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[KingSweden24]

Morocco Wins Its World Cup Rights

After the third ballot in London at the 2024 FIFA Congress, its official - Morocco will host the 2032 World Cup, making them the first African, and first Muslim-majority, country to earn those honors, beating out bids from Australia, Egypt, Texas, the Confederate States and Chile (Colombia announced it would drop out and support Morocco in a surprise move, suspected to be in preparation of a glide path to 2036 hosting rights). On paper, there is much to like about this - Morocco is one of Africa's wealthier economies, well-educated with high levels of English and Spanish proficiency, rapidly growing and with gleaming new rail infrastructure to link together its cities. Long a mecca of tourism, Morocco is often compared to being today where Spain's economy was in the 1960s or Portugal's in the 1980s, and there is a great deal of potential for this World Cup to give visitors a new view of a country long associated with affordable beach resorts and dusty markets. Its proximity to Europe by plane (or Spain via ferry) makes it ideal from a time zone management standpoint and for travel, and Royal Air Maroc, the national air carrier, has in the last four years dramatically expanded its route network to the Americas, debuting a direct flight to Buenos Aires just days before the announcement.

What it also says is something exciting about footballing, though. Ever since the controversy around China's 2012 bid, FIFA has tried to clean up its act and think bigger about the game. Like Korea in 2028, Morocco is a new frontier for hosting but is one of its confederation's more consistent performers; an exciting debutant host will also be a mid-level footballing power simultaneously, presenting the best of both worlds. This will also be the first time since the 1980s that two first-time hosts have gone back to back; the run of five consecutive debut hosts between 1968 and 1984 (Australia, Spain, Netherlands, Colombia, Russia) is regarded as having helped supercharge interest in the sport and some of those tournaments are still held up as among the best ever.

Morocco will have a great deal of work ahead of it, narrowing down sixteen potential stadia to twelve; in a nod to concerns around environmental impacts and the rapidly warming climate (a huge deal in a hot country abutted by desert, a concern that sank Egypt's in many ways superior bid in the end), most of its stadia have been promised to be modular, meant to be quickly built for the occasion, and then disassembled to avoid white elephants. The record heatwaves roiling the world today may make 2032 the last time that hosting somewhere with Morocco's climate is feasible, at least in the summer; going to the Atlas Mountains and the coastal plain adjacent to the Atlantic may be an important experiment in where, exactly, the World Cup can go in the future.

 

[BearBear91]

Why is climate change worse? Did I miss something or is it not yet revealed because the development of the world doesn’t seem that much different than ours?

 

[KingSweden24]

Why is climate change worse? Did I miss something or is it not yet revealed because the development of the world doesn’t seem that much different than ours?

China and India are more developed earlier, Latin America is more developed, and nothing as devastating as WW2 to break Europe and East Asia, while nuclear power doesn’t become mainstream until about the same time

 

[Beatriz]

China and India are more developed earlier, Latin America is more developed, and nothing as devastating as WW2 to break Europe and East Asia, while nuclear power doesn’t become mainstream until about the same time

This reminds me that in @B_Munro ‘s cover of For All Time, global warming is simply less of a thing

 

[KingSweden24]

The Climate Change Politics Are Here
7/28/2024

President Brian Sandoval of the United States has made a great deal out of the fact that he was born and raised in California and has lived in several of its regions, and has also made "the futures lies West" one of the key pieces of his center-right, conservative-liberal worldview. As the 55th President gears up for what promises to be a grueling, tough one hundred days until the November 5th election against presumptive Democratic nominee Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart [1], he's symbolically kicking off the race to the finish line with a long swing in the competitive West ahead of the Liberal National Convention in late August in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he and Vice President Charlie Dent - who is rallying Liberal supporters across the Midwest - will accept renomination. While this campaign itinerary was planned for months, it has come into particular focus now with the crippling heat wave, easily the worst in recorded North American history, currently gripping the West, exacerbating one of the harshest wildfire seasons ever, one that makes the 2020-21 wildfire wave pale in comparison. A triumphant homecoming that was meant to start with a rally with young, rising star Colorado Governor Kyle Wills in the tech-heavy Research Triangle north of Denver last Friday was postponed so that Sandoval could travel instead to Montana to meet with local emergency responders fighting a wildfire nearly the size of Massachusetts.

