{"id":605,"date":"2006-07-25T10:51:21","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T10:51:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-07-25T10:51:21","modified_gmt":"2006-07-25T10:51:21","slug":"why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/07\/25\/why\/","title":{"rendered":"Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, at the risk of upsetting a significant segment of the baseball text-gaming world, I have to ask a question.  If you are a fan of historical baseball re-creation, why are you playing Out of the Park Baseball 2006?  I am obviously showing my bias against historical sims because (a) I think they are boring and (b) I think they are boring, but if I did decided to be bored, there are other nice options available.<\/p>\n<p>PureSim 2007 seems like a nice fit for historical simmers.  It offers a great deal of customization and can import historical databases t\u2019ill the cows come home.  If I did decide to be bored, I certainly would be falling asleep in front of PureSim 2007 while it simmed the 1935 World Series.<\/p>\n<p>If I wanted historical accuracy, I would be yawning in front of Diamond Mind Baseball.  Again, seems a perfect fit for historical simmers who want statistical replay and results.<\/p>\n<p>The last game I would want is OOTPB 2006.  It isn\u2019t designed as an historical replay game.  It is prospective baseball software that really shines as a fictional league product.  Historical simmers and people like me are not looking for the same types of baseball games.  If I wanted more \u201cwhat if\u201d in my historical games, I\u2019d be playing PureSim 2007.  If I want more \u201cthis is how it happened\u201d in my baseball game, I\u2019d be playing Diamond Mind Baseball.<\/p>\n<p>But what do I know?  I had to drink a cup of coffee to stay awake to type this up!<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, at the risk of upsetting a significant segment of the baseball text-gaming world, I have to ask a question. If you are a fan of historical baseball re-creation, why are you playing Out of the Park Baseball 2006? I am obviously showing my bias against historical sims because (a) I think they are boring &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/07\/25\/why\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}