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The Case for a Second Look at Mike Miles Jr
2023.03.22 15:34 dotbarnfather The Case for a Second Look at Mike Miles Jr
Mike Miles Jr is a 6'2'' (he's probably 6'1'') junior guard expected to be taken in the second round -- if drafted -- yet may commit to the leap to the NBA following injury scares this year.
While not seeing a dramatic change in his valuation over the course of his three years of basketball, he's arguably made advances to showcase his scoring potential. He's shooting his best from the field (49.7%) and from deep (36.2%). He's also seen an improvement at getting to the line (6.3 times per). From a story perspective, his leadership helped turned around Jamie Dixon's ball club following two years of head scratching basketball. And in some ways, it felt as if Dixon had found his version of the man who overshadowed those great years of Pittsburgh basketball in Kemba Walker. He didn't but if anyone was going to be a Kemba Walker, it was Mike Miles Jr.
MMJ's game reflects that of a modern point guard. He's a scorer when needed, a playmaker when needed and is a guard that can live without the ball in his hands. One of the biggest criticisms to his game was the "cold nights" -- which truly weren't plenty this season. In fact, only 1 game this season out of 27 did he not score over 10 points -- that being TCU's win against Texas. In that match-up where he went 0-8 from the field, 5 turnovers and only one assist, his influence on the floor was still noticeable. And one of the biggest growth points has been his ability to play above his size. A very smart defensive player, he's shown an ability to jump in front of passes and swarm defenders as they drive into the paint.
Austin Reaves and Mike Miles Jr have a very similar story of a player that arguably elevated their teammates but didn't necessarily get the public consideration for it as the team struggled to reach the top of the mountain of the Big 12. Both showcased the ability to create for their teammates yet didn't necessarily the the assist credit as the basket simply didn't fall in. And Miles Jr has a very complete guard game, that continues to be rewarded at the next level.
While guards like Isaiah Wong can argue their size and similar improvement year over year, not many can argue their ability to do it without needing the ball in their hands. It wouldn't be a surprise if MMJ does return yet it would be a disservice to think that it is because he isn't "draft worthy" right now.
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While not seeing a dramatic change in his valuation over the course of his three years of basketball, he's arguably made advances to showcase his scoring potential. He's shooting his best from the field (49.7%) and from deep (36.2%). He's also seen an improvement at getting to the line (6.3 times per). From a story perspective, his leadership helped turned around Jamie Dixon's ball club following two years of head scratching basketball. And in some ways, it felt as if Dixon had found his version of the man who overshadowed those great years of Pittsburgh basketball in Kemba Walker. He didn't but if anyone was going to be a Kemba Walker, it was Mike Miles Jr.
MMJ's game reflects that of a modern point guard. He's a scorer when needed, a playmaker when needed and is a guard that can live without the ball in his hands. One of the biggest criticisms to his game was the "cold nights" -- which truly weren't plenty this season. In fact, only 1 game this season out of 27 did he not score over 10 points -- that being TCU's win against Texas. In that match-up where he went 0-8 from the field, 5 turnovers and only one assist, his influence on the floor was still noticeable. And one of the biggest growth points has been his ability to play above his size. A very smart defensive player, he's shown an ability to jump in front of passes and swarm defenders as they drive into the paint.
Austin Reaves and Mike Miles Jr have a very similar story of a player that arguably elevated their teammates but didn't necessarily get the public consideration for it as the team struggled to reach the top of the mountain of the Big 12. Both showcased the ability to create for their teammates yet didn't necessarily the the assist credit as the basket simply didn't fall in. And Miles Jr has a very complete guard game, that continues to be rewarded at the next level.
While guards like Isaiah Wong can argue their size and similar improvement year over year, not many can argue their ability to do it without needing the ball in their hands. It wouldn't be a surprise if MMJ does return yet it would be a disservice to think that it is because he isn't "draft worthy" right now.
2023.03.22 15:00 Libro_Artis Ukraine’s Digital Resistance Behind Enemy Lines
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/ukraine-russia-war-nonviolent-digital-resistance-telegram/673420/
The man introduced to me in the southern port city of Odesa as Taras does not look like what he is: the founder of the civilian resistance to Russia’s military occupation of southern and eastern Ukraine. He’s no tough Marshal Tito or ethereal Mahatma Gandhi. He looks, in fact, like your typical Gen Z tech worker: early 20s, lean, trendy—and he’s always online. He likes to talk about English Premier League football games from the 1980s, but only because he’s seen them on YouTube; he can name scores of Premier League players, but only because he’s used their avatars in the FIFA video game. He adores Instagram.
Since April, Taras has led a group named Yellow Ribbon, which took up the principles of nonviolent resistance soon after the Russians overran his home city of Kherson. (Taras is a pseudonym he uses to help protect his identity from his Russian enemies.) Its goal: to resist Russian occupation through peaceful means wherever possible. The group has now spread throughout the occupied territories of Ukraine, and as it has done so, its reputation has grown. Late last year, Yellow Ribbon was one of four Ukrainian groups honored with the European Parliament’s Andrei Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, the European Union’s main award for the defense of human rights.
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What distinguishes Yellow Ribbon from traditional nonviolent resistance movements is its emphasis on the digital. The group’s growing numbers of activists stay connected via a chatbot plugin on the group’s Telegram messaging app. Prompted by the chatbot’s automated questions, activists in the occupied territories can access various resistance tasks to carry out on the ground. The system enables Yellow Ribbon to share the materials and techniques necessary for the resistance to make its activities visible in the real world of the occupation, while safeguarding the anonymity of the participants against Russian efforts to penetrate the network. Among the clandestine actions guided by the chatbot are scrawling pro-Ukraine graffiti, tying yellow ribbons around objects in the streets, and projecting slogans onto buildings taken over by the Russian administration. Such nonviolent actions have made Yellow Ribbon famous across Ukraine—and a serious problem for Russia in the occupied areas.
At first, the Russians ignored the group to avoid amplifying its work. Eventually, as Yellow Ribbon’s activities grew, they were forced to respond. Yellow and blue paint began to disappear from shops in occupied areas. Buying anything yellow became almost impossible; people were reduced to cutting patches of the color out of old clothes.
Even Russian soldiers began to feel the effects of Yellow Ribbon’s activities. Taras told me that after graffiti appeared near the entrance of a Chechen base in Melitopol, another occupied city in southeastern Ukraine, the soldiers changed their location and started going about town in civilian clothing rather than military uniform.
Access to the Telegram chatbot has allowed resistance activists to spring up across the occupied territories; many of them were women, who, I was told, could more easily pass unnoticed by the Russian occupiers. Earlier this year, I met Liliyia Aleksandrova in Kherson, which was recaptured by Ukrainian forces late last year—though artillery shelling still roared in the background as we spoke. Prior to the occupation, Aleksandrova had, she said, been a middle-aged “mama.” When the Russians first came to Kherson, she attended some street demonstrations, but the tear gas and soldiers soon put a stop to things. “It was clear we couldn’t protest publicly anymore,” she told me. “I was thinking about what I could do for my country; I had to do something to be useful.”
On Telegram, she came across Yellow Ribbon and, using the group’s chatbot tool, she began downloading instructions for tasks. She put up yellow ribbons everywhere she could—on buildings, lampposts, and fences—and took photos. Once or twice, she was almost caught, but she continued. Her work was everywhere around the city. As we talked, we passed Yellow Ribbon graffiti on a street wall. “I did that,” Liliyia told me with quiet satisfaction.
The first time Taras saw the Russians after the February 24 invasion, they had taken an office in the city’s main square; then they took the main police station. By March 2, they were in full control of Kherson. “No one knew what would happen tomorrow or the day after,” he told me when we met earlier this year in Odesa. He’d spent most of last year living under occupation in Kherson before its liberation in November.
Ukrainian partisans have launched sporadic attacks in Russian-occupied areas, but Taras had no military training, so any resistance activity he took on had to be nonviolent. He drew inspiration from earlier causes such as Germany’s White Rose student group, which opposed the Nazis; the U.S. civil-rights movement; and Czechoslovakia’s 1989 protests that led to the Velvet Revolution. Gandhi called nonviolent resistance “mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.”
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According to Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan, both political scientists and co-authors of the 2011 book Why Civil Resistance Works, taking up arms has traditionally given regime opponents a 26 percent chance of succeeding in their aims, whereas the tactics of nonviolent resistance have a 53 percent success rate. Countries where nonviolent, rather than violent, resistance led to change were more likely to remain democratic after the crisis ended.
Taras knew many people who wanted to act but for whom armed resistance was not an option. He could, he calculated, attract many more recruits through nonviolence. Almost anyone can participate: Its methods are highly accessible, and no specialist equipment or skills are required. He grasped that nonviolence’s main advantage over violence is scale—the number of people it can rally to a cause is exponentially greater.
Taras knew he could count on the 10 employees of the IT company he ran in Kherson, plus some people in other companies he worked with. This was enough to form the basis of what would become Yellow Ribbon. Even today, the core group of coordinators remains small—about 40 people, all of them known personally to Taras from before the occupation. Most are in their 20s.
At first, the Russians allowed residents of Kherson to protest in person, and many did, going to the central square, waving Ukrainian flags, and demanding the troops leave. Pooling cash, Taras’s group decided to buy online advertisements to spread the message. It gravitated easily from organizing IT projects to rallying support for the local protests and other pro-Ukraine activities through March and into April.
Then, in late April, a rumor spread through the city that Russia was making preparations for fraudulent referendums in occupied cities across the south. The result would be a foregone conclusion; the territories would be annexed to Russia. The resistance activists knew they had to act.
On April 23, they set up a Telegram group that they named Yellow Ribbon, a reference to the color on the Ukrainian flag, to spread pro-Ukraine messages and encourage people to paste leaflets and posters around Kherson. The platform would also work with local media to promulgate similar messages. Taras realized they could now reach hundreds of thousands of people.
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“That’s what you can do with a digital component: reach larger audiences, spread more messages, get people to go out and protest, and do so successfully,” he told me. “We saw it work; things started to build like a snowball.”
The first demonstration, which took place on April 27, was modest in size—maybe 500 people. The Russians were out in force and used tear gas and stun grenades against the protesters. The physical demonstration may have been small, and was quickly put down, but online, via the Telegram channel and on social networks, it went viral. Moscow did eventually hold the referendum, but not until the end of September.
Another protest was planned for May 9, by which time things were getting more dangerous. Within five minutes, the protest was broken up by Russian forces. After the FSB, Russia’s state security police, came to town, the first local collaborators emerged, and activists started to disappear. Taras and his team made the decision to shift their strategy away from street demonstrations. If the resistance could not occupy the streets, it would occupy the online space.
In June, the group used Instagram to create a virtual street protest that included images of flags and banners on a visualization of a street in Kherson. Every person who attended had to write “Kherson is Ukraine” in the comments section. From these posts, the group calculated that 40,000 people had joined from Kherson and 16,000 from Mariupol. The Yellow Ribbon message spread across not only pro-Ukraine but pro-Russia platforms as well.
As Yellow Ribbon’s name and activities grew, new problems arose. Its activists were in constant danger of arrest. The group put several security protocols in place. Unlike specialized messaging platforms such as Signal, Telegram was already in widespread use by Ukrainians and Russians alike, rendering the app’s presence on a phone unsuspicious. Telegram can also be deleted from a phone, removing all the messages, and then downloaded again—with all of the messages still intact.
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Getting people out of jail became a priority for the group. That generally meant one thing: bribes. Usually, it was easy to pay Russian soldiers or local collaborators to release an activist who’d disappeared. Taras knew businessmen in the city who had dealings with the Russians, and he used them as intermediaries. He’d pay them, and they’d pay the Russians.
Then, in late September, the group set up the chatbot. The technology enabled Yellow Ribbon to radically scale up its activities, allowing it to evolve from being a local resistance movement into something more powerful: a franchised one. People like Aleksandrova began to open cabinets across the occupied territories—in Melitopol and Donetsk and Luhansk, even in Crimea.
Over coffee in Odesa, Taras showed me the chatbot homepage on his laptop. In Crimea, chatbot volunteers tied a yellow ribbon on a tree near a shipping port. In September, leaflets announcing Crimea is Ukraine! and Opening soon! were pasted on a government building there. Ukrainian-flag graffiti appeared in Donetsk, and in Melitopol posters mocked the Russian passports that locals were being pressured to get.
The group also taught people how to make stencils in the shape of the “3CY” initialism for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and, using torches, project them onto official buildings. In late January, one appeared on the Russian administration’s office in Melitopol.
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Most of the time, the group judged, Russian soldiers hadn’t themselves seen the resistance graffiti or leaflets in the city, but a monitoring team would report the photo of it that subsequently appeared online. Back in May, the Russian TV channel Izvestia paraded some purported Yellow Ribbon activists from Mariupol, who claimed that they had been paid to put up leaflets (as an alternative to other hourly paid work, which encouraged Russian viewers to infer that they were prostitutes).
The Yellow Ribbon team started noticing people whom it suspected were FSB personnel using the Chatbot app to pose as activists and request to meet in person—a clear violation of security rules. The team’s members, Taras told me, also received phishing links almost daily. In this sense, the digital amplification has increased the reach and impact of the ground activity, forcing the occupier to respond to it.
Eventually, the group’s presence attracted attention in Moscow. Yellow Ribbon’s work prompted a “concerned citizen” in Crimea to message the local Russian Investigative Committee’s Telegram channel: “I request you begin investigating the terrorist activities and spreading of ideology by the Yellow Ribbon group.” On January 27, the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow issued a letter saying that the activity was being investigated, and two days later, a subdivision of the ministry confirmed that it was now regarded as a criminal matter.
A Russian organization calling itself the Committee for the Defense Against Traitors released a video claiming that the group was engaged “in the information war” to push the agenda of “terrorists.” These sorts of attacks are only to be expected: The group’s activities are not just a constant reminder that the locals reject the occupation but also a living rebuttal of Russia’s entire narrative justifying its invasion.
Recently, I spoke with Ivan, a colleague of Taras’s who helped set up Yellow Ribbon back in April last year. (Again, I am using a pseudonym to protect his identity.) Another Kherson native, he is Yellow Ribbon’s main coordinator. When the Russians withdrew from the city, he went to nearby Melitopol, which remains under Moscow’s control. Ivan stayed behind enemy lines, he explained, because the group needs to ensure that the movement keeps growing, especially in that city and other still-occupied areas. It’s hard to find the right materials and places to print, and they need to keep their network of activists in play across the region.
“Things in Melitopol are tough,” he told me over an encrypted voice call. “The Russians have instituted an ‘anti-terrorist’ regime on the streets, which means increased patrols and video cameras everywhere. A lot of soldiers have arrived from Russia—and they are making a lot of arrests. It’s hard for us to work here now.
“The Russians can be brutal,” he went on. “But it depends on what unit they’re from—the Chechens are really bad. They think that this is their territory.”
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Ivan and his fellow activists keep a low profile, especially when they go out to buy necessities. Security is paramount. “I try not to be too active on the streets but instead focus on how to bring in the materials into the city and where to hide them,” he told me. “I work with VPNs and hosts and proxies to make sure my internet connection is safe. I have five cellphones and move from safe house to safe house each night or week.”
Taras left Kherson last August, before the city was liberated. He traveled by car, carrying just one sports bag and about 170,000 roubles (approximately $2,300), which he gave to the soldiers manning a checkpoint out of the city. When he handed over the cash, he felt like telling them they were welcome to it because he’d never be needing roubles again, but he refrained, and instead drove through the barrier in silence, back into free Ukraine.
Since then, he has continued to coordinate Yellow Ribbon’s activities from inside Ukraine. The group plans to expand its activities. The chatbot now serves about 4,600 open cabinets, but the group hopes to get that number to 100,000. This has helped change the nature of nonviolent resistance movements, which in the past tended to center on a single, charismatic figure, such as Martin Luther King Jr. or Gandhi. Instead, Yellow Ribbon, with its army of activists across occupied Ukraine, creates impact through a shared disgust at what Russia is doing, unifying opposition to the occupation. Its great strength lies in its digitally diffuse activism—which makes stopping it much harder for the Russians.
“I hope that liberation will come in the next three months,” Ivan said at the end of our conversation. “When it does, we will take our Ukrainian flags to the main square and celebrate with our military, as we did in Kherson.”
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Ukraine’s Digital Resistance Behind Enemy Lines
David Patrikarakos 15–19 minutesThe man introduced to me in the southern port city of Odesa as Taras does not look like what he is: the founder of the civilian resistance to Russia’s military occupation of southern and eastern Ukraine. He’s no tough Marshal Tito or ethereal Mahatma Gandhi. He looks, in fact, like your typical Gen Z tech worker: early 20s, lean, trendy—and he’s always online. He likes to talk about English Premier League football games from the 1980s, but only because he’s seen them on YouTube; he can name scores of Premier League players, but only because he’s used their avatars in the FIFA video game. He adores Instagram.
Since April, Taras has led a group named Yellow Ribbon, which took up the principles of nonviolent resistance soon after the Russians overran his home city of Kherson. (Taras is a pseudonym he uses to help protect his identity from his Russian enemies.) Its goal: to resist Russian occupation through peaceful means wherever possible. The group has now spread throughout the occupied territories of Ukraine, and as it has done so, its reputation has grown. Late last year, Yellow Ribbon was one of four Ukrainian groups honored with the European Parliament’s Andrei Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, the European Union’s main award for the defense of human rights.
David Patrikarakos: Russia’s hunger war
What distinguishes Yellow Ribbon from traditional nonviolent resistance movements is its emphasis on the digital. The group’s growing numbers of activists stay connected via a chatbot plugin on the group’s Telegram messaging app. Prompted by the chatbot’s automated questions, activists in the occupied territories can access various resistance tasks to carry out on the ground. The system enables Yellow Ribbon to share the materials and techniques necessary for the resistance to make its activities visible in the real world of the occupation, while safeguarding the anonymity of the participants against Russian efforts to penetrate the network. Among the clandestine actions guided by the chatbot are scrawling pro-Ukraine graffiti, tying yellow ribbons around objects in the streets, and projecting slogans onto buildings taken over by the Russian administration. Such nonviolent actions have made Yellow Ribbon famous across Ukraine—and a serious problem for Russia in the occupied areas.
At first, the Russians ignored the group to avoid amplifying its work. Eventually, as Yellow Ribbon’s activities grew, they were forced to respond. Yellow and blue paint began to disappear from shops in occupied areas. Buying anything yellow became almost impossible; people were reduced to cutting patches of the color out of old clothes.
Even Russian soldiers began to feel the effects of Yellow Ribbon’s activities. Taras told me that after graffiti appeared near the entrance of a Chechen base in Melitopol, another occupied city in southeastern Ukraine, the soldiers changed their location and started going about town in civilian clothing rather than military uniform.
Access to the Telegram chatbot has allowed resistance activists to spring up across the occupied territories; many of them were women, who, I was told, could more easily pass unnoticed by the Russian occupiers. Earlier this year, I met Liliyia Aleksandrova in Kherson, which was recaptured by Ukrainian forces late last year—though artillery shelling still roared in the background as we spoke. Prior to the occupation, Aleksandrova had, she said, been a middle-aged “mama.” When the Russians first came to Kherson, she attended some street demonstrations, but the tear gas and soldiers soon put a stop to things. “It was clear we couldn’t protest publicly anymore,” she told me. “I was thinking about what I could do for my country; I had to do something to be useful.”
On Telegram, she came across Yellow Ribbon and, using the group’s chatbot tool, she began downloading instructions for tasks. She put up yellow ribbons everywhere she could—on buildings, lampposts, and fences—and took photos. Once or twice, she was almost caught, but she continued. Her work was everywhere around the city. As we talked, we passed Yellow Ribbon graffiti on a street wall. “I did that,” Liliyia told me with quiet satisfaction.
The first time Taras saw the Russians after the February 24 invasion, they had taken an office in the city’s main square; then they took the main police station. By March 2, they were in full control of Kherson. “No one knew what would happen tomorrow or the day after,” he told me when we met earlier this year in Odesa. He’d spent most of last year living under occupation in Kherson before its liberation in November.
Ukrainian partisans have launched sporadic attacks in Russian-occupied areas, but Taras had no military training, so any resistance activity he took on had to be nonviolent. He drew inspiration from earlier causes such as Germany’s White Rose student group, which opposed the Nazis; the U.S. civil-rights movement; and Czechoslovakia’s 1989 protests that led to the Velvet Revolution. Gandhi called nonviolent resistance “mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.”
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According to Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan, both political scientists and co-authors of the 2011 book Why Civil Resistance Works, taking up arms has traditionally given regime opponents a 26 percent chance of succeeding in their aims, whereas the tactics of nonviolent resistance have a 53 percent success rate. Countries where nonviolent, rather than violent, resistance led to change were more likely to remain democratic after the crisis ended.
Taras knew many people who wanted to act but for whom armed resistance was not an option. He could, he calculated, attract many more recruits through nonviolence. Almost anyone can participate: Its methods are highly accessible, and no specialist equipment or skills are required. He grasped that nonviolence’s main advantage over violence is scale—the number of people it can rally to a cause is exponentially greater.
Taras knew he could count on the 10 employees of the IT company he ran in Kherson, plus some people in other companies he worked with. This was enough to form the basis of what would become Yellow Ribbon. Even today, the core group of coordinators remains small—about 40 people, all of them known personally to Taras from before the occupation. Most are in their 20s.
At first, the Russians allowed residents of Kherson to protest in person, and many did, going to the central square, waving Ukrainian flags, and demanding the troops leave. Pooling cash, Taras’s group decided to buy online advertisements to spread the message. It gravitated easily from organizing IT projects to rallying support for the local protests and other pro-Ukraine activities through March and into April.
Then, in late April, a rumor spread through the city that Russia was making preparations for fraudulent referendums in occupied cities across the south. The result would be a foregone conclusion; the territories would be annexed to Russia. The resistance activists knew they had to act.
On April 23, they set up a Telegram group that they named Yellow Ribbon, a reference to the color on the Ukrainian flag, to spread pro-Ukraine messages and encourage people to paste leaflets and posters around Kherson. The platform would also work with local media to promulgate similar messages. Taras realized they could now reach hundreds of thousands of people.
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“That’s what you can do with a digital component: reach larger audiences, spread more messages, get people to go out and protest, and do so successfully,” he told me. “We saw it work; things started to build like a snowball.”
The first demonstration, which took place on April 27, was modest in size—maybe 500 people. The Russians were out in force and used tear gas and stun grenades against the protesters. The physical demonstration may have been small, and was quickly put down, but online, via the Telegram channel and on social networks, it went viral. Moscow did eventually hold the referendum, but not until the end of September.
Another protest was planned for May 9, by which time things were getting more dangerous. Within five minutes, the protest was broken up by Russian forces. After the FSB, Russia’s state security police, came to town, the first local collaborators emerged, and activists started to disappear. Taras and his team made the decision to shift their strategy away from street demonstrations. If the resistance could not occupy the streets, it would occupy the online space.
In June, the group used Instagram to create a virtual street protest that included images of flags and banners on a visualization of a street in Kherson. Every person who attended had to write “Kherson is Ukraine” in the comments section. From these posts, the group calculated that 40,000 people had joined from Kherson and 16,000 from Mariupol. The Yellow Ribbon message spread across not only pro-Ukraine but pro-Russia platforms as well.
As Yellow Ribbon’s name and activities grew, new problems arose. Its activists were in constant danger of arrest. The group put several security protocols in place. Unlike specialized messaging platforms such as Signal, Telegram was already in widespread use by Ukrainians and Russians alike, rendering the app’s presence on a phone unsuspicious. Telegram can also be deleted from a phone, removing all the messages, and then downloaded again—with all of the messages still intact.
