I join the mapmakers and testers in playing maps and writing bugs... or so I thought.
Today, I had dropped into my lap the assignment of converting the 144-plus pages of the game manual into a help file. Anyone who has written a help file knows how huge this task can be. I could probably finish it in a day, but it requires no one bothering me for an extended period of time. Ha!
At this late stage of the production cycle, my entire day is spent meeting with people, making sure people are doing their work, and confirming that what is being done is correct. I don't have time for work. I've made the ugly evolution from game designer to middle manager.
It wasn't like this at the beginning of the project. At the beginning of the project the game designer is the screaming prophet, lost and alone in the desert (or the design process if you prefer).
In the middle of the production process the prophet is being screamed at by all his fellow coworkers who are wondering what to do because the design doc is behind schedule.
At the end of the project, everyone's a screaming prophet, and everyone is screaming at everyone else.
Sometime in the middle of all this screaming I've got to write this help file. Maybe I could give the assignment to Christian Vanover (H3 assistant director). Isn't it the job of a middle manager to delegate?
12/08/98
Yesterday I was wondering where I would find the time to write the game help file. Today I have the answer.... I think I have the flu. This doesn't feel like any 24-hour "see-ya-bye" flu either. This feels like "kneel before Zod!" flu.
All right. I've got a story for you.
Earlier today we "officially" stopped making maps. From here on out, we play, test, and polish the game. This could mean a little, or a lot. If the maps play well the first time out, revisions will be minor. If we end up chucking whole maps, we may find ourselves back to making maps. Thus, we started playing them today. JVC (Jon Van Caneghem, New World's president) ended up playing a notorious map named "Barbarian Breakout."
Ten minutes after he starts, JVC pages me over my phone intercom: "Hey Yoda." (He's been calling me Yoda lately. I don't know why. I'm not sure if I should be honored or offended. On one hand, Yoda is wise and he trains Jedi Knights. On the other hand, he is a short ugly green dude with big ears.) "Enemy hero with six behemoths (one of the highest-level creatures) knocked on my front door on week two, day one."
"Oops. I'll be right there."
As soon as I walked into JVC's office, the razzing began.
"What's with the six behemoths? Is this one of the balanced scenarios?"
"OK, OK. Something's wrong. Turn off the fog."
Jon restarts the scenario, turns off the fog of war, ends turn four times in a row, then right-clicks the enemy hero to see the extent of his forces. Aside from his other three stacks of creatures... he has one stack of six behemoths. Oops.
"All right. Open the map in the editor."
Jon opens the map in the editor. What do we discover? First, the enemy hero starts at level three, and the mapmaker (Dave Botan) has given him four stacks of creatures. In addition, the enemy hero's starting town has three of seven creature generators already prebuilt.
No wonder the enemy was able to recruit behemoths on day four.
Remember the story about the father who comes home from a bad day at work and yells at his wife? She in turn yells at her kid. The kid in turn kicks the dog.
At this point, I'm looking for a dog to kick. So, I hunt down Dave Botan. Immediately, Dave states his defense.
"Everyone says the map's too hard. It isn't. The AI's cheating." (Recently, we discovered the artificial intelligence was exploiting an undiscovered bug allowing it to recruit more creatures than were actually available.)
"The AI doesn't need to cheat. It's already got a huge advantage."
"There's a bug."
"Doesn't matter. Set all players to normal starting conditions."
At this point everyone begins to playfully dog-pile on Dave telling all the reasons why his maps suck. In the end he relented and fixed the map.
12/09/98
I'm not writing from work today. I'm writing from home. I have seven-way-straight-from-the-bottom-of-the-Amazon-flu.
With this kind of flu the logical course of action would be to rest, drink lots of fluids, watch lots of movies, maybe see a doctor. However, I am a game designer and unfamiliar with the ways of logic. A day at home with the flu means I have the opportunity to finish the H3 help file.
Wow.
How pathetic can you get? On my day off to rest and get better, I use the uninterrupted time to convert a 144+ page manual into a help file.
I should get sick more often. I get more work done.
12/10/98
I'm back at work today. Good news... I finished the help file. Bad news... I still have the flu, and because I was so efficient in writing the game help file... I've been given the task of writing the map editor help file. Oh yeah, finish it by Monday.
Monday? There's so much pressure in my head, when I sniff, my eyes want to flee their sockets. My voice has the auditory consistency of sandpaper. Monday? Sure, I'll have it done by Monday.
12/11/98
Well, it's Friday night, and I have yet to see Star Trek: Insurrection. Doubt I'll be seeing it anytime soon.
One of the unmentioned symptoms of crunch time is cultural unawareness. In my time at a previous company I almost missed the entire O.J. trial. I haven't seen a movie since Starship Troopers. I'm not kidding.
12/14/98
I shouldn't have come in to work Thursday and Friday. It really pushed me over the edge. For the past two days I've been laid up with fever and chills. Remarkably, it was the one thing to take my mind off work. Aside from a froggy throat, it seems to have passed.
Enough about my illness. From here on, assume I'm always ill with the flu.
12/15/98
Today NWC (New World Computing) took a brief pause from game development to listen to Trip Hawkins (president of 3DO, NWC's parent company).
Twice a year, Trip makes a formal visit to talk about the company and where we're going as a company. It's a nice break from things.
However, Trip wasn't half as exciting as David Richie (our tools programmer) who sat next to me. Turns out David is coming down with the flu.
Over the course of the meeting, the air conditioning didn't turn on. With over 50 people crammed into a room, it got hot very fast. As the minutes passed, I could see David slowly whither.
I thought he was going to vomit. So basically, for most of the meeting, I sat envisioning how I was going to get out of the way when the volcano erupted.
Luckily, the volcano did not erupt. David left in the middle of the lecture and I haven't seen him since.
12/17/98
Welcome to the end of another working day at NWC. There is still no sign of David Richey. Another one of our programmers, John Krause, called in sick today. David Mullich (the Heroes III director) was ready to take bets on who would call in sick next. Of course, everyone blames me for getting them ill.
As far as your average NWC workday goes, this one was hectic and full of revelation.
Revelation?
Yes. Revelation. Only today did I look at my calendar and realize Christmas was next Friday.
Hectic?
Yes. Hectic. Every now and then I need to wipe my desk clean. This means catching up on all the hand-scrolled notes and stray post-its littered about my desk. When my desk is clean, I'm caught up.
This very act of cleaning makes for a semi-chaotic day. There is much gear shifting and subject changing to close dangling issues.
Add to this my usual parade of visitors, and my first chance to test multiplayer, and it takes great effort to avoid turning into a screaming monkey. Yes, I said screaming monkey.
Frequently, I find myself held hostage in my own office as a line of visitors (testers, programmers, artists, producers, etc.) quickly assemble outside my office in a short period of time, all wanting a piece of my brain.
Today it happened to occur while I was in the middle of a multiplayer game with Jeff Leggett (H3 multiplayer programmer). Simultaneously, I had three people show up and cram themselves into my small office. Each began jockeying for position to ask a question. Meanwhile, Jeff waited on the phone intercom, with Heroes III continually chiming in the background, letting me know it was my turn to play.
At this point you may apply the screaming monkey metaphor.
Despite the great potential for chaos, I asked Jeff to wait, gave my three suitors a number, told them to wait in line, then answered each of their questions.
On the surface, everything looked under control. Little did these poor souls know there was a screaming monkey, trapped in my mind's steel cage, wildly thrashing about in a desperate attempt to escape and turn me into a volcano of anger and lunacy.
When it was over, I took a deep breath, noted the walls weren't sprayed with the blood of innocent coworkers, and returned to my multiplayer game with Jeff.
Heroes II multiplayer wasn't friendly in the least. When it wasn't your turn, all you could do was sit at the computer and stare at the screen like a moron.
Well, thanks to our wonderful network programmer, Jeff Leggett, a moron you will no longer be.
Jeff has finished implementing multiplayer support. Now we're on a bug hunt. So, today, Jeff and I played a multiplayer game in the background while we went about our work.
I must admit, I had a blast. Moments like this make me forget my job is serious work.
12/18/98 Friday
Today I actually managed to catch up on all my notes. Next up, International Translation Kit. It can wait until Sunday. I don't get to enjoy these moments of accomplishment very often.
Being a game designer is nothing more than a life of delayed gratification. You spend the first month of the project "being creative," then spend the next 17 as a bricklayer implementing low-level details and boot-strapping the game design when unforeseen consequences arise.
Tomorrow we have our annual company Christmas party. I won't be going. I see my coworkers every day at work. I don't want to see them in a social environment. It'd be too weird. They'd have, like, spouses and dates and stuff, and wear dress clothes.
We've been told we can dress formal or casual. To me this means torn jeans and a food-stained white T-shirt. To everyone else, this means dress formal, because no one wants to underdress.
I don't want to see any of my coworkers dressed up. The thought frightens me. We're a bunch of geeks. We don't look good in casual wear. Formal wear will only amplify our geekiness.
Only one thing could entice me to go to the Christmas party - seeing the wives go off on the management for working their husbands so hard. I'd pay to see that... provided I wasn't on the receiving end.
By the way... hello to Chris Cross and Brian Reed, two friends I made when I briefly worked at Dreamworks Interactive (I didn't work on Trespasser). They called me today. They'd read the first entry in the Designer Diary and called to tell me what they thought. They then tied me up on the phone for the next 30 minutes while simultaneously sending me e-mail with bizarre and obscene attachments.
01/02/99 Saturday
Well, I'm back at work. The Christmas break was needed. I spent the first three days drinking eggnog, sleeping in 12- and 16-hour shifts, and watching Clinton get impeached.
After I was well rested, the eggnog was all gone, and Clintion was impeached, I did what any game design loser would do... worked on the game while on vacation. Ugh. I'm so pathetic.
My initial goal was to play existing maps. After playing five maps, it was obvious the AI hadn't been fully tested. It tended to sit back and never struck out until it had enough forces to guarantee a win.
This made for very extreme game experiences. Either you never saw the AI, or it came storming out of nowhere, knocked on your door, and politely introduced itself as your doom.
When our AI programmer (Gus Smedstad) gets back from vacation, I'll need to share my findings with him.
Well, seeing as I couldn't really play the game, I turned my attention to our 144-page game manual... much to my horror.
It turns out our second draft of the manual was full of errors. So, with red pen in hand, I promoted myself from game designer to fact checker. Over the next three days, I proceeded to bloody the pages of our beautiful manual.
To say it was tedious would be an understatement. When it was all over, I couldn't read anything if it wasn't written in fine print.
01/04/99 Monday
Today was another screaming monkey day. Why? One word: programmers.
I won't say who, but one of our programmers came into my office and proceeded to yell at me over a feature request he'd been given to program.
Why was he yelling at me? On the surface, it was because I hadn't given him enough details, or I hadn't thought through its impact enough. Or it could have been because it was simply a stupid feature, I didn't know what I was doing, and I was ruining the game.
The real reason? He wasn't sure how to program the task he'd been given, and the specified time frame was short. Instead of calming down, thinking it through, and telling me whether it could or could not be done in the given time frame, he panicked, and chose to vent at me.
Programmers are a unique breed. Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em. Some of my best friends are programmers.
I must admit I am fascinated. I've watched each of our team programmers code. It's very amusing. How they code gives me a unique insight to their personality. For instance...

