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Bonus Cash and Stadium Maintenance Dues Info & Tracker

Last post by Lane « Fri Apr 25, 2025 10:55 am
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Welcome to the new Bonus Cash and Stadium Maintenance Dues info and Link thread. Note that Bonus Cash and Stadium Maintenance Dues apply only to the...

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2063.24 – “Sir, You’re Clutching That Notebook Like It Owes You Money”

Last post by Graham « Sun Jun 22, 2025 1:02 pm

by Graham » Sun Jun 22, 2025 1:02 pm

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The hum of the airplane softened as the lights dimmed over the Atlantic, and Graham Luna sat stiff in seat 7F, tray table upright, bourbon untouched....

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2063.23 - Potting Plants and Plotting Playoffs

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by Graham » Wed Jun 18, 2025 2:43 pm

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Graham Luna never imagined he’d be sweating playoff math in June from the sun-drenched confines of his condo in Killarney. And yet, here he was:...

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2063.22 - The Gold Standard: Not Fool's Gold? (6/4/63)

Last post by Graham « Sat Jun 14, 2025 2:44 pm

by Graham » Sat Jun 14, 2025 2:44 pm

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June 4, 2063 — Not Fool's Gold?
“Whilst most teams are finding their level,” wrote independent GBC reporter Boyd Flanagan ( RebelArmy ) recently ,...

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2063.21 - The All-Star Campaign Takes Shape and No One Is Legally Responsible for What Happens Next

Last post by shoeless.db « Mon Jun 09, 2025 4:03 pm
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by Graham » Mon Jun 09, 2025 12:54 am

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The hum of the treadmill was loud enough to drown out most regrets but not quite loud enough to drown out AGM Fernando Rosario grunting as he...

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2063.20 - The Gold Standard: The Rookie Bullpen with a Tongue-Twister Twist (5/14/63)

Last post by woods « Sat Jun 07, 2025 10:02 am
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by Graham » Fri Jun 06, 2025 4:00 pm

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May 14, 2063 — The Rookie Bullpen with a Tongue-Twister Twist
In the hazy spring evenings of Qingdao, where the fog rolls in faster than a coach’s...

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2063.19 – Thin Pitching and Even Thinner Salsa

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by Graham » Mon Jun 02, 2025 4:28 pm

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By all accounts, the Gold were prepared.

AGM Fernando Rosario had spreadsheets printed on actual paper, color-coded by defensive versatility and...

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2063.18 – The Gold Standard: Rainy Redemption Tour (4/22/63)

Last post by JRamirez « Fri May 30, 2025 5:57 pm
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by Graham » Fri May 30, 2025 12:57 pm

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April 22, 2063 — Rainy Redemption Tour

This week, the Johannesburg Gold turned bad weather, a shuffled rotation, and a strained back into something...

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2063.17 – The Gold Standard: Hope in The Holy Land (4/15/63)

Last post by Graham « Thu May 29, 2025 5:48 pm

by Graham » Thu May 29, 2025 5:48 pm

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April 15, 2063 — Hope in The Holy Land

A funny thing happened on the way to irrelevance.

The Johannesburg Gold, our mercurial, maddening, mildly...

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2063.16 – Dropped Balls and Missed Calls

Last post by Graham « Tue May 27, 2025 12:28 pm

by Graham » Tue May 27, 2025 12:28 pm

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Graham Luna sat on his stiff Cairo hotel bed, noting that the mattress had the give of a marble countertop and the headboard was laminated faux-wood,...

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2063.15 – The Gold Standard: The First Seven (4/8/63)

Last post by Graham « Mon May 26, 2025 1:47 pm

by Graham » Mon May 26, 2025 1:47 pm

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A Note to New Readers: Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jakob Van Wyk. I cover the Johannesburg Gold for the South African Tribune , and I’ve...

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2063.14 – "The Gang Rebrands Mediocrity as Strategy"

Last post by Jwalk100 « Fri May 23, 2025 3:49 pm
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by Graham » Fri May 23, 2025 1:32 pm

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It's the morning of April 1st, Opening Day for the 2063 GBC season, and in Johannesburg, there was actual optimism, at least in the front office....

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2063.13 – “We’re Hitting Like a Church Picnic”

Last post by Jwalk100 « Tue May 20, 2025 5:21 pm
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by Graham » Tue May 20, 2025 3:40 pm

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Spring training was one-third complete, and the Johannesburg Gold were, depending on your level of caffeine intake, either settling in or slowly...