Gil Barndollar: Ukraine has the battlefield edge
Getting people out of jail became a priority for the group. That generally meant one thing: bribes. Usually, it was easy to pay Russian soldiers or local collaborators to release an activist who’d disappeared. Taras knew businessmen in the city who had dealings with the Russians, and he used them as intermediaries. He’d pay them, and they’d pay the Russians.
Then, in late September, the group set up the chatbot. The technology enabled Yellow Ribbon to radically scale up its activities, allowing it to evolve from being a local resistance movement into something more powerful: a franchised one. People like Aleksandrova began to open cabinets across the occupied territories—in Melitopol and Donetsk and Luhansk, even in Crimea.
Over coffee in Odesa, Taras showed me the chatbot homepage on his laptop. In Crimea, chatbot volunteers tied a yellow ribbon on a tree near a shipping port. In September, leaflets announcing Crimea is Ukraine! and Opening soon! were pasted on a government building there. Ukrainian-flag graffiti appeared in Donetsk, and in Melitopol posters mocked the Russian passports that locals were being pressured to get.
The group also taught people how to make stencils in the shape of the “3CY” initialism for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and, using torches, project them onto official buildings. In late January, one appeared on the Russian administration’s office in Melitopol.
David Frum: Zelensky recalled us to ourselves
Most of the time, the group judged, Russian soldiers hadn’t themselves seen the resistance graffiti or leaflets in the city, but a monitoring team would report the photo of it that subsequently appeared online. Back in May, the Russian TV channel Izvestia paraded some purported Yellow Ribbon activists from Mariupol, who claimed that they had been paid to put up leaflets (as an alternative to other hourly paid work, which encouraged Russian viewers to infer that they were prostitutes).
The Yellow Ribbon team started noticing people whom it suspected were FSB personnel using the Chatbot app to pose as activists and request to meet in person—a clear violation of security rules. The team’s members, Taras told me, also received phishing links almost daily. In this sense, the digital amplification has increased the reach and impact of the ground activity, forcing the occupier to respond to it.
Eventually, the group’s presence attracted attention in Moscow. Yellow Ribbon’s work prompted a “concerned citizen” in Crimea to message the local Russian Investigative Committee’s Telegram channel: “I request you begin investigating the terrorist activities and spreading of ideology by the Yellow Ribbon group.” On January 27, the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow issued a letter saying that the activity was being investigated, and two days later, a subdivision of the ministry confirmed that it was now regarded as a criminal matter.
A Russian organization calling itself the Committee for the Defense Against Traitors released a video claiming that the group was engaged “in the information war” to push the agenda of “terrorists.” These sorts of attacks are only to be expected: The group’s activities are not just a constant reminder that the locals reject the occupation but also a living rebuttal of Russia’s entire narrative justifying its invasion.
Recently, I spoke with Ivan, a colleague of Taras’s who helped set up Yellow Ribbon back in April last year. (Again, I am using a pseudonym to protect his identity.) Another Kherson native, he is Yellow Ribbon’s main coordinator. When the Russians withdrew from the city, he went to nearby Melitopol, which remains under Moscow’s control. Ivan stayed behind enemy lines, he explained, because the group needs to ensure that the movement keeps growing, especially in that city and other still-occupied areas. It’s hard to find the right materials and places to print, and they need to keep their network of activists in play across the region.
“Things in Melitopol are tough,” he told me over an encrypted voice call. “The Russians have instituted an ‘anti-terrorist’ regime on the streets, which means increased patrols and video cameras everywhere. A lot of soldiers have arrived from Russia—and they are making a lot of arrests. It’s hard for us to work here now.
“The Russians can be brutal,” he went on. “But it depends on what unit they’re from—the Chechens are really bad. They think that this is their territory.”
Tom Nichols: Putin’s desperate hours
Ivan and his fellow activists keep a low profile, especially when they go out to buy necessities. Security is paramount. “I try not to be too active on the streets but instead focus on how to bring in the materials into the city and where to hide them,” he told me. “I work with VPNs and hosts and proxies to make sure my internet connection is safe. I have five cellphones and move from safe house to safe house each night or week.”
Taras left Kherson last August, before the city was liberated. He traveled by car, carrying just one sports bag and about 170,000 roubles (approximately $2,300), which he gave to the soldiers manning a checkpoint out of the city. When he handed over the cash, he felt like telling them they were welcome to it because he’d never be needing roubles again, but he refrained, and instead drove through the barrier in silence, back into free Ukraine.
Since then, he has continued to coordinate Yellow Ribbon’s activities from inside Ukraine. The group plans to expand its activities. The chatbot now serves about 4,600 open cabinets, but the group hopes to get that number to 100,000. This has helped change the nature of nonviolent resistance movements, which in the past tended to center on a single, charismatic figure, such as Martin Luther King Jr. or Gandhi. Instead, Yellow Ribbon, with its army of activists across occupied Ukraine, creates impact through a shared disgust at what Russia is doing, unifying opposition to the occupation. Its great strength lies in its digitally diffuse activism—which makes stopping it much harder for the Russians.
“I hope that liberation will come in the next three months,” Ivan said at the end of our conversation. “When it does, we will take our Ukrainian flags to the main square and celebrate with our military, as we did in Kherson.”
2023.03.22 13:42 puzzledplatypus Surf Ninjas (1993)
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2023.03.22 07:25 HughEhhoule The Klink Mike's Story Part 1
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The floor of the cell is covered in decades of mildew and dust. This disgusting carpet does nothing to dull the pain as I skip across it, thrown in by someone with the intention of making a point.
My Name’s Mike, and if any of you are the types to go on a deep dive, you probably know A little about me already.
For those of you that don’t, Jesus I don’t know exactly where to begin.
The Cliff’s notes would be that I spent a little over a decade either being a serial killer or a vigilante. I won’t try to justify my actions, both of those are just sides of the same shitty coin. I’m not a person to be idolized or emulated, so I choose not to plead my case.
Now, while I thought that was just about as screwed up as life could get, one day, out of the blue, after burying my best, fuck, my only friend I found myself, somewhere else. A world that looked and felt like mine, but one where the things that go bump in the night actually existed.
Where I came from, I’d seen monsters, to be sure, but only the kind that happen when people break.
Since I’ve been here? Got caught up in some demented gameshow for demons or something, threw a massive shit in the punch bowl of the thing running the production, and got the world’s unluckiest man his freedom.
And that leads me to my current situation, staring down the rage filled, mildly bruised face of that asshole, that fucking, demonic Ted Turner, Art.
He runs a hand aggressively through his slicked back hair, standing at the door to my cell.
“Looks like your little plan didn’t work, exactly as I predicted, you fuck.
I mean, great try with the little cat thing you had, honestly didn’t see that coming. But, Jesus, Mike, what was your end game? “ Art gloats.
“Cards on the table? It was a lot better, but shit fell through, that whiskey abomination, it was the one that ratted me out I assume?
That being said, still got Kev out. And you can’t really ‘flip off his lightswitch’ if he didn’t let you screw around with his wiring, can you? “ I grin, I keep it, even as a Gucci shoe slams into my face.
Am I scared? Of God damn course I am, I’ve been pissing myself (metaphorically speaking.) since I realised that the rules of reality don’t really apply any more.
Every new grain of sand on the beach of hell my life has become, tosses me further down the road of mental failure. Shit, that’s half of what fucked up my last plan in the first place.
If I could have just kept my shit together long enough, I’d be sipping a beer with Kev in some shit hole town somewhere. But the only thing harder than trying to stamp down fear in the face of God’s and monsters, is trying to do it while projecting some kind of ‘death fears me ‘ persona.
Between you and I? Death doesn’t fear me, in fact, it seems to love to hang around. And every day I have to stare down that grim spectre, the closer I get to losing the tenuous grip on reality I have .
“Oh, fuck Kev. He’s smart enough to stay off my radar, and too stupid to figure out a way to come back at me.
He's got a 1 bedroom in Idaho or something? Salud, good on him.
You, I had high hopes for, and then you decide to wipe your ass all over my carpet, cost me more than I could even explain, and even, get me a little roughed up. My favorite shell, anyway.
I want to recoup some loses Mike. So, you, get to be a part of another one of my projects.
You thought The Path was bad? Oh, you literal, fucking clown, you haven’t seen anything.
I won’t spoil it for you, the devil’s in the details and all, but you know what everyone loves?
Prison.
Not being in it themselves, of course, but seeing others, especially those they hate in there.
This place isn’t fair, the path was a boxing match with Queensbury rules, this is a handcuffed knife fight.
And I can’t wait to see you figure out, all the little surprises it has in store for you. “ Art laughs and tosses me a battered, ancient looking smartphone, “ Feel free to drum me up some good press online if you want. “
My heart is pounding, I have to use every bit of will I have to stop from shaking, to roll my neck and sit against the cold, padless cement bed behind me.
I feel sick, my stomach boiling and gurgling.
“For the love of whatever the demonic equivalent of Christ is, why not just kill me? I’m right here, I have no way of fighting back, and you know damn well that if you give me enough time, I’m going to find a way to wipe my ass on your doorframe next. “ My tone is flippant, or at least, I hope it is.
“The ego on you kid, you think you’re that guy don’t you?
They exist, don’t get me wrong, probably a couple thousand folks capable of taking me out, but trust me, you are not one of them.
This isn’t some ‘Arch’ idiocy where I leave my greatest rival alive. This is me watching you squirm because I can, and making a little profit on the deal.
Don’t flatter yourself. “ Art has produced a long thin knife as he talks, he spins and rolls it absently.
“Before your guys dragged me off, I met something. A corner store, I don’t know if it was haunted, possessed, or if it was some kind of creature that just decided to look like a knock off 7-11.
Point being, it was out there, ethereal, I couldn’t hurt it, outwit it, even slow it down. I ran from that thing as fast as I could. It gave me some serious Lovecraft vibes.
You, Art, are not that guy. “ I notice myself tapping my finger nervously on the slime covered floor, I focus, stopping the tic.
The tip of Art’s knife glows, the sick, grey sheen isn’t heat, but something that makes me start to back up.
“I am, but you will never see that. You’re not worth the effort.
I want to give you a little something though. “ Art stalks toward me, I stand as I back into the farthest corner of the cell, “ Proud of your face paint were you? “
Art grins, and for a moment lets some of his true self slip through. For just a moment I see timeless horror in his eyes, a dark black void of consumed souls and unrestrained evil.
That knife parts my flesh with pain like a whip. Without even using the blade, it’s presence flenses my face, opening up raw, textured furrows in my flesh.
He leaves after he is done, laughing to himself.
The pain makes me black out, my stomach is boiling, I come to dry heaving, the effort sends me back into the oblivion of sleep.
I don’t know how long has passed, my face feels like it is on fire, and the thick steel bars of my cell door are closed.
It takes me two minutes of cupping my hands under the grime laden steel tap to get enough water to clear off a spot on the rusted, old, wall mounted steel mirror.
No mortal hand could have scarred me as accurately as Art did. The wounds, not healed, but cauterised as to not make me bleed out, used depth, and width, to create a colorless replica of my makeup.
I know trauma, physical as well as mental, and these are scars that will never heal. As the fact sinks in that my face is literally no longer my own, I scream, heart pounding, I split open my knees on the cold cement floor.
Pain flares, threatens to send me back to the bliss of unconsciousness, but I don’t care.
I read Kev’s journals, and they paint me in a really… positive light, in a sense.
What I mean is, going by what he thought he saw, I’m some kind of supervillian or something. Tossing three hundred pound air conditioners ( it was the outer shell, seventy pounds, physics and luck did the rest.), wrestling Art ( I was clinging on for dear life, had it not been for Jr and the mass of denizens, I’d have been killed with a flick of his wrist.), or appearing like a ghost (people, even immortal are very unobservant. Especially in an emergency.).
I’m great at seeming horrifying, and that’s a weapon in and of itself, but at the end of the day, that’s all it is.
Kneeling in my own blood, vision blurry with pain, I realise how small, vulnerable, and unarmed I truly am.
By the time daylight shines through the yellow reinforced glass window, I’m already awake. I’ve spent an hour and a half calming myself, trying to find some focus, some centre to keep me going.
I’ve been in prison before, back home, first and last time I tried plying my trade outside of America.
Being the stupid payaso gringo that I am I bit off so much more than I can chew that I wound up choking on it for 2 months in a Mexican prison.
The routine of, count, lineup, chow, remained the same.
The demographics of the population on the other hand…
Being observant is one of my main skills and as I was brought into the absurdly sized cafeteria, I was taken aback at just how many people were here.
Tens of Thousands, easily, maybe a hundred. I try and think of how many missing person cases this accounts for, and even that math doesn’t quite add up.
I quickly inventory the groups that make up the place, not that it wasn’t obvious.
The first, of course are the guards. Some, the majority, appear to be human, well geared up and in intimidating physical condition.
But a handful, they are clearly, something else. Some are smooth featured ebony skinned giants, carrying truncheons that could crush a car engine. Others are grinning, pale skinned bad attempts at human copies, wild eyed and twitching.
Second would be what I called the cultists. They all appeared to style themselves after certain tropes and urban legends, clearly human, but dressing, tattooing and mutilating themselves to appear like, myths, legends, and monsters.
The subtle violence I see tells me I’ve found the gangs.
Third are the Everymen, I can’t see any kind of pattern to them, but they seem to make up the majority of the population. They keep their distance from the guards and the cultists, but on more than one occasion I see then stand, united against attempts at extortion.
The last group, I call the candles, people that are clearly on their way out mentally and physically. Sunken eyed, and set upon from all angles, at any moment these folks could be simply snuffed out.
I keep my distance, and stay respectful, the meandering, twisting line seems to take hours to get me my thick slice of crumbling yellow bread, and thick red slurry that reminds me of porridge masquerading as meat.
My coat is gone but I’m left with the majority of the clothing I fashioned back in the path. I see a mix of unwashed orange uniforms and ‘civilian’ clothing, some of the cultists, bordering more on costume than wardrobe.
As the massive, butchers apron wearing man in smeared clown makeup sits down, I wish I’d have been issued something more generic. I saw this coming the second I noticed a lump of Chlorophiles in blood stained getups.
“You sit with us. “ I can’t tell if it’s an accent or speech pattern, the clown sounds strange, either way.
I eat a spoonful of the red sludge.
“No disrespect intended, I’m not one for clubs. I’m going to make no waves, no plays, nothing. I’m a ghost. “ I say, levelly, avoiding eye contact.
Why, you might ask, having been told about my adventures in murder.
Well, that’s just it. Murder is easy, and any time you saw me end a life, it was just that.
A fight, that’s another thing entirely, especially against someone with a significant weight and height advantage.
“Not asking. You got friends. “ The massive clown moves his bulk closer, it’s like sitting next to a forklift.
I eat the bread, it tastes amazing until I swallow, then has a foul, chemical aftertaste.
I drink some tepid, burgundy fluid that might be caffeinated.
No weapons nearby, no one watching that might step in. I’m full of bruises and sprains, and probably anemic from blood loss. Not to mention one eye is running at about fifty per cent. Art didn’t sever the optic nerve last time, but he wasn’t gentle. My heart races.
“I don’t play well with people who take clowning and slap a coat of dark paint on it.
You guys are Clown Killers. You are good at killing, I’m sure, but the clown part, it’s tacked on.
Myself, I’m a killer clown…. “ I had a really good rant planned, honestly, it was a corker, douche bags would have used it in memes for a decade.
But before I can react, with one massive hand, he bounces my face off of the pitted steel table.
It rings my bell, but not as much as I let on. In clowning terms, what I do Is called a pratfall.
For those of you that don’t speak nerd, I oversell the hit, falling backwards, eyes fluttering.
I tip backwards, reaching out my left arm, as if to steady myself. The meat mountain is unbothered, knowing I have no chance unarmed, in this close, he let’s me grab one shoulder of the butchers apron. The material is thick, and matted in stains that will never come out, literally or metaphorically.
If you want to take someone out, in a relatively harmless way, you don’t want to choke them. It takes forever, usually ends up killing them, and generally is a bad idea for everyone involved.
Your goal is go cut off blood flow to the brain as quickly and fully as possible.
I hook my thumb around the opposite shoulder strap, and snap my body backward, the apron acting as an impromptu Garrotte.
His right arm is knotted through my left, as he tries to struggle, to put his murderous intent and ability to work, the choke only becomes tighter.
I don’t want enemies here, and I only have so many tricks to play before things come to a knock down drag out fight, so I leave the clown unharmed.
I do need friends, but the look I get as I take a seat at a loose collection of men is cold and fearful.
A red haired guy, five foot nine or so, makes eye contact, “Anything we can help you with? “ he says, fearless.
“Yeah, despite the face work I’ve had done, I have fuck all in common with any of those penny wise, Icp, Gacy dressed, assholes.
I need a tribe guys, you all look like the unlucky ones around here, but I don’t want to get involved in bloodshed.
I’m Mike “ I know, that’s only mostly true, but I mean it, either way. I extend a hand.
“Chris. “ the red haired guy says, he wears a white dress shirt and surprisingly blue jeans, “Those stains around your cuffs tell me otherwise.
If you’re telling the truth, that’s great. If you are lying, and still sane enough to keep your word, that’s even better. “ Chris’s tone is mirthless, I read him easily. He’s been here a long time for a short life, he looks thirty max, and I shudder to think how young he may have been when he came in.
Chris catches me up on the ins and outs of this place, beyond what a general knowledge of prison would give.
Everyone here has crimes they were not convicted of, that would, otherwise put them in jail for life. A large amount, obviously are murderers, torturers, real bastards.
But a significant minority are just regular folks, maybe a bit thoughtless, but that have collected a litany of small, petty, in cases almost victim less crimes.
No one seems to be aware of the… reality t.v. Meets demonic fast food aspect of things, but there is a Doom cherry on this fear Sunday.
There is a single way someone can get out. To earn 20 tokens.
And how does one earn these tokens you ask?
Each day the prison holds an event, to call it a challenge would insinuate a level of fair play that is simply not there. The events range from somewhat fair, a fight or game of chance, to esoteric rituals complex enough to rip someone’s soul from their body.
These tokens are also the sole form of currency in the prison, they can buy everything from commissary snacks to literal free passes from guards.
The economy has created a cut throat society, the heads of the cults not even taking advantage of being able to be free, but simply reveling in the power of being psychotic and enabled.
The weak are enslaved, their lives traded on the off chance at tokens.
So, of course, braindead asshole that I am, I signed myself right up. Feeling a little more confidant after climbing Mount Bozo.
It's 8pm and the volunteers are rounded up and brought to a massive room that has all the trappings of a gymnasium, but the scale is large enough easily hold the focus of tonight’s events.
In tiered bleachers all around us, our fellow prisoners cheer and scream. The smell of thousands of unwashed, men is overpowering, the din of excitement is deafening.
But my attention is focussed on the small, single floor home, sitting out of place in the middle of the polished wood floor.
What I wouldn’t give for Demi to appear right now, give me the low down on all the supernatural bullshit that is heading my way. But the longer we stayed in the mountain the less and less the most useful voice in my head could, or would, make an appearance.
I study each of my fellow volunteers, the goal seems simple, last the longest in the home. Men enter and leave within minutes. They come out looking shaken, with minor lacerations, and a general sense of shell shock.
By the time my turn arrives, I think I know what I’m in for.
I’m wrong.
As the baby blue door closes behind me, nothing immediately in the home causes me concern. The fixtures and furniture is a bit out of date, the lighting is, not inviting, and there is a general fog of gloom hanging around.
I smile, I’ve felt this before. Granted I had Demi feeding me supernatural errata at the time, but, I’m positive I can wing it.
“So, I think I may have met one of you guys before. Back in New York, a Happy-Face corner store, anyone you know?
Scary dude, took a couple of pieces out of me.
But this, it’s more like an MMA fight, right? I tap out when you start kicking my ass? “ I stretch, trying to see if I’m getting any kind of reaction.
I inventory the objects around me, last time everything that wasn’t nailed down, shifted, changed and tried to take me apart.
You may have noticed by now, I love using the phrase ‘ last time’, and that’s because up until this moment, I haven’t learned a fucking thing here.
Mike’s first rule of paranormal survival, last time means nothing.
“It’s you” the voice is young, late teens, and male.
I spin, expecting violence, then, wishing violence.
I know the young man, not this pale, older, revenant with a self inflicted gunshot wound, but I know him none the less.
I’m not being metaphorical when I say my heart misses a beat, I almost fall over, pounding at my chest to stop it’s arythmatic pounding.
I knew what happened to him, found it out long after I could do anything about it. And wasn’t in the best of places when I did.
I’ll call him a ghost for simplicity sake, but this kid, he’s my first, and biggest mistake.
I based who I turned into on finding what I thought was one of the worst people on earth. This kid’s father.
I did things to him worthy of what I knew he did. And to top it all off, I had him die by his wife’s hand.
Well, a decade later I find out, the guy wasn’t a Saint, but he didn’t do anything worthy of the twisted shit I put him through.
I got wind of some false information put out there in a moment of rage by a tech savvy ten year old. The kid never intended it to see the light of day
“I found out about you Mike, I saw that you were a hero. “ The voice is thin echoes like a stuck record.
“No kid, don’t think that. “ I mumble, I’m shaking, the air is freezing, each breath comes out as white mist.
I’m sitting on the flower printed couch now, and it hits me.
I’d assumed because Art couldn’t screw around in my head last time, the same went for everything here.
Remember what we said about last time.
“My told me what happened one night, what I made you do.
I destroyed her memory of him, I made a real Hero kill him, I couldn’t keep hurting people. “ I can see images, flashing in my mind, memories that are not mine.
I’m counting seconds, trying to focus, trying to stay long enough to get the token. It has to have been fifteen, twenty minutes at least.
I try to work up a smirk, to convince myself that I’m just being played by the paranormal equivalent of a heckler.
That’s not it though, This place, this house, is reaching inside me and finding places to look. As I stare into the young man’s rotted eyes I know this is some part of him, torn away from whatever rest he was entitled to.
The lights dim, then turn off. The house is silent.
Hollywood gets being both a lunatic and a hitman wrong in equal measure. No matter how much morality you want to inject into the profession, there are going to come times when you make mistakes.
As the lights slowly turn to a dull orange glow, I’m surrounded by the hovering, mutilated forms of mine.
Those that died that could have been spared, those that died because of my inaction, or stupidity. I’ve never forgotten them, I use them to make sure I never make the same mistakes again, but having them looming, screaming, all demanding I hear their stories, their accusations, their placations.
It's too much, I stumble from the couch, trying to avoid the icy touch of these phantoms. For a moment I find some last scrap of courage, I close my eyes, shut out the shrieking din of the dead.
The silence hits like a truck, I focus, trying to calm my burned out nerves.
Then they are reignited like a fucking welding torch.
“This place didn’t bring us here.
We’ve been right next to you for years Mike. We can’t leave. “ The voice of my first mistake.
Like a toddler I try to run with my eyes closed, I trip over a glass coffee table, clawing my way up the door, grasping at the handle.
I can feel a slight pull now, almost magnetic, trying to drag me backwards.
My hands shake too much, I have to steady my right wrist with my left hand, the floor becomes slick, I see the door, escape start to move further away as I’m pulled backward.
I've taken a hit or two, and had a couple of three day benders that have made me piss myself. But as I stumble, trying to make progress on the nearly friction less floor, I have another unpleasant first experience.