This start to an August tour of the West is inauspicious not only for throwing off pre-scheduled events, but also because it puts into sharp relief a trend across the West in recent years of voters becoming increasingly punitive against incumbent political parties for climate-related issues. Severe flooding in China throughout 2023 and the associated refugees are thought to have helped tip March's race to the right-wing Hau Lung-pin; more ominously for Sandoval, center-right governments in Australia and Canada were ousted in 2020 in part due to their respective summers' severe wildfires. Indeed, a big part of Sandoval's pitch in 2020 involved his wildfire management as Governor of California, and his insistence that replacing the federal cap-and-trade scheme with a universal carbon tax would both be more economically beneficial and more effective at reducing emissions, speaking directly to the kinds of climate-conscious but upper middle-class suburban voters across the West that decide national elections - the so-called "Litzow Liberals" who have become the prototypical swing voters.

This summer's record-breaking temperatures (Las Vegas and Phoenix have both seen nearly a cumulative month of temperatures in excess of 47 degrees Celsius with eight weeks of summer left to go) are not just an issue for Brian Sandoval's reelection prospects. Wildfires across British Columbia and Alberta have been among the worst in Canadian history and have likely delayed the calling of an election by Prime Minister Peter Julian, who has been accused by the centrist Liberal Party and Canada's environmentalist Greens of not having done enough to quickly reduce emissions despite campaigning on the issue successfully in 2020. This summer portends the worst hurricane season in collective memory, with two Category Five hurricanes having already torn through the Caribbean, causing unprecedented damage in Cuba and Texas and deepening the existing unpopularity of national leaders in both; a severe hurricane season would be devastating in the Confederate States, which is seeing a sharp slowdown in construction in its lucrative coastal belt as building firms and insurers increasingly turn insolvent and a financial crisis potentially looms on the horizon. Mexico's pugilistic populist Prime Minister Jaime Rodriguez has never recovered since Hurricane Otto destroyed most of Acapulco last fall to the point that his government could quite credibly fall sometime in the next few months; Argentina and Uruguay have just emerged from one of the most crippling droughts ever to strike South America.

All this is to say that the boiling summer of 2024 portends a grim future of economic stagnation and upheaval in regions affected by a warming Earth and electorates unhappy even with governments that make efforts to address it. It speaks particularly ill for liberalism, as harsher solutions are demanded and autocratic movements take advantage of public discontent, and the refugee crises of tomorrow could further fuel massive discontent.

[1] Hat tip to @Curtain Jerker for suggesting to keep Tom Dart a County Sheriff rather than Governor as I had initially intended, feels much more Cinco de Mayo this way haha

 

[Mayukh]

Well without the mention of Olympics bombings, can we finally guess that it wasnt the work of Anprims opposed to Climate Change?

 

[naraht]

The Climate Change Politics Are Here
7/28/2024

President Brian Sandoval of the United States has made a great deal out of the fact that he was born and raised in California and has lived in several of its regions, and has also made "the futures lies West" one of the key pieces of his center-right, conservative-liberal worldview. As the 55th President gears up for what promises to be a grueling, tough one hundred days until the November 5th election against presumptive Democratic nominee Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart [1], he's symbolically kicking off the race to the finish line with a long swing in the competitive West ahead of the Liberal National Convention in late August in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he and Vice President Charlie Dent - who is rallying Liberal supporters across the Midwest - will accept renomination. While this campaign itinerary was planned for months, it has come into particular focus now with the crippling heat wave, easily the worst in recorded North American history, currently gripping the West, exacerbating one of the harshest wildfire seasons ever, one that makes the 2020-21 wildfire wave pale in comparison. A triumphant homecoming that was meant to start with a rally with young, rising star Colorado Governor Kyle Wills in the tech-heavy Research Triangle north of Denver last Friday was postponed so that Sandoval could travel instead to Montana to meet with local emergency responders fighting a wildfire nearly the size of Massachusetts.

This start to an August tour of the West is inauspicious not only for throwing off pre-scheduled events, but also because it puts into sharp relief a trend across the West in recent years of voters becoming increasingly punitive against incumbent political parties for climate-related issues. Severe flooding in China throughout 2023 and the associated refugees are thought to have helped tip March's race to the right-wing Hau Lung-pin; more ominously for Sandoval, center-right governments in Australia and Canada were ousted in 2020 in part due to their respective summers' severe wildfires. Indeed, a big part of Sandoval's pitch in 2020 involved his wildfire management as Governor of California, and his insistence that replacing the federal cap-and-trade scheme with a universal carbon tax would both be more economically beneficial and more effective at reducing emissions, speaking directly to the kinds of climate-conscious but upper middle-class suburban voters across the West that decide national elections - the so-called "Litzow Liberals" who have become the prototypical swing voters.