John Bolton (lead programmer): When John programs, it looks like he's playing chess.
David Richey (tools programmer): David doesn't code. Beforehand, he thinks about his task in depth, like contemplating philosophy, then simply writes it up. Quite often you can look through David's office window and see him bent over in his chair, chin on fist, like The Thinker.
Mark Caldwell (NWC VP): You need to know Mark to really understand, but when Mark codes, it's like he's in a boxing ring, ducking shots, trading blows, and trash talking with the program.

Now take such individuals and do the unthinkable... Make them into a team. Worse yet, force them to have meetings in which they must interact on a social level and agree to work together. Worse yet, force them to interact with right-brained artists and game designers.
It's a wonder any games ever get made.
Join designer Greg Fulton as gives us his very last Designer Diary entry, which tracks the last days of Heroes of Might and Magic III. In these last few days, the team waited anxiously to approve the gold candidate. But there is no rest for Greg, as he mentions a little something about the expansion disc. Join us as we count down the final development of Heroes III.
01/07/99
Ever heard the phrase "thousand tile stare"?
It's a phrase used by our mapmakers. You get the thousand tile stare from making H3 maps all day long.
Today I got the thousand tile stare after making a map for our eventual game demo.
It's a very simple, small map, letting players experience a portion of the game. Hopefully they'll experience enough and feel compelled to buy the game. I've been calling the map "Dead and Buried."
When I finished, I gave it to Chris Vanover (H3 assistant director) to play. Chris is an expert Heroes player. He's a good gauge of the map's difficulty.
Watching Chris play was a lot of fun. It allowed me to take a break from work and finally see the game in action. However, I am the worst person to have over your shoulder when you play.
Why? I'm a backseat driver. It's a bad habit from playing console games with friends.
Thus, I watched Chris play and second-guessed him all the way. We were like two old men spitting and complaining about the best strategy as Chris clicked his way through the game. It was rather humorous.
01/08/99
Today I gave the Dead and Buried map to a few select people to see if anyone could beat it in the allotted time frame of four game weeks.
One of my candidates was Jen Bullard. Jen is the only female tester in the QA area.
Upon entering the test area, I found Jennifer burning a candle at her desk. She wasn't afraid to comment aloud how everyone else in the test area doesn't wash their clothes often enough. She thinks they stink.
No sooner did I sit down to watch Jen play than the verbal bantering between the testers began.
Ryan Den, another one of our testers, was sure he found a bug and asked aloud if anyone had encountered the same bug. No one had. Immediately everyone began shouting "user error." Ryan thought they were all high... until he realized it was user error. Everyone then proceeded to playfully tear into Ryan yet again.
I must admit, our testers are pretty cool. Their interactions are quite amusing. They banter with the voracity of a knife fight, but it's rarely cruel.
01/14/99
Last night was my last chance to revise the game manual. Thus, I decided to pull an all-nighter to finish it. This was my first time being at NWC so late. I also experienced something completely new.
I had been drinking many free Cokes when my bladder reminded me who was really in charge. Without hesitation, I raced to the bathroom. I opened the door. It was dark. This is not unusual. The lights are hooked up to a motion sensor. To save energy, they turn on and off based on the presence of a moving body. Confident the lights would turn on, I strode into the bathroom.
The lights did not illuminate.
Fumbling around in the dark, I was able to find the light switch and flip it on.
Nothing.
Fumbling around some more, I found the door handle and exited the bathroom.
Moving quickly to Mark Caldwell's office (Mark and George were also working late), I told him, "The bathroom lights won't turn on." He said, "Yeah. The bathroom lights don't turn on after midnight." I asked, "How do you go to the bathroom with the lights off?" He answered, "Usually I just feel my way to the urinal."
"I need to take a crap."
"Hey, I wouldn't know anything about that. Get the flashlight from George."
"I need a flashlight?"
"Yeah."
So, I walked to George's office.
"I need the bathroom flashlight."
Giggling to himself under his breath, George reached into his desk and gave me a pocket flashlight. With flashlight in hand I returned to the bathroom where everything went according to plan.
I know game production has its odd moments, but... this one was really odd.
01/18/99
In the last days of a game's production, the game designer makes a desperate attempt to prevent features from being cut to make the deadline. However, if I got all the features I wanted, the game would never ship. Thus, there is always a tug of war between the game designer, management, programmers, and artists, to decide what gets into the game and what gets pushed back to the expansion or sequel.
Today I was doing my best to get a new hero into the game without too much additional programming or art. I realized I could get the results I needed by simply adding a new graphic and customizing an existing game hero. Even better, I could get the graphic from existing art in the intro movie. All the artist had to do was crop a freeze-frame from the movie and give it to our asset manager to be put into the game. I could customize the hero in the editor. All the programmers had to do was recognize the character's unique identification.
Well, we did.
I wonder how much longer I can push my luck.
01/19/99
I have become the Walmart floor manager.
No. I haven't quit my job.
Let me explain.
At this stage in the making of the game, I find myself spending most of my time walking the halls with my Notepad of Oppression waiting for people to call out my name.
The notepad is a list of issues needing resolution. Most people find the notepad humorous unless their name is on it. Ironically, I end up putting my name on the notepad more than anyone else's (I'm oppressing myself).
Regardless, when I am walking the halls and someone calls out my name, I duck into their office to answer their questions. Sometimes this means getting on their phone and calling someone else to clear up an issue. If I don't have the answer, I'm the intermediary.
Thus, I feel like the Walmart floor manager, roaming the isles, taking care of arising issues. All I really need is the blue vest.
01/20/99
For a moment, consider most game manuals. Usually, a manual details the game interface and introduces you to the various game elements. Rarely do these manuals give you true game statistics.
For Heroes III , we wanted to buck this trend. Using the Heroes II strategy guide as a model, we decided to make a big manual loaded with information. This is exactly what we did - 144 pages.
Today we signed off on the manual. Well, no sooner did the ink dry than we discovered some errors. It was terrifying. I literally sat at my desk, looking at the errors I had discovered, and heard the manual mocking me with the chittering of a wild hyena.
There was nothing I could do. It was carved in stone. Now understand, most manuals ship with some errors. This is what the Readme is for. However, several people had gone over this manual time and again, and still there were errors.
I'll never make a big manual again. It's too much upkeep considering the fluidity of game design.
I'm sure I'll lose some sleep over this.
1/25/99
Today the Coke machine caught fire.
Let me repeat this.
Today the Coke machine caught fire.
Since we started crunching, around 7:00pm each night, Mark Caldwell (NWC VP) has been unlocking the Coke machine for free drinks to go with our evening meal. We don't continue pressing the selection buttons for the various drinks. Instead, we literally open up the front half of this big, red, half-ton refrigerator, made to withstand the assaults of the most juvenile of delinquents.
Now, I'm not exactly clear on the details, but one of the testers pulled open the front door to grab a soda from inside. Apparently, some of the electrical wires were sheared, followed by fire and smoke.
Upon seeing the fire and smelling the smoke, the tester grabbed Ben Bent (NWC office manager and part-time game director). He then pointed out the fire in the Coke machine.
With perfect calm, Ben simply unplugged the Coke machine. Poof. The fire went away.
I must admit, I can't help but see the fire in the Coke machine as a metaphor for Heroes III in production. A fire starts, someone panics, and someone else calmly solves the problem.
Truthfully, it's the story of the game production process.
2/07/99 Sunday
Today could be the day.
We've decided to make a "final candidate" CD-ROM for 3DO approval. A final candidate is what we consider "ready to ship." We then send the final candidate to 3DO for them to do shrink-wrap testing.
Tonight, no one leaves the building until the game is finished.
2/08/99 Monday
It's 5:00am Monday morning.
We just started burning the final candidate.
About half the team is still here.
We've been crunching too long. Everyone's burnt.
About 15 minutes ago, Mark starting broadcasting Money For Nothing over everyone's speakerphone.
Ironic.
02/13/99
I am literally weak-kneed. Except for writing this entry, all I intend to do is just sit in my office chair and do everything I possibly can to do nothing.
As of 8:30 Saturday, February 13, we're calling it good Barring last-second crash bugs, the game is done.
It's 9:30, and with the realization the game is done, already I'm beginning to crash.
After crunching for so long, the crash is the aftereffect. This is the time when you finally realize you can relax and return to a somewhat normal life. This is also the flag signaling the release of all the pent-up stress and illness you've been holding off by sheer will for the past six months. Thus... crash.
Wow.
We're done.
02/14/99
Four days after announcing Heroes has gone gold, we're already talking about the expansion pack. Already, I've assembled my map makers. They're good people. With H3 under their belts they should make even better maps for the expansion.
The downside? Chris Vanover is moving onto a different project. Technically Chris was H3's assistant director, but I adopted him as my assistant designer. He was a big help in many of the grunt areas. I was hoping to hand the expansion off to Chris so I could concentrate on the next Heroes.
No such luck.
Ultimately, this means vacation must wait.
(whimper)
Where is a monkey boy when you need one?
02/19/99
David Mullich's (Heroes III director) wife was pregnant and expecting about the same time as E3 last year (Atlanta '98). So, he couldn't go and demonstrate the game.
I was the next logical choice. I know the game better than anyone else, and when needed, I can turn on the charm.
Now don't get me wrong, when I have demoed the game, it has been a delight. Yet, as a game, Heroes III doesn't demo well. It's a turn-based game. It's not a first-person shooter or real-time strategy game. There's no real immediate reward for your attention span to latch onto.
However, Heroes does have a very large, very dedicated following. Thus, most people who want to see Heroes are already fans. This was the case at E3.
At E3 I did the vast majority of the presentations. I did so many I ended up losing my voice. Almost all the people who saw the game were fans of Heroes and liked what they saw. We were so successful, people were taking chairs from the other game stations to sit in front of ours.
Well, the downside to my work at E3 was... I became the demo guy. The downside of being the demo guy is traveling.
I hate traveling.
Once I arrive at my destination, there's no problem. I'm just impatient by nature. I'm also 6'1" and hate sitting in supercramped airline seats.
So, today I got to fly up to 3DO with Peter Ryu (MM7 producer), Keith Francart (MM7 director), and Jeff Blatner (new Heroes producer) to give presentations on MM7 and Heroes III to our Ubi Soft partners and a smattering of European journalists.
As much as I hated getting up at 5:30am and traveling to San Francisco (less than one week after going gold), the trip was amusing for a number of reasons.
Since I have been at New World, Peter Ryu has always worn shorts and sandals. For the presentation, Pete was ordered to wear pants and shoes. Throughout the day, he was wincing as the shoes rubbed his feet raw.
The other amusing part was hanging out with the French chicks from Ubi Soft and the European press.
Last time I was at 3DO I did an H3 presentation to a number of European journalists. Not a French woman among them. It was different this time, and dare I say, worth the trip.
02/22/99
David Mullich (H3 director), George Ruof (H3 programmer), and I are the only members of the team in the building today. Everyone else is on vacation.
Over the weekend I began my self-rehabilitation for returning to the real world.
When you do nothing but work 12-14 hours a day, seven days a week, and then it all comes to an abrupt halt, you suddenly find you have all this spare time on your hands.
Ultimately, you become bored. You don't know what to do with yourself because your "normal" situation meant working on the game... but the game is finished. Normal has become different and no longer normal.
A logical assumption for curing this boredom would be a vacation. Not yet. I've got to write the design for the expansion disc. I've got two weeks before it is due. After hammering out the specs, everyone will be briefed, then I can go on vacation.
I've got it all planned out. I haven't seen my parents since Christmas of 1997. So, I'm going to go back home and sit in the rocking chair in front of my dad's big-screen TV and watch nothing but cable television for at least two weeks. You heard me. Nothing but CNN Headline News for two weeks. If by then I'm not properly vegetated, I'll watch it for another week. Then I'll track down my old high school girlfriend and see if she's still single.
I've set up an e-mail address for your feedback about the game when it hits the shelves. This e-mail is merely for player feedback and suggestions. I will be the one reading the e-mails, and most likely, I won't be answering any of them. So, don't flame me if I don't respond. [heroes@3do.com](mailto:heroes@3do.com).
I've enjoyed writing these diaries. I wish I had been able to dedicate more time to them.
My apologies to Elliott Chin (who made these diaries possible). Elliott wanted me to talk about the design philosophy behind H3. After practicing design philosophy 12-14 hours a day, I couldn't bring myself to write a diary about it. So, I thought I'd do "a day in the life." I hope you enjoyed my tongue-in-cheek account.
I leave you with the following words I once heard the great Jon Van Caneghem speak, "When it's all over you'll forget how hard it was and do it all over again."
He's right. We will.

If you look at the liner notes for The Last Jedi, you'll see a funny musician credit:
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Kazoo
Jerry Hey

I'm pretty sure this shows up only on the Canto Bight track, with a little bit of electronic processing, but still recognizable.
Jerry Hey is not actually a professional kazoo player. He's more well-known as a trumpeter and flugelhorn player, has won multiple Grammy Awards, and has appeared on tons of albums as a musician, arranger, or orchestrator.
He also has another Star Wars credit: composer of Jedi Rocks...not an uncontroversial addition to Return of the Jedi... (but don't blame the musician!).
No matter my other professional qualifications, I'm sure I wouldn't mind having a kazoo credit for John Williams!

FT: Loudoun Utd. 1-3 New Mexico Utd.

Scorers: Moreno 37', Wehan 52', Rivas 64', Williamson (pen.) 87'
Assists: Wehan 37', Moar 52'
Discipline: Armenakas 45+3', Ryden 54', Moar 73', Ryden (2YC) 85'
Venue: Segra Field, Leesburg, VA
Attendance: 1,527
Competition: USL-C Western Conference, Matchday 9
Match Official: Luis Arroyo
TEAM SHEET

• Loudoun Utd. (3-4-1-2)
  
• Head Coach: Ryan Martin
  

Starting XI: H. Fauroux (GK); H. Sargis, B. Washington, D. Chica; K. Santos, P. Armenakas, A. Rocha, K. Elmedkhar; J. Garay; Z. Ryan, T. Williamson
Subs: D. Jacomen (GK), A. Zanne, A. Koanda, W. Leggett, J. Ramirez, H. Landry, B. Chavez

• New Mexico Utd. (4-3-3)
  