I grab the handle, pulling myself out of the house, launching my body into a skin peeling tumble across unforgiving plank flooring.
I’m a shaking, fetal wreck, by the time I’ve pulled myself together enough to take in my surroundings, I see the red Led clock displaying my time.
42 seconds. Bottom of the barrel. The jeers and booing from the crowd do nothing for my frayed nerves or the storm of fear and anxiety going through my mind.
I’m exhausted, but I can’t sleep, it has nothing to do with the concrete slab that serves as my bed.
My stomach has been knotting and cramping, with each passing second I get more worried I blew some internal gasket in one of the many life or death struggles in the past months.
When I finally manage to vomit, the urge is strong enough I get no where near the filth crusted hole in the floor that serves as my toilet. And my worst fears are confirmed as I see the massive pile of vomit is mostly blood.
… and bones? Is that an eyeball? A piece of fur?
The mass begins to pull itself together, bits and pieces forming the most rudimentary attempt at a face.
“Junior? “ I say, stunned.
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The floor of the cell is covered in decades of mildew and dust. This disgusting carpet does nothing to dull the pain as I skip across it, thrown in by someone with the intention of making a point.
My Name’s Mike, and if any of you are the types to go on a deep dive, you probably know A little about me already.
For those of you that don’t, Jesus I don’t know exactly where to begin.
The Cliff’s notes would be that I spent a little over a decade either being a serial killer or a vigilante. I won’t try to justify my actions, both of those are just sides of the same shitty coin. I’m not a person to be idolized or emulated, so I choose not to plead my case.
Now, while I thought that was just about as screwed up as life could get, one day, out of the blue, after burying my best, fuck, my only friend I found myself, somewhere else. A world that looked and felt like mine, but one where the things that go bump in the night actually existed.
Where I came from, I’d seen monsters, to be sure, but only the kind that happen when people break.
Since I’ve been here? Got caught up in some demented gameshow for demons or something, threw a massive shit in the punch bowl of the thing running the production, and got the world’s unluckiest man his freedom.
And that leads me to my current situation, staring down the rage filled, mildly bruised face of that asshole, that fucking, demonic Ted Turner, Art.
He runs a hand aggressively through his slicked back hair, standing at the door to my cell.
“Looks like your little plan didn’t work, exactly as I predicted, you fuck.
I mean, great try with the little cat thing you had, honestly didn’t see that coming. But, Jesus, Mike, what was your end game? “ Art gloats.
“Cards on the table? It was a lot better, but shit fell through, that whiskey abomination, it was the one that ratted me out I assume?
That being said, still got Kev out. And you can’t really ‘flip off his lightswitch’ if he didn’t let you screw around with his wiring, can you? “ I grin, I keep it, even as a Gucci shoe slams into my face.
Am I scared? Of God damn course I am, I’ve been pissing myself (metaphorically speaking.) since I realised that the rules of reality don’t really apply any more.
Every new grain of sand on the beach of hell my life has become, tosses me further down the road of mental failure. Shit, that’s half of what fucked up my last plan in the first place.
If I could have just kept my shit together long enough, I’d be sipping a beer with Kev in some shit hole town somewhere. But the only thing harder than trying to stamp down fear in the face of God’s and monsters, is trying to do it while projecting some kind of ‘death fears me ‘ persona.
Between you and I? Death doesn’t fear me, in fact, it seems to love to hang around. And every day I have to stare down that grim spectre, the closer I get to losing the tenuous grip on reality I have .
“Oh, fuck Kev. He’s smart enough to stay off my radar, and too stupid to figure out a way to come back at me.
He's got a 1 bedroom in Idaho or something? Salud, good on him.
You, I had high hopes for, and then you decide to wipe your ass all over my carpet, cost me more than I could even explain, and even, get me a little roughed up. My favorite shell, anyway.
I want to recoup some loses Mike. So, you, get to be a part of another one of my projects.
You thought The Path was bad? Oh, you literal, fucking clown, you haven’t seen anything.
I won’t spoil it for you, the devil’s in the details and all, but you know what everyone loves?
Prison.
Not being in it themselves, of course, but seeing others, especially those they hate in there.
This place isn’t fair, the path was a boxing match with Queensbury rules, this is a handcuffed knife fight.
And I can’t wait to see you figure out, all the little surprises it has in store for you. “ Art laughs and tosses me a battered, ancient looking smartphone, “ Feel free to drum me up some good press online if you want. “
My heart is pounding, I have to use every bit of will I have to stop from shaking, to roll my neck and sit against the cold, padless cement bed behind me.
I feel sick, my stomach boiling and gurgling.
“For the love of whatever the demonic equivalent of Christ is, why not just kill me? I’m right here, I have no way of fighting back, and you know damn well that if you give me enough time, I’m going to find a way to wipe my ass on your doorframe next. “ My tone is flippant, or at least, I hope it is.
“The ego on you kid, you think you’re that guy don’t you?
They exist, don’t get me wrong, probably a couple thousand folks capable of taking me out, but trust me, you are not one of them.
This isn’t some ‘Arch’ idiocy where I leave my greatest rival alive. This is me watching you squirm because I can, and making a little profit on the deal.
Don’t flatter yourself. “ Art has produced a long thin knife as he talks, he spins and rolls it absently.
“Before your guys dragged me off, I met something. A corner store, I don’t know if it was haunted, possessed, or if it was some kind of creature that just decided to look like a knock off 7-11.
Point being, it was out there, ethereal, I couldn’t hurt it, outwit it, even slow it down. I ran from that thing as fast as I could. It gave me some serious Lovecraft vibes.
You, Art, are not that guy. “ I notice myself tapping my finger nervously on the slime covered floor, I focus, stopping the tic.
The tip of Art’s knife glows, the sick, grey sheen isn’t heat, but something that makes me start to back up.
“I am, but you will never see that. You’re not worth the effort.
I want to give you a little something though. “ Art stalks toward me, I stand as I back into the farthest corner of the cell, “ Proud of your face paint were you? “
Art grins, and for a moment lets some of his true self slip through. For just a moment I see timeless horror in his eyes, a dark black void of consumed souls and unrestrained evil.
That knife parts my flesh with pain like a whip. Without even using the blade, it’s presence flenses my face, opening up raw, textured furrows in my flesh.
He leaves after he is done, laughing to himself.
The pain makes me black out, my stomach is boiling, I come to dry heaving, the effort sends me back into the oblivion of sleep.
I don’t know how long has passed, my face feels like it is on fire, and the thick steel bars of my cell door are closed.
It takes me two minutes of cupping my hands under the grime laden steel tap to get enough water to clear off a spot on the rusted, old, wall mounted steel mirror.
No mortal hand could have scarred me as accurately as Art did. The wounds, not healed, but cauterised as to not make me bleed out, used depth, and width, to create a colorless replica of my makeup.
I know trauma, physical as well as mental, and these are scars that will never heal. As the fact sinks in that my face is literally no longer my own, I scream, heart pounding, I split open my knees on the cold cement floor.
Pain flares, threatens to send me back to the bliss of unconsciousness, but I don’t care.
I read Kev’s journals, and they paint me in a really… positive light, in a sense.
What I mean is, going by what he thought he saw, I’m some kind of supervillian or something. Tossing three hundred pound air conditioners ( it was the outer shell, seventy pounds, physics and luck did the rest.), wrestling Art ( I was clinging on for dear life, had it not been for Jr and the mass of denizens, I’d have been killed with a flick of his wrist.), or appearing like a ghost (people, even immortal are very unobservant. Especially in an emergency.).
I’m great at seeming horrifying, and that’s a weapon in and of itself, but at the end of the day, that’s all it is.
Kneeling in my own blood, vision blurry with pain, I realise how small, vulnerable, and unarmed I truly am.
By the time daylight shines through the yellow reinforced glass window, I’m already awake. I’ve spent an hour and a half calming myself, trying to find some focus, some centre to keep me going.
I’ve been in prison before, back home, first and last time I tried plying my trade outside of America.
Being the stupid payaso gringo that I am I bit off so much more than I can chew that I wound up choking on it for 2 months in a Mexican prison.
The routine of, count, lineup, chow, remained the same.
The demographics of the population on the other hand…
Being observant is one of my main skills and as I was brought into the absurdly sized cafeteria, I was taken aback at just how many people were here.
Tens of Thousands, easily, maybe a hundred. I try and think of how many missing person cases this accounts for, and even that math doesn’t quite add up.
I quickly inventory the groups that make up the place, not that it wasn’t obvious.
The first, of course are the guards. Some, the majority, appear to be human, well geared up and in intimidating physical condition.
But a handful, they are clearly, something else. Some are smooth featured ebony skinned giants, carrying truncheons that could crush a car engine. Others are grinning, pale skinned bad attempts at human copies, wild eyed and twitching.
Second would be what I called the cultists. They all appeared to style themselves after certain tropes and urban legends, clearly human, but dressing, tattooing and mutilating themselves to appear like, myths, legends, and monsters.
The subtle violence I see tells me I’ve found the gangs.
Third are the Everymen, I can’t see any kind of pattern to them, but they seem to make up the majority of the population. They keep their distance from the guards and the cultists, but on more than one occasion I see then stand, united against attempts at extortion.
The last group, I call the candles, people that are clearly on their way out mentally and physically. Sunken eyed, and set upon from all angles, at any moment these folks could be simply snuffed out.
I keep my distance, and stay respectful, the meandering, twisting line seems to take hours to get me my thick slice of crumbling yellow bread, and thick red slurry that reminds me of porridge masquerading as meat.
My coat is gone but I’m left with the majority of the clothing I fashioned back in the path. I see a mix of unwashed orange uniforms and ‘civilian’ clothing, some of the cultists, bordering more on costume than wardrobe.
As the massive, butchers apron wearing man in smeared clown makeup sits down, I wish I’d have been issued something more generic. I saw this coming the second I noticed a lump of Chlorophiles in blood stained getups.
“You sit with us. “ I can’t tell if it’s an accent or speech pattern, the clown sounds strange, either way.
I eat a spoonful of the red sludge.
“No disrespect intended, I’m not one for clubs. I’m going to make no waves, no plays, nothing. I’m a ghost. “ I say, levelly, avoiding eye contact.
Why, you might ask, having been told about my adventures in murder.
Well, that’s just it. Murder is easy, and any time you saw me end a life, it was just that.
A fight, that’s another thing entirely, especially against someone with a significant weight and height advantage.
“Not asking. You got friends. “ The massive clown moves his bulk closer, it’s like sitting next to a forklift.
I eat the bread, it tastes amazing until I swallow, then has a foul, chemical aftertaste.
I drink some tepid, burgundy fluid that might be caffeinated.
No weapons nearby, no one watching that might step in. I’m full of bruises and sprains, and probably anemic from blood loss. Not to mention one eye is running at about fifty per cent. Art didn’t sever the optic nerve last time, but he wasn’t gentle. My heart races.
“I don’t play well with people who take clowning and slap a coat of dark paint on it.
You guys are Clown Killers. You are good at killing, I’m sure, but the clown part, it’s tacked on.
Myself, I’m a killer clown…. “ I had a really good rant planned, honestly, it was a corker, douche bags would have used it in memes for a decade.
But before I can react, with one massive hand, he bounces my face off of the pitted steel table.
It rings my bell, but not as much as I let on. In clowning terms, what I do Is called a pratfall.
For those of you that don’t speak nerd, I oversell the hit, falling backwards, eyes fluttering.
I tip backwards, reaching out my left arm, as if to steady myself. The meat mountain is unbothered, knowing I have no chance unarmed, in this close, he let’s me grab one shoulder of the butchers apron. The material is thick, and matted in stains that will never come out, literally or metaphorically.
If you want to take someone out, in a relatively harmless way, you don’t want to choke them. It takes forever, usually ends up killing them, and generally is a bad idea for everyone involved.
Your goal is go cut off blood flow to the brain as quickly and fully as possible.
I hook my thumb around the opposite shoulder strap, and snap my body backward, the apron acting as an impromptu Garrotte.
His right arm is knotted through my left, as he tries to struggle, to put his murderous intent and ability to work, the choke only becomes tighter.
I don’t want enemies here, and I only have so many tricks to play before things come to a knock down drag out fight, so I leave the clown unharmed.
I do need friends, but the look I get as I take a seat at a loose collection of men is cold and fearful.
A red haired guy, five foot nine or so, makes eye contact, “Anything we can help you with? “ he says, fearless.
“Yeah, despite the face work I’ve had done, I have fuck all in common with any of those penny wise, Icp, Gacy dressed, assholes.
I need a tribe guys, you all look like the unlucky ones around here, but I don’t want to get involved in bloodshed.
I’m Mike “ I know, that’s only mostly true, but I mean it, either way. I extend a hand.
“Chris. “ the red haired guy says, he wears a white dress shirt and surprisingly blue jeans, “Those stains around your cuffs tell me otherwise.
If you’re telling the truth, that’s great. If you are lying, and still sane enough to keep your word, that’s even better. “ Chris’s tone is mirthless, I read him easily. He’s been here a long time for a short life, he looks thirty max, and I shudder to think how young he may have been when he came in.
Chris catches me up on the ins and outs of this place, beyond what a general knowledge of prison would give.
Everyone here has crimes they were not convicted of, that would, otherwise put them in jail for life. A large amount, obviously are murderers, torturers, real bastards.
But a significant minority are just regular folks, maybe a bit thoughtless, but that have collected a litany of small, petty, in cases almost victim less crimes.
No one seems to be aware of the… reality t.v. Meets demonic fast food aspect of things, but there is a Doom cherry on this fear Sunday.
There is a single way someone can get out. To earn 20 tokens.
And how does one earn these tokens you ask?
Each day the prison holds an event, to call it a challenge would insinuate a level of fair play that is simply not there. The events range from somewhat fair, a fight or game of chance, to esoteric rituals complex enough to rip someone’s soul from their body.
These tokens are also the sole form of currency in the prison, they can buy everything from commissary snacks to literal free passes from guards.
The economy has created a cut throat society, the heads of the cults not even taking advantage of being able to be free, but simply reveling in the power of being psychotic and enabled.
The weak are enslaved, their lives traded on the off chance at tokens.
So, of course, braindead asshole that I am, I signed myself right up. Feeling a little more confidant after climbing Mount Bozo.
It's 8pm and the volunteers are rounded up and brought to a massive room that has all the trappings of a gymnasium, but the scale is large enough easily hold the focus of tonight’s events.
In tiered bleachers all around us, our fellow prisoners cheer and scream. The smell of thousands of unwashed, men is overpowering, the din of excitement is deafening.
But my attention is focussed on the small, single floor home, sitting out of place in the middle of the polished wood floor.
What I wouldn’t give for Demi to appear right now, give me the low down on all the supernatural bullshit that is heading my way. But the longer we stayed in the mountain the less and less the most useful voice in my head could, or would, make an appearance.
I study each of my fellow volunteers, the goal seems simple, last the longest in the home. Men enter and leave within minutes. They come out looking shaken, with minor lacerations, and a general sense of shell shock.
By the time my turn arrives, I think I know what I’m in for.
I’m wrong.
As the baby blue door closes behind me, nothing immediately in the home causes me concern. The fixtures and furniture is a bit out of date, the lighting is, not inviting, and there is a general fog of gloom hanging around.
I smile, I’ve felt this before. Granted I had Demi feeding me supernatural errata at the time, but, I’m positive I can wing it.
“So, I think I may have met one of you guys before. Back in New York, a Happy-Face corner store, anyone you know?
Scary dude, took a couple of pieces out of me.
But this, it’s more like an MMA fight, right? I tap out when you start kicking my ass? “ I stretch, trying to see if I’m getting any kind of reaction.
I inventory the objects around me, last time everything that wasn’t nailed down, shifted, changed and tried to take me apart.
You may have noticed by now, I love using the phrase ‘ last time’, and that’s because up until this moment, I haven’t learned a fucking thing here.
Mike’s first rule of paranormal survival, last time means nothing.
“It’s you” the voice is young, late teens, and male.
I spin, expecting violence, then, wishing violence.
I know the young man, not this pale, older, revenant with a self inflicted gunshot wound, but I know him none the less.
I’m not being metaphorical when I say my heart misses a beat, I almost fall over, pounding at my chest to stop it’s arythmatic pounding.
I knew what happened to him, found it out long after I could do anything about it. And wasn’t in the best of places when I did.
I’ll call him a ghost for simplicity sake, but this kid, he’s my first, and biggest mistake.
I based who I turned into on finding what I thought was one of the worst people on earth. This kid’s father.
I did things to him worthy of what I knew he did. And to top it all off, I had him die by his wife’s hand.
Well, a decade later I find out, the guy wasn’t a Saint, but he didn’t do anything worthy of the twisted shit I put him through.
I got wind of some false information put out there in a moment of rage by a tech savvy ten year old. The kid never intended it to see the light of day
“I found out about you Mike, I saw that you were a hero. “ The voice is thin echoes like a stuck record.
“No kid, don’t think that. “ I mumble, I’m shaking, the air is freezing, each breath comes out as white mist.
I’m sitting on the flower printed couch now, and it hits me.
I’d assumed because Art couldn’t screw around in my head last time, the same went for everything here.
Remember what we said about last time.
“My told me what happened one night, what I made you do.
I destroyed her memory of him, I made a real Hero kill him, I couldn’t keep hurting people. “ I can see images, flashing in my mind, memories that are not mine.
I’m counting seconds, trying to focus, trying to stay long enough to get the token. It has to have been fifteen, twenty minutes at least.
I try to work up a smirk, to convince myself that I’m just being played by the paranormal equivalent of a heckler.
That’s not it though, This place, this house, is reaching inside me and finding places to look. As I stare into the young man’s rotted eyes I know this is some part of him, torn away from whatever rest he was entitled to.
The lights dim, then turn off. The house is silent.
Hollywood gets being both a lunatic and a hitman wrong in equal measure. No matter how much morality you want to inject into the profession, there are going to come times when you make mistakes.
As the lights slowly turn to a dull orange glow, I’m surrounded by the hovering, mutilated forms of mine.
Those that died that could have been spared, those that died because of my inaction, or stupidity. I’ve never forgotten them, I use them to make sure I never make the same mistakes again, but having them looming, screaming, all demanding I hear their stories, their accusations, their placations.
It's too much, I stumble from the couch, trying to avoid the icy touch of these phantoms. For a moment I find some last scrap of courage, I close my eyes, shut out the shrieking din of the dead.
The silence hits like a truck, I focus, trying to calm my burned out nerves.
Then they are reignited like a fucking welding torch.
“This place didn’t bring us here.
We’ve been right next to you for years Mike. We can’t leave. “ The voice of my first mistake.
Like a toddler I try to run with my eyes closed, I trip over a glass coffee table, clawing my way up the door, grasping at the handle.
I can feel a slight pull now, almost magnetic, trying to drag me backwards.
My hands shake too much, I have to steady my right wrist with my left hand, the floor becomes slick, I see the door, escape start to move further away as I’m pulled backward.
I've taken a hit or two, and had a couple of three day benders that have made me piss myself. But as I stumble, trying to make progress on the nearly friction less floor, I have another unpleasant first experience.
I grab the handle, pulling myself out of the house, launching my body into a skin peeling tumble across unforgiving plank flooring.
I’m a shaking, fetal wreck, by the time I’ve pulled myself together enough to take in my surroundings, I see the red Led clock displaying my time.
42 seconds. Bottom of the barrel. The jeers and booing from the crowd do nothing for my frayed nerves or the storm of fear and anxiety going through my mind.
I’m exhausted, but I can’t sleep, it has nothing to do with the concrete slab that serves as my bed.
My stomach has been knotting and cramping, with each passing second I get more worried I blew some internal gasket in one of the many life or death struggles in the past months.
When I finally manage to vomit, the urge is strong enough I get no where near the filth crusted hole in the floor that serves as my toilet. And my worst fears are confirmed as I see the massive pile of vomit is mostly blood.
… and bones? Is that an eyeball? A piece of fur?
The mass begins to pull itself together, bits and pieces forming the most rudimentary attempt at a face.
“Junior? “ I say, stunned.
