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#60. Out of the Park Baseball 17 (PC, 2016)
Hey I'm glad I'm not the only one with this game on their list!
What we have here is a straight up baseball sim with an absolute monster boatload of options where you can pretty much do anything you want. Sim a bunch a seasons without the DH in either league, have full GM control of some strange minor league, go pull up a bunch of old teams, whatever!

While I've dabbled in bits of that, the thing I really got into was the Manager mode. Just game by game, letting ME make the in game calls, the lineups, the rotation... Occasionally I would take over GM a bit just to make sure I had people in the majors who I did or didn't want, or undoing some trades I wasn't happy that simulation Sandy made. But after my heart was broken by the Mets losing in 2015, but being super hyped for what the future held, and it all falling apart mostly because of an insane amount injuries, resulting in a wild card game loss, I wanted to see what could've been. I just like having that micro level of control (see my writeup for Heroes of Might and Magic III... I love this level of micromanagement). There's just so many stat sheets and charts and numbers and menus and things to analyze, its goddamn heaven for me.

So I forged ahead with the season, planning to reload if I ever experienced any major injury, but that actually somehow didn't happen. My 2016 Mets wound up winning 116 games. I wound up sweeping the NLDS against the Dodgers and then... I lost the NLCS to the Cubs. Heartbreak. I made a save file before that series too, so I always wanted to go back and try again, but it would feel too cheap. I have the backup save file for a rainy day though... still, even if they had some bad luck in their sim playoff run, it makes me feel...probably not happy, that knowing that that Mets team had a very real chance to be an incredibly dominant team, and it just got undone. And I won't blame anyone but you know exactly who I blame, I'm not gonna say that word

Anyway, it still felt incredible to run a powerhouse team through like that and I can only hope it happens for real, or I get to actually experience the real version of this joy with a World Series... dare to dream.

Here's Noah Syndergaard hitting a home run in the NLDS



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