• Head Coach: Zach Prince
  

Starting XI: A. Tambakis (GK); H. Swartz, W. Seymore, K. Ryden, A. Yearwood; S. Rivas, J. Portillo, S. Moar; C. Wehan, A. Waggoner, A. Moreno
Subs: F. Parker (GK), J. Suggs, J. Dolling, G. Hurst, K. Colonna, J. Sosa, A. Robles
MATCH EVENTS
0': Kickoff!
37': GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLL!! Moreno scores off a cross from Wehan in the 6 yard box! We lead with just our 2nd shot of the game and the 1st on target. LDN 0-1 NMU
45': 3 minutes added on.
45+3': P. Armenakas (LDN) earns a yellow card for fouling Harry Swartz.
HT: LDN 0-1 NMU
46': Second half kickoff!
46': NMU substitution 1/5: J. Suggs comes on for A. Yearwood. LDN substitution 1/5: H. Landry replaces H. Sargis.
52': GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!!! Chris Wehan scores at the conclusion of a great counterattack! Santi Moar slid a diagonal ball in front of 3 players, and Wehan got there first! LDN 0-2 NMU
54': K. Ryden (NMU) is shown the yellow card for a foul on Elmedkhar.
56': NMU substitution 2/5: G. Hurst comes in for C. Wehan.
64': GOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAL!!! It's Sergio Rivas, latching onto Fauroux's save from Amando Moreno, which Rivas had originally set up! LDN 0-3 NMU
67': LDN substitutions 2/5 & 3/5: W. Leggett replaces P. Armenakas, and A. Zanne enters for K. Elmedkar.
70': NMU substitutions 3/5 & 4/5: J. Dolling and A. Robles replace A. Waggoner and S. Moar, respectively.
73': S. Moar (NMU) sees a yellow card.
74': LDN substitution 4/5: A. Koanda comes on for K. Santos.
80': NMU substitution 5/5: K. Colonna comes on for J. Portillo.
82': LDN substitution 5/5: B. Chavez comes on for Z. Ryan.
85': Penalty call! K. Ryden sees a second card for contact on Leggett, and he's sent off!
87': GOAL! T. Williamson scores from the spot to spoil the clean sheet! LDN 1-3 NMU
90': 5 minutes added on.
FT: LDN 1-3 NMU