2023.03.22 07:21 Other-Borderlands K♥️: Sanctuary [Part 1]
![K♥️: Sanctuary [Part 1]](https://b.thumbs.redditmedia.com/CzzQblh26klSj7FmSYtq9KS3IdGJKqHNwT8Qb7cLnjU.jpg "K♥️: Sanctuary [Part 1]") | K♥️: Sanctuary [Part 1] submitted by Other-Borderlands to u/Other-Borderlands [link] [comments] Venue: Church Rules: Stay within the Church and The Churchyard. To clear the game, the King must press the button on the Altar freely. Violence is not allowed. This game is part of a series of games, where I am writing games for all 52 cards for a borderlands in the UK. Each one includes a story of how I imagine the game playing out. You can find all entries here. Remaining Games First Day of Exhibitions He awaited his first lost sheep the morning the second round began. He stood at the churchyard gates, next to the sign he had put up the night before, which told players no external weaponry was permitted, and beneath read the name of the game, sanctuary, as well as a warning to players looking for a true game to visit the Jack or Queen of hearts. He stood for half an hour after the start of the second phase, before a you man walked up to the gates, seeing him standing there. “Hello my son! Do you wish to join my sanctuary, where we will live in peace with this world, free from future sin, to repent our past.” He said, and the man looked at him. “Are you off your rocker?” The man said, and the King responded by pointing at his signs. The man walked towards him, and into the churchyard. “So what are the rules? What hab I got to do?” He asked. “Nothing. Live here in harmony with god, and we will be forgiven. In this place you are given respite from the cruel games out there. While playing a game, your visa is frozen, and so by staying here you may live your life to the fullest.” The king explained, and the man turned. “What? You mean this isn’t a game?” He asked. “Well, of sorts. The game ends when I press the big red button on the church altar. The only rules are no violence, and no leaving the churchyard once you have entered.” He said. The man tried to respond, but the King cut him off “Shall I give you a tour of the church?” They walked inside, and the king showed him the area allocated to sleeping, rows upon rows of bunk beds in the main church hall. Further down, past the bunk beds, was a makeshift kitchen, with hobs, knives, chopping boards, everything one might need. Next up, the King showed him his elaborate plans for the church, with various extra rooms in the church allocated to entertainment, medicine, etc, places in the churchyard for starting an allotment, a cabin, and some more projects. They had plenty of food, materials and power stored, and they could easily create a self sustaining colony here. The more the pastor spoke, the more and more the man was convinced that this could truly become their home. In a world of little hope, in the place where it was least expected to find some, the king of hearts, stood the hope of safety, and freedom from the games. Once they had finished the tour, the king asked the man what he was best at, and what he would like to start work on. “I’ve always enjoyed gardening…” The man said. “Wonderful! I shall allocate you to the allotment to take care of our crops.” The King said, handing the man various equipment, as well as seeds, charts for what to plant next to each other, and sent him off to begin the work. The King walked back to the churchyard gates, waiting another participant. The sun rose higher in the sky, as a woman and two of her friends walked up. “Who are you? You another participant?” She asked, and he responded. “No, I am the King of hearts.” He took a bite from an apple. “This is sanctuary. Sanctuary from the games. If you step inside I can tell you more, but do not enter expecting a game like the others you have played.” “I see the manipulation has already begun.” She said, stepping in, followed by her friends. “Right, tell me the rules.” “The rules are simple. There is a button on the altar. If I press it, it is game clear for everyone. Violence and leaving the church premises are not permitted.” He said. “What? That’s not a game!” She said. “I did warn you before entering that this would not be like any of the other ‘games’ you have played.” The King said, “Now, should I show you around our colony?” He gave them a tour, showing them the bunks, the kitchen, the garden, the supplies, the whole church. As they walked, they began to feel the Kings silken word wrap around them, giving them hope. They were going to stay here, and spit in the face of whoever had created this cruel place. They would live together, in peace, until their deaths, within the church. They all got to work, setting up the garden, improving the extra rooms, and they for the first time since they arrived here they truly felt free. The King returned with his apple to the gate, awaiting more of gods children ready to join him in his colony in this uncaring world. He had chosen to remain here, in this world of death and despair, as he felt it needed god more than any other. When he had been competing, it had been rumoured that the citizens were once players too, and after pulling through the King of hearts game, he decided he would stay, to bring god to the lives of the hopeless. But this world made him even question the existence of god. He didn’t know how god could permit this, and all the countless other things in the old world continue to happen, yet held onto the hope that there was a god. After all, why else would he have created this place? Two more friends approached the venue, and the King told them as much as he was permitted to about the game. He had a thought, and brought one of the others of his colony to the gate, to tell them about the nature of this game. This brought on the trust of the players, and he told them to spread the news that this place was a sanctuary. They walked off, but he doubted that they would be believed, as he looked at the blimp above the church, the King of hearts waving in the wind. The idea that he would be a master of manipulation meant nobody would believe his good will until they enter the venue themselves, or at least got close. Over the course of the day, two more people joined the colony, and as the sun went down he surveyed the progress that had been made. They had started their garden, meaning they would soon have self sufficient food supplies, likely soon after all that was already stored in the church ran out. At around lunch time one person had begun working on a large soup, with carrots, potatoes, onions, and all of them graciously ate it, their first proper meal in weeks, maybe even months. They then began to tell stories, in the well lit church, about their time here. The King gave them as much about him as they were permitted to know, and they were soon joined by one more person, who the King welcomed, and explained everything to. Eventually they all went to sleep, free from the fear of ever having to participate in a game again. The King surveyed his colonists, happy that they had all adapted to life here so easily. This place, while not perfect, was a veritable paradise compared to the world beyond the churchyard walls, and he was glad the others appreciated the effort he had put into it, and the effort they would put into it. He had intentionally made sure there was still plenty of work to be done to improve the church, as to stifle boredom. He had planned every detail, and knew it was perfect. Second Day of Exhibitions They woke up early, ready to continue the future of his utopia. They got to work on various projects, such as the allotment, and someone began work on the games room he had planned. He helped out I the kitchen too, cutting veg and preparing meals for the day. He was cooking another soup today, while their vegetables were still few in number. Over the course of the day more arrived, and he welcomed them. They were at first suspicious of his utopia, but he managed to convince them that this was for the greater good. The Day was fruitful, and soon they had planted various vegetables, and were growing potatoes, carrots, onions, peppers, tomatoes, as well as various fruits. He congratulated the gardeners, and then he checked out the games room. It had been redecorated, and the Games organised. In fact, it had been done so quick the others had started work on the library, organising all of the books carefully in order of genre and author surname. This place was becoming more and more like the Utopia he envisioned. He poured some oil into the pan, before tipping in his diced onion, frying them a little, before adding water to boil the carrots and potatoes he had stocked up in. He made some vegetable stock from a pack he had in his spice cupboard, and with the help of the other cooks, they now had a meal for al of them. They filled it into bowls, handing them out to everyone in the church’s sanctuary, and they each ate gratefully, thanking him for his work, as well as the kindness of establishing this place. They began to talk over such about what they had done so far. “So, the allotment is looking good at the moment. By the time our stocked food will have run out, we should be swimming in produce of our own growing. Also, this soup is really nice Noah, you and the cooks did a great job!” The Gardener said, and Noah nodded, saying he couldn’t have achieved this without them. The room brimmed with happiness, at the salvation these people had found in this world. That this was the way forward, the way to continued prosperity. “Well, I improved the games room. That billiards table was a good idea Noah. Thanks also for bringing in so many board games and sets of cards. While we may not have always enjoyed them in the old world, I’m sure here they will become classics quickly, and we will play them till old age. Also, as you said earlier, I checked from the roof to see how many other cards are left. It looks like the King of Clubs, Queen of Spades, and Jack of Diamonds went down yesterday.” The Woman said. “Thank you for informing me. We should hope and pray for those we have lost, they are now in a better place.” Noah said. They continued to talk over their food, and just before they were about to return to work, a woman walked in through the doors. “Hello, my child, welcome to sanctuary!” Noah said. “Yeah yeah, quit the bullshit, tell me the rules.” She said. “Well, The ‘game’ is simple. The game end when I press that button on the altar over there, willingly. Otherwise, you mustn’t leave the game venue, or act violently.” Noah explained. “This place is a sanctuary from the outside world. A refuge for those who have been crushed by the horrors of the Games.” “What? What about Visas?” The Woman said confused. “While in a game, your visa does not decrease. This place gives you time to live the rest of your days out, without the threat of the laser. This place is my Ark, if you will.” The King said, pointing to the church. “This world makes it appear as if you must kill others to survive. That is not true. If you can resist the temptations of this world, you will receive salvation.” Noah then gave the woman a tour of the grounds, before asking her what she wished to do. She ended up working in the garden, and Noah returned to the gates, to welcome any possible new colonists. His sanctuary was coming to life, an example of how humans can collaborate and triumph in a world without hope. No new people arrived after Sandra interrupted them at lunch, and the King gathered everyone around for tea and began to tell stories about his experiences. “When I came to this world, I realised how important it was to trust god. I played the games set up by the old Kings, Queens and Knaves. They slowly fell, and when We had finally defeated them all, we were offered a choice by the ruler of this land. Stay, and accept citizenship, or decline. I accepted, to allow this land, a land without god, to see the light of good, and forge a beacon of hope for all who came.” Noah said, as his followers watched intently, and he began to recall his first games, the Jack and King of hearts, and how in the King game he had saved a young man, who grew to become the King of Clubs. It became later and later, and Noah advised them to go to bed, telling them he would continue to tell them about his experiences the next day, and then the others could tell them theirs. Third Day of Exhibitions On the third day only one blimp went down, that of the Queen of Clubs. Noah awoke bright and early, ready for the day. He slowly got everyone else up, while preparing breakfast. They ate in their own time, before leaving to go out and work. Noah walked to the gates, apple in hand. He waited there for a few minutes, and watched as some new followers-to-be began to arrive. He introduced himself, giving his regular explanation, and before they stepped inside, was backed up by one of the gardeners, who happened to be walking past. The group stepped inside, introducing themselves as Alfie, Tracy and Roger, a group that had beaten the King of Clubs together. “A shame. The King of Clubs was a good man.” Noah said, leading them into the main hall. “He definitely wasn’t what I expected from a King, to say the least.” Tracy said. “Neither are you.” “The manipulation is still to come.” Alfie said, not trusting Noah. “Well, I can assure you that I have all of the residents of this countries best interests in mind. We could live here for many years without problem. Just ask any of the other players that have stayed with us for a while, they all trust me.” Noah countered. He walked up to the altar. “This here is the game clear condition. If I press it, I die, and our colony is terminated. The game ends, everyone gets a game clear. I have no intention of doing so.” Noah said. “So you are our jailor.” Alfie said to him. “If you need to see it that way, yes.” Noah said. “But in truth I am your saviour. Without me you would soon be playing another game. You would live in fear of your life. Here, that all fades away. You regain free time, as you need to care less and less about your own survival. Don’t you see the utopia we will forge?” Alfie shrugged. “Now, if you will please allow me to ask what jobs you would be comfortable doing…” He asked. He got them all started on their tasks, and the day went smoothly. He spent a while talking with Roger as they prepared food, talking about his life, and soon they called everyone in for Lunch. In the meantime, tracy had begun speaking to Sandra, and learned about her. Alfie, on the other hand, had remained distant from the others, refusing to participate in work. He walked over to Roger and Tracy while they were eating their food. “Don’t you find this a little suspicious? He’s way to kind for someone who’s gone through what we’ve been through. I don’t trust this guy one bit.” Alfie said. “Why, all he’s done is be nice to us!?” Tracy said. “He’s forged a home for us in this uncaring world. How can you disagree with that?” “He’s already gotten to you. Don’t you see? He’s indoctrinating you. This is a cult!” Alfie protested, perhaps a little too loud. “Now, how about we all calm down a little.” Noah said, walking over. “I see our new member wishes to leave. Trust me Alfie, it’s Alfie right? This place will be our beacon of hope, our zone of safety. Please, don’t fight us. It’ll only harm you.” Alfie nodded, but still had a scowl fixed on his face. “Good. Now, how about we all return to work, and reconvene later for tea.” He said, walking away. The others returned to work, and Alfie was left alone in the Hall. Noah turned. “You should also get to work. It won’t reflect well on you if you eat our food but don’t help out.” Roger had by this point returned to the garden. He liked gardening, and had constantly recommended the performers establish one while they were still in large numbers, so they would have a continued food supply. He gave up on the idea after continued rejection, and the dwindling number of performers meant there was almost no point, they all believed they would die anyway. But now he had a communal garden, where he could help a group of people he cared about. He dug, and planted some seeds. They were almost out of the space allocated. Oh well, they would always need to attend to plants to help them grow. He wasn’t sure how well they would grow in this strange climate, but he held out hope. He spent the hours until dusk in the garden with a man who claimed he was the first to join Noah. They exchanged trivial details about their lives, as well as their time in this land. They both admired Noah for his ability to create hop in a world without it, and how he kept order in a world seemingly without any. When they gathered around for Noah’s story and food, they listened intently, hearing about his exploits during his time as a player, how he had helped those in need. How he had not killed anyone during his time as a player. Alfie watched from afar, seeing how the group worshiped the ground he walked on. Why couldn’t anyone but him see it? |
2023.03.22 04:39 OneFalconPunch So I haven't been here in years since I saw Major quite a long time ago, but I think I just witnessed anime take place IRL lol
Spoilers for today's World Baseball Classic
Apparently there's this guy named Shohei Ohtani who is a monster pitcher and batter in actual baseball (Goro???) and he just struck out Mike Trout (Joe Gibson Jr???) to win it all for Japan in basically the world cup of baseball?
Didn't this shit happen in Major? Lmao
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Apparently there's this guy named Shohei Ohtani who is a monster pitcher and batter in actual baseball (Goro???) and he just struck out Mike Trout (Joe Gibson Jr???) to win it all for Japan in basically the world cup of baseball?
Didn't this shit happen in Major? Lmao
2023.03.22 04:29 DontTakeMeSeriousli Will adding some new coaches help out these teams?
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2023.03.22 04:18 ChiCubsbot Postgame Thread: 3/21 Cubs @ Royals
Line Score - Completed Early: Rain
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | LOB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHC | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 8 | ||
| KC | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
Box Score
| KC | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | BA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | Melendez | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .368 |
| C | Porter | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .381 |
| 1B | Pasquantino | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .333 |
| 1B | Means | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 |
| 3B | Dozier | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .250 |
| 3B | Loftin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .160 |
| 2B | Massey | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .294 |
| 2B | McCullough | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .400 |
| SS | Lopez, N | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .125 |
| SS | Tolbert | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 |
| RF | Gentry | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .192 |
| RF | Bonifacio, J | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .143 |
| LF | Bradley Jr. | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .350 |
| LF | Bradley | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 |
| CF | Isbel | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .471 |
| CF | Rave | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .176 |
| DH | Reetz | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .222 |
| KC | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P-S | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lyles | 3.2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 38-21 | 3.52 |
| Willeman | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1-1 | 15.43 |
| Chapman | 0.2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 12-8 | 4.76 |
| Pennington | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1-1 | 3.00 |
| Bubic | 1.2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 21-13 | 2.70 |
| CHC | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | BA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2B | Hoerner | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .238 |
| SS | Swanson | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .065 |
| LF | Happ | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .333 |
| LF | Tauchman | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .226 |
| 1B | Hosmer | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .242 |
| 1B | Maldonado | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .222 |
| 3B | Wisdom | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .357 |
| RF | Velazquez, N | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .211 |
| DH | Mervis | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .179 |
| C | Barnhart | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .087 |
| CF | Morel | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .225 |
| CHC | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P-S | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taillon | 5.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 40-38 | 5.40 |
| Leiter Jr. | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9-9 | 1.80 |
Scoring Plays
| Inning | Event | Score |
|---|---|---|
| T1 | Patrick Wisdom singles on a ground ball to left fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. Dansby Swanson scores. Ian Happ scores. Eric Hosmer to 2nd. | 0-2 |
| T2 | Christopher Morel homers (3) on a fly ball to left field. | 0-3 |
| B3 | MJ Melendez homers (2) on a fly ball to left field. Kyle Isbel scores. | 2-3 |
| T5 | Eric Hosmer singles on a ground ball to left fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. Ian Happ scores. | 2-4 |
| T7 | Nelson Maldonado singles on a ground ball to right fielder Jorge Bonifacio. Mike Tauchman scores. | 2-5 |
| T7 | Matt Mervis out on a sacrifice fly to right fielder Jorge Bonifacio. Nelson Maldonado scores. Nelson Velazquez to 3rd. | 2-6 |
Highlights
| Description | Length | Video |
|---|---|---|
| Patrick Wisdom knocks a two-run single to left field | 0:13 | Video |
| Christopher Morel crushes a solo home run to left | 0:11 | Video |
| MJ Melendez belts a two-run home run to left field | 0:19 | Video |
| Eric Hosmer knocks an RBI single to left field | 0:20 | Video |
Decisions
| Winning Pitcher | Losing Pitcher | Save |
|---|---|---|
| Taillon (2-0, 5.40 ERA) | Lyles (1-1, 3.52 ERA) | Leiter Jr. (1 SV, 1.80 ERA) |
2023.03.22 04:16 KCRoyalsBot The Royals fell to the Cubs by a score of 6-2 - Tue, Mar 21 @ 08:05 PM CDT
Cubs @ Royals - Tue, Mar 21
Game Status: Completed Early: Rain - Score: 6-2 Cubs
Links & Info
| Cubs Batters | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | K | LOB | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hoerner - 2B | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .238 | .238 | .429 |
| 2 | Swanson - SS | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | .065 | .237 | .097 |
| 3 | Happ - LF | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .463 | .485 |
| Tauchman - LF | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .226 | .351 | .387 | |
| 4 | Hosmer - 1B | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .242 | .278 | .303 |
| Maldonado - 1B | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .222 | .333 | |
| 5 | Wisdom - 3B | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .357 | .438 | .536 |
| 6 | Velazquez, N - RF | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | .211 | .286 | .579 |
| 7 | Mervis - DH | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | .179 | .294 | .250 |
| 8 | Barnhart - C | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .087 | .120 | .087 |
| 9 | Morel - CF | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .225 | .311 | .500 |
| Totals | 26 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 13 |
| Cubs |
|---|
| BATTING: 2B: Velazquez, N (1, Bubic). HR: Morel (3, 2nd inning off Lyles, 0 on, 1 out). TB: Happ; Hoerner; Hosmer; Maldonado; Morel 4; Velazquez, N 2; Wisdom 2. RBI: Hosmer (5); Maldonado (2); Mervis (1); Morel (6); Wisdom 2 (5). 2-out RBI: Hosmer. Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Mervis; Swanson; Velazquez, N 2. SF: Mervis. Team RISP: 3-for-9. Team LOB: 8. |
| Royals Batters | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | K | LOB | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Melendez - C | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .368 | .409 | .947 |
| Porter - C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .381 | .480 | .476 | |
| 2 | Pasquantino - 1B | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .333 | .429 | .583 |
| Means - 1B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .400 | .750 | |
| 3 | Dozier - 3B | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .250 | .325 | .389 |
| Loftin - 3B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .160 | .222 | .400 | |
| 4 | Massey - 2B | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .294 | .342 | .618 |
| McCullough - 2B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .400 | .400 | .500 | |
| 5 | Lopez, N - SS | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .273 | .125 |
| Tolbert - SS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .222 | .440 | |
| 6 | Gentry - RF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .192 | .344 | .269 |
| Bonifacio, J - RF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .250 | .571 | |
| 7 | Bradley Jr. - LF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .350 | .350 | .450 |
| Bradley - LF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .333 | .550 | |
| 8 | Isbel - CF | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .471 | .526 | .647 |
| Rave - CF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .176 | .333 | .235 | |
| 9 | Reetz - DH | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .222 | .333 | .500 |
| Totals | 22 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 5 |
| Royals |
|---|
| BATTING: 2B: Isbel 2 (6, Taillon, Taillon). HR: Melendez (2, 3rd inning off Taillon, 1 on, 1 out). TB: Isbel 4; Lopez, N; Melendez 4. RBI: Melendez 2 (8). Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Melendez. Team RISP: 1-for-4. Team LOB: 2. |
| Cubs Pitchers | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | HR | P-S | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taillon (W, 2-0) | 5.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 40-38 | 5.40 |
| Leiter Jr. (S, 1) | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9-9 | 1.80 |
| Totals | 6.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 1 |
| Royals Pitchers | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | HR | P-S | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lyles (L, 1-1) | 3.2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 38-21 | 3.52 |
| Willeman | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1-1 | 15.43 |
| Chapman | 0.2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 12-8 | 4.76 |
| Pennington | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1-1 | 3.00 |
| Bubic | 1.2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 21-13 | 2.70 |
| Totals | 6.2 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 1 |
| Game Info |
|---|
| Groundouts-flyouts: Taillon 5-0; Leiter Jr. 0-0; Lyles 3-1; Willeman 0-0; Chapman 0-0; Pennington 0-0; Bubic 0-2. |
| Batters faced: Taillon 19; Leiter Jr. 3; Lyles 17; Willeman 1; Chapman 5; Pennington 1; Bubic 10. |
| Inherited runners-scored: Willeman 2-0; Pennington 2-0. |
| Umpires: HP: Jose Navas. 1B: Alan Porter. 2B: Nic Lentz. 3B: Brian Walsh. |
| Weather: 59 degrees, Overcast. |
| Wind: 5 mph, R To L. |
| First pitch: 6:07 PM. |
| T: 2:06. |
| Att: 6,356. |
| Venue: Surprise Stadium. |
| March 21, 2023 |
| Inning | Scoring Play | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1 | Patrick Wisdom singles on a ground ball to left fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. Dansby Swanson scores. Ian Happ scores. Eric Hosmer to 2nd. | 2-0 CHC |
| Top 2 | Christopher Morel homers (3) on a fly ball to left field. | 3-0 CHC |
| Bottom 3 | MJ Melendez homers (2) on a fly ball to left field. Kyle Isbel scores. | 3-2 CHC |
| Top 5 | Eric Hosmer singles on a ground ball to left fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. Ian Happ scores. | 4-2 CHC |
| Top 7 | Nelson Maldonado singles on a ground ball to right fielder Jorge Bonifacio. Mike Tauchman scores. | 5-2 CHC |
| Top 7 | Matt Mervis out on a sacrifice fly to right fielder Jorge Bonifacio. Nelson Maldonado scores. Nelson Velazquez to 3rd. | 6-2 CHC |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | LOB | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cubs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 8 | |||
| Royals | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
Decisions
- Winner: Jameson Taillon (2-0, 5.40)
- Loser: Jordan Lyles (1-1, 3.52)
- Save: Mark Leiter Jr. (1, 1.80)
Division Scoreboard
DET 3 @ NYY 6 - FinalLAD 4 @ CLE 2 - Final
CWS 6 @ MIL 5 - Final
TB 2 @ MIN 5 - Final
Next Royals Game: Wed, Mar 22, 03:05 PM CDT @ White Sox
Last Updated: 03/21/2023 10:41:43 PM CDT
2023.03.22 03:44 BaseballBot Postgame Thread ⚾ United States 2 @ Japan 3
Line Score - Game Over
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | LOB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USA | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| JPN | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
Box Score
| JPN | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | BA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LF | Nootbaar | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .269 |
| RF | Kondoh | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .346 |
| P | Ohtani | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .435 |
| LF | Yoshida | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .409 |
| CF | Makihara | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 |
| 3B | Murakami | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .231 |
| 1B | Okamoto | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .333 |
| 2B | Yamada | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .267 |
| SS | Genda | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .250 |
| C | Nakamura, Y | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .429 |
| JPN | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P-S | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imanaga | 2.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 30-22 | 3.00 |
| Togo | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 35-21 | 1.80 |
| Takahashi, H | 1.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20-10 | 3.00 |
| Itoh | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14-9 | 0.00 |
| Ota | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13-8 | 0.00 |
| Darvish | 1.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18-14 | 6.00 |
| Ohtani | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 15-8 | 1.86 |
| USA | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | BA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RF | Betts | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .313 |
| CF | Trout | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .296 |
| 1B | Goldschmidt | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .280 |
| 3B | Arenado | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .385 |
| DH | Schwarber | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .214 |
| SS | Turner | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .391 |
| C | Realmuto | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 |
| LF | Mullins | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .200 |
| 2B | Anderson, Ti | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 |
| 2B | McNeil | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .111 |
| PR | Witt Jr. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 |
| USA | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P-S | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kelly, M | 1.1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 36-21 | 8.31 |
| Loup | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9-8 | 0.00 |
| Freeland | 3.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 41-20 | 3.00 |
| Adam | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 31-14 | 0.00 |
| Bednar | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17-11 | 2.25 |
| Williams, D | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 21-12 | 0.00 |
Scoring Plays
| Inning | Event | Score |
|---|---|---|
| T2 | Trea Turner homers (5) on a fly ball to left field. | 0-1 |
| B2 | Munetaka Murakami homers (1) on a fly ball to right center field. | 1-1 |
| B2 | Lars Nootbaar grounds out, first baseman Paul Goldschmidt to pitcher Aaron Loup. Kazuma Okamoto scores. Sosuke Genda to 3rd. Yuhei Nakamura to 2nd. | 2-1 |
| B4 | Kazuma Okamoto homers (2) on a fly ball to left center field. | 3-1 |
| T8 | Kyle Schwarber homers (2) on a fly ball to right center field. | 3-2 |
Highlights
| Description | Length | Video |
|---|---|---|
| Trout and Ohtani walk out with country's flags | 1:03 | Video |
| Trea Turner opens scoring with a solo homer to left | 0:30 | Video |
| Measuring the stats on Trea Turner's home run | 0:10 | Video |
| Trea Turner's home run through bat tracking data | 0:09 | Video |
| Munetaka Murakami crushes a solo home run in the 2nd | 0:29 | Video |
| Kazuma Okamoto clubs solo homer to left-center in 4th | 0:27 | Video |
| Mike Trout plans to play for Team USA in 2026 Classic | 0:39 | Video |
| Jason Adam leaves the bases-loaded in the 6th | 0:19 | Video |
| Goldschmidt grounds into DP, Japan escape jam in 7th | 0:30 | Video |
| Kyle Schwarber belts a solo home run to right-center | 0:29 | Video |
| Measuring the stats on Kyle Schwarber's home run | 0:10 | Video |
| Kyle Schwarber's home run through bat tracking data | 0:09 | Video |
Decisions
| Winning Pitcher | Losing Pitcher | Save |
|---|---|---|
| Imanaga (1-0, 3.00 ERA) | Kelly, M (0-1, 8.31 ERA) | Ohtani (1 SV, 1.86 ERA) |
2023.03.22 03:35 Shibo99 [USA-IL] [H] Consoles/Handhelds, JP Imports, Games for Atari Jaguar, TurboGrafx, NES/SNES, N64, Gamecube, WiiU, Switch, PS1-4, Xbox OG/360/One [W] PS3-5/Vita/PSP/N64/GCN/Switch/3DS/DS Offers, PS5 Games listed, Ys Games, Pokemon games, others listed
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Systems/Handhelds
Atari Jaguar Games
CIB for TurboGrafx includes jewel case, not outer cardboard box unless noted
TurboGrafx Games
For carts with manuals, I am willing to sell manuals/carts independently. Not seperating boxes and manuals.
