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| League History: 1995 |
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After experiencing what running a league was like, self-appointed Commissioner
Creighton (Joey) did what few commissioners did in their sophomore season: he did nothing. Nothing to change a game
that needed change. The obvious flaw in the game the year before was its lack of competitiveness. It may say "HR" in
the scorebook (err, piece of paper) the same, but when you hit if off your 5 year-old cousin it loses a little luster.
Common sense said "bring some names onto the roster, drop the sister and the aunt, and play some games." Commissioner
sense said "the cousins aren't coming this summer, so let's bring in Terry's friend who still isn't into girls, and
let's play LESS games." Hence, you get the 1995 season in a nut-shell. And don't be fooled into thinking Nick Seiler
helped make the Big 3 a Big 4. When you study the numbers from 1995, note Seiler's stats, and remind yourself that
those numbers were achieved during what was essentially batting practice. I asked the Commish what he believed Seiler
would have achieved if he were forced to play fast-pitch. The Commissioner stated Seiler would have quit the league
before that happened. I pleaded with him to think hypothetically. His answer:
| Name |
AB |
R |
H |
BI |
2B |
3B |
HR |
SO |
SLG |
BA |
| Nick Seiler |
45 |
2 |
4 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
31 |
.156 |
.089 |
As stated before, it went Carmichael-Creighton-Creighton, and then it fell off the cliff. The reasons why the 1995
season was so poor remains clouded in mystery, and I do not care enough to investigate further. The fact that Commish
Creighton claims to have "smoked too much weed" to remember what went on back then doesn't help my desire to know the
truth. Of course by "smoked too much weed" he surely means "ate too much bread" since Joey never smoked weed in 1995
while he did eat a frightening amount of bread.
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