This summer's record-breaking temperatures (Las Vegas and Phoenix have both seen nearly a cumulative month of temperatures in excess of 47 degrees Celsius with eight weeks of summer left to go) are not just an issue for Brian Sandoval's reelection prospects. Wildfires across British Columbia and Alberta have been among the worst in Canadian history and have likely delayed the calling of an election by Prime Minister Peter Julian, who has been accused by the centrist Liberal Party and Canada's environmentalist Greens of not having done enough to quickly reduce emissions despite campaigning on the issue successfully in 2020. This summer portends the worst hurricane season in collective memory, with two Category Five hurricanes having already torn through the Caribbean, causing unprecedented damage in Cuba and Texas and deepening the existing unpopularity of national leaders in both; a severe hurricane season would be devastating in the Confederate States, which is seeing a sharp slowdown in construction in its lucrative coastal belt as building firms and insurers increasingly turn insolvent and a financial crisis potentially looms on the horizon. Mexico's pugilistic populist Prime Minister Jaime Rodriguez has never recovered since Hurricane Otto destroyed most of Acapulco last fall to the point that his government could quite credibly fall sometime in the next few months; Argentina and Uruguay have just emerged from one of the most crippling droughts ever to strike South America.

All this is to say that the boiling summer of 2024 portends a grim future of economic stagnation and upheaval in regions affected by a warming Earth and electorates unhappy even with governments that make efforts to address it. It speaks particularly ill for liberalism, as harsher solutions are demanded and autocratic movements take advantage of public discontent, and the refugee crises of tomorrow could further fuel massive discontent.

[1] Hat tip to @Curtain Jerker for suggesting to keep Tom Dart a County Sheriff rather than Governor as I had initially intended, feels much more Cinco de Mayo this way haha

The statement of Refugee Crisis ittl, makes me wonder, where are they? I think much less likely on the US Mexican border, the US-CS border is a completely different dynamic, Maritimes into New England wouldn't be for that reasons, and we have *no* idea what the Mexican southern border looks like. Otoh, in the Med, it doesn't feel like the dynamics are the same with both France and Italy changing significantly, Morocco -> Spain? Mesopotamia -> Turkey? Internal in India?

 

[KingSweden24]

Well without the mention of Olympics bombings, can we finally guess that it wasnt the work of Anprims opposed to Climate Change?

Kinda An-Prim adjacent ideology even if not totally apples to apples; I should elaborate in a later post

The statement of Refugee Crisis ittl, makes me wonder, where are they? I think much less likely on the US Mexican border, the US-CS border is a completely different dynamic, Maritimes into New England wouldn't be for that reasons, and we have *no* idea what the Mexican southern border looks like. Otoh, in the Med, it doesn't feel like the dynamics are the same with both France and Italy changing significantly, Morocco -> Spain? Mesopotamia -> Turkey? Internal in India?

Central Americans are bound to head to Mexico Id think, but yeah, internally in India and Middle East towards Turkey or Iran (and Europe and Russia beyond) are probably accelerating in this hotter 2010s

 

[username5243]

55th President

Whoa, *55th* president? :O

Argentina and Uruguay have just emerged from one of the most crippling droughts ever to strike South America

I'm reading this as Uruguay still exists as a separate country in 2024...

 

[naraht]

The Climate Change Politics Are Here
7/28/2024

President Brian Sandoval of the United States has made a great deal out of the fact that he was born and raised in California and has lived in several of its regions, and has also made "the futures lies West" one of the key pieces of his center-right, conservative-liberal worldview. As the 55th President gears up for what promises to be a grueling, tough one hundred days until the November 5th election against presumptive Democratic nominee Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart [1], he's symbolically kicking off the race to the finish line with a long swing in the competitive West ahead of the Liberal National Convention in late August in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he and Vice President Charlie Dent - who is rallying Liberal supporters across the Midwest - will accept renomination. While this campaign itinerary was planned for months, it has come into particular focus now with the crippling heat wave, easily the worst in recorded North American history, currently gripping the West, exacerbating one of the harshest wildfire seasons ever, one that makes the 2020-21 wildfire wave pale in comparison. A triumphant homecoming that was meant to start with a rally with young, rising star Colorado Governor Kyle Wills in the tech-heavy Research Triangle north of Denver last Friday was postponed so that Sandoval could travel instead to Montana to meet with local emergency responders fighting a wildfire nearly the size of Massachusetts.