NES Games
SNES Games
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N64
Gamecube Games
Wii Games
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GBC pokemon crystal cart
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PS5 Wants
Neptunia Reverse
Record of Lodoss Wonder Labyrinth
Returnal
Kena bridge of spirits
Star Ocean
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2DS XL Pokeball Edition Box & Inserts only
Code of Princess EX - Switch Case
DS Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia - case and manual
DS Chocobo Tales - case and manual
DS Final Fantasy Tactics A2 - case and manual
DS pokemon white 2 Case and manual
DS pokemon black - Case and manual
DS Shin Megami Tensai Devil Survivor 2 - Case and manual only
Harvest Moon DS - case + manual
New Nintendo 3DS XL Galaxy Edition Box & Inserts only
Mario & Luigi Dream League 3DS XL Box & Inserts only
Mario Power Tennis Gamecube - Case + Manual
Phantasy star 1 & 2 plus gamecube - manual only
Pikmin 2 gamecube - manual only
Pokemon Channel Gamecube - Case and Manual
3DS Pokemon Art Academy - Case and manual
Pokemon XY Red 3DS XL Box & Inserts only
Puppeteer PS3 - Manual only
Other wants
Capcom Fighting Collection - Switch
Chrono Trigger - DS complete with map or just the map
Dreamcast light gun - needs to be a US model that will work with house of the dead 2.
Enter the gungeon - Switch
F-Zero - Looks for Gamecube (cib for gcn) and N64 cart
Final Fantasy 1 - NES cart
Final Fantasy XI collectables - open to offers if you have any
Final Fantasy Theatrhythm Final Bar Line - Switch
Fire Emblem games for 3DS
Ikaruga - Gamecube
Katamari Games - Looking for the Vita, Xbox 360, and PS2.
Kirby and the Forgotten Land - Switch
Kirby Return to Dreamland Deluxe - Switch
Legend of Zelda offers - open to offers on non explicitly stated zelda games, merch/items, etc.
Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks - DS CIB
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom - Switch
Muramasa - PS Vita
Neo Geo Pocket Color Selection Vol 1 - Switch
PS2 Light gun offers - looking for Light Gun games such as the time crisis series and a guncon for ps2.
Rabi-Ribi - PS4/Vita
Ratchet and Clank Quest for Booty PS3 (physical version, I think it's PAL exclusive)
Ratchet and Clank Vita Collection (physical version, I think it's PAL exclusive)
Senran Kagura Peach Beach Splash All service edition - PS4
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury - Switch
Tales Games for PS3 - Looking for Xilia 2 and Graces F
Tornado Outbreak - PS3
Virtual Boy - looking for a working system and some games (need system before game offers)
Wii U - Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE - special edition
Wii U - HD Windwaker Limited Edition (the one with the figure/statue)
Ys games CIB (mostly looking for PSP and older)
Zone of the Enders HD Collection - PS3
In the rare event anyone has a IIDX DJ DAO Phoenix Wan controller they want to swap I am looking for one.
Looking to work towards complete collection for Wii U - feel free to send offers for Wii U games you may be looking to trade off. Only interested in CIB items.
Potentially open to PS3-5/Vita/PSP/N64/GCN/Switch/3DS/DS offers. I am primarily interested in JRPGs (especially action RPGs), 2D platformers/action games, arcadey games, schmups, beat em ups, etc., but feel free to send me a list to look at!
Willing to consider Pokemon TCG trades as well (English or Japanese, singles/slabs/sealed)
I am not interested in digital codes for games (primarily seeking to add to physical collection).
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Please also pay attention to what system you are looking at as there are sections of Japanese (NTSC-J) games
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Systems/Handhelds
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
| PS1 1001 fat | |
| PS1 7501 fat | |
| PS1 7501 fat | |
| PS2 fat | |
| PS2 fat | |
| Sega Model 2 | rf, power, oem 6 button controller |
| Sega Model 2 | rf, no power cable, oem 3 button controller. |
| Sega Model 2 | |
| Sega Model 3 | no av cable. 3rd party controller, 6 button |
| 32x | |
| Black gamecube | 3rd party controller |
| Wii U | screen light scratches. all cables, dock, sensor bar |
| Wii U | gamepad right joystick issues. all cables, dock, sensor bar |
| Xbox 360 S R2D2 | C3P0 controller, kinect, 320gb |
| Wii RVL-001 | Eject button doesn't click, but does work |
| TurboGrafx Express | Includes tv tuner, car charger |
| PSP Black 1001 | includes oem charger, soft case. battery holds charge |
| Original DS Blue NTR-001 | rough shape. screens are pretty scratched |
| 3DS XL Red | Overall good condition. Screens have no visible scratches. OEM charger, sd card, and carrying case |
| PS Vita Dev Kit PDEL-1000 | Great condition. On 3.570.011 FW currently. No charger included |
| Game | Notes |
|---|---|
| Raiden | sealed |
| Fever Pitch Soccer | sealed |
| Zool 2 | sealed |
| Theme Park Designer Series | sealed |
| Skiing and Snowboarding | sealed |
| Zoop | no manual |
| Cybermorph | sealed |
| Doom | manual cover seperated |
| Troy Aikmen Football | cib - box in below average condition |
| Pinball Fantasies | no manual |
| Rotary controller w/ Tempest cart | Tempest is setup, ready. Rotary installed in place of dpad |
| Super Burnout | cart only |
| Ultra Vortek | cart only |
| Alien vs Predator | cib |
| Ruiner pinball | cib |
| Cannon Fodder | cib |
| Wolfenstein 3D | cib |
| Towers II | cib |
| Flip Out | cib. box has some liquid damage |
| Bubsy | cib |
| Checkered Flag | cib |
| Worms | cib |
| I-War | cib |
| Attack of the Mutant Penguins | cib |
| Brutal Sports Football | cib |
| Hover Strike | cib |
| Rayman | cib |
| Zero 5 | cib |
| International Sensible Soccer | cib |
| Flashback | cib |
| Dino Dudes | cib |
| Dragon Bruce Lee Story | cib |
| Missile Command 3D | cib |
| White Ment Can't Jump | cib |
| Kasumi Ninja | cib w/ headband |
| Supercross 3D | cib |
| Club Drive | cib |
| Trevor McFur in the Crescent Galaxy | cib |
| Fight for Life | cib |
| Power Drive Rally | cib |
| Atari Karts | box only |
TurboGrafx Games
| Game | Notes |
|---|---|
| Alien Crush | cart only |
| Keith Courage | cart only |
| Power Golf | cart only |
| Turrican | cart only |
| World Class baseball | CIB |
| Victory Run | CIB |
| Vigilante | CIB |
| TV Sports Hockey | CIB |
| Keith Courage | CIB (no comic) |
| Bonks Adventure | CIB |
NES Games
| Game | Notes |
|---|---|
| 720 | |
| 1942 | |
| 10 yard fight | 5 screw |
| A Boy and his Blob | |
| Adventure Island | |
| Adventures of Dino-Riki | |
| After Burner | tengen cart |
| Air Fortress | sticker on label |
| Airwolf | |
| Arch Rivals | |
| Astyanax | |
| Back to the Future | bad condition. appears to have spray paint on front of cart |
| Bad Dudes | |
| Bad News Baseball | |
| Bandai Golf: Challenge Pebble Beach | |
| Baseball | |
| Baseball Simulator 1000 | |
| Baseball Stars | sticker on label |
| Bases Loaded | |
| Bases Loaded II | |
| Bayou Billy | |
| Bigfoot | |
| Bill Elliott's Nascar Challenge | Box + game, no manual |
| Black Bass | |
| Blades of Steel | Box + game, no manual |
| Blades of Steel | |
| Break Time National Pool tour | Box, manual, no game |
| Burgertime | |
| California Games | |
| Championship Bowling | |
| Cobra Triangle | |
| Commando | 5 screw |
| Contra Force | comes with cart protector |
| Days of Thunder | |
| Days of Thunder | |
| Destination Earthstar | |
| Super Dodgeball | |
| Donkey Kong 3 | 5 screw |
| Donkey Kong Classics | |
| Double Dragon | cart + manual |
| Double Dragon II | |
| Double Dragon III | |
| Double Dribble | |
| Dr Mario | |
| Dragon Warrior | |
| Duck Hunt | 5 screw |
| Ducktales | top of label damage. includes reg card |
| Dynowarz | |
| Family Feud | |
| Fantasy Zone | tengen cart |
| Magic Johnson Fast Break | |
| Faxanadu | |
| Fester's Quest | |
| Freedom Force | |
| Friday the 13th | |
| Galaga: Demon's of Death | |
| Gauntlet | tengen cart |
| Gauntlet | |
| Golgo 13 | cart + manual |
| Gotcha | |
| Gradius | 5 screw |
| Gyromite | 5 screw |
| Heavy Barrel | |
| Hogan's Alley | |
| Hollywood Squares | sharpie on label (mostly cleaned, slightly visible) |
| Hoops | sharpie on label (mostly cleaned, but visible) |
| Hunt for Red October | |
| Hydlide | |
| Ikari Warriors II Victory Road | |
| Infiltrator | |
| Iron Sword | |
| Iron Tank | cart + manual |
| Jack Nicklaus' Championship Golf | cart + manual |
| Jeopardy | |
| Jeopardy 25th Anniversary | |
| John Elway's Quarterback | |
| Jordan vs Bird | |
| Joust | |
| Karate Kid | |
| Kickle Cubicle | |
| King of the Ring | cart + manual |
| Kings of the Beach | |
| Knight Rider | |
| Knight Rider | |
| Legacy of the Wizard | |
| Legendary Wings | |
| Major League Baseball | |
| Maniac Mansion | sharpie on label (mostly cleaned, but visible) |
| Marble Madness | |
| Mario Bros Arcade Classics Series | 5 screw |
| Mario Bros Duck Hunt | |
| Mario Duck Hunt Track Meet | |
| Mickey Mousecapade | |
| Mighty Bomb Jack | |
| Mike Tyson's Punch-Out | |
| Milon's Secret Castle | |
| Mission Impossible | |
| MTV Remote Control | |
| Narc | |
| NES Cleaning Kit | CIB w/ box protector |
| NES Cleaning Kit | CIB w/ box protector |
| NES Play Action Football | |
| Ninja Gaiden 2 | |
| Operation Wolf | |
| Pac-man | tengen cart |
| Platoon | |
| Pro Wrestling | |
| Pro Wrestling | 5 screw |
| Punch-out | |
| Qbert | |
| R.C. Pro-Am | |
| Racket Attack | |
| Rad Racer II | |
| Rampart | |
| RBI Baseball | tengen cart. includes reg card |
| Renegade | |
| Roadblasters | |
| Rollerball | |
| Rolling Thunder | tengen cart |
| Romance of the Three Kingdoms | cart + manual |
| Rush'n Attack | 5 screw. sharpie on label (mostly cleaned, but visible) |
| Section Z | |
| Seicross | |
| Sesame Street ABC | |
| Silent Service | |
| Silent Service | |
| Simpsons Bart Vs the World | |
| Skate or Die 2 | |
| Ski or Die | |
| Solstice | |
| Spy vs Spy | |
| Star Force | |
| Star Soldier | Box + game, no manual |
| Star Trek 25th Anniversary | |
| Star Tropics | Box + game, no manual |
| Star Voyager | 5 screw cart, manual, poster |
| Super C | |
| Super Glove Ball | |
| Super Mario Bros | cart + manual |
| Super Mario Bros 2 | |
| Super Mario Bros 3 | cart + manual |
| Super Off Road | |
| Super Pitfall | |
| Superspike V'ball | |
| Sword and Serpents | cart + manual + poster |
| T&C Surf Designs | |
| Talespin | top of label damaged |
| Target Renegade | |
| Techmo Bowl | Cart + manual |
| Tecmo Super Bowl | |
| Tennis | |
| Terminator 2 | Box + game, no manual |
| Terminator 2 | |
| Terminator 2 | |
| The Addams Family | |
| The Fantastic Adventrues of Dizzy | |
| Thundercade | |
| Tiger-Heli | |
| TMNT II Arcade Game | |
| TMNT Manhattan Project | cart + manual |
| Top Gun | |
| Top Gun Second Mission | |
| Total Recall | |
| Track & Field | |
| Track & Field | |
| Trick Shooting | CIB |
| Trojan | |
| Twin Eagle | sharpie on label (mostly cleaned, slightly visible) |
| Vice Project Doom | label damage |
| Code Name Viper | |
| Wheel of Fortune | sharpie on label (mostly cleaned, slightly visible) |
| Who Framed Roger Rabbit | |
| Willow | |
| Win Lose or Draw | writing on label |
| World Class Track Meet | |
| Nintendo World Cup | Box, no manual - writing on front of box |
| Wrestlemania | cart + manual |
| Wrestlemania | |
| Wrestlemania Challenge | |
| Xenophobe | |
| XEXYZ |
| Game | Notes |
|---|---|
| Aaahh Real Monsters | |
| Aladdin | |
| Arkanoid - Doh It Again! | |
| Bass Tournament of Champions | |
| Batman Forever | |
| Battle Clash | |
| Best of the Best Championship Karate | |
| Bubsy | |
| Bugs Bunny Rabbit Rampage | |
| Championship Pool | |
| Cleaning Kit | |
| Clue | |
| Cool Spot | |
| Daffy Duck The Marvin Missions | |
| Family Feud | |
| Fifa International Soccer | |
| Final Fight | |
| Home Alone 2 | |
| Inindo | Label damage |
| Jeopardy | |
| Judge Dredd | Some label damage |
| Jungle Strike | |
| Ken Griffey Jr. Winning Run | |
| King of the Monsters | |
| Kirby Avalanche | |
| Lethal Enforcers | |
| Lion King | |
| Looney Tunes Basketball | Label damage |
| Madden 94 | |
| Mega Man X | |
| Mortal Kombat | |
| Mortal Kombat 3 | |
| NBA Give N Go | |
| NBA Jam | |
| NBA Jam Tournament Edition | |
| NBA Live 95 | |
| NCAA Basketball | |
| NFL Quarterback Club | |
| NHL Stanley Cup | |
| Nigel Mansell's World Championship | |
| Operation Europe Path to Victory | |
| Paperboy 2 | |
| Power Moves | |
| Primal Rage | |
| Revolution X | Not working. Contacts look very stripped. |
| Road Runner's Death Vally Rally | |
| Scooby Doo Mystery | |
| Space Invaders | |
| Speedy Gonzales Los Gatos Bandidos | |
| Spider-man and the X-men in Arcade's Revenge | |
| Starfox | |
| Street Fighter II | Faded label |
| Street Fighter II | |
| Street Fighter II turbo | |
| Stunt Race FX | |
| Super Bases Loaded | |
| Super Battletank: War in the Gulf | |
| Super Black Bass | |
| Super Empire Strikes Back | |
| Super Mario Kart | |
| Super Pinball Behind the Mask | |
| Super Play Action Football | |
| Super Punch-Out | |
| Taz-Mania | |
| Tecmo Super Bowl | |
| Tecmo Super Bowl III | |
| Tetris 2 | |
| The Jungle Book | |
| The Pagemaster | |
| Tory Aikman Football | |
| Warlock | |
| We're Back A Dinosaurs Story | |
| Wing Commander The Secret Missions | |
| Word-Tris | Damaged Label |
| Zoop |
N64
| Item | Notes |
|---|---|
| Battle Tanx | |
| F-1 Grand Prix | |
| Gex 64 | |
| Madden 64 | |
| NFL Blitz | |
| Star Wars Rogue Squadron | |
| Star Wars Rogue Squadron | |
| Star Wars Shadows of the Empire | |
| War Gods | |
| Wayne Gretzy 3D Hockey | |
| Wipeout 64 | |
| N64 HoriPad Mini Black | |
| N64 HoriPad Mini Yellow | |
| N64 HoriPad Mini Red | |
| N64 HoriPad Mini Blue | |
| N64 HoriPad Mini Clear Ocean Blue | |
| OEM Controller Gray | |
| OEM Controller Atomic Purple | |
| OEM Controller Ice Blue Clear | |
| OEM Controller Black | |
| OEM Controller Red | |
| OEM Controller Watermelon Red Clear | |
| OEM Controller Black & Gray | |
| OEM Controller Blue | |
| Hudson Turbo JoyCard Controller |
| Game | Notes |
|---|---|
| Bionicle | Disc only |
| Crash Bandicoot Wrath of Cortex | Disc only |
| Fantastic 4 | No manual |
| Fantastic 4 | Disc only |
| Godzilla | Disc only |
| Harry Potter Goblet of Fire | Disc only |
| Harry Potter Prizoner of Azkaban | Disc only |
| Harry Potter Sorcerer's Stone | Disc only |
| Kids Next Door Operation: V.I.D.E.O.G.A.M.E | Disc only |
| King Kong | CIB |
| Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events | Disc only |
| Lord of the Rings Return of the King | Disc only |
| Madagascar | CIB |
| Mario Kart Double Dash Bonus Disc | disc only |
| Mario Kart Double Dash | No Manual |
| Mario Power Tennis | Disc only |
| Mario Superstar Baseball | No manual |
| Mega man Network Transmission | Disc only |
| Metroid Prime | Disc only |
| Monsters Inc Scream Arena | Disc only |
| Nascar Chase for the Cup 2005 | Disc only |
| Nascar Thunder 2003 | Disc only |
| Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 | CIB, Players Choice |
| Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 | Disc only |
| NFL 2K3 | Disc only |
| One Piece Grand Adventure | Disc only |
| One Piece Treasure Battle | Disc only |
| Over the Hedge | CIB |
| Paper Mario Thousand Year Door | CIB, Players Choice |
| Rocket Power Beach Bandits | No manual |
| Scooby Doo Unmasked | CIB |
| Shrek 2 | CIB |
| Shrek 2 | Disc only |
| Sonic Heroes | Disc only |
| Spiderman 2 | Disc only |
| Spongebob Lights Camera Pants | CIB |
| Spongebob Squarepants Creature from the Krusty Krab | CIB |
| Star War Jedi Knight II Jedi Outcast | Disc only |
| Star Wars Rebel Strike Rogue Squadron III | Disc only |
| Taz Wanted | No manual |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Disc only |
| The Hobbit | Disc only |
| The Incredibles | Disc only |
| The Incredibles | Disc only |
| Wave Race Blue Storm | CIB |
| Game | Notes |
|---|---|
| AC DC Rockband Track Pack | CIB |
| Balls of Fury | Disc only |
| Bass Pro Shops The Strike Tournament Edition | Small sleeve version (no plastic case) |
| Batallion Wars 2 | Disc only |
| Ben 10 | No manual |
| Boom Blox | No manual |
| Cabela African Adventures | CIB - game art faded |
| Cabela Dangerous Hunts 2013 | Disc only |
| Cooking Mama Cook Off | CIB |
| Cruis'n | Disc only |
| Dead Space Extraction | CIB |
| Disney Sing It Pop Hits | CIB |
| EA Active | CIB |
| Golden Compass | Disc only |
| Guitar Hero 3 | CIB |
| Guitar Hero World Tour | CIB |
| Heavenly Guardian | sealed |
| Hollywood Squares | Disc only |
| Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 | no manual |
| House of the Dead 2&3 | Disc + manual |
| House of the Dead 2&3 | CIB |
| House of the Dead Overkill | Disc only |
| Just Dance 2 | sealed |
| Lego Batman 2 | no manual |
| Mad World | CIB |
| Madden 11 | CIB |
| Mario Super Sluggers | Disc only |
| Marvel Ultimate Alliance | CIB |
| MLB 2K10 | CIB - game art slightly faded |
| Monster High Ghoul Spirit | Disc Only |
| Monster hunter 3 tri | No manual - art very faded |
| Netflix disc | Disc only |
| New Super Marios Bros | Case and manual only, no game |
| Ninja Reflex | No Manual |
| Pikmin | No manual |
| Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands | Disc only |
| Rapala Pro Bass Fishing | No manual |
| Rapala Pro Bass Fishing | Disc only |
| Redneck Jamboree | CIB |
| Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles | CIB |
| Sonic All Stars Racing | CIB |
| Sonic Secret Rings | CIB |
| Sonic Unleashed | CIB |
| Spiderman Edge of Time | No manual |
| Spongebob Squiggleplants | No manual |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Smash-Up | CIB |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 | CIB |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 | CIB |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 Masters | CIB - art on front slightly faded |
| Trivial Pursuit | CIB |
| UFC Trainer | No manual |
| Ultimate I Spy | CIB |
| Wii sports | Disc + manual |
| World of Zoo | No Manual |
| Victorious Boxers Revolution | CIB |
| Game | Notes |
|---|---|
| 007 Legends | CIB |
| Disney Infinity 3.0 | Disc only |
| Giana Sisters Twisted Dreams | CIB |
| Lego Avengers | CIB |
| Lego Movie | CIB |
| Mario Kart Wii U System Box | System Box + both tray inserts |
| Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate | CIB |
| Pokken Tournament | CIB |
| Star Fox Zero + Guard | CIB w/ Outer box, actual games are sealed |
| Super Mario 3D World | CIB |
| Super Mario Maker | CIB w/ Outerbox + idea book |
| Tekken Tag Tournament 2 | disc only |
| Twilight Princess HD | CIB |
| Wii Party U | CIB |
| Wii Sports Club | CIB |
| Windwaker HD | disc only |
| Xenoblade Chronicles X | CIB |
| Yoshi's Wooly World | Sealed |
| Game | Notes |
|---|---|
| Atelier Lydie & Suelle | PAL version - CIB |
| Bravely Default 2 | CIB |
| Moonlighter | CIB |
| Sakuna Rice and Ruin Divine Edition | Sealed |
| Skylanders Imaginators Starter Pack | CIB |
| YS 8 Standard Edition | Sealed |
| Game | Notes |
|---|---|
| Air Combat | CIB GH |
| Asteroids | CIB |
| Breakout | CIB |
| Destruction Derby | CIB Longbox (cardboard) |
| Destruction Derby 2 | disc only |
| Destruction Derby Raw | CIB |
| Driver | Missing Manual / Front art of Jewel Case |
| Driver 2 | CIB |
| Frogger | Missing Manual / Front art of Jewel Case |
| Gran Turismo | CIB |
| Gran Turismo 2 | CIB GH some cracks in case |
| Gran Turismo 2 | CIB |
| IHRA Drag Racing | CIB |
| Interactive CD Sampler Pack Vol 3 | Disc Only |
| Interactive CD Sampler Pack Vol 3 | Disc Only |
| Invasion from Beyond | CIB |
| Iron & Blood | CIB |
| Jeremy McGrath Super Cross 98 | CIB |
| Math Gallery Collection 1 | disc only |
| Nascar 98 | CIB |
| Need for Speed III Hot Pursuit | CIB GH |
| Pac-man World | CIB GH |
| Pong | CIB - case hinge kinda broken |
| Street Sk8ter | CIB |
| Striker 1945 | Blockbuster sticker on disc |
| Syphon Filter 2 | disc only (has discs 1 and 2) |
| Tomb Raider 2 | CIB |
| Tony Hawk's Pro Skater | CIB |
| Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 | CIB |
| Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 | CIB |
| True Pinball | CIB |
| Wheel of Fortune | disc only |
| Wipeout | CIB flat longbox americanized cover variant |
| World's Scariest Police Chases | CIB |
| You Don't Know Jack | CIB |
| Game | Notes |
|---|---|
| 007 Agent Under Fire | CIB |
| Acme Arsenal | disc only |
| American Choppers 2 | CIB |
| ATV Offroad Fury 2 | CIB |
| Blitz The League | disc only |
| Blowout | CIB |
| Bully | CIB |
| Cars | No manual |
| Dance Dance Revolution Super Nova | CIB |
| Dukes of Hazard | CIB |
| ESPN 2K5 | CIB |
| Fight Night 2004 | CIB |
| Final Fantasy XII | Disc only |
| Frogger The Great Quest | CIB |
| Gran Turismo 3 | CIB |
| Gran Turismo 4 | CIB |
| GTA 3 | CIB w/ Map |
| GTA Liberty City Stories | no manual |
| GTA Vice City Stories | CIB w/ Map |
| GTA Vice City Ultimate Codes | CIB |
| Guitar Hero III | CIB |
| Jaws Unleashed | No manual - sharpie on front |
| Kengo | CIB |
| Lord of the Rings Two Towers | Disc only |
| Medal of Honor European Assault | Disc only |
| Nascar 06 | Disc only |
| Nascar Dirt to Daytona | CIB |
| NBA Live 2005 | Disc only |
| NCAA Football 07 | Disc only |
| NCAA Football 2004 | CIB |
| Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 | CIB |
| Need for Speed Most Wanted Black | CIB |
| Need for Speed Pro Street | CIB |
| Need for Speed Pro Street | Disc only |
| Need for Speed Underground | GH CIB |
| Need for Speed Underground 2 | CIB |
| NFL Street 2 | no manual |
| Pinball Hall of Fame | CIB |
| Pirates Legend of the Black Buccaneer | No manual |
| Rock Band | No manual |
| Sly 2 Band of Thieves | GH CIB |
| Sly 3 Honor Among Thieves | GH CIB |
| Sprint Cars 2 | CIB |
| Sprint Cars Road to Knoxville | CIB |
| SSX 3 | GH no manual |
| SSX On Tour | CIB |
| Test Drive Eve of Destruction | disc only |
| The Sims | Disc only |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour 01 | CIB |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour 02 | CIB |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour 02 | CIB |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour 03 | CIB |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour 04 | CIB |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour 04 | CIB |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour 05 | CIB |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 | CIB |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 | CIB |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 | CIB |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 | CIB |
