Good evening former RWBL Owners. I wanted to thank each and every one of
you for your dedication throughout the years as we made the RWBL one of the
greatest OOTP leagues ever.

Unfortunately the time has come to shutter the doors of the RWBL. But not
until one last hurrah. I ran the league for another 20 years to see what
the future had in store for us.
History League Index (http://www.rwbl.net/league/html/history/league_100_index.html)

Drop by and pay the RWBL a visit. Share your favorite moments, your worst
moments, you biggest rivalries, and shoot the breeze with your fellow
owners one last time.

Real World Baseball League
Real World Baseball League (http://www.rwbl.net)

Take Care,
Daniel Schoonover
National League President
Owner Los Angeles Dodgers, Former Owner San Diego Padres

P.S. This will be the only email you receive regarding this.

Beginning, End.

I'm sad.

May favorite memory is trade negotiations back in 2002 - 2004 (maybe some 2005). That was when the league was.......the RWBL.


I'll miss the RWBL, but mostly the people.

long live the 2009 Giants.

...... Fucking Career Ending Injuries....

long live the 2008 Red Sox.


I agree!

Edwin Ryan was truly the greatest fake baseball player of all time.

dola-

Although somehow Carrara ended up with about 20 more career homers in this test.

Good to see that the Yankees finally won that elusive RWBL crown... :(

Good to see that the Yankees finally won that elusive RWBL crown... :(

Are you looking at the same history as I am?

Gabby Cespedes ended up being one of the best pitchers ever in baseball!

Player Report for #24 Gaby 'Chaser' Cespedes (http://www.rwbl.net/league/html/players/player_4897.html)

It seems that some of the problems stemmed from switching to ootp8. The league was fun to follow with 5.14/6.5 (as most leagues were) but just like ootp, it became more work than fun and more convoluted (with rules and settings) and corrupt.

Easily the best league I ever had the pleasure to be a part of. Met many people who I am still friends with to this day, and I haven't been in the league for years.

:(

I was the Pirates for about two sims. Then I realized that I just didn't have time. I wish that I had stuck around longer.

Easily the best league I ever had the pleasure to be a part of. Met many people who I am still friends with to this day, and I haven't been in the league for years.

:(

I'll echo this - I had a great time building the Astros into a perennial failure.

Is this the league made famous by HornsManiac's stealth editing abilities? Black Sox-esque historical moment?

Is this the league made famous by HornsManiac's stealth editing abilities? Black Sox-esque historical moment?


That was the start of the league, and after which the league could have fallen apart, but thanks to real hard work and a great job by nothingman, raven, Swaggs, bsak, kaz and countless others, the league got by that and turned into one of the longest running ootp leagues probably out there. (From like 2001? until now)

Is this the league made famous by HornsManiac's stealth editing abilities? Black Sox-esque historical moment?

it is

Glad to have been a part of this league as the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Sorry to see the got contracted.
I still think Carl Crawford should have been ROY over Xavier Nady!!!

That was the start of the league, and after which the league could have fallen apart, but thanks to real hard work and a great job by nothingman, raven, Swaggs, bsak, kaz and countless others, the league got by that and turned into one of the longest running ootp leagues probably out there. (From like 2001? until now)

:(

:(


You too!

Nice. The D-Backs won a title finally. I knew I was due, just was another 17 seasons or so

Sorry to see the RWBL bite the dust. I still remember it fondly. Good memories.

Not to sully it's memory with an ad, but if any old RWBLers are interested, FOOL may be expanding soon four more teams. If it does, former RWBLers Anthony (HA) and dangarion would likely be two of those new owners, and I would probably be a third. But the league won't likely consider it without four human owners, so if another former RWBLer still wants to be in a league, this is a good chance to jump in (and with an expansion team you yourself can build from the ground up).

See the FOOL Waiting List thread in the sub-forum under the Baseball Text Sim forum to apply.

RIP RWBL.

RIP RWBL.

Did you have to begin therapy when real life Xavier Nady got traded to the Yankees?

Did you have to begin therapy when real life Xavier Nady got traded to the Yankees?
It was almost as bad as when Vazquez was pitching for them.

