Recently, the Commissioner’s Office of Tapey Beercone has Announced New Procedures for conferring Awards for the soon to be concluded Season 5. This continues a tradition begun in Season 3 to end the season by highlighting some of the Sport’s most outstanding players and performances. No such tradition existed prior to that point in the Sport’s history. In fact, the concept of seasons within the Sport of Tapey Beercone was not fully formulated until Season 3, leading Season 1 and 2 to be lumped together as the “Early Seasons” Still, this begs the question: Had awards been handed out in those earliest of seasons, who would they have been given to and why?
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Tag: Season 2
Stat Chug: The Statistical Anatomy of the Rooster-Dragon
Stat Chug: A specially brewed stats based draft.
The Statistical Anatomy of the Rooster-Dragon: Dissecting the Dichotomous Nature of One of Tapey Beercone’s Most Intriguing Players
When last we left off here at Stat Chug, this author presented a graph depicting the batting characteristics of the Regular Players of Tapey Beercone as they compared to average. This showed that no player compared close to average, with the possibility of one exception. Here’s what that graph looked like:
Recurring Players Compared to Average on Four MetricsThe one player close to average was Chris “The Rooster”/”The Dragon”. But as we will find, on closer inspection Chris is anything but average.
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6 for 6: Breakdown
Breakdown, The Improbable Rise and Fall of The Master.
I’ve tried to write this story a half-dozen times, in as many different ways. I tried to craft a “Brian and the Boz” style comparison piece in one version, and attempted to create our own “This is Spinal Tap” in another. This tale manages to break out of every box I attempt to put it in, and I suppose that’s appropriate for the subject matter. The “Breakdown” in question is about more than a single player, it is about the game as a whole. This story is about Tapey Beercone going beyond what we expected for the first time. It is about the shattering of our understanding of our roles in the continuing life of this game. This is our Heroic Epic, our Odyssey, our Gilgamesh. Herein, I tell the tale of “The Master”. His Rise, his fall, and how he changed the game forever.
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Photos from the 2012 Christmas Day Classic
On Christmas Morning 2012 the Buckos set out to play an epic Tapey Beercone game in Central Park. It was the most public Tapey Beercone game that had been played up to that point, and the results were spectacular.
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Photos from Morro Bay 2012
Plover Rock Field at Morro Bay was the host of another exciting Tapey Beercone beach game.
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Photos from the Oregon Coast 2011
During a multi-state road trip in 2011, the opening game of season 2 was held at Humbug Mountain State Park on the Oregon Coast. The field for the game, Hydrocline Beach, was the first beach field, and the players, of which their were only three, had to create a new way to play which became 3 player Tapey Beercone of which there have been many more games played since.
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