| Wave Rally | CIB |
| Game | Notes |
|---|---|
| Assassin's Creed | CIB |
| Assassin's Creed | GH CIB |
| Assassin's Creed II | CIB |
| Assassin's Creed Revelations | Sealed |
| Batman Arkham City | CIB |
| Battlefield 3 Limited Edition | No manual |
| Battlefield 3 Limited Edition | No manual |
| Battlefield 4 | CIB |
| Battlefield 4 | CIB |
| Battlefield Bad Company 2 Limited Edition | No manual |
| Beijing 2008 | disc only |
| Borderlands 2 | disc only |
| Borderlands 2 | disc only |
| Borderlands 2 | CIB |
| Brutal Legend | CIB |
| Call of Duty Black Ops | CIB |
| Call of Duty Ghosts | CIB |
| Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 | CIB |
| Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 | CIB |
| Call of Duty World at War | GH CIB |
| Dark Souls | CIB |
| Dark Souls | CIB |
| Dark Souls | CIB - Disc is greatest hits, case is regular |
| Dark Souls II | Disc is greatest hits, case is regular |
| Dead Space 3 Limited Edition | CIB |
| Destiny | CIB |
| Destiny | CIB |
| Def Jam Icon | Case and game, no manual |
| Demon Souls | CIB |
| Devil May Cry | CIB (art is sunfaded a bit) |
| Diablo 3 | No Manual |
| Diablo 3 | Disc Only |
| Dragon Age Inquisition | No manual |
| Dragon's Crown | CIB |
| Dragon's Crown | CIB |
| Duke Nukem Forever | Disc only |
| Duke Nukem Forever | Disc only |
| EA Active 2 | CIB |
| Facebreaker | CIB |
| Family Game Night 4 | disc only |
| Far Cry 3 | CIB |
| Fifa 14 | Disc only |
| Fifa 14 | CIB |
| Fracture | disc only |
| God of War Ascension | CIB |
| God of War Collection | CIB |
| God of War III | CIB |
| God of War Origins Edition | CIB |
| God of War Saga | Sealed |
| Gran Turismo 5 XL Edition | CIB |
| Gran Turismo 5 | CIB |
| Gran Turismo 6 | no manual |
| Gran Turismo 6 | Disc only |
| Grid | Disc only |
| GTA 4 | GH CIB w/ map |
| GTA 4 | GH CIB w/ map |
| GTA 5 | no manual or map |
| GTA San Andreas | Disc only |
| Guitar Hero 3 | CIB |
| Guitar Hero Live | CIB w/ dongle |
| Heavy Rain | Disc only |
| John Daly's ProStroke Golf | CIB |
| Kane & Lynch Dead Men | No manual |
| Killzone 2 | CIB |
| Killzone 2 | no manual |
| L.A. Noire | CIB |
| Lego Movie | no manual |
| Little Big Planet | GH CIB |
| Madden 13 | Disc only |
| Madden 13 | CIB |
| Madden 25 | CIB |
| Madden 25 | CIB |
| Madden 09 | disc only |
| Madden 07 | CIB |
| Mass Effect 2 | CIB |
| Mass Effect 3 | CIB |
| Metal Gear Solid 4 | CIB |
| Metal Gear Solid 4 | CIB |
| Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor | No manual |
| MLB The Show 12 | Disc only |
| NCAA Football 09 | Disc only |
| Need For Speed Rivals | Disc only |
| NHL 11 | CIB |
| NHL 11 | No manual |
| NHL 13 | CIB |
| NHL 13 | disc only |
| NHL 15 | disc only |
| PlayStation Move | Disc only |
| Rapala Pro Bass Fishing | w/ Big Box, rod, game, and rod dongle/receiver |
| Ratchet & Clank Future A Crack in time | GH no manual |
| Ratchet & Clank Future A Crack in time | GH no manual |
| Ratchet & Clank Future A Crack in time | CIB |
| Ratchet & Clank Tools of Destruction | CIB |
| Resident Evil 5 | CIB |
| Rock Band 2 | CIB |
| Saints Row The Third | disc only |
| Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments | CIB |
| Skylanders Giants | CIB |
| Skyrim | CIB GH (no map, unsure if GH had map) |
| Sly Cooper Thieves in Time | No manual |
| Smackdown vs Raw 2009 | CIB |
| Socom 4 | disc only |
| Soul Calibur 4 | no manual |
| Sports Champions | CIB |
| Sports Champions | CIB |
| Start The Party | No manual |
| Tekken 6 | CIB |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 | CIB |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 | no manual |
| Time Crisis 4 | No manual |
| Timeshift | disc only (2x available) |
| Uncharted | CIB |
| Uncharted | GH No manual |
| Uncharted 2 | no manual |
| Uncharted 2 | CIB |
| Uncharted 2 | CIB |
| Uncharted 2 | CIB |
| Uncharted 3 | CIB |
| Uncharted 3 | CIB |
| Uncharted 3 | CIB |
| Game | Notes |
|---|---|
| Agents of Mayhem | disc only |
| Anthem | cib |
| Battleborn | disc only |
| Battleborn | disc only |
| Bayonetta Vanquish | CIB |
| Binding of Isaac | CIB |
| Bloodborne | CIB |
| Brunswick Pro Bowling | CIB |
| Call of Duty WWII | CIB |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | CIB |
| Destiny 2 | CIB |
| Deus Ex | disc only |
| Fifa 14 | CIB |
| Fifa 15 | CIB |
| Minecraft Story Mode | CIB |
| NHL 15 | CIB |
| Nioh | CIB |
| Rock Band 4 | Disc only |
| Spider-man | sealed |
| Ys VIII | disc only |
| Zombieland Double Tap | CIB |
| Game | Notes |
|---|---|
| Outlaw Golf | CIB |
| LA Rush | No manual |
| Greg Hasting's Tournament Paintball | CIB |
| Madden 06 | Disc Only |
| Lego Star Wars Video Game | No Manual |
| NFL Street | CIB |
| Roadkill | No Manual |
| Midtown Madness 3 | No Manual |
| Flat Out 2 | CIB |
| Grabbed By The Ghoulies | CIB |
Xbox 360 Games
| Game | Notes |
|---|---|
| Army of Two 40 Days | Disc only |
| Assassin's Creed Brotherhood | CIB |
| Assassin's Creed Brotherhood Collector's Edition | CIB |
| Assassin's Creed III Limited Edition | CIB |
| Battlefield 4 | CIB |
| Big Bumpin | Sealed |
| Boderlands 2 Limited Edition Ultimate Loot Chest | CIB |
| Call of Duty Ghosts | CIB |
| Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 | CIB |
| Dance Central 2 | CIB |
| Dance Central 2 | CIB |
| Dead Space 2 Collector's Edition | CIB |
| Disney Infinity 2.0 | CIB |
| Disneyland Adventures | CIB |
| Disneyland Adventures | No manual |
| DJ Hero 2 | CIB |
| DJ Hero 2 | CIB |
| Elder Scrolls Oblivion Collector's Edition | CIB |
| Elder Scrolls Skyrim Collector's Edition | CIB |
| Fallout 3 Collector's Edition | CIB |
| Fifa 12 | CIB |
| Fifa 12 | CIB |
| Fifa 13 | CIB |
| Fifa 14 | CIB |
| Forza 3 / Halo ODST Double Pack | CIB |
| GTA V | No manual - only 1 insert |
| GTA V Collector's Edition | CIB |
| Just Dance 3 | CIB |
| Just Dance 3 | CIB |
| LA Noire | Discs only |
| Madden 25 | CIB |
| Madden 25 | no manual |
| MLB 2K13 | CIB |
| MX Vs. ATV Alive | CIB |
| MX Vs. ATV Reflex | CIB |
| Naruto Rise of a Ninja | sealed |
| NBA Ballers Chosen One | No manual |
| NBA NK11 | no manual |
| NBA NK13 | CIB |
| NBA NK13 | CIB |
| NBA NK13 | no manual |
| NBA NK13 | no manual |
| NHL 13 | no manual |
| NHL 13 | no manual |
| NHL 14 | no manual |
| Pocket Bike Racer | Sealed |
| Rock Band 2 | CIB |
| Shadow of Mordor | Discs and manual. No game art |
| Skate | No manual |
| Skate 2 | Disc only |
| Skylanders Giants | No manual |
| Sneak King | Sealed |
| Soul Calibur IV | Disc only |
| Table Tennis | CIB |
| Tansformers War For Cybertron | No manual - art is sun faded |
| The Wolf Among Us | No manual |
| Tomb Raider Collector's Edition | CIB |
| Witcher 2 | disc 1 only |
| Game | Notes |
|---|---|
| Doug Flutie's Maximum Football 2019 | |
| Dragonball Xenoverse XV | |
| Fifa 14 | |
| Fifa 15 | |
| Fifa 15 | |
| Fifa 16 | |
| Madden 15 | |
| Madden 15 | |
| Madden 16 | |
| Madden 17 | |
| NBA 2k15 | |
| NBA 2k16 | |
| NHL 15 | |
| NHL 15 | |
| The Division | disc only |
| The Wolf Among Us | |
| This is the Police | |
| Wreckfest | |
| Spyro Reignited Trilogy | |
| Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 + 2 | |
| Tempest 4000 | |
| Rory McIlroy PGA Tour |
| Game | Notes |
|---|---|
| Slam City | Box w/ all 4 Discs, no manual |
| Fifa Soccer | Case and manual, no game |
| Corpse Killer | CIB |
| Game | Notes |
|---|---|
| Daxter Greatest Hits | CIB |
| Jeanne D'Arc demo disc NFR | Sealed |
| Game shield cover | small umd protector (3x avail) |
| Monster hunter freedom | umd only |
| Spiderman UMD Movie | CIB |
| Star Wars Battlefront Elite Squadron | CIB |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force | CIB no cards |
Amiibo
| Amiibo | Notes |
|---|---|
| Wolf | SSMB |
| Game | Notes |
|---|---|
| Moto Cross | |
| Virtua Racing | Label damage |
| Game | Notes |
|---|---|
| Chrono Trigger | CIB |
| Derby Stallion 3 | cart only |
| Dragon Ball Z | CIB |
| Dragon Ball Z 2 | CIB |
| Dragon Quest I & II | CIB |
| Dragon Quest III | CIB |
| Excite Stage 94 | cart only |
| Excite Stage 96 | cart only |
| Exhaust Heat | CIB |
| F1 Grand Prix Part 3 | CIB |
| Family / Famista Stadium 4 Baseball | cart only |
| Fire Emblem Genealogy Of Holy War | CIB |
| Kirby Super Star | CIB |
| Motoko's Wonder Kitchen | cart only |
| Mountain Stream King Fishing | cart only |
| Pachi Slot Monogatari: Universal Special | cart only |
| Prime Goal 3 | cart only |
| Rockman X2 | cart only |
| Sim City 2000 | cart only |
| Space Bazooka | CIB |
| Space Invaders | cart only |
| Street Fighter II | CIB |
| Super bomberman 2 | cart only |
| Super Bomberman 3 | CIB |
| Super Donkey Kong | cart only |
| Super Goal! 2 (aka Takeda Nobuhiro no Super Cup Soccer) | CIB |
| Super Kyukyoku Harikiri Stadium | cart only |
| Super Zugan 2 | cart only |
| Yoshi's Safari | CIB |
| Yoshi's Safari | CIB |
| Game | Notes |
|---|---|
| 1080 Snowboarding | CIB |
| 1080 Snowboarding | cart only |
| Animal Crossing / Doubutsu no Mori | cart only |
| Baku Bomberman | cart only |
| Banjo Kazooie | cart only |
| Banjo Kazooie 2 | CIB - excellent condition |
| Banjo Kazooie 2 | CIB - small writing on front of box |
| Bass Tsuri No. 1 Shigesato Ito Fishing | cart only |
| Blast Dozer | cart only |
| Bomberman 2 Baku | cart only |
| Bomberman Hero | CIB |
| Custom Robo V1 | cart only |
| Custom Robo V2 | cart only |
| Densha De Go | cart only |
| Derby stallion 64 | cart only |
| Derby stallion 64 | CIB |
| Diddy Kong Racing | cart only |
| Donkey Kong 64 | cart only |
| Donkey Kong 64 | CIB |
| Donkey Kong 64 | Big box - No expansion pak items (insert, pak, or box). Otherwise CIB |
| Doraemon 2 Temple of Light | cart only |
| Excitebike 64 | cart only |
| F-Zero X | cart only |
| Famista Family Stadium Baseball | cart only |
| Famista Family Stadium Baseball | CIB |
| Ganbare Nippon Olympic 2000 | cart only |
| Goemon Mystical Ninja | cart only |
| Goldeneye 007 | cart only |
| Harvest Moon 2 | cart only |
| Hey You Pikachu | Big box - CIB w/ VRU |
| Hey You Pikachu | Big box - missing inserts and smaller game box. Includes game + vru |
| Hey You Pikachu | cart only |
| Hiru No Ken Twin Flying Dragon | cart only |
| Human Grand Prix | cart only |
| Human Grand Prix | CIB |
| J League 1999 Perfect Striker 2 | cart only |
| J League Perfect Striker | cart only |
| Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2000 | cart only |
| Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2001 | cart only |
| Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 4 | cart only |
| Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 5 | cart only |
| Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 6 | cart only |
| Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 6 | Boxed - no manual |
| Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 6 | CIB |
| Jikkyou World Soccer 3 | cart only |
| Kirby The Crystal Shards | CIB |
| Kirby The Crystal Shards | CIB w/ extra control guide "hyper copy technique" |
| Kirby The Crystal Shards | cart only |
| Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask | cart only |
| Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time | cart only |
| Magical Tetris Challenge Featuring Mickey | CIB |
| Mahjong Master | cart only |
| Mario Golf | cart only |
| Mario Golf | CIB |
| Mario Kart 64 | cart only |
| Mario Party 1 | cart only |
| Mario Party 2 | cart only |
| Mario Party 2 | Boxed - no manual |
| Mario Party 2 | CIB |
| Mario Party 3 | cart only |
| Mario Party 3 | CIB |
| Mario Party 3 | CIB |
| Mario Party 3 | CIB |
| Mario RPG / Paper Mario | cart only |
| Mario Tennis | cart only |
| Mario Tennis | CIB |
| MRC Mutli-Racing Championship | cart only |
| Nushi Tsuri | CIB |
| Nushi Tsuri | cart only |
| Ogre Battle 64 | cart only |
| Olympic Hockey 98 | cart only |
| Ozumo Sumo Wrestling | cart only |
| Pilotwings | cart only |
| Pokemon Snap | cart only |
| Pokemon Stadium | cart only |
| Pokemon Stadium 2 | Boxed - no manual |
| Pokemon Stadium 2 | cart only |
| Pokemon Stadium Gold & Silver | cart only |
| Pro League 64 Baseball | cart only |
| Pro Mahjong Kiwame | cart only |
| Pro Yakyu King of Pro Baseball | cart only |
| Puyo Puyo Sun | cart only |
| Robot Ponkottsu | cart only |
| Shin Nihon Pro-wrestling Toukon Road Brave Spirits | cart only |
| Snowboard Kids | cart only |
| Star Wars Episode 1 Racer | cart only |
| Star Wars Rogue Squadron | CIB - outer box has some wear |
| Star Wars Shadows of the Empire | cart only |
| Starfox 64 | cart only |
| Super B-Daman Battle Phoneix | cart only |
| Super Mario 64 | cart only |
| Super Mario 64 Shindou / Rumble version | cart only |
| Super Mario 64 Shindou / Rumble version | CIB |
| Super Mario 64 Strategy Guide | |
| Super Robot Taisen | cart only |
| Super Smash Bros | cart only |
| Super Smash Bros | CIB |
| Tamagotchi World | cart only |
| Tamagotchi World | Boxed - no manual |
| Transformers Beast Wars | cart only |
| Utchan Nanchan Flame Challenger | cart only |
| Wave Race 64 | cart only |
| Wonder Project J2 | cart only |
| Yoshi Story | cart only |
| Yoshi Story | CIB |
| Yoshi Story Strategy Guide |
| Game | Notes |
|---|---|
| Winning Eleven Play Maker 2013 | CIB |
| Mario Strikers Charged | CIB |
| Wii Simple 2000 Series Vol 2 The Party Game | CIB |
| Donkey Kong Returns | No manual |
| Your First Step to Wii | No manual |
| Super Mario Collection | No manual |
| Mario Super Sluggers | No manual |
| Game | Notes |
|---|---|
| Dynasty Warriors Next | CIB |
| Exist Archive the Other Side of the Sky | CIB |
| Fate Extella | CIB |
| Fate Extella Regalia Box | Missing extras - Just LE box and Vita case + game |
| Freedom Wars | CIB |
| God Eater 2 | CIB |
| God Eater 2 Rage Burst | CIB |
| Gravity Daze (Gravity Rush) | CIB - "The Best" version |
| Kaleido Eve | CIB |
| Legend of Heroes Blende of Locus II Limited Edition | CIB. CD still sealed |
| Monster Hunter Frontier G "Beginners Package" | CIB |
| Persona 4 Golden | CIB |
| Power Smash 4 | CIB - "The Best" version |
| Professional Baseball Spirits 2013 | CIB |
| Professional Baseball Spirits 2014 | CIB |
| Ragnarok Odyssey | CIB |
| Soul Sacrifice | CIB |
| Super Robot Wars OG Taisen Saga 3 Pride of Justice | CIB |
| Sword Art Online Hollow Fragment | CIB |
| Sword Art Online Hollow Realization | CIB |
| Sword Art Online Lost Song | CIB |
| Sword Art Online Lost Song Limited Edition | CIB - game itself sealed |
| Uta No Prince Sama Repeat Love Premium Princess Box | Sealed |
| Utawareumono Mask of Truth | CIB |
| Item | Notes |
|---|---|
| Beatmania | cart only |
| Beatmania | cart only |
| Chocobo Mysterious Dungeon | cart only w/ protector |
| Chocobo Mysterious Dungeon | cart only w/ protector |
| Detective Conan Case Closed | cart only |
| Digimon Adventure Anode Tamer | cart only |
| Digimon Adventure Cathode Tamer | cart only |
| Hataraku Chocobo | CIB |
| Mahjong Touryuumon | cart only w/ protector |
| Nice On Golf | CIB - sticker residue on front of box |
| One Piece "From TV Animation" | cart only w/ protector |
| Rockman & Forte | cart only w/ protector |
| Super Robot Taisen Compact | cart only w/ protector |
| Super Robot Taisen Compact | cart only w/ protector |
| Tarepanda no Gunpey | cart only w/ protector |
| Trump Collection | cart only w/ protector |
| Vaitz Blade | cart only w/ protector |
| Vaitz Blade | cart only w/ protector |
| Wonder Stadium 99 | cart only w/ protector |
| Item | Notes |
|---|---|
| Digimon Tamers Battle Spirit | cart only |
| Digimon Tamers Battle Spirit | cart only w/ protector |
| Digimon Tamers Digimon Medley | cart only |
| Final Fantasy | CIB |
| Final Fantasy | CIB |
| Final Fantasy | CIB |
| Final Fantasy | cart only w/ protector |
| Final Fantasy II | CIB |
| Final Fantasy II | CIB |
| Final Fantasy II | CIB |
| Final Fantasy II | CIB |
| Final Fantasy II | cart only w/ protector |
| Final Fantasy II | cart only w/ protector |
| Hunter x Hunter Determination | CIB |
| Hunter x Hunter Determination | cart only |
| Hunter x Hunter Determination | cart only |
| Inuyasha Kagome's Dream Diary | cart only |
| Kinnikuman Nisei Choujin Seisenshi | cart only |
| Mobile Suit Gundam Vol. 1 Side 7 | cart only |
| One Piece Grand Battle | cart only w/ protector |
| One Piece Treasure Niji no Shima Densetsu | cart only |
| SD Gundam G Generation Mono Eye Gundams | cart only w/ protector |
| Shaman King Asue no Ishi | cart only w/ protector |
| Item | Notes |
|---|---|
| Arc the Lad I | CIB w/ Spine card |
| Arc the Lad I | CIB |
| Arc the Lad II | CIB w/ Stickers |
| Bakusou Dekotora Densetsu Art Truck Battle | CIB |
| Bastard Utsuronaru Kamigami no Utsuwa | CIB |
| Beatmania | CIB |
| Beatmania Append 4th Mix | CIB w/ Spine card |
| Beatmania Append Gotta Mix | CIB w/ Spine card |
| Bomberman Land | Manual + Disc + Blank jewel Case |
| Bomberman Wars | CIB |
| Breeding Stud | CIB w/ Spine card |
| Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon | CIB |
| Cyber Sled | CIB |
| Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) 2nd Remix Append Club Ver 1 | CIB |
| Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) 2nd Remix Append Club Ver 2 | CIB |
| Densha De Go | CIB |
| Derby Stallion 99 | CIB |
| Dragon Quest VII | CIB w/ Spine card |
| DX Jinsei Game II Game of Life | CIB |
| DX Monopoloy | No manual |
| DX Nippon Tokkyou Ryokou Game Let's Travel Japan | CIB |
| Fighting Illusion K-1 GP 2000 | CIB |
| Final Fantasy Tactics | CIB |
| Final Fantasy V | CIB |
| Final Fantasy VIII | CIB |
| Fist of the North Star | CIB |
| Gekitotsu Toma L'Arc: Tomarunner vs L'Arc-en-Ciel | CIB |
| GPM Gunparade March | CIB |
| Gucho de Park | CIB |
| Gundam the Battle Master | CIB |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | CIB |
| Honkaku Mahjong Tetsumen Special | CIB "Best" version |
| Hots Shots Golf 2 | CIB |
| I.Q Final | CIB |
| Itadaki Street Gorgeous King | CIB |
| Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 95 | CIB |
| Kawa no Nushi Tsuri: Hikyou o Motomete | Disc only |
| Kileak the Blood | CIB |
| Kouryuu Sangoku Engi | CIB |
| Martial Beat | CIB |
| Mingo Country Club Golf | CIB w/ Spine card |
| Mobile Suit Gundam Char's Counter Attack | CIB |
| Monster Farm | CIB |
| Moon Remix | CIB |
| Pass Max 2 | CIB |
| Pocket Fighter | CIB + Pocket fighter stickered memory card |
| Pop'n Music 6 | CIB |
| Pop'n Music 6 | CIB |
| Puyo Puyo 2 | CIB w/ Stickers |
| Quest for Fame Aerosmith | Big Box Complete w/ Pick |
| Rockman X4 | CIB |
| Rockman X5 | CIB w/ Spine card |
| Rockman X6 | CIB |
| RPG Maker 3 | CIB |
| SaGa Frontier I | CIB |
| SD Gundam G Generation | CIB |
| Shin Super Robot Taisen | CIB |
| Simulation Zoo | CIB |
| Super Robot Wars F | CIB |
| Tales of Destiny | CIB w/ Spine card |
| Tales of Eternia | CIB |
| Tenchu Shinobi Hyakusen | CIB w/ Spine card |
| Tennis no Oji-Sama: Sweat and Tears | CIB |
| Tetsunoko Fight | CIB w/ Spine card |
| The Chess Simple 1500 Series Vol 9 | CIB |
| The Crown is For You Baseball | CIB w/ Spine card |
| The Fifth Element | CIB |
| The King of Fighters 95 | CIB |
| The Tetris SuperLite 1500 | CIB |
| Thirteen of Black / Kuro No Juusan | CIB |
| Tokyo Majin Gakuen Gehoujou High School Limited Edition | CIB |
| Trap Gunner | CIB w/ Spine card |
| Wedding Peach Doki Doki Oironaosi | CIB |
| Item | Notes |
|---|---|
| Canvas 2 Rainbow Color Sktech | CIB |
| D.C. II P.S. Da Capo II Plus DX Box Set | CIB |
| Dragon Ball Z 3 | CIB |
| Everybody's Golf 3 | CIB |
| Final Fantasy XI Special Art Box | CIB |
| Gachinko Pro Yakyuu Professional Baseball | CIB |
| Gekikuukan Pro Yakyuu At the End of the Century 1999 | CIB |
| Gundam Musou Special | CIB |
| Kamen Rider Blade | CIB |
| Kanokon: Esuii | CIB |
| Kao no nai Tsuki Select Story DX Edition | CIB |
| Katekyoo Hitman Reborn! Let's Ansatsu!? | CIB |
| Mahjong Taikai III Millenium League | Disc only |
| Mobile Suit Gundam | CIB |
| Mobile Suit Gundam Climax U.C. | CIB |
| Mobile Suit Gundam Seed | CIB |
| Mobile Suit Gundam VS Z Gundam | CIB |
| Mobile Suit Gundam Z: AEUG vs. Titans | CIB |
| Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation vs. Zeon DX | CIB |
| Mystic Heroes - Chou Battle Housin | CIB |
| Naruto: Uzumaki Ninden Chronicles | CIB |
| Onimusha | CIB |
| Puyo Puyo 2 Perfect Set | CIB |
| Ratchet & Clank | CIB |
| Ratchet & Clank 2 Going Commando (GaGaGa!) | CIB "The Best" version |
| Ratchet & Clank 3 | CIB "The Best" version |
| SD Gundam G Generation Neo | CIB |
| SD Gundam G Generation Seed | CIB |
| SD Gundam G Generation Spirits | CIB |
| Shin Onimusha Dawn of Dreams | CIB |
| Soul Eater Battle Resonance | CIB |
| Sui Year Zun Sweet Season | CIB |
| Taiko Risshiden IV | CIB |
| The Prince of Tennis Smash Hit! 2 | CIB |
| To Heart | CIB |
| Viewtiful Joe A New Hope | CIB |
| Item | Notes |
|---|---|
| Power Smash 3 Virtua Tennis | CIB |
| Tales of Vesperia | CIB - "The Best" version |
| Wining Eleven 2013 | CIB |
| Item | Notes |
|---|---|
| Cyberdimension Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online Limited Edition | CIB |
Pokemon game wants (NTSC/US)
GBC pokemon crystal cart
GBA pokemon fire red cart
DS pokemon pearl CIB or cart only
3DS Pokemon Ultra Moon CIB
Gamecube Pokemon Colosseum CIB (main game, not bonus disc)
PS5 Wants
Neptunia Reverse
Record of Lodoss Wonder Labyrinth
Returnal
Kena bridge of spirits
Star Ocean
Valkyrie Elysium
Potentially other PS5 Offers
Box/Case/Manual wants
2DS XL Pokeball Edition Box & Inserts only
Code of Princess EX - Switch Case
DS Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia - case and manual
DS Chocobo Tales - case and manual
DS Final Fantasy Tactics A2 - case and manual
DS pokemon white 2 Case and manual
DS pokemon black - Case and manual
DS Shin Megami Tensai Devil Survivor 2 - Case and manual only
Harvest Moon DS - case + manual
New Nintendo 3DS XL Galaxy Edition Box & Inserts only
Mario & Luigi Dream League 3DS XL Box & Inserts only
Mario Power Tennis Gamecube - Case + Manual
Phantasy star 1 & 2 plus gamecube - manual only
Pikmin 2 gamecube - manual only
Pokemon Channel Gamecube - Case and Manual
3DS Pokemon Art Academy - Case and manual
Pokemon XY Red 3DS XL Box & Inserts only
Puppeteer PS3 - Manual only
Other wants
Capcom Fighting Collection - Switch
Chrono Trigger - DS complete with map or just the map
Dreamcast light gun - needs to be a US model that will work with house of the dead 2.
