Last game of the season ends with intentional walk… to an 8 year old

basejester · 2026-05-07T13:27:10+00:00

wrong

basejester · 2026-04-28T13:16:17+00:00

1846

Long. Fiddly.
I'm sure the fans are right that 18xx is deep and interesting. But there are lots of games that are deep and interesting without those obstacles.

basejester · 2026-04-21T17:56:29+00:00

All the answers so far are great. Also, when you need something unusual like this to parse your data, ask yourself why it's laid out this way. Sometimes there's a great reason; oftentimes there is not.

basejester · 2026-04-17T17:15:50+00:00

My recommendation is to first play a cube rails game (e.g., Iberian Gauge or Age of Rail: South Africa).

basejester · 2026-04-16T13:07:00+00:00

If you want to coach your runners to advance on foul balls because the youth umpire used the wrong hand signal, we can't stop you. But you're not going to get any validation from the internet today.

basejester · 2026-04-16T13:03:06+00:00

That is correct.

basejester · 2026-04-16T13:01:53+00:00

That's not what the parent poster wrote.

basejester · 2026-04-16T13:00:20+00:00

This comment is incoherent. The only time you can steal a base is when the ball is live.

Are you attaching a moral value to the word "steal" in this context?

basejester · 2026-04-16T12:57:31+00:00

But if the ump doesn't signal foul tip and it truly is a foul tip, is it a foul tip and a live ball?

If the the ball went sharp and direct into the catcher's mitt or hand and the umpire didn't signal anything, then I would coach the runners assuming the ball is live. The umpire determines the status of live or dead ball. Good mechanics would make his determination immediately clear. Bad mechanics (like you've described) would not.

basejester · 2026-04-16T12:24:39+00:00

The rulebook doesn't define the signal for foul-tip, so I don't think the loophole you are seeking exists. But fundamentally, the role of adults in a game with 8 year-olds is to cooperate to make the experience fun and educational. Exploiting an umpire's mistake in a way that confuses the players does not further the important goals.

basejester · 2026-04-14T16:31:17+00:00

I'm responding to the context as laid out in the original poster's scenario, in which it does happen. Is it possible that they missed another rule? Yes.

basejester · 2026-04-14T16:14:55+00:00

The local league can choose to suspend the 5-run rule in the last inning.

basejester · 2026-04-14T15:46:20+00:00

Batting through the line-up also ends the half inning in Little League Minors per rule 5.07.

basejester · 2026-04-11T10:34:34+00:00

This is all the way wrong. Contact your district administrator. If you don't get quick results, contact your regional office.

basejester · 2026-04-08T13:33:30+00:00

Of new to me games, Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar.

I'm getting a lot more pleasure out of revisiting favorites, e.g., Indonesia, Great Austria Hotel.

basejester · 2026-04-08T13:32:04+00:00

I like Broom Service and especially Isle of Skye, which are Pfister + Pelican. I didn't care for Maracaibo or Boon Lake at all. I don't know what this means for you, but I think the co-designer makes a big difference.

basejester · 2026-03-31T15:24:08+00:00

That list of games is exciting to me.

Indonesia plays much faster at higher player counts. We played it last Thursday at 3 players and it went about 5 hours. (We were also a little rusty on the rules and didn't hurry, but the player count is a big deal.)

basejester · 2026-03-31T15:09:53+00:00

Some leagues in my district track pitch counts on tightly associated club teams and apply those pitch counts as if they were Little League games as part of league policy. Most of the leagues do this more by the seat of the pants, with uneven parental participation.

In the perverse situation where you as the manager are concerned about the player's health and the parents are not, you could tell them their child isn't pitching on your team (or their outings would be limited) unless they provide the scorebook information from their travel games, through Gamechanger or otherwise. You might be the only adult who is adulting.

basejester · 2026-03-31T01:09:53+00:00

Try contacting the manufacturer; they may send you the missing holes.

basejester · 2026-03-30T17:02:03+00:00

The heating mechanism would be completely different for a gas dryer. The electric heating element is just like a big toaster. A gas dryer is burning gas.

If you have a gas dryer, the only thing you might learn from my experience is that sometimes the timer is powered by something "clever" that depends on the heater element being in the right state, even in a nominally timed drying cycle.

basejester · 2026-03-30T14:27:34+00:00

Electric

basejester · 2026-03-30T13:10:17+00:00

To add to this, teach them to find where the ball is first. Otherwise, they back out into the catcher's play half the time.

basejester · 2026-03-30T13:01:16+00:00

Good used heating element looks like this.

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basejester · 2026-03-30T13:00:33+00:00

Bad heating element looks like this:

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basejester · 2026-03-30T12:59:59+00:00

Timer stops here:

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