It’s not a year I would have chosen, but it’s the year I have and I am now committed. It’s a 1992 Baseball Board game replay. Despite a hot start to the year, my Yankees were mediocre at best, the Mets were all over the place, ‘roids were raging, and the World Series was won by some Johnny Foreigner for the first time.

So why commit to a 2,106 game regular season and a bunch of play offs before heading to the World Series? The reason is simple: because I started it.

Originally I began this season using my Statis Pro baseball game, something I had owned for years but had never really pulled out of the cupboard. Then I started peppering in some Strat-o-Matic games using the Card Images on the Strat-o-Matic PC game, then I spent silly money on a 1992 Strat-o-Matic board game courtesy of the money drain eBay.

Now I’m just shy of my 80th game and I can’t bring myself to stop. Well, I’ve tried. But every time I start to play a Yankees 2009 replay, or wheel out my 1920s set of Strat cards, or lust after my perfect 1978 Statis Pro box set, I hear the voices of 1992 calling me …

So here I am and here I’ll stay.

Credits:

Photograph of the Toronto Blue Jays taken from CBC article – Bob Elliott’s Baseball: ’92-93 Blue Jays are worth remembering. August 17, 2018.