Dedication
It’s a rare thing, that which can take a group of 24 men, each of whom know about half of the others somewhere along the way and completely new to the other half, put them together to play a game most of them have never played before, and have them dedicate themselves for the better part of a decade to its success. It’s rare, but it can happen. That thing…is the Ted Williams Memorial League. Simulation baseball.I will go on the record of saying…I’m not nearly as much of a nerd as this is going to sound like. But honestly…there are not many ways to make it sound cool, at least at first glance. No one has ever signed a huge contract, landed a big endorsement deal, or even gotten laid by a drunk chick for winning at sim baseball. Still, a little over five years ago, this guy I know Adam Darowski decided to start this thing called the TWML. I won’t bore you any more with the details about the league…if you know me, chances are I’ve tried to explain it to you several times over. I’ll just say if you want to see the league Click Here and if you want more information on what sim baseball is (Think of playing XBox/PS2 Career Mode…only with 23 other people and for a couple of “decades”) Click Here
I tell you all this because of an interesting experience I had at work today. I began my lunch by posting “White Trash Babies, State Employees, and the Letter ‘S’.” I got back a little early, so I decide to use the end of my lunch to check my sim baseball league at:
To my surprise, it was blocked. I called a techy I know, since the web site has always worked. He said if it got added to the blocked list and no one complained about it because it was offensive, it was blocked because of the total usage on the server. They don’t typically monitor individual computer usage. When I told him the nature of the site and that I was probably the only of the 66,000 or so people who access the work off the various servers, his only response was, “Wow…so you really got it blocked all by yourself, huh?” Frankly, I think it is friggin impressive. An obscure site like http://www.darowski.com is up there on a list with espn.com, cnnsi.com, and rotten.com. Even MSNBC Sports is not blocked.
I’m proud.
Peace out.
Traces of Inspiration » Blog Archive » Ohio State Employees Banned from Seeing Darowski.com Thanks to the TWML said,
August 28, 2007 at 2:06 am
[...] Read the whole post. Good shit. Apparently the site has been blocked for all state employees in Ohio. Nice. [...]