04/07/20

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NEWS

• Discussing the potential start of a season

SPORTS MOVIE DRAFT

• Draft Board

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Welcome to Out of the Park (OOTP) Perfect Team. You may be familiar with OOTP, perhaps even recently via Ben Clemens’ journey with his Milwaukee Brewers. I checked with Ben to make sure he wouldn’t feel like his toes were being stepped on if I started an OOTP series and he was beyond chill with it because he’s just that kind of guy.

Perfect Team is a card collecting online mode. You build and mold your team through throngs of virtual cards with ratings relating to the year in question whether it’s the 2020 iteration of everyone on a current roster or an early-1900s flashback and everything in between. When you start a team, you get six free packs and 1000 Perfect Points (the in-game currency you can use to buy more packs or players off the Auction House). About 20-30 minutes after you create your team, you’re placed into Entry Pool which is essentially a Spring Training of sorts where games are simulated against other human-run teams every 30 minutes 24/7 until the next Monday.

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We’d be a week into the 2020 season if things had gone as planned. A bunch of us would already be freaking out about our teams and Twitter would be littered with questions about cutting star-level players because they are 5-for-30. As much as those questions drive me insane, I do wish I was fielding them daily right now.

I don’t know when we’ll get baseball again, but here are 8 players I can’t wait to see when it does return:

Ozzie Albies | 2B, ATL

I love watching Albies play baseball. The 23-year old switch hitter has flashed an array of skills over his 1630 MLB plate appearances and his power/speed capability has made him a fantasy stud. I stilllll think there’s even more here, particularly with his speed. I could see a 25/25 or even 30/30 season from Albies at his best.

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04/02/20

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HOURLONG TV SHOW* DRAFT

*I didn’t realize Sherlock was a 90-minute show and I binged Weeds so I completely forgot it was 30 minutes. Those were unintentional exceptions here.

• Draft Board

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04/01/20

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BOARD GAME DRAFT

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03/26/20

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NOTABLE TRANSACTIONS/INJURIES/RUMORS

• Noah Syndergaard to have Hammer Surgery
• Draft news

SITCOM DRAFT

• Draft Board

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Chat starts at 1:00 PM CT on March 25th, 2020

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03/24/20

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NOTABLE TRANSACTIONS/INJURIES/RUMORS

• Justin Verlander groin surgery
• Chris Sale TJ surgery
• Tyler Beede TJ surgery

SPORTS VIDEO GAME DRAFT

• Draft Board

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03/17/20

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TOUT WARS REVIEW

• Paul, Justin, and Nick review Justin’s NL team and then dive into the H2H mixer that both Paul & Nick were in!

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I know some drafts are still going forward despite the delay to the MLB season so I wanted to get these RP rankings out as I did promise them on the podcast the other day. I’ll probably do an update to every position once more before the season starts, but here’s the initial run of RPs.

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