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| Archived News & Information | Archived December 31, 2001 |
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December 26, 2001 Personal Cosmic Game ReportMerryland Tricksters @ Heavenly Angels | |
Angels are associated with religion. Tricksters are associated with magic. Both conjure up images of the supernatural, the unseen, the over and the under worlds. The terms "guardian angel" and "lunatic trickster" suggest which good/bad pole contemporary opinion holds each type. Tricksters are likely to be associated with fallen angels (demons) and alchemists. Angels, like the cherubim and seraphim, connote softer, kinder, gentler spirits. On the cosmic field of play, tricksters and angels are united in form and purpose. They are cosmic baseball players programmed with one desire, one purpose: to win a cosmic baseball game. In this regard, and in this particular game, the Tricksters reign supreme. An heroic, extra-inning smash by the Hebrew Trickster Gimpel won the day and the game for the visiting Tricksters.
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December 23, 2001 Cosmic Baseball AssociationContraction at the Cosmic Baseball Association | |
So, as usual, there will be 24 cosmic baseball teams dispersed among three leagues. Since three teams from the 2001 season have been deactivated there will be at least three new teams in the Underleague when the 2002 season begins. The overall reduction in seasonal cosmic baseball players through the mechanism of roster contraction is apparently under consideration at the higher levels of Cosmic Baseball Association. A tentative plan is to reduce the size of rosters to a maximum of 15 with a minimum of 11 active players and a maximum of 4 non-players. (Cosmic Baseball Association teams could have 11 players and 4 non-players or 12 players and 3 non-players, 13 players and 2 non-players, or 14 players and 1 non-player.) Currently active teams would have until the 2004 Season to meet the roster contraction requirements through attrition and deactivation. The new roster rules would apply immediately to all new cosmic teams.
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December 20, 2001 Cosmic Baseball Association2001-2002 Annual Report on the Cosmic Baseball Association | |
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December 18, 2001 Website OperationsExperimental V-LOG Online | |
Visitors who make an entry into the V-Log automatically receive a response email acknowledgment message with the visitor's entry included in the body of the response email message. Most of the technical issues have been resolved but there are still some outstanding design and formatting issues to resolve. The "formal" resolutions should have little impact on the content of the V-Log. When all issues form, content and technical have been resolved the final production version of V-Log will be uploaded. Project leaders expect the final version to be online by the middle of January.
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December 17, 2001 Website Operations Special AnnouncementWebsite Status Announcement: WWW.CLARK.NET Will Go Offline 01/15/02 | |
The deactivation of the clark.net site ends a seven year relationship with the internet service provider. When the Cosmic Baseball Association first contracted with clark.net, the ISP was a small local company serving the internet needs of customers in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area. In 1998 the Verio company digested clark.net. Verio was then climbing to its status as one of the largest internet service providers in the United States. Last August Verio itself was absorbed by the NTT Communications company. The value of that deal, transacted mostly by stock swaps, was put at approximately US$5.5 billion dollars. A week ago, Verio informed some of its customers that dial-up access service would end on January 9 and web services would be terminated January 15.
If necessary please update your bookmarks and links to reflect this change.
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December 15, 2001 PublicationsJournal of the Cosmic Baseball Association, Vol. 20 | |
This issue has something for everyone, cosmic baseball fans, reality baseball fans, kids and grown-ups alike... Jack Kerouac fans will appreciate the listing of the contents of the controversial Memory Babe Archive. Currently located in Lowell, Massachusetts the archive was created by Kerouac biographer Gerald Nicosia...Fans of excellent baseball writing will appreciate the wit and depth of Tony Trigilio's essay which enumerates some of the metaphysicality of being a Boston Red Sox fan...Baseball is a sport of youth. Aidan Ward, a young California boy carries that tradition forward with his remembrance of a baseball game and friendship...Freelance journalist Angela Gunn interviews Dan Okrent, founder/creator of Rotisserie League Baseball...COBRA Scholar Jennifer Baldwin has put together an interesting chronology of rule changes in professional reality baseball...Freelance writer Helen Cowan tells the story of the rise & fall of the Cosmic Baseball Association's electronic store, Cosmic Baseball Collectibles, LLC ...COBRA Scholar Meilin Tsai contributes a thought-provoking essay on the responsibilities of cosmic baseball researchers. Enjoy the issue.
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December 9, 2001 Cosmic Baseball PlayersJohn Lennon Signs with Dragons; Dylan Moves to Woodsox | |
Further, the Woodsox announced the appointment of Ho Chi Minh, their everyday firstbaseman last season, as the team's new field manager, replacing Lennon. Ho Chi Minh's appointment surprised veteran Woodsox watchers who had assumed Oscar Janiger would get the manager's job in the event that Lennon did what he said last summer he was going to do (see this news item.) According to sources Lennon decided to become a cosmic player sometime ago but waited until after the close of the season to actually negotiate something specific. For the second straight season Lennon led the Woodsox to the Cosmic Universal Series. But also, for the second consecutive season, the Woodsox came up short, losing this year to the Wonderland Warriors. Startling as Lennon's move is the move of Bob Dylan from the Dragons to the Woodsox has generated a lot of emotion. The troubadour Dylan, who has played his entire cosmic baseball career with the Delta Dragons, has a very large fan base in Delta and there are going to be quite a few disappointed souls. The opportunity to see John Lennon play cosmic baseball might ameliorate the pain to some extent.
Coincidentally the deal was inked yesterday which was also the 21st anniversary of John Lennon's assasination outside the Dakota Hotel in New York City.
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December 8, 2001 Cosmic Baseball TeamsThree Cosmic "City" Teams Deactivated | |
The Numerals (2001 Record: 76-86) are a second season team. The Framemakers (82-80) and Insects (86-76) were both rookie teams in 2001. Some observers see this as part of a larger plan to eradicate the "City" teams from the cosmic playing fields. With the deactivation of these three teams, only the Speed City Velocitors and the Telecity Superbas remain active in cosmic baseball.
New or reactivated teams will replace the three deactivated teams. And while some within the association have advocated that cosmic baseball like Major League Baseball should consider an overall reduction in the number of teams ("Contraction") no plans have been made to reduce the number of active teams from the current level of 24.
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