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Laddy Charleston

Post by Ted » Tue Aug 25, 2020 6:35 pm

@ Recte @AaronWainer @Marko His name finally just came to me when I was reading the Lawrence Columbus LaLoosh HOF thread. I don't even remember what prompted me to try to recall Laddy Charleston, but I do remember that it was like 2 real life years ago and every once in awhile his name would be on the tip of my tongue when thinking about the old GBC. It's been intermittently driving me nuts. Somehow the combination of the letters in Laloosh's name, the fact that he also played for Yellow Springs, and that I was wondering if he deserved the Nebraskas he got (only topped 6 WAR once) finally brought it back.

I'd drafted a clone of him, and I had another guy coming up who was going to be a monster. (Antoine Something-starting-with-an-S or maybe Ambrose. It was from the all horror reference draft I did). The Carolina Coastals were set to dominate the Prime for a decade when it ran out of juice. Oh well.

Fun fact. FPS or BBPro (whatever you want to call it) had pools of players. It didn't create randoms. It spat out blocks of clones. A draft would be made up of 5 to 10 of those blocks. If you played long enough they'd repeat. So every FPS league that ran long enough had a Tavon Weddel, or a Laddy Charleston, or a Glen Groves. So someone had to edit the draft in game if you didn't want it to be obvious who you'd get. But me being me, I got wise. Some of the guys who ran the league just changed the names. But if you could recognize ratings, you could find the whole block. On an old PC i had spreadsheets of who showed up with who. Before I looked them up, I'd try and see how many players I could pick out based on ratings alone. Most years I could find 20 to 30. For the most part, the ratings told you all you needed to know so it didn't matter, but there were some guys who were known trap picks, or known overachievers. When I started running the Prime drafts I edited the players and the ratings as well, so it was less obvious.

But anyway, LADDY FUCKING CHARLESTON.
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Re: Laddy Charleston

Post by jiminyhopkins » Tue Aug 25, 2020 7:31 pm

Never did get a Theo Reckley or Johnny Fever clone tho. Hmmm.

I remember there were three pitchers that all had 99 arm strength and identical ancillary ratings and were in the league at about the same time. Bud Weiser was one, so was Rock Varkville, but I cant remember the other guy.
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Re: Laddy Charleston

Post by Ted » Tue Aug 25, 2020 8:26 pm

jiminyhopkins wrote:
Tue Aug 25, 2020 7:31 pm
Never did get a Theo Reckley or Johnny Fever clone tho. Hmmm.

I remember there were three pitchers that all had 99 arm strength and identical ancillary ratings and were in the league at about the same time. Bud Weiser was one, so was Rock Varkville, but I cant remember the other guy.
Armando Zuniga was one of those guys in the Deuce. He was the third there. I think I counter up all the versions of that guy across the deuce and prime and there were 6 with unaltered ratings and 3 more with altered ones.

Also George Downing. He was the first deuce version of a total bust bat. Like 57CH 75PH 50SP COF with a 62 vsl. Every time the dude showed up, I'd say he was a Downing clone and all versions of Downing sucked. And someone would then take him top ten. And he would suck. It was fun.
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Re: Laddy Charleston

Post by jiminyhopkins » Tue Aug 25, 2020 9:33 pm

Mack Milholm! Finally remembered the third clone.

And I never took the high vsL guys, lol. They were for the noobs
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Re: Laddy Charleston

Post by Ted » Wed Aug 26, 2020 2:46 am

jiminyhopkins wrote:
Tue Aug 25, 2020 9:33 pm
Mack Milholm! Finally remembered the third clone.

And I never took the high vsL guys, lol. They were for the noobs
Dragging that GBC name out of the back of your brain is just so satisfying. Do you remember who I traded you Coaker Wagner for? I don't.
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Re: Laddy Charleston

Post by 7teen » Thu Aug 27, 2020 10:47 am

Dang, I even remember those names. Pretty sure Mack Milholm was on my Atlantic City Mobsters team for a period.

Bud Weiser! What about Red Leinenkugel?
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Re: Laddy Charleston

Post by Ted » Thu Aug 27, 2020 4:09 pm

7teen wrote:
Thu Aug 27, 2020 10:47 am
Dang, I even remember those names. Pretty sure Mack Milholm was on my Atlantic City Mobsters team for a period.

Bud Weiser! What about Red Leinenkugel?
I knew I was forgetting someone. Sorry Chris.

Also Joe Sixpack.
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