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| “OPPONENT HAS LEFT THE BALLPARK. UMPIRE CALLS GAME” |
The Tweeners and Inmates hooked up for a typically bizarre series at the HooverDome via netplay/CM:
TWEENERS 7 – INMATES 6 (10): Tweeners send Santanaclaus to an early shower after belting 9 hits in 3 1/3. Then with the score 6-5 in the 6th,
HAL sends “OPPONENT HAS LEFT THE BALLPARK. UMPIRE CALLS GAME” message,
leaving both faithful fans wondering what the fuck was going on.
Autosave came in handy, as Johnson hits sacfly in 9th to send the game into extra innings. Of course, the LDMF lost.
INMATES 4 – TWEENERS 3: Floyd pitches (but doesn’t field) a great game, leaving in the 9th
with a 4-2 lead after allowing only 3 hits. Despite orders to the
contrary, Inmate defensive change leaves Pennington at 2B (WTF??) where
the 5e71 allows both a hit and error. Inmates manager immediately fixes
HAL’s fuck-up, while Perez and Motte can’t get the side out. Then, with
two outs and the bases loaded in a 4-3 game, HAL sends out the “OPPONENT
HAS LEFT BALLPARK. UMPIRE CALLS GAME” message once again. Inmate and
Tweener fans wonder what stupid motherfucker of a programmer at SOM
could possibly come up with such an imbecilic move. Nevertheless, the
autosave works again, and Chamberlain strands all runners for the Inmate
victory.
TWEENERS 4 – INMATES 3:
This via CM, as 2-3 dozen attempts to get the game connection working
between Inmate XP and Tweener Vista prove fruitless and a colossal waste
of time. Good game, Casilla gets long save.
Fuck HAL.
The HEAD INMATE
Tweeners (mercifully) leave Waco in our rear-view mirror, failing to win
there in 2011. With expanded rosters (which made no difference)
Tweeners drop the final pair 6-5 and 3-2. Inmates plate 5 vs. Fellix in
the 1st inning and we can't quite recover. 49,906 showed up for the
finale, and all demanded refunds, alleging that they had witnessed
replacement players masquerading as Tweeners/Inmates. If only.
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