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Firefighters and Mills gonna tie our way to the end of the season again, I just know it. I haven't looked at the schedule, but I have to assume that we're (those from Chicago) probably not gonna make the playoffs again. I hate our pitching so, so much. Our run differential sucks for a team that has above-average hitting.
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The Tacos are in EPT and it turns out Pitching Machine loves to party, it's now a 5 star pitcher.
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gently caress YOU, ROGUE UMPIRES https://twitter.com/blaseball/status/1309485674681122816 
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Harry Lime posted:The Tacos are in EPT and it turns out Pitching Machine loves to party, it's now a 5 star pitcher.
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whoa 10 players and three Tacos partying in this hour's games, you truly do love to see it
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Sep 25, 2020 18:37
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Cashmoney ate a peanut and the Fridays have two 5-star hitters now. Also it sure looks like York is gonna get shelled, although maybe that would actually be good for rebuilding purposes, IDK.
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Here we go bring on the Monitor!  e: The Peanut showed up, chastised us for giving our peanuts to the Monitor, and then left in a huff. The Monitor just arrived. https://twitter.com/BlaseballNews/status/1309572364703797250 e3: The Monitor is looking at the various "Eggs" (shelled players) but didn't eat them... yet. Pinwiz11 fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Sep 25, 2020 |
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Sep 25, 2020 20:00
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NaN's pregame ritual briefly changes to "It is Wyatt", and it is now "I have a plan".
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Sep 25, 2020 20:24
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tinstaach posted:NaN's pregame ritual briefly changes to "It is Wyatt", and it is now "I have a plan". Same with Sixpack Dogwalker. Also Jaylen, NaN and Six are all permanently flickering.
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Sep 25, 2020 20:35
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NaN is about to go on a world tour of teams
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Sep 25, 2020 20:56
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Looks like Pitching Machine is shelled now. It was a good run.
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Pies vs. Tigers in the Mild final, guaranteeing that one ascension-eligible team will reach the finals. The Tacos seem to have decided to save half of their acquired votes for next season, in a season where 20% of the league is barred from receiving blessings, because ?????
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tinstaach posted:Pies vs. Tigers in the Mild final, guaranteeing that one ascension-eligible team will reach the finals. Tacos dicord makes a lot of bizarre voting decisions but this one actually makes sense, the blessing ban for the top four teams was last season, it's up this season so there is an expectation that the Crabs are going to have a massive vote stash hoarded for this season.
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InnercityGriot posted:Tacos dicord makes a lot of bizarre voting decisions but this one actually makes sense, the blessing ban for the top four teams was last season, it's up this season so there is an expectation that the Crabs are going to have a massive vote stash hoarded for this season. But it IS a raffle, so i'm looking forward to a couple more 0% blessing winners this season 
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Oh, poo poo, I spent the whole week thinking that Bless Off applies to the following election and not the current one. I hoarded all my votes from last election too because I didn't find anything super appealing, so I should have something like 7000 to spend in two weeks. I feel like EPT is better than nothing but it's kind of a wash, yes it makes your team slightly better in the long run but to get the benefits you first have to be worse than the other teams, who are still getting better because they're taking the good blessings that you don't compete for because you want to stay in EPT. tinstaach fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Sep 26, 2020 |
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Tanking is not, or at least should not, be a strategy in blaseball. EPT is a consolation prize for your team being garbage, and the raffle nature of blessings means that anyone can still get them. Counting on your team to randomly be bad in order to intentionally get slightly better is not a good play. In IRL baseball a tank works because your improvements are in the form of generally known quantities, especially if you manage to stay bad for a couple seasons and vacuum up ALL the talent and then keep them from making an impact. EPT takes effect immediately, meaning your bad team this season will be slightly less bad next year and incur less of a benefit. And even if a tank DOES work, it's possible that randomness and other lovely circumstances will keep you from getting more than MAYBE one Series win. It's a long season and a short playoff and nothing matters. Embrace the chaos.
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The Tacos are basically unintentionally tanking next season by having Sexton Wheerer as our only pitcher. Might break the EPT speed run record if nobody else gets unshelled. I do get frustrated with Tacos discord’s attitude of “we never win blessings so let’s go for less contested ones” like home field advantage. It’s a one year buff for a team that projects to give up close to seven runs a game, what is the point?
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InnercityGriot posted:The Tacos are basically unintentionally tanking next season by having Sexton Wheerer as our only pitcher. Might break the EPT speed run record if nobody else gets unshelled. I do get frustrated with Tacos discord’s attitude of “we never win blessings so let’s go for less contested ones” like home field advantage. It’s a one year buff for a team that projects to give up close to seven runs a game, what is the point? Chaos. "What happens when our whole rotation is shelled?" is loving incredible. Something important to note is that the devs seem heavily invested in narrative (as they should, sports is nothing but collective narrative creation anyway), and the Tacos are full of weird ideas. The whole point is fandom, and the devs understand that. All else is secondary. I mean, they've basically just renamed and repurposed traditional stats and activities in baseball and it's just as real for some people as "real" baseball. Maybe more real. And that's the whole point. If people want to try to run their team into the ground, let 'em. That's democracy on a lottery, baby.
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Sep 26, 2020 20:34
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This assumes that the entire Tacos rotation isn't eaten by the Monitor tomorrow...
