…but maybe you’ll find them interesting, anyway.
1. Over at The Baseball Zealot, I interviewed Chicago-based baseball artist Grant Smith. He’s got some great baseball paintings and even sold some of them to Johnny Damon (he writes about it in the interview). If you want to check his work out here is his website
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2. This is more of a commentary than anything and it’s tangentially related to the game of APBA.
I ran across this review of Carcassonne on Boing Boing. Mark Frauenfelder claims it’s the the only “board game I can stand”. He goes on to say that “I don’t like playing board games” and that he’s surprised that I like playing Carcassonne so much”.
So, where am I going with this? He then says (in parenthesis) that “I’ve never played the physical board game of Carcassonne”. He was referring to the computer version of the board game all along and never played the actual board game.
I’m not picking on Frauenfelder. I happen to respect him a lot. But I do think this might be a generational or perhaps even a technological gap that many people who see themselves playing a computer version of a “real” board game and don’t make the disconnect between the two.
Comments?
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After many years of not playing APBA Baseball, I recently ordered the basic board game with the 2007 season and pre-ordered the 2011 season. I plan on replaying the 2007 season solitaire, with score-sheet, pencil, that wonderful dice cup sound and the visual as the little red and white dice roll out. My plan is to mirror every games actual starting lineup and to the extent possible keep players within their actual 2007 ABs. This will most likely take me several years to complete, but I simply can’t wait to get started.
To me, and I tried it several years ago, the PC version of APBA was boring because I could not hold the lineup in my left hand, shake then roll the die, then record the outcome manually.