Living four hours apart and no time in our schedule to travel to each other’s house to play, we elected to use Skype. It was a nine game series we had to play for October. Last weekend, my Twin City Thunderchickens had to face the Green Rock Bombers managed by our league commissioner Mike B. I had another chance to use video Skype to play a league series. having someone else play your series (no thanks).It’s not the same as face-to-face but like I said, it’s the next best thing. Well, I didn’t have a working webcam but I was game so I purchased one to see how well it would work. He asked if anyone had a webcam they just connect up with him that way to play his series. Thanks goes to Teddy Ballgame for suggesting the idea earlier this year when he couldn’t make our spring convention. In such cases, hooking up over a webcam via a service such as Skype is pretty close the next best thing to being face-to-face. Considering we have managers that live hours apart (even one that lives three states away), we manage to play at least 90% of our games face-to-face thanks to some creative scheduling.īut sometimes our hectic personal schedules just can’t accommodate travel for a nine game series. The IAL prides itself for being a face-to-face league. At least among some of us.ĭon’t get me wrong. I’ve written about this before on The Baseball Zealot but the idea of using video Skype is catching on in the Illowa APBA League.
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