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Morris Hillquit (author) - History of Socialism in the United States (Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition; 1910) https://archive.org/details/historyofsociali00hilluoft (Public domain)
Morris Hillquit (author) - Loose Leaves from a Busy Life (1934) https://archive.org/details/looseleavesfromb0000unse_x3v1 (Borrowable for 14 days)
Hugh D. Hindman - Child Labor: An American History (2002) https://archive.org/details/childlaborameric0000hind (Borrowable for 14 days)
John Hinshaw, Paul Le Blanc - U.S. Labor in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Working-Class Struggles and Insurgency (2000) https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781573928656 (Borrowable for 14 days)
Susan Eleanor Hirsch (author) - After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman (2003) https://archive.org/details/afterstrikecentu0000hirs (Borrowable for 14 days)
Dirk Hoerder - "Struggle a Hard Battle": Essays on Working-Class Immigrants (1986) https://archive.org/details/strugglehardbatt00hoer (Borrowable for 14 days)
Michael K. Honey - Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers (1993) https://archive.org/details/southernlaborbla0000hone (Borrowable for 14 days)
Michael Keith Honey - Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle (1999) https://archive.org/details/blackworkersreme0000hone (Borrowable for 14 days)
Michael K. Honey (author) - Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign (2007) https://archive.org/details/goingdownjericho0000hone (Borrowable for 14 days)
Roger Horowitz (author) - "Negro and White, Unite and Fight!": A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-90 (1997) https://archive.org/details/negrowhiteunitef0000horo (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Victor Howard - "We Were the Salt of the Earth!": A Narrative of the On-to-Ottawa Trek and the Regina Riot (1985) https://archive.org/details/weweresaltofeart0000howa (Borrowable for 14 days)
Hosea Hudson - Black Worker in the Deep South: A Personal Record (1991) https://archive.org/details/blackworkerindee00huds (Borrowable for 14 days)
Horace Huntley, David Montgomery (editors) - Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham (2004) https://archive.org/details/blackworkersstru0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Janet Irons (author) - Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South (2000) https://archive.org/details/testingnewdealge0000iron (Borrowable for 14 days)
Andrew Jackson, Mark P. Thomas (authors) - Work and Labour in Canada: Critical Issues (2017) https://archive.org/details/worklabourincana0000jack_v6d1 (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Stuart Marshall Jamieson - Labor Unionism in American Agriculture (1945) https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/labor-unionism-american-agriculture-4306 (Public domain)
Vernon H. Jensen - Heritage of Conflict: Labor Relations in the Nonferrous Metals Industry up to 1930 (1950) https://archive.org/details/heritageofconfli0000jens (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Edward P. Johanningsmeier - Forging American Communism: The Life of William Z. Foster (1994) https://archive.org/details/forgingamericanc0000joha (Borrowable for 14 days)
Bernard K. Johnpoll - Pacifist's Progress: Norman Thomas and the Decline of American Socialism (1970) https://archive.org/details/pacifistsprogres0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Bernard K. Johnpoll, Lillian Johnpoll - The Impossible Dream: The Rise and Demise of the American Left (1981) https://archive.org/details/impossibledreamr0000john (Borrowable for 14 days)
Bernard K. Johnpoll, Harvey Klehr - Biographical Dictionary of the American Left (1986) https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict0000unse_o7r7 (Borrowable for 14 days)
Christopher H. Johnson - Maurice Sugar: Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1950 (1988) https://archive.org/details/mauricesugarlawl0000john (Borrowable for 14 days)
Jennifer Johnson (author) - Getting By on the Minimum: The Lives of Working-Class Women (2002) https://archive.org/details/gettingbyonminim0000john (Borrowable for 14 days)
Mother Jones - Autobiography of Mother Jones (1925) https://archive.org/details/autobiographyofm00jone (Public domain)
Matthew Josephson - Sidney Hillman: Statesman of American Labor (1952) https://archive.org/details/sidneyhillmansta00jose (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Maurice Jourdane - The Struggle for the Health and Legal Protection of Farm Workers: El Cortico (2004) https://archive.org/details/struggleforhealt0000jour (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Max M. Kampelman - The Communist Party vs. the C.I.O.: A Study in Power Politics (1957) https://archive.org/details/communistpartyvs0000kamp (Borrowable for 14 days)
Marc Karson - American Labor Unions and Politics, 1900-1918 (1958) https://archive.org/details/americanlaboruni0001kars (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Daniel Katz - All Together Different: Yiddish Socialists, Garment Workers, and the Labor Roots of Multiculturalism (2011) https://archive.org/details/alltogetherdiffe0000katz (Borrowable for 14 days)
Daniel Katz, Richard A. Greenwald (editors) - Labor Rising: The Past and Future of Working People in America (2012) https://archive.org/details/laborrisingpastf00gree_0 (Borrowable for 14 days)
Stuart Bruce Kaufman - Samuel Gompers and the Origins of the American Federation of Labor, 1848-1896 (1973) https://archive.org/details/samuelgompersori0000kauf (Borrowable for 14 days)
Stuart Bruce Kaufman - A Vision of Unity: The History of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers International Union (1986) https://archive.org/details/visionofunityhis0000kauf (Borrowable for 14 days)
Stuart Bruce Kaufman - Challenge & Change: The History of the Tobacco Workers International Union (1986) https://archive.org/details/challengechangeh0000kauf (Borrowable for 14 days)
Stuart B. Kaufman - The Samuel Gompers Papers: Volume 1: The Making of a Union Leader, 1850-86 (1986) https://archive.org/details/samuelgomperspap0000unse_b1a3 (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Stuart B. Kaufman - The Samuel Gompers Papers: Volume 2: The Early Years of the American Federation of Labor, 1887-90 (1987) https://archive.org/details/samuelgomperspap0002unse (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Stuart B. Kaufman, Peter J. Albert - The Samuel Gompers Papers: Volume 3: Unrest and Depression, 1891-94 (1989) https://archive.org/details/unrestdepression0003gomp (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Stuart B. Kaufman, Peter J. Albert, Grace Palladino - The Samuel Gompers Papers: Volume 4: A National Labor Movement Takes Shape, 1895-98 (1991) https://archive.org/details/samuelgomperspap0004unse (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Stuart B. Kaufman, Peter J. Albert, Grace Palladino - The Samuel Gompers Papers: Volume 5: An Expanding Movement at the Turn of the Century, 1898-1902 (1996) https://archive.org/details/samuelgomperspap0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Stuart B. Kaufman, Peter J. Albert, Grace Palladino - The Samuel Gompers Papers: Volume 6: The American Federation of Labor and the Rise of Progressivism, 1902-6 (1997) https://archive.org/details/samuelgomperspap0006unse (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Gregory S. Kealey, Bryan D. Palmer - Dreaming of What Might Be: The Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880-1900 (1982) https://archive.org/details/dreamingofwhatmi00keal (Borrowable for 14 days)
Gregory S. Kealey (author) - Workers and Canadian History (1995) https://archive.org/details/workerscanadianh0000keal (Borrowable for 14 days)
Gregory S. Kealey, Peter Warrian (editors) - Essays in Canadian Working Class History (1976) https://archive.org/details/essaysincanadian0000unse_l3x1 (Borrowable for 14 days)
Linda Kealey - Enlisting Women for the Cause: Women, Labour, and the Left in Canada, 1890-1920 (1998) https://archive.org/details/enlistingwomenfo0000keal (Borrowable for 14 days)
Hartmut Keil, John B. Jentz - German Workers in Chicago: A Documentary History of Working-Class Culture from 1850 to World War I (1988) https://archive.org/details/germanworkersinc0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Harry Kelber (author) - My 70 Years in the Labor Movement (2006) https://archive.org/details/my70yearsinlabor0000kelb (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Peter Kellman (author) - Divided We Fall: The Story of the Paperworkers' Union and the Future of Labor (2004) https://archive.org/details/dividedwefallsto0000kell (Borrowable for 1 hour)
James J. Kenneally - Women and American Trade Unions (1981) https://archive.org/details/womenamericantra00kenn (Borrowable for 14 days)
Susan Estabrook Kennedy - If All We Did Was To Weep At Home: A History of White Working-Class Women in America (1979) https://archive.org/details/ifallwedidwastow00susa (Borrowable for 14 days)
Alice Kessler-Harris (author) - Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (1982) https://archive.org/details/outtoworkhistory00kess_0 (Borrowable for 14 days)
Alexander Keyssar - Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts (1986) https://archive.org/details/outofworkfirstce0000keys (Borrowable for 14 days)
Howard Kimeldorf (author) - Battling for American Labor: Wobblies, Craft Workers, and the Making of the Union Movement (1999) https://archive.org/details/battlingforameri0000kime (Borrowable for 14 days)
Martin Luther King Jr., Michael K. Honey - "All Labor Has Dignity" (2011) https://archive.org/details/alllaborhasdigni0000king (Borrowable for 14 days)
Ira Kipnis - The American Socialist Movement, 1897-1912 (1952) https://archive.org/details/americansocialis0000unse_n1j4 (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Harvey Klehr - The Heyday of American Communism: The Depression Decade (1984) https://archive.org/details/heydayofamerican0000kleh (Borrowable for 14 days)
Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, Kyrill M. Anderson - The Soviet World of American Communism (1998) https://archive.org/details/sovietworldofame0000kleh (Borrowable for 14 days)
Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov - The Secret World of American Communism (1995) https://archive.org/details/secretworldofame0000kleh (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Jeffrey D. Kleiman - Strike!: How the Furniture Workers Strike of 1911 Changed Grand Rapids (2006) https://archive.org/details/isbn_2900977904302 (Borrowable for 14 days)
Joyce L. Kornbluh (editor) - Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology (2011) https://archive.org/details/rebelvoicesiwwan0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Robert Rodgers Korstad (author) - Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South (2003) https://archive.org/details/civilrightsunion0000kors (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Philip Korth - Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 (1995) https://archive.org/details/minneapolisteams0000kort (Borrowable for 14 days)
Philip A. Korth, Margaret R. Beegle - I Remember Like Today: The Auto-Lite Strike of 1934 (1988) https://archive.org/details/irememberliketod0000kort (Borrowable for 14 days)
Aileen S. Kraditor - "Jimmy Higgins": The Mental World of the American Rank-and-File Communist, 1930-1958 (1988) https://archive.org/details/jimmyhigginsment00krad (Borrowable for 14 days)
Henry Kraus - Heroes of Unwritten Story: The UAW, 1934-39 (1993) https://archive.org/details/heroesofunwritte0000krau (Borrowable for 14 days)
Clifford M. Kuhn - Contesting the New South Order: The 1914-1915 Strike at Atlanta's Fulton Mills (2001) https://archive.org/details/contestingnewsou0000kuhn (Borrowable for 14 days)
Josiah Bartlett Lambert (author) - "If the Workers Took a Nation": The Right to Strike and American Political Development (2005) https://archive.org/details/ifworkerstooknot0000lamb (Borrowable for 14 days)
Michèle Lamont (author) - The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration (2000) https://archive.org/details/dignityofworking00lamo (Borrowable for 14 days)
Eric Larson - Jobs with Justice: 25 Years, 25 Voices (2013) https://archive.org/details/jobswithjustice20000lars (Borrowable for 14 days)
Simeon Larson, Bruce Nissen (editors) - Theories of the Labor Movement (1987) https://archive.org/details/theoriesoflaborm0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
John H. M. Laslett - Labor and the Left: A Study of Socialist and Radical Influences in the American Labor Movement, 1881-1924 (1970) https://archive.org/details/laborleftstudyof0000lasl (Borrowable for 14 days)