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2063.12 – Please Leave a Message After the Tone

Last post by BTuck2112 « Sat May 17, 2025 5:13 pm
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by Graham » Sat May 17, 2025 4:14 pm

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The start of the Global Baseball Consortium's spring training was just 24 hours away, and the Gold’s front office had begun vibrating at the...

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2063.11 – Docket Days

Last post by Graham « Thu May 15, 2025 10:46 pm

by Graham » Thu May 15, 2025 10:46 pm

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There was no offseason for bureaucracy.

On the morning of January 26th, Graham Luna sat in his office inside the Gold Palace, the slightly-too-tall...

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2063.10 – Of Trees and Transactions

Last post by Jwalk100 « Wed May 14, 2025 3:38 pm
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by Graham » Wed May 14, 2025 2:56 pm

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The champagne was flat. The chips were all but crumbs.

It was mid-morning on New Year’s Day 2063 and Graham Luna was surveying his condo living room...

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2063.09 – ’Twas the Night Before Rule 5

Last post by recte44 « Mon May 12, 2025 7:29 pm
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by Graham » Mon May 12, 2025 4:30 pm

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The clock on the hotel room microwave blinked 12:00, eternally and inaccurately.

Graham Luna sat cross-legged on his bed, laptop open, a half-eaten...

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2063.08 – Welcome to Room C-5

Last post by Graham « Mon May 12, 2025 12:07 am

by Graham » Mon May 12, 2025 12:07 am

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Graham Luna was starting to believe this whole Winter Meetings thing was a massive con.

Oh sure, technically it was a gathering of baseball’s...

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2063.07 - Arbitration Frustration Nation

Last post by Graham « Tue May 06, 2025 10:03 pm

by Graham » Tue May 06, 2025 10:03 pm

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Graham Luna was midway through arranging his office bookshelf when AGM Fernando Rosario burst in holding two coffees and a folder thick enough to...

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2063.06 – Zoom, Zoom, Boom

Last post by Graham « Sun May 04, 2025 1:33 am

by Graham » Sun May 04, 2025 1:33 am

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Graham Luna had spent most of the morning trying to find an angle that didn’t make him look like an over-eager substitute teacher about to hand out a...

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2063.05 - A Day Off, In Theory

Last post by Jwalk100 « Fri May 02, 2025 1:02 pm
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by Graham » Fri May 02, 2025 2:16 am

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Graham Luna had noted it on his calendar.

A big red “X” on today's date, the Friday between meeting his new manager yesterday and addressing the...

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2063.04 – Bite-Sized Pastries and Big League Plans

Last post by Graham « Sun Apr 27, 2025 6:58 pm
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by Graham » Sun Apr 27, 2025 12:46 pm

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The Grounds Crew Cafe wasn’t fancy, but it had soul.

It sat in the shadow of the Golden Palace, its walls lined with framed newspaper clippings,...

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2063.02 - "You’re Shorter Than I Imagined"

Last post by woods « Sat Apr 26, 2025 2:14 am
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by Graham » Thu Apr 24, 2025 6:50 pm

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When Graham Luna stepped off the plane in Johannesburg, his knees cracked loud enough to turn a few heads in business class. He hadn’t slept. Not...

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Sat Apr 26, 2025 2:14 am
2063.03 – The Man with the Binder

Last post by Graham « Fri Apr 25, 2025 2:24 pm
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by Graham » Fri Apr 25, 2025 1:09 pm

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The Golden Palace was neither golden nor a palace.

It was a ballpark with pretensions—part retro-chic, part open-air sauna thanks to an overzealous...

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2063.01 - Hire Power: How a Baseball Nobody Landed the Job of No One’s Dreams

Last post by BTuck2112 « Thu Apr 24, 2025 12:17 pm
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by Graham » Wed Apr 23, 2025 5:07 pm

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Less than a week after shutting his laptop and whispering not tonight to the baseball gods, Graham Luna found himself in seat 38B on a red-eye to...

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Thu Apr 24, 2025 12:17 pm
2062.03 Gold Congratulate Durban Dockers on AAA Championship

Last post by Trebro « Thu Apr 03, 2025 11:21 pm

by Trebro » Thu Apr 03, 2025 11:21 pm

The Johannesburg Gold extend their congratulations to their AAA team, the Durban Dockers, for winning the AAA Championship. After an 83-61 season...

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