Enter the gungeon - Switch
F-Zero - Looks for Gamecube (cib for gcn) and N64 cart
Final Fantasy 1 - NES cart
Final Fantasy XI collectables - open to offers if you have any
Final Fantasy Theatrhythm Final Bar Line - Switch
Fire Emblem games for 3DS
Ikaruga - Gamecube
Katamari Games - Looking for the Vita, Xbox 360, and PS2.
Kirby and the Forgotten Land - Switch
Kirby Return to Dreamland Deluxe - Switch
Legend of Zelda offers - open to offers on non explicitly stated zelda games, merch/items, etc.
Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks - DS CIB
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom - Switch
Muramasa - PS Vita
Neo Geo Pocket Color Selection Vol 1 - Switch
PS2 Light gun offers - looking for Light Gun games such as the time crisis series and a guncon for ps2.
Rabi-Ribi - PS4/Vita
Ratchet and Clank Quest for Booty PS3 (physical version, I think it's PAL exclusive)
Ratchet and Clank Vita Collection (physical version, I think it's PAL exclusive)
Senran Kagura Peach Beach Splash All service edition - PS4
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury - Switch
Tales Games for PS3 - Looking for Xilia 2 and Graces F
Tornado Outbreak - PS3
Virtual Boy - looking for a working system and some games (need system before game offers)
Wii U - Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE - special edition
Wii U - HD Windwaker Limited Edition (the one with the figure/statue)
Ys games CIB (mostly looking for PSP and older)
Zone of the Enders HD Collection - PS3
In the rare event anyone has a IIDX DJ DAO Phoenix Wan controller they want to swap I am looking for one.
Looking to work towards complete collection for Wii U - feel free to send offers for Wii U games you may be looking to trade off. Only interested in CIB items.
Potentially open to PS3-5/Vita/PSP/N64/GCN/Switch/3DS/DS offers. I am primarily interested in JRPGs (especially action RPGs), 2D platformers/action games, arcadey games, schmups, beat em ups, etc., but feel free to send me a list to look at!
Willing to consider Pokemon TCG trades as well (English or Japanese, singles/slabs/sealed)
I am not interested in digital codes for games (primarily seeking to add to physical collection).
2023.03.22 00:38 Advanced-Willow-5020 I’m surprised Kyle didn’t do a video on the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War in any capacity. I would’ve thought he would do a retrospective.
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2023.03.22 00:28 Old_Echidna3720 March 21 - Today in NWA History!
Going to start a new daily series here.
1897 - NWA Hall of Famer and founder of EMLL (CMLL) Salvador Lutteroth is born.
1941 - Former NWA United States Tag Team, American Tag Team and 2X Americas Six Man Tag Team champion Mike York is born.
1951 - Former 2X American Tag Team Champion Buck Zumhofe is born. NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz successfully retains the championship against Mighty Atlas in Des Moines, IA.
1952 - NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz successfully retains the championship against Bobby Managoff in St. Louis, MO.
1953 - On an NWA sanctioned event, the AWA World Heavyweight Championship (Boston) is successfully retained by Argentina Rocca defeating the Great Scott in two straight falls in Struthers, OH. Mildred Burke successfully defends the NWA World Women's championship against Cora Combs in Trenton, NJ. In Decatur, IL - Lou Thesz wins 2 falls to 1 with Bill Melby to retain the Worlds Heavyweight Championship
1955 - NWA United States Heavyweight Champion Verne Gagne successfully defends his title against Roy McClarity in New York, NY.
1957 - NWA World Tag Team (Western States) champions Dory Funk & Rip Rogers lose the belts to Dizzy Davis & The Great Bolo in Amarillo, TX. NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz goes to a Time Limit Draw with The Zebra Kid in Indianapolis, IN. NWA World Tag Team champions (San Francisco) the Bailargeon Brothers goes 2 straight falls (one via DQ) to defeat Al Castillo & Ben Sharpe. NWA British Empire Heavyweight Champion Pat O'Connor retains his belt against Dick Hutton in Toronto, ON, Canada.
1961 - NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Pat O'Connor goes to a Double Count Out in Fall 3 of a 2/3 falls match with Dory Dixon to retain the championship in Dallas, TX. NWA United States Heavyweight Champion Buddy Rogers retains his belt in a match against Sweet Daddy Siki. The Fabulous Kangaroos have a double DQ affair with Art Thomas & Johnny Valentine to retain the NWA United States Tag Team championships in New York City, NY.
1963 - Bulldog Brower & Johnny Valentine successfully defend the NWA International Tag Team championships against Bruno Sammartino & Gene Kiniski. Dory Funk Jr. wins a $2,000 One Night Tournament in Amarillo, TX. NWA World Tag Team Champions (Southwest) Rip Hawk & Rock Hunter lose the belts to The Kozak Brothers in Austin, TX.
1965 - Lou Thesz successfully defends the Worlds Heavyweight tiel against Mike DiBiase in Phoenix, AZ. Billy Watson successfully defends the NWA British Empire Heavyweight Championship against Gene Kiniski via DQ in Toronto, ON, Canada.
1966 - Gene Kiniski and Lou Thesz wrestle a best of three falls match for Kiniski's World Championship, which ends in a draw in Memphis, TN.
1968 - NWA World Tag Team Champions (Western States) Karl & Kurt Von Brauner successfully defend in a Texas Death Tag Match against Dory Funk Sr. and Dory Funk Jr. in Amarillo, TX. Meanwhile, in Chattanooga, TN the NWA World Tag Team Champions (Mid-America/Gulas-Welch) Len Rossi & Tomayo Soto lose their belts to The Mighty Yankees. The Shiek retains the US Heavyweight Championship against Alex Perez in Toledo, OH.
1969 - Dory Funk Jr. retains his NWA Worlds Heavyweight championship in a 2/3 falls over Don Greene in Knoxville, TN. Fred Blassie wins the NWA Americas Heavyweight championship over the Shiek in Los Angeles, CA.
1970 - Former NWA National Tag Team Champion Franker Parker is born. Big card in Detroit, all successful title defenses. The Texas Outlaws are successful to keep their World Tag Team championships over Ben Justice & The Stomper, Dory Funk Jr. retains the Worlds Championship over Hans Schmidt and in the main event, The Shiek retains his United States Heavyweight championship when Haystack Calhoun gets DQ'd!
1971 - Baron Von Heisinger & John Tolos retain their belts against Danny Little Bear & Pat O'Connor in Cedar Rapids, IA.
1972 - Former NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Chris Candido was born. Dory Funk Jr. defends the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship against Dick Steinborn in a 2/3 falls match in Savannah, GA. The Fabulous Kangaroos retain their World Tag Team Titles after getting disqualified against Ben Justice & The Stomper in Cincinatti, OH.
1973 - NWA American Heavyweight Champion The Missouri Mauler successfully defends his championship against Ricky Hunter in San Antonio, TX.
1974 - The AWA World Tag Team Championships are defended in an NWA sanctioned event in Corpus Christi, TX - The Blackjacks defeat Nick Bockwinkel & Ray Stevens, but Bockwinkel & Stevens retain via DQ.
1975 - The Anderson (Gene & Ole) retain the NWA World Tag Team champions via a DQ win over Sonny King & Wahoo McDaniel in Richmond, VA.
1977 - Greg Valentine & Ric Flair successfully defend the NWA World Tag Team championships against Johnny Weaver & Rufus R. Jones in Greenville, SC.
1978 - Ric Flair & Greg Valentine successfully retain the NWA World Tag Team championships after going Broadway with Paul Jones & Ricky Steamboat in Columbia, SC. Johnny Weaver retains the NWA Television title against Baron von Raschke in Raleigh, NC. Possible Footage Here?
1979 - NWA United States Tag Team Champions The Angel & The Assassin are disqualified in a match against Jerry Stubbs & Mike Sharpe in Baton Rouge, LA.
1980 - Jay Youngblood & Ricky Steamboat defend the tag team championships against Greg Valentine & Ray Stevens in Charleston, SC. Harley Race goes to a Double DQ with Leo Burke in Calgary, AB, Canada to retain the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship.
1981 - Harley Race successfully defends the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship against Ted DiBiase in St. Petersburg, FL.
1982 - Butch Reed defeats Ric Flair in Orlando, FL after a disqualification. Flair successfully retains the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship! NWA Television Champion Ivan Koloff walks out of a match against Jimmy Valiant and is counted out! He retains the belt in Toronto, ON, Canada but suffers the loss on his record! Ole Anderson & Stan Hansen successfully retain the tag belts against Dusty Rhodes & Ray Stevens in Greensboro, NC.
1983 - Terry Adonis & Timothy Flowers defeat Dean Ho & Moondog Moretti for the vacant NWA International Tag Team Championships and Igor Volkoff wins the NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship off of Moose Morowski in Vancouver, BC, Canada. NWA World Tag Team Champions Don Kernodle & Sgt. Slaughter walk out of a tag team cage match against Jay Youngblood & Ricky Steamboat, successfully retaining the tag belts in Greenville, SC.- Ric Flair defeats Harley Race in Wichita, KS to retain the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship.
1986 - The Midnight Express successfully defend their NWA World Tag Team championships in a 2/3 falls match against the Rock 'n' Roll Express 2-1 in Huntington, WV. Tim Horner wins the NWA US Junior Heavyweight championship, defeating Tom Pritchard in Knoxville, TN.
1987 - Lazer Tron successfully defends his NWA World Junior Heavyweight championship against Denny Brown in Cincinatti, OH. In Chicago, Tully Blanchard defeats Dusty Rhodes via DQ to retain his World Television championship. The Road Warriors defeat NWA Tag Team Champions Manny Fernandez & Rick Rude, via DQ allowing the heels to retain. Ric Flair and Nikita Koloff fight to a double DQ for the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship allowing the Nature Boy to walk out of Chicago still the World Champ.
1991 - Tatsumi Fujinami defeats Ric Flair for the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion at the WCW/NJPW Supershow inside the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan. Watch here
2001 - David Flair & Dan Factor defeat Bad Attitude for the NWA World Tag Team championships in Athens, GA.
2009 - Mike DiBiase Jr. wins a 2/3 falls match to retain the NWA North American Heavyweight Championship against Kevin Northcutt, 2-1 in Livingston, TX. Phil Shatter successfuly retains is NWA National Heavyweight Championship against Orion Bishop in Cornelia, GA.
2014 - NWA Inferno Card in Millersville, TN sees two NWA championships defended: Jason Kincaid (NWA Southern Heavyweight) and Jeremiah Plunkett (NWA Television) both are successful. Kahagas successfully defens the NWA North American championship against Bryon Wilcott in Sherman, TX via DQ.
2015 - Hiroyoshi Tenzan successfully defends the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship against Satoshi Kojima at NJPW Road to Invasion Attack Day 1 in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. Killah successfully retains the NWA Australian Championship against Gangrel at AAW Anniversary IX in Rockingham, Western Australia, Australia. Mandatory Link to Gangrel's Entrance.
2021 - NWA Back for Attack is held in Atlanta, GA. The Pope retains the NWA Television Championship after drawing with Thom Latimer, Trevor Murdoch retains the NWA National Championship defeating Chris Adonis and Nick Aldis successfully retains the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship against Aron Stevens.
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1897 - NWA Hall of Famer and founder of EMLL (CMLL) Salvador Lutteroth is born.
1941 - Former NWA United States Tag Team, American Tag Team and 2X Americas Six Man Tag Team champion Mike York is born.
1951 - Former 2X American Tag Team Champion Buck Zumhofe is born. NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz successfully retains the championship against Mighty Atlas in Des Moines, IA.
1952 - NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz successfully retains the championship against Bobby Managoff in St. Louis, MO.
1953 - On an NWA sanctioned event, the AWA World Heavyweight Championship (Boston) is successfully retained by Argentina Rocca defeating the Great Scott in two straight falls in Struthers, OH. Mildred Burke successfully defends the NWA World Women's championship against Cora Combs in Trenton, NJ. In Decatur, IL - Lou Thesz wins 2 falls to 1 with Bill Melby to retain the Worlds Heavyweight Championship
1955 - NWA United States Heavyweight Champion Verne Gagne successfully defends his title against Roy McClarity in New York, NY.
1957 - NWA World Tag Team (Western States) champions Dory Funk & Rip Rogers lose the belts to Dizzy Davis & The Great Bolo in Amarillo, TX. NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz goes to a Time Limit Draw with The Zebra Kid in Indianapolis, IN. NWA World Tag Team champions (San Francisco) the Bailargeon Brothers goes 2 straight falls (one via DQ) to defeat Al Castillo & Ben Sharpe. NWA British Empire Heavyweight Champion Pat O'Connor retains his belt against Dick Hutton in Toronto, ON, Canada.
1961 - NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Pat O'Connor goes to a Double Count Out in Fall 3 of a 2/3 falls match with Dory Dixon to retain the championship in Dallas, TX. NWA United States Heavyweight Champion Buddy Rogers retains his belt in a match against Sweet Daddy Siki. The Fabulous Kangaroos have a double DQ affair with Art Thomas & Johnny Valentine to retain the NWA United States Tag Team championships in New York City, NY.
1963 - Bulldog Brower & Johnny Valentine successfully defend the NWA International Tag Team championships against Bruno Sammartino & Gene Kiniski. Dory Funk Jr. wins a $2,000 One Night Tournament in Amarillo, TX. NWA World Tag Team Champions (Southwest) Rip Hawk & Rock Hunter lose the belts to The Kozak Brothers in Austin, TX.
1965 - Lou Thesz successfully defends the Worlds Heavyweight tiel against Mike DiBiase in Phoenix, AZ. Billy Watson successfully defends the NWA British Empire Heavyweight Championship against Gene Kiniski via DQ in Toronto, ON, Canada.
1966 - Gene Kiniski and Lou Thesz wrestle a best of three falls match for Kiniski's World Championship, which ends in a draw in Memphis, TN.
1968 - NWA World Tag Team Champions (Western States) Karl & Kurt Von Brauner successfully defend in a Texas Death Tag Match against Dory Funk Sr. and Dory Funk Jr. in Amarillo, TX. Meanwhile, in Chattanooga, TN the NWA World Tag Team Champions (Mid-America/Gulas-Welch) Len Rossi & Tomayo Soto lose their belts to The Mighty Yankees. The Shiek retains the US Heavyweight Championship against Alex Perez in Toledo, OH.
1969 - Dory Funk Jr. retains his NWA Worlds Heavyweight championship in a 2/3 falls over Don Greene in Knoxville, TN. Fred Blassie wins the NWA Americas Heavyweight championship over the Shiek in Los Angeles, CA.
1970 - Former NWA National Tag Team Champion Franker Parker is born. Big card in Detroit, all successful title defenses. The Texas Outlaws are successful to keep their World Tag Team championships over Ben Justice & The Stomper, Dory Funk Jr. retains the Worlds Championship over Hans Schmidt and in the main event, The Shiek retains his United States Heavyweight championship when Haystack Calhoun gets DQ'd!
1971 - Baron Von Heisinger & John Tolos retain their belts against Danny Little Bear & Pat O'Connor in Cedar Rapids, IA.
1972 - Former NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Chris Candido was born. Dory Funk Jr. defends the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship against Dick Steinborn in a 2/3 falls match in Savannah, GA. The Fabulous Kangaroos retain their World Tag Team Titles after getting disqualified against Ben Justice & The Stomper in Cincinatti, OH.
1973 - NWA American Heavyweight Champion The Missouri Mauler successfully defends his championship against Ricky Hunter in San Antonio, TX.
1974 - The AWA World Tag Team Championships are defended in an NWA sanctioned event in Corpus Christi, TX - The Blackjacks defeat Nick Bockwinkel & Ray Stevens, but Bockwinkel & Stevens retain via DQ.
1975 - The Anderson (Gene & Ole) retain the NWA World Tag Team champions via a DQ win over Sonny King & Wahoo McDaniel in Richmond, VA.
1977 - Greg Valentine & Ric Flair successfully defend the NWA World Tag Team championships against Johnny Weaver & Rufus R. Jones in Greenville, SC.
1978 - Ric Flair & Greg Valentine successfully retain the NWA World Tag Team championships after going Broadway with Paul Jones & Ricky Steamboat in Columbia, SC. Johnny Weaver retains the NWA Television title against Baron von Raschke in Raleigh, NC. Possible Footage Here?
1979 - NWA United States Tag Team Champions The Angel & The Assassin are disqualified in a match against Jerry Stubbs & Mike Sharpe in Baton Rouge, LA.
1980 - Jay Youngblood & Ricky Steamboat defend the tag team championships against Greg Valentine & Ray Stevens in Charleston, SC. Harley Race goes to a Double DQ with Leo Burke in Calgary, AB, Canada to retain the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship.
1981 - Harley Race successfully defends the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship against Ted DiBiase in St. Petersburg, FL.
1982 - Butch Reed defeats Ric Flair in Orlando, FL after a disqualification. Flair successfully retains the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship! NWA Television Champion Ivan Koloff walks out of a match against Jimmy Valiant and is counted out! He retains the belt in Toronto, ON, Canada but suffers the loss on his record! Ole Anderson & Stan Hansen successfully retain the tag belts against Dusty Rhodes & Ray Stevens in Greensboro, NC.