John H. M. Laslett, Seymour Martin Lipset - Failure of a Dream?: Essays in the History of American Socialism (Revised Edition) (1984) https://archive.org/details/failureofdreames0000unse (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Bruce Laurie - Working People of Philadelphia, 1800-1850 (1980) https://archive.org/details/workingpeopleofp00bruc (Borrowable for 14 days)
Bruce Laurie - Artisans into Workers: Labor in Nineteenth-Century America (1989) https://archive.org/details/artisansintowork0000laur (Borrowable for 14 days)
Paul Le Blanc (actor) - A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-first Century (1999) https://archive.org/details/shorthistoryofus0000lebl (Borrowable for 14 days)
Elaine Leeder (author) - The Gentle General: Rosa Pesotta, Anarchist and Labor Organizer (1993) https://archive.org/details/gentlegeneralros0000leed (Borrowable for 14 days)
John C. Leggett - Class, Race, and Labor: Working-Class Consciousness in Detroit (1968) https://archive.org/details/classracelaborw00legg (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Jerry Lembcke, William M. Tattam (authors) - One Union in Wood: A Political History of the International Woodworkers of America (1984) https://archive.org/details/oneunioninwood0000lemb (Borrowable for 14 days)
Sidney Lens - Left, Right & Center: Conflicting Forces in American Labor (1949) https://archive.org/details/leftrightcenterc0000lens (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Sidney Lens - The Labor Wars: From the Molly Maguires to the Sitdowns (1973) https://archive.org/details/laborwarsfrommol0000lens (Borrowable for 14 days)
Sidney Lens - Unrepentant Radical: An American Activist's Account of Five Turbulent Decades (1980) https://archive.org/details/unrepentantradic00lens (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Les Leopold - The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi (2007) https://archive.org/details/manwhohatedworka00leop (Borrowable for 14 days)
Harvey A. Levenstein - Labor Organizations in the United States and Mexico: A History of Their Relations (1971) https://archive.org/details/labororganizatio0000leve (Borrowable for 14 days)
Harvey A. Levenstein - Communism, Anticommunism, and the CIO (1981) https://archive.org/details/communismanticom0000leve (Borrowable for 14 days)
Edward Levinson - Labor on the March (1995) https://archive.org/details/laboronmarch00levi (Borrowable for 14 days)
Walter Licht (author) - Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840-1950 (1992) https://archive.org/details/gettingworkphila0000lich (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Nelson Lichtenstein - Walter Reuther: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit (1995) https://archive.org/details/walterreuthermos00lich (Borrowable for 14 days)
Nelson Lichtenstein - State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (2002) https://archive.org/details/stateofunioncent2002lich (Borrowable for 14 days)
Almont Lindsey (author) - The Pullman Strike: The Story of a Unique Experiment and of a Great Labor Upheaval (1942) https://archive.org/details/pullmanstrikesto0000lind (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Lawrence M. Lipin - Producers, Proletarians, and Politicians: Workers and Party Politics in Evansville and New Albany Indiana, 1850-87 (1994) https://archive.org/details/producersproleta0000lipi (Borrowable for 1 hour)
H. A. Logan - Trade Unions in Canada: Their Development and Functioning (1948) https://archive.org/details/tradeunionsincan0000loga (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Steven Henry Lopez (author) - Reorganizing the Rust Belt: An Inside Study of the American Labor Movement (2004) https://archive.org/details/reorganizingrust0000lope (Borrowable for 14 days)
James J. Lorence - Organizing the Unemployed: Community and Union Activists in the Industrial Heartland (1996) https://archive.org/details/organizingunempl0000lore (Borrowable for 14 days)
Edward C. Lorenz (author) - Defining Global Justice: The History of U.S. International Labor Standards Policy (2001) https://archive.org/details/definingglobalju0000lore (Borrowable for 14 days)
Lewis L. Lorwin - The American Federation of Labor: History, Policies, and Prospects (1933) https://archive.org/details/americanfederati0000lorw_v2u9 (Borrowable for 14 days)
Miriam Ching Yoon Louie (author) - Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take On the Global Factory (2001) https://archive.org/details/sweatshopwarrior00loui (Borrowable for 14 days)
Jay Lovestone - The Government-Strikebreaker: A Study of the Role of the Government in the Recent Industrial Crisis (1923) https://archive.org/details/governmentstrike00love (Public domain)
Beatrice Lumpkin - "Always Bring a Crowd!": The Story of Frank Lumpkin, Steelworker (1999) https://archive.org/details/alwaysbringcrowd0000lump (Borrowable for 14 days)
Alice Lynd, Staughton Lynd (editors) - Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working-Class Organizers (1988) https://archive.org/details/rankfilepersonal0000unse (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Staughton Lynd (editor) - American Labor Radicalism: Testimonies and Interpretations (1973) https://archive.org/details/americanlaborrad0885lynd (Borrowable for 14 days)
Staughton Lynd (author) - The Fight Against Shutdowns: Youngstown's Steel Mill Closings (1982) https://archive.org/details/fightagainstshut0000lynd (Borrowable for 14 days)
Staughton Lynd (editor) - "We Are All Leaders": The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s (1996) https://archive.org/details/weareallleadersa0000unse (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Staughton Lynd, Alice Lynd (editors) - The New Rank and File (2000) https://archive.org/details/newrankfile0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Laurel Sefton MacDowell (author) - 'Remember Kirkland Lake': The History and Effects of the Kirkland Lake Gold Miners' Strike, 1941-42 (1983) https://archive.org/details/rememberkirkland0000macd (Borrowable for 14 days)
Laurel Sefton MacDowell, Ian Radforth (editors) - Canadian Working-Class History: Selected Readings (Third Edition; 2006) https://archive.org/details/canadianworkingc0000unse_v6j4 (Borrowable for 14 days)
Charles A. Madison - American Labor Leaders: Personalities and Forces in the Labor Movement (Second, Enlarged Edition) (1950) https://archive.org/details/americanlaborlea0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Richard Magat (author) - Unlikely Partners: Philanthropic Foundations and the Labor Movement (1999) https://archive.org/details/unlikelypartners00maga_0 (Borrowable for 14 days)
Bernard Mandel - Labor: Free and Slave: Workingmen and the Anti-Slavery Movement in the United States (1955) https://archive.org/details/laborfreeslave0000unse (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Bernard Mandel - Samuel Gompers: A Biography (1963) https://archive.org/details/samuelgompersbio0000mand (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Gerald Markowitz, David Rosner - "Slaves of the Depression": Workers' Letters About Life on the Job (1987) https://archive.org/details/slavesofdepressi00mark (Borrowable for 14 days)
Linda Markowitz (author) - Worker Activism After Successful Union Organizing (2000) https://archive.org/details/workeractivismaf0000mark (Borrowable for 14 days)
Frank Marquart - An Auto Worker's Journal: The UAW from Crusade to One-Party Union (1975) https://archive.org/details/autoworkersjourn0000marq (Borrowable for 14 days)
Philip L. Martin (author) - Promise Unfulfilled: Unions, Immigration and the Farm Workers (2003) https://archive.org/details/promiseunfulfill0000mart (Borrowable for 14 days)
Lucy Randolph Mason (author) - To Win These Rights: A Personal Story of the CIO in the South (1952) https://archive.org/details/towintheserights0000unse (Borrowable for 1 hour)
James J. Matles, James Higgins - Them and Us: Struggles of a Rank-and-File Union (1974) https://archive.org/details/themusstruggleso0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Joseph A. McCartin - Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America (2011) https://archive.org/details/collisioncourser0000mcca_v7z2 (Borrowable for 14 days)
LaRue McCormick - Activist in the Radical Movement, 1930-1960, the International Labor Defense, the Communist Party (1980) https://archive.org/details/activistmccorrad00larurich (Transcript)
Carolyn Daniel McCreesh (author) - Women in the Campaign to Organize Garment Worekrs, 1880-1917 (1985) https://archive.org/details/womenincampaignt0000mccr (Borrowable for 14 days)
Robert S. McElvaine - Down & Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man (1983) https://archive.org/details/downoutingreatd00sour (Borrowable for 14 days)
George S. McGovern, Leonard F. Guttridge - The Great Coalfield War (1972) https://archive.org/details/greatcoalfieldwa0000mcgo (Borrowable for 14 days)
Doris B. McLaughlin - Michigan Labor: A Brief History from 1818 to the Present (1970) https://archive.org/details/michiganlaborbri0000mcla (Borrowable for 14 days)
Melton Alonza McLaurin - Paternalism and Protest: Southern Cotton Mill Workers and Organized Labor, 1875-1905 (1971) https://archive.org/details/paternalismprote0000mcla (Borrowable for 14 days)
Donald L. McMurry - The Great Burlington Strike of 1888: A Case History in Labor Relations (1956) https://archive.org/details/greatburlingtons0000mcmu (Borrowable for 14 days)
Donald L. McMurry - Coxey's Army: A Study of the Industrial Army Movement of 1894 (1968) https://archive.org/details/coxeysarmystudyo0000mcmu (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Carey McWilliams (author) - Ill Fares the Land: Migrants and Migratory Labor in the United States (1942) https://archive.org/details/illfareslandmigr0000mcwi (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Carey McWilliams (author) - Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California (1999) https://archive.org/details/factoriesinfield0000mcwi_d6d5 (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Philip J. Mellinger (author) - Race and Labor in Western Copper: The Fight for Equality, 1896-1918 (1995) https://archive.org/details/racelaborinweste0000mell (Borrowable for 14 days)
Tony Michels (author) - A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York (2005) https://archive.org/details/fireintheirheart0000mich (Borrowable for 14 days)
Dione Miles - Something in Common: An IWW Bibliography (1986) https://archive.org/details/somethingincommo0000mile (Borrowable for 14 days)
Ruth Milkman - Women, Work and Protest: A Century of US Women's Labor History (1985) https://archive.org/details/womenworkprotest0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Ruth Milkman - Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century (1997) https://archive.org/details/farewelltofactor0000milk (Borrowable for 14 days)
Ruth Milkman (editor) - Organizing Immigrants: The Challenge for Unions in Contemporary California (2000) https://archive.org/details/organizingimmigr0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Ruth Milkman (author) - L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement (2006) https://archive.org/details/isbn_2900871546356 (Borrowable for 14 days)
Ruth Milkman, Kim Voss (editors) - Rebuilding Labor: Organizing and Organizers in the New Union Movement (2004) https://archive.org/details/rebuildinglaboro0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Sally M. Miller - Victor Berger and the Promise of Constructive Socialism, 1910-1920 (1973) https://archive.org/details/victorbergerprom0000mill (Borrowable for 14 days)
Sally M. Miller - From Prairie to Prison: The Life of Social Activist Kate Richards O'Hare (1993) https://archive.org/details/fromprairietopri00mill (Borrowable for 14 days)
Sally M. Miller, Daniel A. Cornford (editors) - American Labor in the Era of World War II (1995) https://archive.org/details/americanlaborine0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Timothy J. Minchin (author) - What Do We Need a Union For?: The TWUA in the South, 1945-1955 (1997) https://archive.org/details/whatdoweneedunio0000minc (Borrowable for 14 days)
Timothy J. Minchin (author) - Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980 (1990) https://archive.org/details/hiringblackworke0000minc (Borrowable for 14 days)
Timthoy J. Minchin (author) - The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980 (2000) https://archive.org/details/colorofworkstrug00minc (Borrowable for 14 days)
Timothy J. Minchin (author) - Fighting Against the Odds: A History of Southern Labor Since World War II (2005) https://archive.org/details/fightingagainsto0000minc (Borrowable for 14 days)
