Baseball Mogul 2008

As General Manager (GM), your job is to build the best lineup of players to take your team to the World Series. You can make complex player trades and sign players to multi-year contracts as you build your team, but you'll have to compete with the other General Managers, and negotiate with the player's agents. Baseball Mogul also lets you manage the finances for your ball club. Raise revenue by setting the price of tickets and concessions, and selling the TV broadcast rights, while you manage the budget for your farm system, player scouts, medical staff, and player payroll. But be careful, because fans can be fickle if you don't win or you raise ticket prices! If you don't succeed in your first year, you get a new chance with Baseball Mogul's in-depth amateur draft. Pick and choose from the best high school and college talent around the world. If your new players are good enough, have them join your team right away, otherwise send them to your minor league franchise for training and improvement. But Baseball Mogul doesn't stop at the front office. You have complete control over your team on the field. Set the lineup and pitching rotation for your team. On game day, you choose your level of involvement. Retire to theluxury box and make calls to the dugout as needed. Or take control of each player, choosing what pitches to throw and when to bunt or go for an extra base. A powerful game engine simulates each pitch of the game based on customized player ratings and over 100 years of historical data, assuring you the maximum realism possible!
Customer Review: Baseball Mogul 2008
Good game, lots of fun for people who enjoy the somewhat intense sim games like this one.
Customer Review: It Makes Me Sleepy
I've gotten to where I only play this game late at night because I usually get sleepy while playing it. It's not that I don't like the game, it's just not very exciting. My first experience with Baseball Mogul was either 2000 or 2001, and not a whole lot has changed since then. I was really surprised at some of the minor errors I saw: Instead of batting skill against Left and Right, it has Left and Left Player photos do not always match position (Pitcher in Catchers gear) I don't like it that a player pretty much has to get old, get bad, and then get sent to the minors before he will retire. Most veterans retire before they totally fall apart. I have never been able to draft a good hitter. Pitchers are always the best players in the draft. Pitcher ERA's are generally too high. Most teams end the season with an ERA of 4.50 or so. Not every team plays in Colorado. The date for roster expansion is shown on my team page, but I am never able to actually expand. I know baseball players are greedy, but there must be 30 players in my league that are making more then $20 million a year. I would like to be able to assign my players workouts or drills to try and improve their skills. Overall, I enjoy Baseball Mogul, but I will not buy it at full price, and I will not buy it every year; maybe every 6-8 years if it changes this little.

DID YOU KNOW THATFidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was the best ally of Mengistu Haile Mariam,who was dictator of Ethiopia from 1974 to 1991. During this period of time, Fidel Castro Ruz sent 4000 soldiers to Ethiopia. Thousands of people were killed by Cuban soldiers, many of them reportedly extra judicially executed when unarmed or after having been captured.

DID YOU KNOW THATFidel Castro is the worst violator of human rights in the Third World today.The Cuban dictatorship has curtailed the republics free press and banned strikes. Critics and opponents of the government, including journalists, human rights activists and members of opposition political parties, are arrested and some are convicted and imprisoned. Fidel Castro claims that demonstrations against him are led subversives and people under the influence of the United States.

DID YOU KNOW THATCuba had one of the most famous sportsmen in the Third World: Jos Ariel Contreras.Like Sammy Sosa (Dominican Republic) and Livan Hernndez (Cuba), he is now recognized as a symbol of Latin American baseball. For political reasons, he escaped from Cuba and now lives in the United States.Certainly, Jos Ariel Contreras has became an icon for the Cuban exile community..

DID YOU KNOW THATThe photographer Cristobal Herrera Ulashkevich was forced to leave Cuba. Why? Because he captured two crucial images of Castros health slide:his fainting spell while making a speech in 2001 and his dramatic fall another speech in October 2004.Cristobal Herrera once said, I am condemned to forced exile. The Cuban government barred me from returning to my country,without explanations.We had no other option left.This is the price for doing photojournalist in Cuba.

DID YOU KNOW THATFidel Castros Latin American allies (Brazil,Argentina,Panama,Guyana and Haiti) privately expressed dismay over Cuban excesses but insisted that they can not interfere in the internal affairs of Cuba.

DID YOU KNOW THATThe Cuban dictatorship have destroyed traditional Cuban society, culture,and systems, in an attempt to build a communist society.

DID YOU KNOW THATMore than 200 world-class athletes have defected from Cuba: Magaly Carvajal Rivera (volleyball player),Yamile Aldama (sportswoman), Regla Bell McKenzie (volleyball player), Taimaris Aguero (volleyball player), Joel Casamayor Johnson (boxer ),Jos Ariel Contreras Camejo (baseball player), Orlando Hernndez Pedroso (baseball player),Giorbis Barthelemy (boxer),Ramn Garbey (boxer), Ramn Gato (volleyball player),Andrs Gilbert (basketball player), Ihosvany Hernndez (volleyball player), Dulce Tellez (volleyball player), Ruperto Herrera (basketball player), Leonel Marshall (volleyball player)...

DID YOU KNOW THATFrom 1962 to 1992, Cuba received billions of dollars in aid from the USSR(currently Russia).