1983 - Terry Adonis & Timothy Flowers defeat Dean Ho & Moondog Moretti for the vacant NWA International Tag Team Championships and Igor Volkoff wins the NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship off of Moose Morowski in Vancouver, BC, Canada. NWA World Tag Team Champions Don Kernodle & Sgt. Slaughter walk out of a tag team cage match against Jay Youngblood & Ricky Steamboat, successfully retaining the tag belts in Greenville, SC.- Ric Flair defeats Harley Race in Wichita, KS to retain the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship.
1986 - The Midnight Express successfully defend their NWA World Tag Team championships in a 2/3 falls match against the Rock 'n' Roll Express 2-1 in Huntington, WV. Tim Horner wins the NWA US Junior Heavyweight championship, defeating Tom Pritchard in Knoxville, TN.
1987 - Lazer Tron successfully defends his NWA World Junior Heavyweight championship against Denny Brown in Cincinatti, OH. In Chicago, Tully Blanchard defeats Dusty Rhodes via DQ to retain his World Television championship. The Road Warriors defeat NWA Tag Team Champions Manny Fernandez & Rick Rude, via DQ allowing the heels to retain. Ric Flair and Nikita Koloff fight to a double DQ for the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship allowing the Nature Boy to walk out of Chicago still the World Champ.
1991 - Tatsumi Fujinami defeats Ric Flair for the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion at the WCW/NJPW Supershow inside the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan. Watch here
2001 - David Flair & Dan Factor defeat Bad Attitude for the NWA World Tag Team championships in Athens, GA.
2009 - Mike DiBiase Jr. wins a 2/3 falls match to retain the NWA North American Heavyweight Championship against Kevin Northcutt, 2-1 in Livingston, TX. Phil Shatter successfuly retains is NWA National Heavyweight Championship against Orion Bishop in Cornelia, GA.
2014 - NWA Inferno Card in Millersville, TN sees two NWA championships defended: Jason Kincaid (NWA Southern Heavyweight) and Jeremiah Plunkett (NWA Television) both are successful. Kahagas successfully defens the NWA North American championship against Bryon Wilcott in Sherman, TX via DQ.
2015 - Hiroyoshi Tenzan successfully defends the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship against Satoshi Kojima at NJPW Road to Invasion Attack Day 1 in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. Killah successfully retains the NWA Australian Championship against Gangrel at AAW Anniversary IX in Rockingham, Western Australia, Australia. Mandatory Link to Gangrel's Entrance.
2021 - NWA Back for Attack is held in Atlanta, GA. The Pope retains the NWA Television Championship after drawing with Thom Latimer, Trevor Murdoch retains the NWA National Championship defeating Chris Adonis and Nick Aldis successfully retains the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship against Aron Stevens.
2023.03.22 00:13 columbusplusone World Baseball Classic Final Game Thread: United States of America @ Japan [Tuesday, March 21, 2023; 6:00 PM CT]
| Linescore | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USA | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Japan | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | × | 3 |
- RF Mookie Betts (2-for-5)
- CF Mike Trout (1-for-5, 2B)
- 1B Paul Goldschmidt (0-for-4)
- 3B Nolan Arenado (1-for-3, BB)
- DH Kyle Schwarber (1-for-3, HR, RBI, BB)
- SS Trea Turner (2-for-4, HR, RBI)
- C J.T. Realmuto (1-for-4)
- LF Cedric Mullins (0-for-4)
- 2B Tim Anderson (1-for-2) PH-2B Jeff McNeil (0-for-0, 2 BB) PR Bobby Witt, Jr. (0-for-0)
Japan Lineup
- CF Lars Nootbaar (0-for-4, RBI)
- RF Kensuke Kondoh (0-for-3, BB)
- DH-P Shohei Ohtani (1-for-3, BB)
- LF Masataka Yoshida (0-for-3, BB)
- 3B Munetaka Murakami (1-for-4, HR, RBI)
- 1B Kazuma Okamoto (2-for-4, HR, RBI, R)
- 2B Tetsuto Yamada (0-for-2, 2 BB, 2 SB)
- SS Sosuke Genda (1-for-3, BB)
- C Yuhei Nakamura (0-for-1, 2 BB)
Scoring Summary
- Top 2nd: Trea Turner homers (5) on a fly ball to left field. USA leads 1-0
- Bottom 2nd: Munetaka Murakami homers (1) on a fly ball to right center field. Japan ties 1-1
- Bottom 2nd: Lars Nootbaar grounds out, first baseman Paul Goldschmidt to pitcher Aaron Loup. Kazuma Okamoto scores. Sosuke Genda to 3rd. Yuhei Nakamura to 2nd. Japan leads 2-1
- Bottom 4th: Kazuma Okamoto homers (2) on a fly ball to left center field. Japan leads 3-1
- Top 8th: Kyle Schwarber homers (2) on a fly ball to right center field. USA trails 3-2
JAPAN WINS 3-2
2023.03.22 00:05 KCRoyalsBot Game Thread: Cubs @ Royals - Tue, Mar 21 @ 08:05 PM CDT
Cubs @ Royals - Tue, Mar 21
Game Status: Completed Early: Rain - Score: 6-2 Cubs
Links & Info
- Current conditions at Surprise Stadium: 59°F - Overcast - Wind 5 mph, R To L
- TV: Cubs: Marquee Sports Network, Royals: Bally Sports Kansas City
- Radio: Cubs: 670 The Score, Royals: KCSP 610
- MLB Gameday
- Game Graphs
- Savant Gamefeed
| Cubs Batters | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | K | LOB | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hoerner - 2B | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .238 | .238 | .429 |
| 2 | Swanson - SS | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | .065 | .237 | .097 |
| 3 | Happ - LF | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .463 | .485 |
| Tauchman - LF | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .226 | .351 | .387 | |
| 4 | Hosmer - 1B | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .242 | .278 | .303 |
| Maldonado - 1B | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .222 | .333 | |
| 5 | Wisdom - 3B | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .357 | .438 | .536 |
| 6 | Velazquez, N - RF | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | .211 | .286 | .579 |
| 7 | Mervis - DH | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | .179 | .294 | .250 |
| 8 | Barnhart - C | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .087 | .120 | .087 |
| 9 | Morel - CF | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .225 | .311 | .500 |
| Totals | 26 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 13 |
| Cubs |
|---|
| BATTING: 2B: Velazquez, N (1, Bubic). HR: Morel (3, 2nd inning off Lyles, 0 on, 1 out). TB: Happ; Hoerner; Hosmer; Maldonado; Morel 4; Velazquez, N 2; Wisdom 2. RBI: Hosmer (5); Maldonado (2); Mervis (1); Morel (6); Wisdom 2 (5). 2-out RBI: Hosmer. Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Mervis; Swanson; Velazquez, N 2. SF: Mervis. Team RISP: 3-for-9. Team LOB: 8. |
| Royals Batters | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | K | LOB | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Melendez - C | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .368 | .409 | .947 |
| Porter - C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .381 | .480 | .476 | |
| 2 | Pasquantino - 1B | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .333 | .429 | .583 |
| Means - 1B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .400 | .750 | |
| 3 | Dozier - 3B | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .250 | .325 | .389 |
| Loftin - 3B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .160 | .222 | .400 | |
| 4 | Massey - 2B | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .294 | .342 | .618 |
| McCullough - 2B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .400 | .400 | .500 | |
| 5 | Lopez, N - SS | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .273 | .125 |
| Tolbert - SS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .222 | .440 | |
| 6 | Gentry - RF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .192 | .344 | .269 |
| Bonifacio, J - RF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .250 | .571 | |
| 7 | Bradley Jr. - LF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .350 | .350 | .450 |
| Bradley - LF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .333 | .550 | |
| 8 | Isbel - CF | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .471 | .526 | .647 |
| Rave - CF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .176 | .333 | .235 | |
| 9 | Reetz - DH | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .222 | .333 | .500 |
| Totals | 22 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 5 |
| Royals |
|---|
| BATTING: 2B: Isbel 2 (6, Taillon, Taillon). HR: Melendez (2, 3rd inning off Taillon, 1 on, 1 out). TB: Isbel 4; Lopez, N; Melendez 4. RBI: Melendez 2 (8). Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Melendez. Team RISP: 1-for-4. Team LOB: 2. |
| Cubs Pitchers | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | HR | P-S | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taillon (W, 2-0) | 5.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 40-38 | 5.40 |
| Leiter Jr. (S, 1) | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9-9 | 1.80 |
| Totals | 6.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 1 |
| Royals Pitchers | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | HR | P-S | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lyles (L, 1-1) | 3.2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 38-21 | 3.52 |
| Willeman | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1-1 | 15.43 |
| Chapman | 0.2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 12-8 | 4.76 |
| Pennington | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1-1 | 3.00 |
| Bubic | 1.2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 21-13 | 2.70 |
| Totals | 6.2 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 1 |
| Game Info |
|---|
| Groundouts-flyouts: Taillon 5-0; Leiter Jr. 0-0; Lyles 3-1; Willeman 0-0; Chapman 0-0; Pennington 0-0; Bubic 0-2. |
| Batters faced: Taillon 19; Leiter Jr. 3; Lyles 17; Willeman 1; Chapman 5; Pennington 1; Bubic 10. |
| Inherited runners-scored: Willeman 2-0; Pennington 2-0. |
| Umpires: HP: Jose Navas. 1B: Alan Porter. 2B: Nic Lentz. 3B: Brian Walsh. |
| Weather: 59 degrees, Overcast. |
| Wind: 5 mph, R To L. |
| First pitch: 6:07 PM. |
| T: 2:06. |
| Att: 6,356. |
| Venue: Surprise Stadium. |
| March 21, 2023 |
| Inning | Scoring Play | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1 | Patrick Wisdom singles on a ground ball to left fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. Dansby Swanson scores. Ian Happ scores. Eric Hosmer to 2nd. | 2-0 CHC |
| Top 2 | Christopher Morel homers (3) on a fly ball to left field. | 3-0 CHC |
| Bottom 3 | MJ Melendez homers (2) on a fly ball to left field. Kyle Isbel scores. | 3-2 CHC |
| Top 5 | Eric Hosmer singles on a ground ball to left fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. Ian Happ scores. | 4-2 CHC |
| Top 7 | Nelson Maldonado singles on a ground ball to right fielder Jorge Bonifacio. Mike Tauchman scores. | 5-2 CHC |
| Top 7 | Matt Mervis out on a sacrifice fly to right fielder Jorge Bonifacio. Nelson Maldonado scores. Nelson Velazquez to 3rd. | 6-2 CHC |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | LOB | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cubs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 8 | |||
| Royals | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
Decisions
- Winner: Jameson Taillon (2-0, 5.40)
- Loser: Jordan Lyles (1-1, 3.52)
- Save: Mark Leiter Jr. (1, 1.80)
Division Scoreboard
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Last Updated: 03/21/2023 10:39:04 PM CDT
2023.03.21 23:49 DodgerBot Postgame Thread ⚾ Giants 12 @ Dodgers 1
Line Score - Game Over
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | LOB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SF | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 16 | 1 | 8 |
| LAD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
Box Score
| LAD | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | BA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3B | Taylor, Ch | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .119 |
| CF | Zimmer | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .269 |
| 1B | Freeman, F | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .417 |
| 1B | Yurchak | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| CF | Thompson, T | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .083 |
| 3B | Lewis, B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 |
| DH | Martinez | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .200 |
| SS | Rojas, M | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .294 |
| C | Freitas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .400 |
| 2B | Vargas, M | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .233 |
| 2B | Jones, Jah | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .111 |
| LF | DeLuca | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .304 |
| RF | Ramos | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 |
| C | Mazeika | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .176 |
| SS | Williams, L | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .156 |
| LAD | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P-S | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Syndergaard | 4.1 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 84-56 | 4.61 |
| Rooney | 0.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10-4 | 0.00 |
| Washington | 0.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6-2 | 0.00 |
| Jackson | 1.2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 24-19 | 1.17 |
| Bruihl | 0.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22-16 | 10.80 |
| Bickford | 0.2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 18-13 | 5.68 |
| Hagenman | 0.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7-6 | 12.00 |
| Reed | 1.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 29-19 | 3.52 |
| SF | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | BA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1B | Wade Jr. | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .258 |
| SS | Estrada | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .355 |
| SS | Wilson, W | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .300 |
| LF | Yastrzemski | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .048 |
| 2B | Villar | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .100 |
| 3B | Auerbach | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .368 |
| 3B | Davis, J | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .361 |
| 2B | Santos, Gh | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 |
| CF | Johnson, B | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .367 |
| C | Pérez | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .222 |
| C | Wynns | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .188 |
| DH | Proctor | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .233 |
| RF | Piscotty | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .348 |
| PH | Sabol | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .333 |
| RF | Bericoto | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 |
| SF | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P-S | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wood | 5.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 57-37 | 3.72 |
| Hjelle | 3.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 38-30 | 1.80 |
| Doval | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8-7 | 2.25 |
Scoring Plays
| Inning | Event | Score |
|---|---|---|
| T2 | Stephen Piscotty singles on a ground ball to right fielder Jose Ramos. J.D. Davis scores. Bryce Johnson scores. Roberto Perez to 2nd. | 0-2 |
| T2 | Thairo Estrada singles on a line drive to center fielder Trayce Thompson. Roberto Perez scores. Stephen Piscotty scores. LaMonte Wade Jr. to 2nd. | 0-4 |
| T5 | Bryce Johnson singles on a ground ball to right fielder Jose Ramos. LaMonte Wade Jr. scores. Thairo Estrada scores. J.D. Davis to 3rd. | 0-6 |
| B6 | Freddie Freeman singles on a ground ball to left fielder Mike Yastrzemski. Jose Ramos scores. Patrick Mazeika to 2nd. | 1-6 |
| T7 | Thairo Estrada singles on a line drive to center fielder Bradley Zimmer, deflected by shortstop Miguel Rojas. LaMonte Wade Jr. scores. | 1-7 |
| T7 | Bryce Johnson reaches on a fielding error by second baseman Jahmai Jones. Will Wilson scores. J.D. Davis to 3rd. Bryce Johnson to 2nd. | 1-8 |
| T8 | Will Wilson doubles (2) on a line drive to right fielder Jose Ramos. Ford Proctor scores. LaMonte Wade Jr. scores. | 1-10 |
| T8 | Brett Auerbach singles on a ground ball to right fielder Jose Ramos. Will Wilson scores. | 1-11 |
| T9 | Austin Wynns homers (3) on a fly ball to left field. | 1-12 |
Highlights
| Description | Length | Video |
|---|---|---|
| Piscotty hits a single to put the Giants on the board | 0:18 | Video |
| Syndergaard strikes out 3 batters in start vs. Giants | 0:21 | Video |
| Bryce Johnson extends Giants' lead with 2-run single | 0:26 | Video |
| Alex Wood dominates Dodgers with six strikeouts | 0:40 | Video |
| Freeman drives in Ramos with single to center | 0:25 | Video |
| Will Wilson drives in two runs with double to center | 0:27 | Video |
Decisions
| Winning Pitcher | Losing Pitcher | Save |
|---|---|---|
| Wood (1-1, 3.72 ERA) | Syndergaard (1-2, 4.61 ERA) |
2023.03.21 23:46 bobjoneslikesyoualot The US government is trying to hide the fact that Ukrainian military is full of Nazi's, in order to gain the public support to use them as a proxy against Russia
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2023.03.21 23:05 ChiCubsbot GDT: 3/21 Cubs (0-0) @ Royals (0-0) 8:05 PM
Cubs (0-0) @ Royals (0-0)
First Pitch: 8:05 PM at Surprise Stadium| Team | Starter | TV | Radio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cubs | Jameson Taillon (1-0, 6.48 ERA) | MARQ | WSCR |
| Royals | Jordan Lyles (1-0, 2.31 ERA) | BSKC | KCSP |
| MLB | Fangraphs | Baseball Savant | Reddit Stream | IRC Chat | Channel Finder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gameday | Game Graph | Strikezone Map | Live Comments | Libera: ##baseball | Channel Finder |
Line Score - Completed Early: Rain
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | LOB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHC | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 8 | ||
| KC | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
Box Score
| KC | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | BA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | Melendez | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .368 |
| C | Porter | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .381 |
| 1B | Pasquantino | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .333 |
| 1B | Means | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 |
| 3B | Dozier | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .250 |
| 3B | Loftin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .160 |
| 2B | Massey | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .294 |
| 2B | McCullough | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .400 |
| SS | Lopez, N | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .125 |
| SS | Tolbert | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 |
| RF | Gentry | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .192 |
| RF | Bonifacio, J | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .143 |
| LF | Bradley Jr. | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .350 |
| LF | Bradley | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 |
| CF | Isbel | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .471 |
| CF | Rave | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .176 |
| DH | Reetz | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .222 |
| KC | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P-S | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lyles | 3.2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 38-21 | 3.52 |
| Willeman | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1-1 | 15.43 |
| Chapman | 0.2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 12-8 | 4.76 |
| Pennington | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1-1 | 3.00 |
| Bubic | 1.2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 21-13 | 2.70 |
| CHC | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | BA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2B | Hoerner | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .238 |
| SS | Swanson | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .065 |
| LF | Happ | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .333 |
| LF | Tauchman | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .226 |
| 1B | Hosmer | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .242 |
| 1B | Maldonado | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .222 |
| 3B | Wisdom | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .357 |
| RF | Velazquez, N | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .211 |
| DH | Mervis | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .179 |
| C | Barnhart | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .087 |
| CF | Morel | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .225 |
| CHC | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P-S | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taillon | 5.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 40-38 | 5.40 |
| Leiter Jr. | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9-9 | 1.80 |
Scoring Plays
| Inning | Event | Score |
|---|---|---|
| T1 | Patrick Wisdom singles on a ground ball to left fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. Dansby Swanson scores. Ian Happ scores. Eric Hosmer to 2nd. | 0-2 |
| T2 | Christopher Morel homers (3) on a fly ball to left field. | 0-3 |
| B3 | MJ Melendez homers (2) on a fly ball to left field. Kyle Isbel scores. | 2-3 |
| T5 | Eric Hosmer singles on a ground ball to left fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. Ian Happ scores. | 2-4 |
| T7 | Nelson Maldonado singles on a ground ball to right fielder Jorge Bonifacio. Mike Tauchman scores. | 2-5 |
| T7 | Matt Mervis out on a sacrifice fly to right fielder Jorge Bonifacio. Nelson Maldonado scores. Nelson Velazquez to 3rd. | 2-6 |
Highlights
| Description | Length | Video |
|---|---|---|
| Patrick Wisdom knocks a two-run single to left field | 0:13 | Video |
| Christopher Morel crushes a solo home run to left | 0:11 | Video |
| MJ Melendez belts a two-run home run to left field | 0:19 | Video |
| Eric Hosmer knocks an RBI single to left field | 0:20 | Video |
Decisions
| Winning Pitcher | Losing Pitcher | Save |
|---|---|---|
| Taillon (2-0, 5.40 ERA) | Lyles (1-1, 3.52 ERA) | Leiter Jr. (1 SV, 1.80 ERA) |
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2023.03.21 23:00 BaseballBot Game of the Day 3/21 ⚾ United States (0-0) @ Japan (0-0) 7:00 PM ET
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United States (0-0) @ Japan (0-0)
First Pitch: 7:00 PM at loanDepot park| Team | Starter | TV | Radio |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | Merrill Kelly (0-0, 6.00 ERA) | ||
| Japan | Shota Imanaga (0-0, 2.25 ERA) |
| MLB | Fangraphs | Reddit Stream | IRC Chat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gameday | Game Graph | Live Comments | Libera: ##baseball |
Line Score - Game Over
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | LOB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USA | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| JPN | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
Box Score
| JPN | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | BA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LF | Nootbaar | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .269 |
| RF | Kondoh | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .346 |
| P | Ohtani | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .435 |
| LF | Yoshida | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .409 |
| CF | Makihara | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 |
| 3B | Murakami | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .231 |
| 1B | Okamoto | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .333 |
| 2B | Yamada | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .267 |
| SS | Genda | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .250 |
| C | Nakamura, Y | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .429 |
| JPN | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P-S | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imanaga | 2.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 30-22 | 3.00 |
| Togo | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 35-21 | 1.80 |
| Takahashi, H | 1.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20-10 | 3.00 |
| Itoh | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14-9 | 0.00 |
| Ota | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13-8 | 0.00 |
| Darvish | 1.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18-14 | 6.00 |
| Ohtani | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 15-8 | 1.86 |
| USA | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | BA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RF | Betts | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .313 |
| CF | Trout | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .296 |
| 1B | Goldschmidt | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .280 |
| 3B | Arenado | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .385 |
| DH | Schwarber | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .214 |
| SS | Turner | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .391 |
| C | Realmuto | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 |
| LF | Mullins | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .200 |
| 2B | Anderson, Ti | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 |
| 2B | McNeil | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .111 |
| PR | Witt Jr. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 |
| USA | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P-S | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kelly, M | 1.1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 36-21 | 8.31 |
| Loup | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9-8 | 0.00 |
| Freeland | 3.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 41-20 | 3.00 |
| Adam | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 31-14 | 0.00 |
| Bednar | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17-11 | 2.25 |
| Williams, D | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 21-12 | 0.00 |
Scoring Plays
| Inning | Event | Score |
|---|---|---|
| T2 | Trea Turner homers (5) on a fly ball to left field. | 0-1 |
| B2 | Munetaka Murakami homers (1) on a fly ball to right center field. | 1-1 |
| B2 | Lars Nootbaar grounds out, first baseman Paul Goldschmidt to pitcher Aaron Loup. Kazuma Okamoto scores. Sosuke Genda to 3rd. Yuhei Nakamura to 2nd. | 2-1 |
| B4 | Kazuma Okamoto homers (2) on a fly ball to left center field. | 3-1 |
| T8 | Kyle Schwarber homers (2) on a fly ball to right center field. | 3-2 |
Highlights
| Description | Length | Video |
|---|---|---|
| Trout and Ohtani walk out with country's flags | 1:03 | Video |
| Trea Turner opens scoring with a solo homer to left | 0:30 | Video |
| Measuring the stats on Trea Turner's home run | 0:10 | Video |
| Trea Turner's home run through bat tracking data | 0:09 | Video |
| Munetaka Murakami crushes a solo home run in the 2nd | 0:29 | Video |
| Kazuma Okamoto clubs solo homer to left-center in 4th | 0:27 | Video |
| Mike Trout plans to play for Team USA in 2026 Classic | 0:39 | Video |
| Jason Adam leaves the bases-loaded in the 6th | 0:19 | Video |
| Goldschmidt grounds into DP, Japan escape jam in 7th | 0:30 | Video |
| Kyle Schwarber belts a solo home run to right-center | 0:29 | Video |
| Measuring the stats on Kyle Schwarber's home run | 0:10 | Video |
| Kyle Schwarber's home run through bat tracking data | 0:09 | Video |
Decisions
| Winning Pitcher | Losing Pitcher | Save |
|---|---|---|
| Imanaga (1-0, 3.00 ERA) | Kelly, M (0-1, 8.31 ERA) | Ohtani (1 SV, 1.86 ERA) |
| Attendance | Weather | Wind |
|---|---|---|
| 72°F, Roof Closed | 0 mph, None |
| HP | 1B | 2B | 3B | LF | RF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lance Barksdale | John Tumpane | Edward Pinales | Ramiro Alfaro | Jong Chui Park | Quinn Wolcott |
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