We hang in there, trudging on, long after the apocalypse....



Any other encouragements?

Good analogy.  We smell better, though.

We don't have to wait as long between seasons.

actually, they are the walking dead ball pitchers.

In the last episode one of the survivors found a Yankee jersey, framed under glass.  She broke it and took it saying she needed a new shirt.  Didn't see he actually wearing it though.

OK, that's the last "thumbs up" I'm going to give in this thread (unless maybe someone comes up with something encouraging).

How about... SLB is still better than cannibalism -- or even eating earthworms.

Except they don't look as if they're having as much fun as I do in SLB.... I see your point though.

Also the zombies here are way more effective. Addie Joss is terrifying.

Addie Joss....

...maybe there should be a Walking Dead Theme, with players that died before they got to be 40.

Or, after the last episode...

...is SLB getting to be like watching two men kissing?

#PlayTheRecordingOfKidsPlayingAgain

I always thought it was like Hunger Games. 24 people go into the arena (league) and only one is left alive (with a championship). You don't have to defeat everyone, but you have to defeat some of them in order to win.

If I may suggest the difference: in baseball, one team does win and walk away while the others are eliminated, like in the Hunger Games. 

BUT unlike the Hunger Games OR the Walking Dead, the next SPRING all of the competitors are back alive - NOT walking dead but REBORN as in the symbolism of, well, Spring, but also Easter for example. 

And since all the teams get to restart, to start again with the previous round (season) not counting against their efforts this time (Listen up ye libertarians and free marketeers): it is LIKE the free market BUT unlike or actual capitalist economy - in that the competition continues on a level playing field. 

In REAL WORLD business, the competition also ends when someone WINS. The winner however gets to keep the previous season's wins known as CAPITAL, which makes their "team" and their market share much bigger than any remanining competitors who are already by definition fewer and relatively (to this winner) weaker than previously. The end result is of course that over time there are only one or two teams - called Monopolies or Oligopolies. 

The competition now no longer exists, nor the market really (which is now incorporated into the structure of the winning team"s corporate structure - as if other teams, once they lost to the New York Yankees, now became minor league teams for the Yankees who remained as the only AL team - this sort of DID happen to the Kansas City Athletics at one point). 

So the corporate economy IS like the Hunger Games (with the working class apparently in the role of the walking dead), while baseball, even WIS baseball, is not. The idea of hitting a restart button for a new season after each round of competition, making society and the economy more like baseball might be the way to save the country folks. 

Ya'll really did miss me here?

Italyprof still on point. BAM!

Bankocracy and the the post-Illuminati "committees" Italyprof, thanks....

They corrupt across the board.  See "Committee of 300" for instance (and of course, the Club of Rome, just another fer-instance).  Discussion of such things is done much more out in the open in Europe, I hear. Here, people are afraid to be called (gasp) "conspiracy theorists," as if the 1% of 1% of 1% of wealth and power hoarders hasn't nearly always "breathed together" their shared schemes.

"In REAL WORLD business, the competition also ends when someone WINS."

I am afraid this couldn't be further from actual human behavior.

The competition shifts to a competition against ones self, to constantly improve, because there is always someone in a garage building a better product.  Just ask Mr. Steve Jobs. 

When someone "wins" it is almost always the consumer, the average person, if not those with even less resources of an average person.  These wins may come in form of cheaper oil for everyone, thanks to Mr. Rockefeller.  It may come in the form of cheaper transportation for everyone, thanks to Mr. Vanderbilt or Ford.  It may come in the form of the food grown or raised hundreds or even thousands of miles away from your home.  Today, millions should be thanking Mr. Walton for the improved quality of their lives simply by being able to buy good items, cheaply.

So, yes, marxism and the like is not for me, nor is it for any healthy society, anywhere, on planet earth.  Just ask the Cubans, Venezuelans or North Koreans.

Back on point, I would posit that yes, indeed, baseball is the most American of games, precisely because it depends on, no, it requires the excellence of the individual in order for the "team" to succeed.  A man, alone, stands at the plate.  He gets no help from anyone.  The pitcher stands, alone, atop the mound.  He too gets no help from anyone.  The best man wins, on merit, and merit alone, as it should be in a free society.

In W.I.S. land, there is no team, there is no collective.  We are here as individuals, with our club in hand, to strike down our opponent.