Grantland so far

"Too good for Grantland" was my first thought. I thought that was very well done.

 

Weinreb was one of the hires I was most excited about. Big fan of his chess book and his last one on the '80s.

 

Wow.

That story should not be about the game, it should be about him as a boy wasting his summer by himself playing this game. I assumed he played the games with another person.

As a parent, I seriously would not allow that to happen to my child. That was an obsessive addiction to a freaking game. I wonder if he has started playing it since the story posted?

I am much more interested in what is between his ears than what is in that box.

I also wonder if he knows about whatifsports.com?

 

All I know is I love Bill Simmons' pro wrestling columns and podcasts. The most recent with C.M. Punk is golden.

 

Glad you weren't my parent, then. Spending my summers with MicroLeague Baseball (and, later, Tony La Russa/Old Time Baseballs) was and remains a cherished part of my childhood.

 

Hell I basically invented a rudimentary fantasy-type baseball game with dice when I was 12 or 13 and my friends and I spent an entire summer playing it. And I turned out just fine.

 

Make that three of us. APBA was my religion. Love those double numbers and XYZ pitchers!

 

Have little doubt there's a tremendous correlation between being in this business and being involved with one or another of those games for a sustained period. Nagamco's baseball product was relatively simple, but sufficiently satisfactory for a pre-teen. Also had extended exposure to Strat-O-Matic and APBA. You quickly learned whether you had special multiplication/division skills when calculating stats. Fun while it lasted.

 

Anybody here remember the Strat-o-Matic NFL game? Took longer to play than an actual pro football game.

 

Loved 'em for the same reason I kept full, exhaustive stats for my Senior Division league the years I played.

 

Because you're a dork?

 

WAS a dork, buddy.