Didn't they have Betemit too? Once they acquire Wells in 2010, they'll have had all the greats.

Still not as traumatic as finding out Gabe Gross was white.

corrupt.

The file not the league right? :)

RWBL was the first league I was ever in, and no other league I ever joined could match the feeling I had for the RWBL. Everyone that helped run the league and that participated in the league contributed to my full enjoyment of it! I'm really going to miss the RWBL.

Is this the league Kevin was in?

I was the Pirates for about two sims. Then I realized that I just didn't have time. I wish that I had stuck around longer.

Same here. I was the Mets owner for maybe a week when I realized I didn't have the time that needed to be put into the team to make it competitive...

Best player this league ever had!

http://www.rwbl.net/league/html/players/player_1639.html


Thanks to Neuq for pointing me to this thread.


PS. What's up? Haven't talked to most of you in quite a while.

Best player this league ever had!

http://www.rwbl.net/league/html/players/player_1639.html


Thanks to Neuq for pointing me to this thread.


PS. What's up? Haven't talked to most of you in quite a while.

I still have that picture of you at the bar where you met....someone. I can't fricking remember.

I still have that picture of you at the bar where you met....someone. I can't fricking remember.

Wasnt it Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. I still have that video.

Crazy that 2 900 plus homer guys were computer generated.

What picture?

I'd love it if we could start anew at some point. But it would have to have guys like the following:

Sak
Swaggs
Neq
Raven
Dan
Schmidty
Rum
Leafs
Radii
Vib
Kc
HA

And others I'm forgetting at the moment

Turlos and foz too. Hell I still miss the CFBL too

Turlos and foz too. Hell I still miss the CFBL too

Hardly anyone calls me Turlos anymore! The CFBL was fun for me as it was my "start" in online multiplayer sim leagues. I know in the later RWBL days a bunch of guys that were in CFBL ended up in RWBL too.

These days I am still in a couple of OOTP leagues, but the most fun for me is the fast sim multiplayer league. I never thought it would be so much fun, but it basically focuses the most on offseason transactions, drafts, free agency, trading and a bunch less on the day to day rotation/lineup changes. It feels a bunch more like a GM role and a lot less like a manager role and I enjoy that alot now.

I just realized I forgot koji kaz and bug

And you forgot RO!

Best player this league ever had!

http://www.rwbl.net/league/html/players/player_1639.html


Thanks to Neuq for pointing me to this thread.


PS. What's up? Haven't talked to most of you in quite a while.

SMOOT!

I'd love it if we could start anew at some point. But it would have to have guys like the following:

Sak
Swaggs
Neq
Raven
Dan
Schmidty
Rum
Leafs
Radii
Vib
Kc
HA

And others I'm forgetting at the moment
Nate too.

I'd love it if we could start anew at some point. But it would have to have guys like the following:

Sak
Swaggs
Neq
Raven
Dan
Schmidty
Rum
Leafs
Radii
Vib
Kc
HA

And others I'm forgetting at the moment

i'd certainly be down. i stopped by the RWBL forum about a couple of weeks ago to see if i could take over my 4th team in this league but saw the wheels had already come off. i'd definitely be down for another RWBL type league again with some of the owners you mentioned.

little known fact - HornsManiac and I started RWBL. i dropped out (i had taken the Mets) cuz of problems getting it started and some early initial drama. i came back about a couple months later to see it was still going on (this was after HM got kicked out). i went from the Mets (which i never physically controlled for a sim), the Twins to the DBacks.

my fav moment was the nite i stood up just waiting for one of you guys to come on IM so i could try to unload the $30million a year ARod from my DBacks, considering he was already 35 i was like "i have to trade him for what little i can get, he's got several years remaining on his deal". and like a glorious blast of light and music the Marlins owner came online and i got him to take that mega contract off my hand for some rather solid players.

Nate too.
And dd

or...my other fav time was when RoGM called me up at my job to apologize for trading a guy i wanted to another team.

weirdest.

internet.

moment.