This start to an August tour of the West is inauspicious not only for throwing off pre-scheduled events, but also because it puts into sharp relief a trend across the West in recent years of voters becoming increasingly punitive against incumbent political parties for climate-related issues. Severe flooding in China throughout 2023 and the associated refugees are thought to have helped tip March's race to the right-wing Hau Lung-pin; more ominously for Sandoval, center-right governments in Australia and Canada were ousted in 2020 in part due to their respective summers' severe wildfires. Indeed, a big part of Sandoval's pitch in 2020 involved his wildfire management as Governor of California, and his insistence that replacing the federal cap-and-trade scheme with a universal carbon tax would both be more economically beneficial and more effective at reducing emissions, speaking directly to the kinds of climate-conscious but upper middle-class suburban voters across the West that decide national elections - the so-called "Litzow Liberals" who have become the prototypical swing voters.

This summer's record-breaking temperatures (Las Vegas and Phoenix have both seen nearly a cumulative month of temperatures in excess of 47 degrees Celsius with eight weeks of summer left to go) are not just an issue for Brian Sandoval's reelection prospects. Wildfires across British Columbia and Alberta have been among the worst in Canadian history and have likely delayed the calling of an election by Prime Minister Peter Julian, who has been accused by the centrist Liberal Party and Canada's environmentalist Greens of not having done enough to quickly reduce emissions despite campaigning on the issue successfully in 2020. This summer portends the worst hurricane season in collective memory, with two Category Five hurricanes having already torn through the Caribbean, causing unprecedented damage in Cuba and Texas and deepening the existing unpopularity of national leaders in both; a severe hurricane season would be devastating in the Confederate States, which is seeing a sharp slowdown in construction in its lucrative coastal belt as building firms and insurers increasingly turn insolvent and a financial crisis potentially looms on the horizon. Mexico's pugilistic populist Prime Minister Jaime Rodriguez has never recovered since Hurricane Otto destroyed most of Acapulco last fall to the point that his government could quite credibly fall sometime in the next few months; Argentina and Uruguay have just emerged from one of the most crippling droughts ever to strike South America.

All this is to say that the boiling summer of 2024 portends a grim future of economic stagnation and upheaval in regions affected by a warming Earth and electorates unhappy even with governments that make efforts to address it. It speaks particularly ill for liberalism, as harsher solutions are demanded and autocratic movements take advantage of public discontent, and the refugee crises of tomorrow could further fuel massive discontent.

[1] Hat tip to @Curtain Jerker for suggesting to keep Tom Dart a County Sheriff rather than Governor as I had initially intended, feels much more Cinco de Mayo this way haha

A county sheriff as a major party nominee? (Of course I would have said that about a real estate developer. )

 

[Curtain Jerker]

[1] Hat tip to @Curtain Jerker for suggesting to keep Tom Dart a County Sheriff rather than Governor as I had initially intended, feels much more Cinco de Mayo this way haha

When in doubt the more batshit crazy the better.

Besides, stranger things have happened (he says as he gestures to everything that's happened politically in the last six or so weeks) so why not a major county sheriff running in an election where half the party keeps their powder dry for 2028?

 

[Devoid]

climate-conscious but upper middle-class suburban voters across the West that decide national elections - the so-called "Litzow Liberals" who have become the prototypical swing voters.

This makes me think of the voters who backed the Australian teals back in the '22 election, and combined with the mass wildfires, the modern US may have shades of Australia on top of the whole Canadian analogy (then again Canada has pretty bad wildfires too, so what do I know).

Whoa, *55th* president? :O

The power of a one-term precedent, baby.

 

[Mayukh]

Wonder how many rouge states there are in the world iitl.
In Europe: Integralist France and Syndicalist Wallonia maybe in the category but both have collapsed as of present day.
Nor sure whether Russia went the 1979 Iran route or is it just a normal democracy.
North America:There are none although segregation era CSA could be one.
Latam and Carribean: Although Red Chile has collapsed as of present day, Im not so sure about Integralist Brazil. I think they are just hanging on. Also seems like Peru and Bolivia are ethnocacerists.
Subsaharan Africa: We dont know yet but my gut feeling is that there some ABBist rouge states there.
Middle East and North Africa: We dont know much yet but Iran and Ottomans are implied to be democracies.
The Gulf War in the 1980s may be the work of a rouge state but we dont know.
Once again I wish that my suggestion of an SSNP Syria is accepted.
Asia and Australasia: If otl Turkey isnt a rouge state so isnt India. Its better cuz we dont have any Erdogan analouge.
China under under Hau Lu Ping maybe look like one but I think that he's more like Trump/Meloni/Marcos Jr, able to be removed in a democratic election.
(Desparately not tryink to think him as Putin. Plz. Dont do that!)
Japan is just otl Thailand. It isnt a rouge state.
Otl Indonesia: ALLAHU AKBAR!!!!
Srsly, that place should be on a watchlist ittl.
Australasia seems to be fine.

