When The Lights went Out: A Goose Goslin League Hypothesis

[rzafan]

For days, the Goose Goslin League has been in darkness. Not a literal power outage, mind you—just an eerie, media blackout. With the site down and no managerial oversight, teams have been left to their own devices, playing in empty stadiums with no one to track their stats, set their lineups, or even enforce basic baseball civility.

What happens when a league is left to fend for itself, devoid of order, rules, or the steady hand of managers? In the words of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies: “Maybe there is a Goose… maybe it’s only us.”

Strange Findings Upon Return
Now that the site is flickering back to life, our scorekeepers and statisticians are emerging like archaeologists, brushing away digital dust to piece together what exactly happened in our absence. Here’s what we’ve uncovered so far:

The STL Explorers Have Declared Independence – The squad seems to have seceded from the NL and begun their own "Explorer League," featuring candlelit games, secret handshakes, and a mandatory daily afternoon nap.

The NYN Youngstuds Have Become a Nomadic Tribe – The Youngstuds abandoned their home stadium, choosing instead to roam from city to city playing impromptu games in public parks. Witnesses report “unorthodox” training methods, including tag-team base stealing and an actual game of capture-the-flag during a rain delay.

The MIL Mad Cows Have Staged a Revolt – The pitching staff finally had enough of being called “Mad” and stormed their own dugout, flipping over water coolers and renaming themselves “The Mildly Irritated Cows.” Their team leader, now insists that every relief appearance is accompanied by a monologue about "how the game used to be."

The SD Murcielagos Are Faster Than Ever… But No One Knows Why – The Bats mysteriously doubled their stolen base rate during the outage. One theory? They’ve unlocked “forbidden speed training” in the absence of official coaching. Another? The stadium security forgot to lock the gates, and they’ve been training against random joggers in the park.

The Future of the League?
As managers log back in and attempt to reassert their rule over the chaos, one thing is clear: the players have tasted freedom. With games still being simulated in an unwatched void, who knows what other absurdities we’ll uncover?

Will we find that the WAS Phantoms actually played entire games as ghosts, refusing to take the field but somehow still winning? Did the MIA Mangoes accidentally recruit an actual mango into the lineup? Has ATL United dissolved into a full-time soccer team?

We’ll have the answers soon enough. But for now, one thing is certain: Gooseball finds a way.

[LTJaeger]

THIS is what happens when SimD managers have too much free time on their hands.

I would NEVER use my free time so frivolously, You'll all see when I publish my new and highly-researched book "Does Bacon Taste Good?"

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You'll all see when I publish my new and highly-researched book "Does Bacon Taste Good?"

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Update from Admin Chris this morning:

Thank you all for your continued patience! Although we got 90% of the server back up and running we are in the "troubleshoot individual pages" phase; I finished the depth chart and rotation/bullpen last night and fixing roster and player cards today. I am working on a local test server; meanwhile, Tyson is prepping the public server environment. I hope to have Beta users in this weekend for testing.

Football is still up and running but it depends on baseball for payment processing; if you are getting any payment warnings please post an urgent ticket and I will get you straightened out.