Three Moves Ahead 169: Out of the Park Baseball and Managing Things

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

War Games, Strategy Games, War, Games & Hobbies, Strategy, Video Games, Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2012

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week, Bill Abner from No High Scores returns to the show along with new guest Dirk Knemeyer from Conquistador Games. What do they have in common? Both have better OOTP league teams than Troy does. The trio talk about the improvements in OOTP 13, what makes the OOTP series so special and enduring – if sometimes confusing, and why sports management games are some of the purest strategy games available. Bill sets Dirk straight on some things, Dirk complains about not finding stuff and Troy owns up to the worst free agent signing in baseball history.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the once-in-future official podcast of Flash of Steel.com,
0:07.7	coming to you on the Idol Thumbs Network.
0:11.1	I'm not sure that's ever been said before, but I'm willing to say it.
0:14.3	I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and with me tonight are two very good friends of mine.
0:19.5	First, one of my oldest friends and colleagues,
0:22.9	the editor-in-chief of GameShark, and one of the founders of a pretty decent gaming blog,
0:29.3	no-highscores.com. Bill Abner, Bill, glad to have you here. It's always good to be here.
0:35.4	That's your third appearance, right? Third or fourth, yeah.
0:38.1	Third or fourth, pretty good. It's getting up. You're going to be regular.
0:40.3	Yeah. I would consider that, sure.
0:43.1	Yeah, you have a Wall of Fame type of thing.
0:48.0	And joining us is in his first appearance from Conquistador Games, my friend and sometime collaborator, Dirk
0:57.0	Niemeier.
0:58.0	Heidi Ho, thanks for having me, Troy.
1:00.0	Glad to have you, Dirk.
1:02.0	I'm having these two on the show for a very special reason.
1:06.0	We are talking tonight about sports management games, and we're going to start by focusing on Out of the Park
1:11.6	Baseball 13, which came out about about a month ago, I think. And both Bill and Dirk are in my,
1:20.0	well, not my, but in the same Outer of the Park Baseball League that I am sucking in and have sucked in for the last two seasons, about two years,
1:32.5	last five seasons.
1:33.9	No, no, no, no, wait, wait, wait, let's, let's be honest here.
1:37.1	We are in, I actually have the game open right now.
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