 

[Beatriz]

A rogue state requires a power or powers to designate

 

[Mayukh]

A rogue state requires a power or powers to designate

Yeah Ik. I was just using the expression as a refrence to Dictatorships.

 

[KingSweden24]

The 2024 MLB season has two months remaining until the final day, and with the first four months of the season and the All-Star Break in the rearview mirror, here is how the race for the 2024 World Series Playoff looks as we enter the last, most critical leg of the season:

AL East

The most even division in sports looks at least somewhat likely to place not two but three teams in the Playoffs, but it's anybody's guess in what order. The New York Yankees dominated April and the first half of May but faded through the Break only to come back roaring the last week with eight straight wins; still, that midseason swoon has them two games behind the Cleveland Indians and three-and-a-half games behind the Baltimore Orioles. All these teams are on pace for about 95 wins or so, which may be enough for first place in the American League come October; so far, Baltimore has looked the most potent while Indians have been the most consistent. How the Yankees manage their injuries and how the Orioles' young roster that flamed out in playoff pressure last season adjust through August will be critical to not just the division race but how the whole of the playoff seeding shakes out.

AL Central

It's a familiar place for the Minnesota Twins - on pace for a win total in the low 90s, likely aimed at the second seed in the playoffs, and atop the worst division in baseball. This year, with the AL East looking like a behemoth, whoever places second in the Central is likely on the couch in October, but the Kansas City Athletics - who won consecutive AL pennants in 2021 and 2022 before posting the second-worst record in the MLB last season - haven't given up yet, three games behind the Twins with a number of divisional series on docket this month, starting with the league-worst Detroit Tigers on Monday night. Twins are likely still the favorites, but if any of the East's trio of juggernauts slips even slightly, A's look well-poised to sneak into the playoffs in the fifth position.

AL West

The AL West is a scrambled mess - her two California teams, the Los Angeles Angels and the San Francisco Seals, both sit on losing records, while the Seattle Rainiers have seen their early-season success deteriorate rapidly during a disastrous July that has allowed a dismaying Denver Zephyrs club back into contention, only half a game back on Seattle with two months to go. The defending World Series champions have not looked good thanks to a rash of injuries and of course the longstanding controversies with star first baseman Matt Sutter, but the Z's nonetheless have hung around in a terrible division well enough to possibly be able to sneak into the third seed with 87 wins or thereabouts if they can get just a hair more slippage from Rainiers. It isn't much of a "race" between two decent but underwhelming clubs considering the strength of the AL East or the entire National League this season, but the Zephyrs came out of nowhere to win it all just nine months ago, and any club can mount a surprise in October.

NL East

The NL East is a two-team race, but what a division. The Brooklyn Dodgers, out of nowhere, look likely to arrive at 104 wins as they compile their best record since the days of the 2011-14 dynasty; right behind them are last year's NL champions and World Series runner-up, Philadelphia Phillies, who would win 98 games at their current pace but still be the fourth seed, likely setting up a rematch NLDS with the Dodgers. The Giants have bounced back from their post-World Series disaster last year and are on pace for a winning record with room to spare, but with the Phillies strong and excellent teams in the NL West, they would need a better pace through the end of the year to sneak the fifth seed if they're planning on challenging their archrivals for National League glory and a third World Series in five years. As of now, the Dodgers remain our NL pennant and World Series favorites, if for no reason other than their top-to-bottom completeness and league-leading record.

NL Central

Setting aside Brooklyn's dominance, the Milwaukee Braves are the National League's other outstanding performer, looking likely to land at 99 wins by the time the season wraps up as the aging but experienced core of this team came together again to push for one last chance at World Series glory. They have the top of the division largely to themselves, with the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals both hovering just above .500 and trading places in second well behind thanks to a myriad of injuries this season, though Cubs' Damian Perreira nonetheless looks like he'll be this year's home run leader despite missing the playoffs. Braves are often allergic to postseason expectations - the well-known "Beertown Blues" - but a second seed behind Brooklyn could be the right home for Milwaukee to make sure they play in yet another NLCS.