William A. Mirola - Redeeming Time: Protestantism and Chicago's Eight-Hour Movement, 1866-1912 (2015) https://archive.org/details/redeemingtimepro0000miro (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Ronald L. Mize, Alicia C. S. Swords (authors) - Consuming Mexican Labor: From the Bracero Program to NAFTA (2011) https://archive.org/details/consumingmexican0000mize (Borrowable for 14 days)
David Montgomery - Beyond Equality: Labor and the Radical Republicans, 1862-1872 (1967) https://archive.org/details/beyondequalityla0000mont (Borrowable for 1 hour)
David Montgomery - The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (1987) https://archive.org/details/fallofhouseoflab0000mont (Borrowable for 14 days)
J. Carroll Moody, Alice Kessler-Harris (editors) - Perspectives on American Labor History: The Problems of Synthesis (1990) https://archive.org/details/perspectivesonam0000unse_p4x5 (Borrowable for 14 days)
Kim Moody - An Injury to All: The Decline of American Unionism (1988) https://archive.org/details/injurytoalldecli0000mood (Borrowable for 14 days)
Paul D. Moreno (author) - Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History (2006) https://archive.org/details/blackamericansor0000more (Borrowable for 1 hour)
H. Wayne Morgan - Eugene V. Debs: Socialist for President (1962) https://archive.org/details/eugenevdebssocia0000morg (Borrowable for 1 hour)
James Naylor - The Fate of Labour Socialism: The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and the Dream of a Working-Class Future (2016) https://archive.org/details/fateoflaboursoci0000nayl (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Ruth Needleman (author) - Black Freedom Fighters in Steel: The Struggle for Democratic Unionism (2003) https://archive.org/details/blackfreedomfigh0000need (Borrowable for 14 days)
Bruce C. Nelson - Beyond the Martyrs: A Social History of Chicago's Anarchists, 1870-1900 (1988) https://archive.org/details/beyondmartyrssoc0000nels (Borrowable for 14 days)
Bruce Nelson (author) - Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality (2001) https://archive.org/details/dividedwestandam0000nels (Borrowable for 14 days)
Daniel Nelson - Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest, 1880-1990 (1995) https://archive.org/details/farmfactoryworke0000nels (Borrowable for 14 days)
Daniel Nelson (author) - Shifting Fortunes: The Rise and Decline of American Labor, from the 1820s to the Present (1997) https://archive.org/details/shiftingfortunes00nels (Borrowable for 14 days)
Andrew Neufeld, Andrew Parnaby (authors) - The IWA in Canada: The Life and Times of an Industrial Union (2000) https://archive.org/details/iwaincanadalifet0000neuf (Borrowable for 14 days)
Maurice F. Neufeld, Naiel J. Leab, Dorothy Swanson - American Working Class History: A Representative Bibliography (1983) https://archive.org/details/americanworkingc0000neuf (Borrowable for 14 days)
Peter E. Newell - The Impossibilists: A Brief Profile of the Socialist Party of Canada (2008) https://archive.org/details/impossibilistsbr0000newe (Borrowable for 14 days)
Katherine S. Newman (author) - Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market (2006) https://archive.org/details/chutesladdersnav0000newm (Borrowable for 14 days)
Philip Yale Nicholson (author) - Labor's Story in the United States (2004) https://archive.org/details/laborsstoryinuni0000nich (Borrowable for 14 days)
Kathleen Banks Nutter - The Necessity of Organization: Mary Kenney O'Sullivan and Trade Unionism for Women, 1892-1912 (2000) https://archive.org/details/necessityoforgan0000nutt (Borrowable for 14 days)
Ernest Obadele-Starks (author) - Black Unionism in the Industrial South (2000) https://archive.org/details/blackunionismini0000obad (Borrowable for 14 days)
Harvey O'Connor - History of Oil Workers Intl. Union (CIO) (1950) https://archive.org/details/historyofoilwork0000ocon (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Harvey O'Connor - Revolution in Seattle: A Memoir (1964) https://archive.org/details/revolutioninseat00ocon (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Jessie Lloyd O'Connor, Harvey O'Connor, Susan M. Bowler - Harvey and Jessie: A Couple of Radicals (1988) https://archive.org/details/harveyjessiecou00ocon (Borrowable for 14 days)
Richard Jules Oestreicher - Solidarity and Fragmentation: Working People and Class Consciousness in Detroit, 1875-1900 (1986) https://archive.org/details/solidarityfragme0000oest (Borrowable for 14 days)
Brigid O'Farrell, Joyce L. Kornbluh (authors) - Rocking the Boat: Union Women's Voices, 1915-1975 (1996) https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780813522692 (Borrowable for 14 days)
James Oneal - The Workers in American History (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) (1921) https://archive.org/details/workersinameri00onea (Public domain)
James Oneal - A History of the Amalgamated Ladies' Garment Cutters' Union, Local 10, Affiliated with The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (1927) https://archive.org/details/historyofamalgam00onea (Public domain)
James Oneal, G. A. Werner - American Communism: A Critical Analysis of its Origins, Development and Programs (New and Revised Edition) (1947) https://archive.org/details/americancommunis0000onea (Borrowable for 14 days)
Robert W. Ozanne - The Labor Movement in Wisconsin: A History (1984) https://archive.org/details/labormovementinw0000ozan (Borrowable for 14 days)
Kris Paap (author) - Working Construction: Why White Working-Class Men Put Themselves-and the Labor Movement-in Harm's Way (2006) https://archive.org/details/workingconstruct00paap (Borrowable for 14 days)
Nell Irvin Painter - The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: His Life as a Negro Communist in the South (1979) https://archive.org/details/narrativeofhosea0000huds (Borrowable for 14 days)
Bryan D. Palmer - A Communist Life: Jack Scott and the Canadian Workers Movement, 1927-1985 (1988) https://archive.org/details/communistlifejac0000scot (Borrowable for 14 days)
David Palmer - Organizing the Shipyards: Union Strategy in Three Northeast Ports, 1933-1945 (1998) https://archive.org/details/organizingshipya00palm (Borrowable for 14 days)
Leo Panitch, Donald Swartz (authors) - From Consent to Coercion: The Assault on Trade Union Freedoms (Third Edition; 2003) https://archive.org/details/fromconsenttocoe0000pani (Borrowable for 14 days)
Robert D. Parmet - The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement (2005) https://archive.org/details/masterofseventha0000parm (Borrowable for 14 days)
Karen Pastorello - A Power among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (2008) https://archive.org/details/poweramongthembe0000past (Borrowable for 14 days)
Brad A. Paul (author) - Rebels of the New South: The Socialist Party in Dixie, 1892-1920 (1999) https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2270&context=dissertations_1 (Dissertation)
Henry Pelling - American Labor (1960) https://archive.org/details/americanlabor0000pell_j0d4 (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Norman Penner - The Canadian Left: A Critical Analysis (1977) https://archive.org/details/canadianleftcrit0000penn (Borrowable for 14 days)
Norman Penner - Canadian Communism: The Stalin Years and Beyond (1988) https://archive.org/details/canadiancommunis0000penn (Borrowable for 14 days)
Selig Perlman - A History of Trade Unionism in the United States (1922) https://archive.org/details/historyoftradeun00perluoft (Public domain)
Selig Perlman, Philip Taft - History of Labor in the United States, 1896-1932: Volume IV: Labor Movements (1935) https://archive.org/details/historyoflaborin0004unse (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Rosa Pesotta (author), John Nicholas Beffel (editor) - Bread Upon the Waters (1987) https://archive.org/details/breaduponwaters00peso (Borrowable for 14 days)
Craig Phelan - William Green: Biography of a Labor Leader (1989) https://archive.org/details/williamgreenbiog00phel (Borrowable for 14 days)
Kimberley L. Phillips (author) - AlabamaNorth: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-45 (1999) https://archive.org/details/alabamanorthafri0000phil (Borrowable for 14 days)
Paul A. Phillips - No Power Greater: A Century of Labor in British Columbia (1967) https://archive.org/details/nopowergreater0000unse (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Terence V. Powderly, Harry J. Carman, Henry David, Paul N. Guthrie - The Path I Trod: The Autobiography of Terence V. Powderly (1940) https://archive.org/details/pathitrodautobio00powdrich (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Norma Fain Pratt - Morris Hillquit: A Political History of an American Jewish Socialist (1979) https://archive.org/details/morrishillquitpo0000prat (Borrowable for 14 days)
Art Preis (author) - Labor's Giant Step: Twenty Years of the CIO (1972) https://archive.org/details/laborssgiantstep0000unse (Borrowable for 1 hour)
William Preston Jr. - Aliens and Dissenters: Federal Suppression of Radicals, 1903-1933 (Second Edition) (1994) https://archive.org/details/aliensdissenters0000pres (Borrowable for 14 days)
Marco G. Prouty (author) - César Chávez, The Catholic Bishops, and the Farmworkers' Struggle for Social Justice (2006) https://archive.org/details/cesarchavezcatho0000prou (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Fran Quigley - If We can Win Here: The New Front Lines of the Labor Movement (2015) https://archive.org/details/ifwecanwinherene0000quig (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Howard H. Quint - The Forging of American Socialism: Origins of the Modern Movement (1964) https://archive.org/details/forgingofamerica0000quin (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Peter J. Rachleff - Black Labor in Richmond (1989) https://archive.org/details/blacklaborinrich0000rach (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Peter Rachleff - Hard-Pressed in the Heartland: The Hormel Strike and the Future of the Labor Movement (1993) https://archive.org/details/hardpressedinhea0000rach (Borrowable for 14 days)
Joseph G. Rayback - A History of American Labor (Expanded and Updated) (1966) https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica0000rayb_f5x7 (Borrowable for 14 days)
Louis S. Reed - The Labor Philosophy of Samuel Gompers (1930) https://archive.org/details/laborphilosophyo0000reed (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Merl E. Reed, Leslie S. Hough, Gary M. Fink - Southern Workers and Their Unions, 1880-1975: Selected Papers, The Second Southern Labor History Conference, 1978 (1981) https://archive.org/details/southernworkerst0000sout (Borrowable for 14 days)
Catherine Reef (author) - Working in America: An Eyewitness History (2000) https://archive.org/details/workinginamerica00cath (Borrowable for 14 days)
Carl Reeve - The Life and Times of Daniel De Leon (1971) https://archive.org/details/lifetimesofdanie0000reev (Borrowable for 14 days)
Charles M. Rehmus, Doris B. McLaughlin, Frederick H. Nesbitt - Labor and American Politics: A Book of Readings (Revised Edition) (1978) https://archive.org/details/laboramericanpol00rehm (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Adam D. Reich - With God on Our Side: The Struggle for Workers' Rights in a Catholic Hospital (2012) https://archive.org/details/withgodonourside0000reic (Borrowable for 14 days)
Patrick Renshaw - The Wobblies: The Story of the IWW and Syndicalism in the United States (New, Updated Edition) (1999) https://archive.org/details/wobbliesstoryofi0000rens (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Terry A. Repak (author) - Waiting on Washington: Central American Workers in the Nation's Capital (1995) https://archive.org/details/waitingonwashing0000repa (Borrowable for 14 days)
Chris Rhomberg - The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor (2012) https://archive.org/details/brokentabledetro0000rhom (Borrowable for 14 days)
Yevette Richards (author) - Maida Springer: Pan-Africanist and International Labor Leader (2000) https://archive.org/details/maidaspringerpan0000rich (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Lawrence Richards - Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture (2008) https://archive.org/details/unionfreeamerica0000rich (Borrowable for 14 days)
Yevette Richards - Maida Springer: Pan-Africanist and International Labor Leader (2000) https://archive.org/details/maidaspringerpan0000rich (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Al Richmond - A Long View from the Left: Memoirs of an American Revolutionary (1972) https://archive.org/details/longviewfromleft00rich (Borrowable for 14 days)
Irving Richter (author) - Labor's Struggles, 1945-1950: A Participant's View (1994) https://archive.org/details/laborsstruggles100rich (Borrowable for 14 days)
Angel Quintero Rivera - Workers' Struggle in Puerto Rico: A Documentary History (1976) https://archive.org/details/workersstrugglei00quin (Borrowable for 1 hour)

