My brother and I were too busy playing a similar, card & dice baseball game: MLB Showdown. I actually never played the game with my Dad. Watching Marvel Movies? Would he be playing wiffle ball with me in the backyard at age 67? It shouldn’t be a surprise I’ve re-read all of my Dad’s old comics, re-hatched old photos and started to play Strat-O-Matic. I wonder what we would be doing together if he were around during quarantine. This is the first time I’ve been home for more than a few days since and it still feels… weird.
After college I moved to California to start my career in radio which then lead me to Louisiana before being laid-off, or “dislocated”, as part of iHeartMedia’s massive layoffs. My Dad passed way in 2011, while I was still in college and I’ve never spent a long period of length at home since. This time, my Mets won in 5 games behind a Tom Seaver 3-hitter in game 5. To learn, I re-played the 1973 World Series, Mets vs Athletics. I spent the next five hours learning to play the basic and advanced versions of the game that’s been called “Dungeons and Dragons for baseball”. I’m sure most of you would think, “Cool here’s something for me to do tomorrow, time for bed” but during the first month of the Coronavirus Pandemic, nothing is normal. But somehow Ebay lead to Reddit which lead to creating a Board Game Geek account which lead to looking through my Mom’s board game closet where I found my Dad’s 1973 Strat-O-Matic baseball set at 4 in the morning. But many Marvel comics were strung together, they required knowledge of what happened in the previous issue or you needed the next issue to find out how the story ends, and I was looking up those missing issues. My Dad gave me his collection when I was in high school, two shoeboxes worth of issues that included The Avengers creation of Vision (the basis for Avengers 2: Age of Ultron), The issue where Loki turns Thor into a frog (as mentioned in Thor Ragnarok) and many issues of Spiderman, Captain America, Iron Man, X-Men, and Fantastic Four. I was looking up 1960s and 1970s issues of Marvel Comics on ebay. The rabbit-hole that got me to this point started at Midnight during a fit of insomnia.
It’s 4am on a Tuesday Night in Early April 2020 during the Coronavirus Pandemic and I’m starring down my Dad’s 1973 Strat-O-Matic Baseball Set. Strat-O-Matic, Grief & The Coronavirus Pandemic: How finding some old baseball cards can help the Grieving Process during a Global Pandemic Newest game summaries will always be at the top of the page. If you want to see what happened in the latest simulated games. Scroll down until you find which Group your team is in, then click on the Groups Tab and chose the group your team is in for results, standings, game summaries and statistics. Here you will see which team from each franchise I’ve chosen and why. If you want to find out how your favorite team/franchise is doing, click on the 32 Teams Tab at the top of the page. If you’re new to the site I recommend you scroll past the next two paragraphs and start reading about this project from the beginning to get a better understanding of why I’m doing this. Teams will be placed into Groups, where the top two teams from each group will reach a 16-team bracket.
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The World Cup will consist of 32 teams, one team from each franchise plus two, that has been to the World Series. Using Strat-o-Matic Baseball, an ultra-specific and realistic dice and card game, I’ll be simulating a Fifa World Cup styled tournament to determine which team is best in the last 50 years.
This is the Strat-O-Matic Baseball World Cup.
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