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rickiep00h posted:Chaos. "What happens when our whole rotation is shelled?" is loving incredible. I liked the snackrifice don’t get me wrong, but the Homefield advantage thing was literally just bad strategy. Not everyone on the Tacos discord wants to be bad forever, following a garbage team gets boring after a while. They just went for homefield because they didn’t anticipate pitching machine would get shelled and were hoping to win a bunch of one run games. The Tacos are good at coming up with interesting ways to screw with the game, bad when they actually try to play it I guess. Although this unintentional tank season is going to be good for the team.
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InnercityGriot posted:because they didn’t anticipate pitching machine would get shelled This here is the chaos. Turns out having a set-it-and-forget-it Strikeout Idol is bad. Especially when some people (like me) opted for Pitching Machine before the clear game benefit of having the same pitcher every game was obvious, because it was loving hilarious to idolize a machine that was a better pitcher than most of the team's actual rotation. And honestly, I think it's even funnier now that it's a pitching machine that is statistically one of the best pitchers in the entire game, but is now SHELLED. From a position outside of wanting the Tacos to win it's loving hilarious. Maybe you should be a fan of a different team?
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rickiep00h posted:
Nah I’m good. I think you’re misunderstanding me, I like the chaos, I just think they’re bad at organizing for what blessings to vote for.
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Birds in the first game of the Crabs Tigers series, would be a hell of a time for unshelling
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InnercityGriot posted:The Tacos are basically unintentionally tanking next season by having Sexton Wheerer as our only pitcher. Might break the EPT speed run record if nobody else gets unshelled. I do get frustrated with Tacos discord’s attitude of “we never win blessings so let’s go for less contested ones” like home field advantage. It’s a one year buff for a team that projects to give up close to seven runs a game, what is the point? like the Tacos best bet to improve is EPT so even trying to eke out wins in a non-contender season seems like a horrid idea lol
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InnercityGriot posted:Nah I’m good. I think you’re misunderstanding me, I like the chaos, I just think they’re bad at organizing for what blessings to vote for. Voting for blessings is still a part of the chaos, though. Anyone can technically still win any given blessing. Putting all your eggs in one basket assuming that it will be the one that fixes a team and not getting it is exceedingly disheartening, just as much as winning one with .1% of the vote is a positive. Yes, voting is supposed to play against 1:30 odds, but it's not going to be much, especially if lots of people are loading up on the same thing. In truth, sheer fan/vote numbers will always beat "strategy" when it comes to who wins overall in the blessings, and trying to strategize for one specific blessing as a so-called "small market team" is okay so long as it's not at the expense of others. Which is to say, if you think the team is doing stupid poo poo with their votes, you can still vote against the prevailing team wisdom, and your votes will mean just as much.
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rickiep00h posted:Voting for blessings is still a part of the chaos, though. Anyone can technically still win any given blessing. Putting all your eggs in one basket assuming that it will be the one that fixes a team and not getting it is exceedingly disheartening, just as much as winning one with .1% of the vote is a positive. Yes, voting is supposed to play against 1:30 odds, but it's not going to be much, especially if lots of people are loading up on the same thing. Fridays won 6 votes last election and 2, maybe 3 tops, were actually beneficial for the team. MTs are voting for a few highly contested blessings, and a couple lower-tier ones, but we're still avoiding the ones that actively make our team worse
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Lone Goat posted:like the Tacos best bet to improve is EPT so even trying to eke out wins in a non-contender season seems like a horrid idea lol The tank is good and I’m on board. One year blessings for a team that sucks are bad and I’m not sure what we were doing with that lol
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Election Plot (part 1?): - The Peanut rails at us for trusting the Monitor. 100 million peanuts "wasted". (100 mil?  )- THAT IS IT. - STRIKE FOUR - YOU ARE OUT - SEE YOU SOON The Discipline Era: "Siesta"
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0 blessings for the Crabs, ouch. I mean, I know that not getting at least 1 out of Edit: Crabchat told me I missed one. Tibalt fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Sep 27, 2020 |
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Sep 27, 2020 20:11
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RIP to the crabs but also you didn't really need them anyways haha
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The Mints were the top voters for Party Line despite the team deciding they didn't want it. Almost all those votes were from a single rogue fan hahaha.
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alpha_destroy posted:The Mints were the top voters for Party Line despite the team deciding they didn't want it. Almost all those votes were from a single rogue fan hahaha. that's deeply amusing. at least the magic got their first blessing, even if it wasn't crows. spies are championship material this coming season. New Math is a badass.
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We've finally gone from having a team of all awful to mediocre pitchers to having a team of eeeeh pitchers with one star! It's happening, championship here we come.
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MTs were hoping that the Barrel of Tiny Eggs was going to come with some hidden bonus like the blood ones did, but nope, Just Nuts. Oh well, we can use them to appease the MOIST ONE (our name for the Squid//Hall Monitor) and at least we kept it out of the hands of those contemptible Crabs
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I'm excited to see how Boss Baby Doyle does in Season 9. Jazz Hands chat seems to be using the siesta to expand lore for the OG players on the team.
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I know We Are All Miss Blaseball, so to tide us over in these difficult times, Jon Bois has released the beginning of 20020, the sequel to 17776 this week
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https://twitter.com/blaseball/status/1312871044911226885?s=19
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Fess up, who got Parker into QAnon during the siesta?
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I decided to finally hop on the bandwagon and joined. I had no idea what I was doing and spent all my coins in the shop before I realized I needed to use them to bet on matches. Am I hosed? I did get some of those passive income potions at least.
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