NL West

The NL West is in some ways a corollary to the AL East - it has a traffic jam of three solid teams at the top, all likely to end up on roughly 91 or 92 wins. Of course, the strength of the National League this year potentially could exclude as many as two of those clubs, but it's a real grind out west for the leading San Diego Padres and the Hollywood Stars and Arizona Diamondbacks, who aren't far behind. The D'backs, who have had to adjust their schedule a few times due to excessive daytime heat, have built upon their impressive surprise performance last year to be nipping at the heels of the more distinguished SoCal clubs and could be poised for another August run that vaults them back into first place, though the Padres have been excellent at winning difficult games that previous iterations would lose. With Portland far in the rearview mirror and an excellent punching bag for the rest of the division, these three clubs have a two-month scramble to get a chance at glory.

 

[KingSweden24]

Whoa, *55th* president? :O

Yup

I'm reading this as Uruguay still exists as a separate country in 2024...

Yes

A county sheriff as a major party nominee? (Of course I would have said that about a real estate developer. )

When in doubt the more batshit crazy the better.

Besides, stranger things have happened (he says as he gestures to everything that's happened politically in the last six or so weeks) so why not a major county sheriff running in an election where half the party keeps their powder dry for 2028?

The truth is stranger than fiction

This makes me think of the voters who backed the Australian teals back in the '22 election, and combined with the mass wildfires, the modern US may have shades of Australia on top of the whole Canadian analogy (then again Canada has pretty bad wildfires too, so what do I know).

The Teals are kind of who I had in mind, though that kind of voter is (for now at least, there's starting to be some slippage) still inside the Liberal tent.

The power of a one-term precedent, baby.

Hehe sorta

Wonder how many rouge states there are in the world iitl.
In Europe: Integralist France and Syndicalist Wallonia maybe in the category but both have collapsed as of present day.
Nor sure whether Russia went the 1979 Iran route or is it just a normal democracy.
North America:There are none although segregation era CSA could be one.
Latam and Carribean: Although Red Chile has collapsed as of present day, Im not so sure about Integralist Brazil. I think they are just hanging on. Also seems like Peru and Bolivia are ethnocacerists.
Subsaharan Africa: We dont know yet but my gut feeling is that there some ABBist rouge states there.
Middle East and North Africa: We dont know much yet but Iran and Ottomans are implied to be democracies.
The Gulf War in the 1980s may be the work of a rouge state but we dont know.
Once again I wish that my suggestion of an SSNP Syria is accepted.
Asia and Australasia: If otl Turkey isnt a rouge state so isnt India. Its better cuz we dont have any Erdogan analouge.
China under under Hau Lu Ping maybe look like one but I think that he's more like Trump/Meloni/Marcos Jr, able to be removed in a democratic election.
(Desparately not tryink to think him as Putin. Plz. Dont do that!)
Japan is just otl Thailand. It isnt a rouge state.
Otl Indonesia: ALLAHU AKBAR!!!!
Srsly, that place should be on a watchlist ittl.
Australasia seems to be fine.

The dumpster fire that is OTL Indonesia during the 1990s is definitely rogue state status, for sure. (Several rogue states, really).

 

[Curtain Jerker]

They have the top of the division largely to themselves, with the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals both hovering just above .500 and trading places in second well behind thanks to a myriad of injuries this season, though Cubs' Damian Perreira nonetheless looks like he'll be this year's home run leader despite missing the playoffs.

Super granular here but in this version of baseball do playoff stats count towards regular season records as well? So if a guy has 50 homers in the regular season and five in the playoffs he's got 55 as far as the record book is concerned?

 

[KingSweden24]

Super granular here but in this version of baseball do playoff stats count towards regular season records as well? So if a guy has 50 homers in the regular season and five in the playoffs he's got 55 as far as the record book is concerned?

Very granular lol haha

I’m not sure how the MLB works OTL but I’m partial to keeping regular season and playoff stats separate. Everyone has the same pool of 162 games to compete for statistical glory, and especially in baseball the playoff strategy/roster management changes the game significantly

 

[Curtain Jerker]

Very granular lol haha

I’m not sure how the MLB works OTL but I’m partial to keeping regular season and playoff stats separate. Everyone has the same pool of 162 games to compete for statistical glory, and especially in baseball the playoff strategy/roster management changes the game significantly

MLB (and I think the other big sports) keeps records separate between regular season and playoffs. Barry Bonds has 762 homers in the regular season and nine more in the playoffs, but as far as the record is concerned the playoff homers don't count towards the regular season ones - they are in their own separate category.