June 25, 2020
With thousands of humans each week joining the virtually connected cryogenic bunker network revealed and enacted by the United States military, and now coming online in countries around the world in an attempt to save our species from extinction at the hands of the rapidly-mutating Covid-19 virus, entertainment neural networks are rapidly rolling out to help counteract the tedium of this wakeful sleep that is our new reality for the foreseeable future.
For many Americans life without baseball is virtually unthinkable. Thankfully, Virtual League Baseball has been announced to fill that void. The league was founded by formerly-useless citizen Ethan Peterson, a 50-year-old Dodgers fan who ended up with the job simply by virtue of being the first of us to consider baseball an essential for human survival.
Peterson, who will serve as the VLB Commissioner, says the tools for simulating the game have their limitations, but make up for them with abilities to manipulate reality to accommodate possibilities formerly limited to the imagination. Based on the tastes of some of the earliest fans to gravitate to the new league, Peterson says he's designed an inaugural schedule that will serve as an experimental proving grounds for what may be possible going forward.
The League's structure will consist of three four-team divisions:
CLASSIC DIVISION
1965 Los Angeles Dodgers (who will be known as the Dead-Ballers)
1970 Baltimore Orioles
1975 Cincinnati Reds
1986 New York Mets
MILLENNIAL DIVISION
1989 Oakland Athletics
1995 Atlanta Braves
2001 New York Yankees
2001 Seattle Mariners
MODERN DIVISION
2004 Boston Red Sox
2012 San Francisco Giants
2017 Houston Astros
2017 Los Angeles Dodgers
Teams will play a 66-games schedule, with a three-game home series and a three-game road series against each team in the league. The winners of each division plus a wild card team will qualify for seven-game Championship Series leading to a seven-game Virtual World Series.
All players from those historical teams, in addition to a handful of virtual players from among our own population, will fill the major league 25-man rosters and AAA minor league rosters for each team. There will be no player transactions between teams, but injuries and suspensions will occur. This league will take place in the virtual year 1976, with Opening Day falling on July 4.
Once the seasons starts, watch these pages for game recaps and an expanded site which will allow you to view box scores, standings, stats and much more. Further details and previews of each division will be published in these pages in the days leading to Opening Day.
Virtual Baseball Fever! Catch it (instead of a Coronavirus fever).
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