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Dresden Files: Series Timeline
cass:
--- Quote from: Katarn on June 21, 2011, 04:26:47 PM ---Going off of SF=2000, this would likely be (in-universe) as the 2009 season (9 ASF), where the Cubs still almost took the division title. (I know Jim wrote it in '08, but chronologically it fits anywhere in '07-'09 (all decent seasons for the Cubs).
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Zambrano has pitched for the Cubs since 2001. More importantly, from Curses, Harry thinks Tampa might have a chance. This puts 2008, 2009 as pretty likely, as Tampa didn't really start looking good until then. hat he thought them a threat to the Yankees for a postseason title...well. He'd had to have seen them pull off a good run at least once (as in 2008) to take them seriously.
Also, Harry called them Tampa Bay-- but he called everything else by team name (Cubs, Yankees, Phillies)-- this is something I know I started doing after their name-switch in 2008. It just...sounds wrong....to call them the Rays.
The next thing to do is to try to pin down which game Harry saw at the end of the story. Lessee. Zambrano started at Wrigley. In 2009. and it was late enough in the season (and the Cubs were doing well enough) that the management was looking into removing the curse (and 'Who do you like for the postseason' was not a silly question to ask....) So. Probably after the All Star Game. We have 7/27, 8/25, 8/30 and 9/15. I suspect that his start on 9/30 was too late in the season for the removal of the curse to really make a difference, as at that point, they were 8 games back and not going to the postseason. It was looking really, really unlikely on 9/15, too (5.5 games back in the wild card, 8.5 back in the division). Though I suppose the game Harry attended doesn't have to have been immediately following the case.
Katarn:
^This man has reached an incredible level of detail that earns my utmost respect.
Priscellie:
--- Quote from: cass on June 21, 2011, 07:03:32 PM ---Zambrano has pitched for the Cubs since 2001. More importantly, from Curses, Harry thinks Tampa might have a chance. This puts 2008, 2009 as pretty likely, as Tampa didn't really start looking good until then. hat he thought them a threat to the Yankees for a postseason title...well. He'd had to have seen them pull off a good run at least once (as in 2008) to take them seriously.
Also, Harry called them Tampa Bay-- but he called everything else by team name (Cubs, Yankees, Phillies)-- this is something I know I started doing after their name-switch in 2008. It just...sounds wrong....to call them the Rays.
The next thing to do is to try to pin down which game Harry saw at the end of the story. Lessee. Zambrano started at Wrigley. In 2009. and it was late enough in the season (and the Cubs were doing well enough) that the management was looking into removing the curse (and 'Who do you like for the postseason' was not a silly question to ask....) So. Probably after the All Star Game. We have 7/27, 8/25, 8/30 and 9/15. I suspect that his start on 9/30 was too late in the season for the removal of the curse to really make a difference, as at that point, they were 8 games back and not going to the postseason. It was looking really, really unlikely on 9/15, too (5.5 games back in the wild card, 8.5 back in the division). Though I suppose the game Harry attended doesn't have to have been immediately following the case.
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cass:
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Squeee! *flail*
...I like baseball. I love my Red Sox. Cubs fans are enough of a kindred spirit that I kinda have to root for them and I don't mind learning their lore. And most of that work was done by judicious use of baseball-reference.com and other such sports nerd-tastic places. It would have been harder if he didn't have to bat.
Besides, being able to help pin SF at the year 2000? Totally made my week. Or would have, if there hadn't been a new chapter.
Praeceps:
--- Quote from: Katarn on June 21, 2011, 03:43:33 PM ---Yeah, I'm a proponnet of Storm Front being set in 2000- makes chronology a ton easier.
Also, one thing I picked up re-reading Death Masks- it's an election year. (DM 116). Does that help any?
EDIT: City elections are every four years- 2003 being the most likely (too late in the series to be 1999 or early for 2007)- making 2000 Storm Front.
I HAVE SOLVED THE TIMELINE CONUNDRUM. Nobel Prize, please.
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Actually, the interesting thing about your attempt versus the other attempts to pin down the timeline definitively through minor details is that Jim more than likely knew when the Chicago Mayoral elections take place since Death Masks took place in late February and the mayoral election always occurs in Chicago on the last Tuesday in February. That could, of course, be a coincidence but it would seem to be an awfully convenient one if it is.
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