Best Picture
Asteroid City (Focus)
The Color Purple (Warner Bros)
Dune Part 2 (Warner Bros)
The Holdovers (Focus/Miramax)
How Do You Live? (TBA, likely GKIDS)
Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple/Paramount)
Maestro (Netflix)
May December (TBA)
Oppenheimer (Universal)
Past Lives (A24)
ALT: Saltburn (Amazon/UAR)
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Best Director
Blitz "the Ambassador" Bazawule - The Color Purple
Denis Villeneuve - Dune Part 2
Martin Scorsese - Killers of the Flower Moon
Christopher Nolan - Oppenheimer
Celine Song - Past Lives
ALT: Bradley Cooper - Maestro, Hayao Miyazaki - How Do You Live?
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Best Actor
Bradley Cooper - Maestro
Leonardo DiCaprio - Killers of the Flower Moon
Coleman Domingo - Rustin
Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer
ALT: A surprise
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Best Actress
Greta Lee - Past Lives
Carey Mulligan - Maestro
Natalie Portman - May December
Isabella Rossellini - La Chimera
Zendaya - Challengers
ALT: Fantasia Barrino - The Color Purple, Rosamund Pike - Saltburn
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Best Supporting Actor
Matt Bomer - Maestro
Robert Downey Jr - Oppenheimer
John Magaro - Past Lives
Jesse Plemons - Killers of the Flower Moon
Glynn Turman - Rustin
ALT: Robert De Niro - Killers of the Flower Moon
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Best Supporting Actress
Danielle Brooks - The Color Purple
Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon
Taraji P Henson - The Color Purple
Julianne Moore - May December
Da'Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers
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Best Original Screenplay
Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola - Asteroid City
David Hemmingson - The Holdovers
Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik - May December
Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer - Maestro
Celine Song - Past Lives
ALT: An acclaimed unseen contender
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Best Adapted Screenplay
Eric Roth, Jon Sphaits and Denis Villeneuve - Dune Part 2
Hayao Miyazaki - How Do You Live?
Eric Roth - Killers of the Flower Moon
Christopher Nolan - Oppenheimer
Tony McNamara - Poor Things
ALT: Marcus Gardley - The Color Purple
Wildcard: Jonathan Glazer - The Zone of Interest
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Best Animated Feature
Elemental (Peter Sohn, Disney/Pixar)
How Do You Live? (Hayao Miyazaki, TBA but likely GKIDS)
The Peasants (Dorota Kobiela, TBA)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K Thompson, Sony)
Wish (Chris Buck and Fawn Veerasthunthorn, Disney)
ALT: Nimona (Nick Bruno and Troy Quane, Netflix)
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Best International Film
About Dry Grasses (Turkey, TBA)
El Conde (Chile, Netflix)
Dead/Fallen Leaves (Finland, TBA but likely Janus Films)
How Do You Live? (Japan, TBA but likely GKIDS)
La Chimera (Italy, NEON)
ALT: The Perfumed Hill (Mauritania, Cohen Media Group) - if released in 2023

