Here’s a schedule of sims for the next few weeks:

Wed., 12/2 – Nate – Sim to 8/10
Fri., 12/4 – Mack – Sim to 8/15 (sim to be run mid-day due to schedule conflicts for Nate and me)
Mon., 12/7 – Nate – Sim to 8/20
Wed., 12/9 – Mack – Sim to 8/25
Fri., 12/11 – Nate – Sim to 9/1 (seven-day sim to get to roster expansion)
Mon. 12/14 – Mack – Sim to 9/6
Wed., 12/16 – Nate – Sim to 9/11
Fri., 12/18 – Mack – Sim to 9/16
Mon., 12/21 – Nate – Sim to 9/21
Wed., 12/23 – Mack – Sim to 9/26

The trade deadline has come and gone without a peep. Nary a trade to be made. The teams as constructed now are on their own to make the playoffs.

In the Platonic League, the Pittsburgh Pisces lead the Miami Masters of Their Domain by 14 games. Miami, in turn, has a 14-game lead for the wild card over Stockholm. Ramapough Mountain has fallen to fourth place. Cairo and Maryland are tied for the cellar and next June’s #1 draft pick.

In the Socratic League, the Brooklyn Bombers have a 2.5-game cushion over the Jersey City Skeeters. New York has fallen six full games behind the Skeeters in the wild card race. Seattle, Gainesville, and Marietta round out the division.

Monthly awards were handed out to the top hitter, pitcher, and rookie for July. In the Platonic League, Miami’s Richard Vuong and Martin Hernandez took the first two honors while Pittsburgh’s Alberto Jimenez was named the top rookie for the fourth consecutive month. I’m going to go out on a limb and proclaim him a contender for the Rookie of the Year award too. In the Socratic League, Seattle swept the awards as Frankie Garnett was the top hitter and rookie while William “World B.” Freeman was the top pitcher.

No huge injuries. Brooklyn lost Joseph Watson for a few days to a blister that has likely already healed. Ramapough’s Jacobo Xiquena is out two weeks with a strained calf muscle. Cairo’s John Asuncion has the dreaded dead arm syndrome and will miss ten days or so.

It’s late, so I’m skipping the day-by-day recap. But, if you want to see a wild end to a game, check out the August 2 game between Pittsburgh and Stockholm with ten runs scoring in the ninth inning alone.

League file is loaded. Web pages are way out of date, but I’ll try to get to that soon. Frankly, I forgot to even download the results of Friday’s sim until I started to run tonight’s. Nate’s got the next sim on Wednesday.