DID YOU KNOW THATFidel Castro receives continued support and aid from Venezuela. The evalue of Venezuelan oil subsidies to the Cuban dictatorship climbed past $ 3 million in 2006

DID YOU KNOW THATLike Mario Vargas Llosa (Peruvian writer),Jorge Batlle Ibaez (former president of Uruguay),Oscar Arias Snchez (currently president of Costa Rica), Lszlo Slyom (currently president of Hungary), Vaclav Havel, who was president of the Czech Republic( 1993-2003), is well-known for his fight against the dictatorship of Fidel Castro Ruz.

DID YOU KNOW THATCuba does not have diplomatic relations with the Czech Republic, Costa Rica, South Korea, El Salvador, Israel and the United States.

DID YOU KNOW THATCuba has one of the most serious human rights problems in the world today. Like North Korea (communist dictatorship), Myanmar (military dictatorship), Zimbabwe (military dictatorship) and Sudan (terrorist state), Cuba always refuses to cooperate with human rights groups.

DID YOU KNOW THATCuba suppled arms to Venezuela.

DID YOU KNOW THATIn the 1970s and 1980s, Cuba sent troops to Africa (Angola, Ethiopia,Namibia,Somalia,Zimbabwe, Eritrea, Congo, Mozambique and Guinea). At least 5000 Cubans soldiers were killed in Africa.

DID YOU KNOW THATIn 1996, Cuban olympic boxing champions Yan Bartelemi Varela, Odlanier Solis and Yuiorkis Gamboa Toledano abandoned the national team during a trip to practice in Caracas (Venezuela).

DID YOU KNOW THATCuba maintains excellent diplomatic relations with Venezuela (military dictatorship), North Korea (terrorist state), Equatorial Guinea (military dictatorship), Iran (terrorist state), Zimbabwe (socialist dictatorship), Lybia (military dictatorship), Sudan (terrorist state) and Myanmar (military dictatorship).

DID YOU KNOW THATThe most common joke in Cuba is, Would the last person to leave the country please turn off the lights.

DID YOU KNOW THATCuba does not have first lady since 2007.Vilma Espn Guillois was the last first lady of the Cuban revolution.She was president of the Federation of Cuban Women (1960-2007).She died of cancer on June 18, 2007.

DID YOU KNOW THATIn January 2007, Cecilia Guevara March, the daughter of revolutionary leader Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, has become an Argentine citizen after many years of living in Havana. She is a marine biologist. Cecilia Guevara was born in 1963, in Cuba, daughter of Ernesto Guevara and Aleida March.

DID YOU KNOW THATFidel Alejandro Castro Ruz spends most of his time writing essays about Cuban revolution, Iraq war, sporting defections, and the United States.

DID YOU KNOW THATIn the 1970s, Cuba has had good relations with Argentina.During this period of time,Argentina was a military dictatorship ruled by Jorge Rafael Videla.

DID YOU KNOW THATLike Mao Tse-tung (Chinese dictator), Enver Hoxha (Albanian dictator) and Pol Pot (Cambodian dictator), Fidel Castro is rarely seen without the green military fatigues that have helped make him a revolutionary symbol.

DID YOU KNOW THATIn 2006, Helena Houdova, who was Miss Czech Republic 1999, slipped into the island and took photos of Cuban slums.However, she was detained by the Cuban secret police.She said, The revolutions watchmen rose up because I was taking pictures of something they do not like.

DID YOU KNOW THATThe per capita on the island isn't even US$ 1,560, making it one of the poorest areas on Earth.

DID YOU KNOW THATIn the past century, Cuba had good relations with Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia (currently Czech Republic and Slovak Republic), Poland, Hungary, East Germany (currently Germany), Romania, Ethiopia, Benin, Guyana, Iraq, Iran, India, Mozambique, Yugoslavia and Tanzania.

DID YOU KNOW THATOne of the Cubas longest-serving political prisoners,Francisco Chaviano, who was chairman of the Cuban Civil Rights, was released in August 2007.He said: I spent five years stuck in a cell without seeing the sun, two years without receiving visitors and four years without conjugal visits.Since then he has continued to criticise the Cuban dictatorship, risking imprisonment and even death.

DID YOU KNOW THATOnly one political party-the Cuban Communist Party (PCC)- is allowed to operate in Cuba.

DID YOU KNOW THATIn Cuba the divorce rate has doubled in the last ten years.

DID YOU KNOW THATFidel Castro Ruz lives in Havana with his wife, Dalia Soto del Valle, and his five sons: Alex, Alexis, Alejandro, Antonio and ngel.

DID YOU KNOW THATIn the 1970s and 1980s, Cuba did not have diplomatic relations with Albania (communist state until 1991).

Alejandro Guevara Onofre: He is a freelance writer. Alejandro is of Italian, African and Peruvian ancestry. He studied political science and journalism. He has published more than seventy-five research paper in English, and more than twenty in Spanish, concerning the world issues, Olympic sports, countries, and tourism. His next essay is called "The Dictator and Alicia Alonso". He is an expert on foreign affairs. Furthermore, Alejandro is the first author who has published a world-book encyclopedia in Latina America.

He admires Frida Kahlo (Mexican painter), Hillary Clinton (ex-First Lady of the USA), and Jimmy Carter (former President of the USA). His favorite film is "Gorillas in the Mist".Some of his favorite books are The Return of Eva Peron and the Killings in Trinidad (by V.S.Naipaul), "Las Mujeres de los Dictadores" (by Juan Gasparini) and Murder of a Gentle Land (by John Barron and Anthony Paul).His personal motto is "The future is for those people who believe in the beauty o f their dreams" by Eleanor Roosevelt.

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