The other day I posted a list of who plays on each album. I bought the physical album and went through each track. For those who bought it digitally or like to visually who who played on each track and what they played here you go:

1. Pateient number 9

Andrew Watt- Guitar, Keyboards, backing vocals
Jeff Beck- Guitar
Zakk Wylde- Guitar, Keyboards
Robert Trujillo- Bass
Chad Smith- Drums
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1. Immortal

Andrew Watt- Guitar, backing vocals
Zakk Wylde- Guitar
Mike McCready- Guitar
Duff Mckagan- Bass
Chad Smith- Drums
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1. Parasite

Zakk Wylde- Guitar
Andrew Watt- Guitar, Piano, backing vocals
Robert Trujillo- Bass
Taylor Hawkins- Drums, Percussion
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1. No Escape From Now

Tonny Iommi- Guitar
Andrew Watt- Bass, backing vocals
Chad Smith- Drums
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1. One of Those Days

Andrew Watt- Guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
Eric Clapton- Guitar
Duff Mckagan- Bass
Zakk Wylde- Keyboards
Chad Smith- Drums
James Poyser- Organ
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1. A Thousand Shades

Andrew Watt- Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Piano, backing vocals
Jeff Beck- Guitar
Zakk Wylde- Guitar
Chad Smith- Drums, Percussion
Ross Gasworth- Cello
Paula Hochhalter- Cello
Jacob Braun- Cello
Andrew Duckles- Viola
David Walther- Viola
Zachary Dellinger- Violin
Alyssa Park- Violin
Jackie Brand- Violin
Jennifer Takamatsu- Violin
Mario DeLeon- Violin
Michele Richards- Violin
Natalie Leggett- Violin
Neil Samples- Violin
Nina Evtuhov- Violin
Phillip Levy- Violin
Roberto Cani- Violin
Songa Lee- Violin
Charlie Bisharat- Violin
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1. Mr. Darkness

Andrew Watt- Guitar, Bass, keyboards, backing vocals
Zakk Wylde- Guitar, Keyboards
Robert Trujillo- Bass
Taylor Hawkins- Drums
James Poyser- Organ
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1. Nothing Feels Right

Andrew Watt- Guitar, backing vocals
Zakk Wylde- Guitar, Organ
Chris Chaney- Bass
Chad Smith- Drums
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1. Evil Shuffle

Andrew Watt- Guitar, Bass, backing vocals
Zakk Wylde- Guitar, Keyboards
Robert Trujillo- Bass
Chad Smith- Drums
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1. Degradation Rules

Ozzy Osbourne- Harmonica
Andrew Watt- Guitar
Tony Iommi- Guitar
Robert Trujillo- Bass
Chad Smith- Drums
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1. Dead and Gone

Andrew Watt- Guitar, Keyboards, Drums, backing vocals
Zakk Wylde- Guitar
Robert Trujillo- Bass
Chad Smith- Drums
Paula Hochhalter- Cello
Jacob Braun- Cello
Andrew Duckles- Viola
David Walther- Viola
Natalie Leggett- Violin
Neil Samples- Violin
Songa Lee- Violin
Charlie Bisharat- Violin
Sara Parkins- Violin
Kerenza Peacock- Violin
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1. God Only Knows

Andrew Watt- Guitar, Bass, Drums, Piano, keyboards, backing vocals
Josh Homme- Guitar
Zakk Wylde- Guitar
Chad Smith- Drums
Taylor Hawkins- Drums
Jess Wolfe- Backing Vocals
Holly Laessig- Backing Vocals
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1. Darkside Blues

Ozzy Osbourne- Harmonica
Andrew Watt- Guitar
Chad Smith- Drums