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The Latest News from #RallyBirdBaseball Central
Hello RallyBirders!
I am recovering from an unwelcome bug. So I fight back with practical news mixed with an impractical mirthful spirit.
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you’d like to contact me, please feel free to email me at:
I’ve already received a few player emails and I welcome them!
RULES UPDATE (MINOR)
I paid a service to review my rules and received some suggestions about small clarifications. Therefore, voilà, here’s a link to the October 2019 version of the rules. Truth is beauty, beauty Truth.
BIG LEAGUE GRAPHICS
Here’s an update on the RallyBird Baseball Board Game Add-On Kit: Big League & Coach Card Easy Advanced Game. There is no change to the rules or to the Coach Cards portion of the kit.
I’m in the process of changing the graphics due to branding/copyright respect of the large and powerful legal entity known as 
. These changes include the 30 team tiles. They will show a graphic of a variety of rally birds instead of the team name.
I laboriously finished all the 60 graphics of the two-sided tiles and ordered a prototype to proof before releasing. I imagine this will happen in November, the same month that TS Eliot took British citizenship in 1927. Coincidence???
BIG LEAGUE… 2019 SEASON ?!
Much to my astonishment, I stare with eyes round like saucers at the fact that the 2019 regular big league
baseball season has concluded. Therefore its history of jostling team performance is now available to RallyBird Central’s mathematical wing. What can stop me? I can cogitate and digest the points of the 2019 season into the easy, quick turned, ready-to-play RallyBird rules. I’ve plunged once into the data, and came up for the air. When will my next plunge be? Soon, friends, soon.
When ready I’ll add the 2019 season to the Big League Add-On Kit. Whether it’s part of the printed part or not I have to consider. I suppose it should bump the 2018 season data off. If I include both seasons in print, it adds to the cost. I’ll consider all the options. Both seasons will be available as a free download for anyone who buys the Add-On Kit.
Yes, I did it. The RallyBird Baseball Board Game is now on Instagram. You will never see a picture of me posing with duck lips, however. I’m still figuring out what it can do. I like the ability to send short video clips of the board game in action. I don’t want to shock you, but the address is: https://www.instagram.com/rallybirdbaseball . I’ll follow you back.
The RallyBirdBaseball YouTube Channel
There are 8 videos for you to watch about the RallyBird Baseball board game here. Please subscribe! 
In a funny way, the videos reflect a history of my familiarity with making videos, the tools I use, and my ability to edit them. Who knew that board game creation required knowledge of video editing? Crazy world, yes, but it’s also an awesome world of opportunity I’m trying to embrace.
You can help others who might be interested in the board game by clicking the thumbs up button. Thanks!
Dreams & Ambitions
I’d like to make the RallyBird Baseball Board Game available on Amazon. There are a lot of little steps I need to take before I can do this. One I have done already–purchased UPC codes for the game. There are other steps I need to take, equal in charm.
In general I’d like to bring the cost down. Suddenly iron laws of economics stomp in the hallway. I’d like to explore other manufacturers. Suddenly CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow and key black) standards rear their proboscises. Professional printing standards shouldn’t be an intrusion!
Well, everything is a learning step and I like to learn. However my little computer is already wheezing with my current graphics program. In short, I probably need a new computer and a new professional graphics program in order to explore other manufacturers. Perhaps there is a work-around. That’s where my thought process slenders down under the Limbo stick and probes the far end of the asymptote.
OCTOBER BASEBALL
Have you been enjoying the October Baseball postseason drama? My little friend here was so nervous about the 9th Inning last night, she just went to bed with a plate of apple pie. I’m still trying to calm my hair down from it standing straight up for so long.
Why is that pain so delicious? Isn’t it odd how baseball adds meaning to my humble life? I made a conscious decision in my middle age to follow baseball again and I have no regrets! It’s so much fun. Too soon it will be over. Relish it, friends!
Thank you for reading.
The RallyBird Baseball Board Game Add-On Kit: #Big League & #Coach Card Asymmetrical Defense
Now available — in response to requests by gamers — The RallyBird Baseball Board Game Add-On Kit: Big League & Coach Card Easy Advanced Game.
It includes: 30 color Big League team tiles, 24 new Glove tiles, easy 2018 team performance rules, easy Coach card advanced defense rules, and my commentary.
The Big League rules adapts historic team performance in broad focus RallyBird Baseball terms. At this time the 2018 season is available and included in the kit. Please note that “MLB” and its 30 team names are trademarks™ or registered® trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.
Separate from the Big League part of the kit is the Coach defense cards, which make use of the larger array of Glove tile values to assign each players’ defense different sets of strengths of weakness. In comparison, the regular RallyBird Board Game’s gives both sides the same set of Glove tiles (with a choice each half inning between 2 Glove tiles). The easy advanced game here sets up asymmetrical defenses using Coach defense array cards that apportion different sets of tile value arrays.
Arguably each type of Coach defense array is equal in strength, but different in risks and rewards, therefore leading toward different tactics and different angles of that good mental stress, competitive anxiety and nervous excitement games can offer. A defense strategy with fewer risks might be easier for offense to outwit–or is that wrong? Unsheathe the sharp swords of your opinions as you explore your baseball defense options!
Both the Big League and the Coach card add-on offer the quick set up and the normal rapid RallyBird Baseball pace of play.
As you may have guessed, this add-on kit requires the regular RallyBird Baseball board game. Thank you!
QUICK PLAY #RULES #VIDEO
New Unboxing Video (August, 2019): The #RallyBird #Baseball #BoardGame
The game is basically the same as it was when I released it in 2018. However I have updated the box graphics and the rules. In addition there are some new variants or optional rules, and a Trophy card.
My previous unboxing video wandered away and back from the purpose of unboxing, and was consequently too long for that kind of video. This is focused, short (5 minutes), and better in technical quality.
I’m getting closer and closer to next steps with my RallyBird Baseball Board Game as a small venture.
Thank you!
The RallyByrd Baseball Board Game 