Expansion, Contraction and the Noobs

Season three brings us three new faces in three new places.

madtown joins the AL South and takes the Richmond franchise West to Little Rock, where they will be known as the Voodoo Cats. mad has a career winning percentage of 43.4 with zero playoff appearance in his two other worlds.

ronazbill inherits the gold standard in Kansas City. A HBD vet, ronza is 1241-1027 with 10 playoff apeparances and one world series title in 14 seasons. In the Ford world with the Cincinnati Red Legs, ronza has a world title and a NL pennant and five division titles.

jdeleonardis is relatively new to the HBD scene, but has been successful. In two seasons, he is playing .525 ball, with a pair of 80+ win seasons in the Rookies and Joey Belle worlds. He takes the Colorado River Otters franchise West to the O.C., where it will be known as the Anaheim Asylum. So, muldoon will feel at home on road trips (I suppose).

Welcome the noobs.

Old with the old...

In Japan, when a member of a community dies, lanterns are floated out to sea to mark their passing.

In my family when someone dies, the old Italians take pictures of the corpse and send them back to the old country for the people who couldn't make it in.

In the Wailing Onion world, when an owner goes off the radar, they are dealt with in the Hunter S. Thompson way. They have their remains blown out of a cannon (see the accompanying photo). And, somewhere, tec is standing by with matches to light the wick.

the412 joins ewad in the Onion Owners Hall of Fame, having his franchise seized by our great and benevolent commissioner mark3313.