EVER.

little known fact - HornsManiac and I started RWBL.
This is the equivalent of Amy Whinehouse and Axl Rose having a baby that grows up to win a Nobel Prize.

This is the equivalent of Amy Whinehouse and Axl Rose having a baby that grows up to win a Nobel Prize.

ooo, oooo i'll be Axl!

sometimes all it takes is "a little patience".

or...my other fav time was when RoGM called me up at my job to apologize for trading a guy i wanted to another team.

weirdest.

internet.

moment.

EVER.

Yeah it was JD Drew...he traded him to me. You didn't have DyKeMaN Status!

My favorite RWBL moments were:

1) The long conversation about OOTP strategy with bsak
2) Anytime Toronto lost
3) Pitching Pedro every other game vs Cleveland in the playoffs so I wouldn't have to start Chan Ho Park

Some good articles...

RWBL • View topic - Top Ten Disturbing RWBL Rituals (http://www.rwbl.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=4480&p=24405)

RWBL • View topic - Ping: Swaggs/Bsak/Whoever Runs The Sim (http://www.rwbl.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=106&t=3390&st=0&sk=t&sd=a)
In that post Chief Rum compares his stance on the DL issue to the birth of the black civil rights movement.

RWBL • View topic - Unintentional Comedy - RWBL version (http://www.rwbl.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=101&t=3407)

RWBL • View topic -Things you'd never say to Swaggs... (http://rwbl.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1719)

2) Anytime Toronto lost

All four times?

Pedro (still) fears Javy

I think the RWBL might be the only league where GOD was a sportswriter..

RWBL • View topic - Inside the GM Studios (with Swaggs) (http://www.rwbl.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=5868)

RWBL • View topic - Inside the GM Studios with Bsak (http://www.rwbl.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=5869)

RWBL • View topic - Interview with Toronto's GM Sean McIndoe (http://www.rwbl.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=5867)

RWBL • View topic - Inside the General Managers Studio (Dangarion) (http://www.rwbl.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=6474&p=33945)

Is this the league made famous by HornsManiac's stealth editing abilities? Black Sox-esque historical moment?

No, sorry.
Don't know what you're talking about?

SMOOT!

Dan!

Wasnt it Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. I still have that video.

Yep.

And you forgot RO!

How could anyone forget this guy?!
http://members.migente.com/UPT0WNL0VERNYC/

The best player will always be Easy Early Lindsey, whose career plummeted courtesy of technical difficulties (stupid OOTP4 saying 35 year olds have to suck).

Arod was not too shabby in the early going. that's why i gave him a 5 year, $30million per year deal.


unfortunately i gave him that deal when he was like 34 or 35. ooof.

RIP RWBL as the domain went by bye on the 17th. Guess I can delete that from my bookmarks now!

I left the last message on the message board.


Goodbye RWBL, Thanks for the memories!

Signed,
The Best There Is...The Best There Was...The Best There Ever Will Be

How could anyone forget this guy?!
http://members.migente.com/UPT0WNL0VERNYC/



Oh man, RO. So great.

RIP RWBL as the domain went by bye on the 17th. Guess I can delete that from my bookmarks now!

Yeah...

I'll move the last reference to my domain shortly for histories sake...

80000 files to download then upload will take a day or so.

RWBL Historical Reference (http://rwbl.dangarion.com) will be the location for the final league reference.

:(

Damn.

So the FOFC Wiki went bye bye with it?

So the FOFC Wiki went bye bye with it?
Oh shit, I forgot that it was part of the RWBL site... Um, I'll have to see what I can do. Give me a week or so.

So the FOFC Wiki went bye bye with it?

It's back from the grave, took a bit of work to get it back but here it is, with a new link!

FOFC Wiki - FOFC Wiki (http://fofc.dangarion.com/)

I never thought I would feel this way, but there's an empty place in my heart where Oil Can Trapani used to be.

I never thought I would feel this way, but there's an empty place in my heart where Oil Can Trapani used to be.

Fuck him. He stole my money and a spot on my roster!!!!

Anyone up for RWBL 2.0? Especially if its 6.5 based.