Broken Bat - Announcements: Team Italy

Post ID	Date & Time	Game Date	Function

#21609	07/30/2015 2:53:20 pm
Team Italy Joined: 07/29/2015 Posts: 38 Inactive	Maybe you noticed the flurry of activity on the italian forum recently. That's because Team Italy is born! It's a new concept in BrokenBat: a franchise managed by the joint effort of the users on the italian forum with the purpose of providing a team, and development, to BrokenBat's italian players. The ultimate goal being to have Italy's National Team to play in the World Classic (as in real life!) The project has just staryed, so there's no more details to share. Updates will follow! -- Frankebasta Updated Thursday, July 30 2015 @ 2:56:14 pm PDT

#21623	07/30/2015 4:49:30 pm
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	Good luck Frankebasta and team! Steve

#21632	07/30/2015 8:33:24 pm
mark41974 Joined: 11/04/2014 Posts: 74 Inactive	Hope this pan's out, as the owner of the top player for that national team I would love to see him get some recognition. #85 - Tommaso Parodi [ID #78248]

#21666	07/31/2015 2:45:07 pm
Team Italy Joined: 07/29/2015 Posts: 38 Inactive	How nice! It'd be cool to see him playing on the National Team before the end of his career. I'm afraid, that's not realistic though. Without an expansion to the number of teams competing in the World Classic

#21682	07/31/2015 6:41:18 pm
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9603 Haverhill Halflings III.1	It will be cool once your able to phase out all the non-Italian players. Any reason you are keeping all those non-Italian guys in your minors? I would have thought your goal would be just to get as much dev time for the Italian players as possible. You could always pick up journeymen for fillers when needed.

#21695	08/01/2015 11:27:02 am
Rdub29317 Joined: 07/14/2014 Posts: 82 Indianapolis Ducks IV.7	As an owner in Valdosta's league, it will be a very interesting to watch this experiment pan out in front of my own eyes. And having an Italian-American on my roster, you have some local support! Best of luck, can't wait to face off again next season!

#22119	08/10/2015 8:33:53 pm
Seca Joined: 05/05/2014 Posts: 5202 Waterloo Dinosaurs Legends	The Valdosta city choice was great. When I first read this thread, they were the Vikings, which seemed ... not quite right. I read through the nicknames and thought - gah, maybe Stallions? Hmmm. Maybe you folks are happy with that. But I'm petitioning Admin to give you another option - Centurions, Legionaires, Senators, Phalanx ...

#22126	08/10/2015 10:49:41 pm
Frankebasta Joined: 09/15/2013 Posts: 885 Kodiak Mules III.3	Myself would favor Gladiators. But as a new nickname requires a new mascot logo, and I cannot do that, I don't dare to ask Stallions is cool: reminds me of Rocky Balboa (which in turn is NOT an Italian name at all, portuguese rather) Even Valdosta is not quite right: the region's name is Valdaosta (Valley of Aosta) In the off season we will look to other options: Rome, Milan, Venice (beach), Siena, are all better options. Traffic is low on the italian forum right now: vacation time in Italy! Nobody's home Will get steam in September, I hope. -- Frankebasta

#36445	07/01/2016 3:41:01 pm
Maksim Joined: 06/29/2016 Posts: 100 Inactive	I have a good Italian player if anyone wants him his profile is here http://brokenbat.org/roster/194 just because he is on my team check bottom of page to find him.. if you want him ill release him

#36453	07/01/2016 4:09:43 pm
Team Italy Joined: 07/29/2015 Posts: 38 Inactive	if you can give this player any playing time, keep him. if you don't need him, then cut him. Team Italy is not a competitive squad, its purpose is to develop Italian players for the national team playing in the World Classic. We provide playing time for the worst players, if they can plays elsewhere that's perfectly fine with us

#36461	07/01/2016 4:53:52 pm
Maksim Joined: 06/29/2016 Posts: 100 Inactive	ok... I haven't saw him play when im a GM of a team but I checked his records he is like eh... middlish rock says he is a keeper

#36603	07/03/2016 3:58:48 pm
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9603 Haverhill Halflings III.1	Lozano is from Mexico...

#36635	07/03/2016 10:59:51 pm
Maksim Joined: 06/29/2016 Posts: 100 Inactive	With me being an 8 year old kid in real life you expect me to know it all?!

#37220	07/16/2016 7:59:05 pm
Daniel2 Joined: 07/05/2016 Posts: 17 Inactive	Don't you learn country flags when your in kindergarten?

#37222	07/16/2016 9:39:32 pm
newtman Joined: 11/02/2013 Posts: 3343 Inactive	Depends, there are ~190 country flags currently to learn. I doubt the majority of kindergartners have them all memorized... I taught 3rd graders who didn't know them all.

#37223	07/16/2016 9:52:03 pm
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	Wow...I don't think we learn world flags in California. Steve

#37518	07/23/2016 3:17:12 pm
Daniel2 Joined: 07/05/2016 Posts: 17 Inactive	I learned world and state flags in NY when I was in Kindergarten Updated Saturday, July 23 2016 @ 3:17:47 pm PDT

#37581	07/25/2016 2:13:00 pm
Alpo Joined: 06/27/2016 Posts: 54 Inactive	Never learned flags in Ohio...

#37587	07/25/2016 2:53:51 pm
Pig_Cola Joined: 09/15/2013 Posts: 1445 Glendale Marshals III.2	I didn't learn flags in Arizona.

#37588	07/25/2016 2:55:18 pm
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9603 Haverhill Halflings III.1	Didn't your mothers ever warn you about the dangers of feeding trolls and other wild animals?

#37953	08/04/2016 1:49:42 pm
Daniel2 Joined: 07/05/2016 Posts: 17 Inactive	Obviously yes

#38084	08/07/2016 6:08:00 pm
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	Journalist discovers stories behind US cities and towns with Italian names Thought you guys might find this interesting... Steve

#38126	08/08/2016 3:19:12 pm
Frankebasta Joined: 09/15/2013 Posts: 885 Kodiak Mules III.3	Thx it was funny