The Alphabet Baseball Coalition: Recent Episodes
Tony Miller
The Alphabet Baseball Coalition, from Un/Necessary Sports Research, is a Major League Baseball simulation featuring the best seasons by players whose names begin with each letter of the alphabet.
A full slate of 11 games in the Alphabet Baseball Coalition on the first Tuesday of the season.
The fourth day of the Alphabet Baseball Coalition season brings us to the first off days of the year.
The opening day of action in the Alphabet Baseball Coalition. I'm not gonna list all the scores here because that would be a spoiler alert.
A preview of the Gamma and Delta Divisions in the Alphabet Baseball Coalition. For those of you alphabetically in Chicago, Dallas, Edmonton, El Paso, Fresno, Houston, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Vancouver and Yonkers.
Game play starts Friday!
Alright, let's do this for real this time. After a discussion of why we're dipping our toes back into the world of podcasts (hint: it's because Twitter is kind of a disaster area and we need to re-jigger some stuff), we re-run the ABC trailer in preparation for opening day on Friday, Dec. 23.
The season preview comes up next, in two parts Wednesday night and Thursday night.
New York 4, Fresno 2
Glendale 4, Edmonton-El Paso 1
Toronto 6, Philadelphia 4
Kansas City 4, Montreal 3
Houston 7, Indianapolis 5
Los Angeles 6, Jacksonville 0
Vancouver 6, Washington 4
Dallas 2, Toronto 1
Jacksonville 7, Washington 0
Edmonton-El Paso 3, Indianapolis 1
Raleigh 3, Philadelphia 2
Chicago 4. New York 3
Kansas City 4, San Diego 2
Houston 8, Los Angeles 5
Montreal 6, Fresno 0
Vancouver 1, Glendale 0
Yonkers 2, Oakland 0
Boston 4, Atlanta 2
Day 2 in the Alphabet Baseball Coalition.
Toronto 4, Dallas 1
San Diego 11, Kansas City 1
Indianapolis 5, Edmonton-El Paso 3, 13 innings
Washington 8, Jacksonville 2
Boston 2, Atlanta 0
Raleigh 9, Philadelphia 8
Chicago 5, New York 2
Los Angeles 2, Houston 1
Fresno 9, Montreal 3
Oakland 4, Yonkers 2
Glendale 5, Vancouver 1
Opening Day in the Alphabet Baseball Coalition. Scores and Stats at AlphabetBaseball.com.
The final three games of the Cartwright Trophy preseason series crown a champion while most of the league preps for Opening Day.
Semifinals
Montreal 6 at Edmonton-El Paso 5
Raleigh 6 at San Diego 3
Final
Montreal 1 at Raleigh 0
Eight teams become four and the USPS makes a cameo on day three of our four-day preseason extravaganza for the Cartwright Trophy.
Montreal 2 at Oakland 0
Raleigh 5 at Indianapolis 1
Edmonton-El Paso 5, Los Angeles 0
San Diego 4, Vancouver 2, 10 innings
Day 2 of the Alphabet Baseball Coalition preseason sees us trim 16 teams to 8 in the Cartwright Trophy tournament.
Raleigh 2, Chicago 1
Indianapolis 7, Jacksonville 2
Montreal 5, Washington 4
Edmonton-El Paso 6, Dallas 5
Vancouver 1, Houston 0
Los Angeles 5, Kansas City 1
San Diego 9, Boston 6
Oakland 3, Yonkers 2
A recap of rhe opening round of the Cartwright Trophy tournament, the single-elimination event that functions as preseason in the Alphabet Baseball Coalition.
Dallas 5, Toronto 3
Vancouver 2, Glendale 1
Boston 1, Fresno 0
Jacksonville 3, Atlanta 2
Washington 2, Philadelphia 0
Yonkers 3, New York 1
Round of 16 action continues Tuesday with the regular season set to commence Friday.
We talk about the 10 teams in the Delta and Gamma Divisions and set the pairings for the preseason Cartwright Trophy tournament.
Timestamps:
Delta Division
2:35 - Edmonton/El Paso Eagles
5:25 - Jacksonville Jets
8:05 - Kansas City Knights
10:15 - Philadelphia Panthers
11:50 - Yonkers Zephyrs
Gamma Division
14:05 - Chicago Cougars
16:25 - Dallas Dragons
18:20 - Fresno Falcons
20:35 - Houston Hornets
22:40 - Vancouver Vikings
25:00 - Cartwright Trophy tournament pairings
We go all Bachman Turner Overdrive and take care of some league business, then run through the rosters of the 12 teams in the Alpha and Beta Divisions. I'm pretty sure my mother isn't going to listen to all of this one, because parts of it feel like reading a phone book, for those of you who remember what that is.
For reference, here are the teams previewed:
Alpha Division
3:46 - Indianapolis Unicorns (also has the Q names)
6:40 - New York Nighthawks
8:00 - Oakland Owls
10:10 - Raleigh Raiders
12:33 - San Diego Spartans
14:30 - Washington Wildcats
Beta Division
16:15 - Atlanta Aces
17:55 - Boston Bulldogs
19:50 - Glendale Giants
21:52 - Los Angeles Lions
24:05 - Montreal Mustangs
26:10 - Toronto Tigers