Nice pick JW!! Think I'll go with the Babe in the second round if he lasts that long; otherwise, Gehrig it will be.
The Tools of Ignorance
Nice pick JW!! Think I'll go with the Babe in the second round if he lasts that long; otherwise, Gehrig it will be.
You see, you spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. J. Bouton
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FanHome is the baseball board I used to post on years ago. Guess I need another cup of coffee...
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--I guess Fan Home must be another name for BBF? I see the post time here is about 15 minutes behind real time. We'll give Charles till 4 BBF time to make his pick before moving ahead.
The Tools of Ignorance
Ummm, would 4 BBF time be 7 for those of us back east?
You see, you spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. J. Bouton
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--Or Saturday mornign for those really Far East.
a posse ad esse
Actually, should we make the official start 11:45 BBF time? I figure going by the site would keep it most easily tracked (like we did with the auctions).
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--1145? It was set for 7 EST. The Dollar Signs should be on the clock now by real time, but we'll give Charles until the top of the hour by BBF time .
The Tools of Ignorance
Sounds OK to me. I'm anxious to get going.
You see, you spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. J. Bouton
a posse ad esse
Okee dokee. Just so we don't create another doormat in case Blalock is out for the evening, we should come up with some sort of proxy system.
I like some of these fake owner names btw
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--WCF, of DM I and II, is on standby if an owner fails to show. If Charles doesn't have his pick in the next 10 minutes he should be ready to step in. Edgar is still missing in action too. If Charles shows and Edgar hasn't checked in by the time in back to the Raptars we have Plan B ready for that spot.
The Tools of Ignorance
Time Check!!
You see, you spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. J. Bouton
a posse ad esse
I've got two certain outfielders and I have no idea who to pick between the two.Anyways, that's not the real toughie.
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--Two minutes to Charles deadline or a change in ownership. Lighting round begins then wither way. Five minute max per pick.
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--WCF, let me know what name and park you want to use. No hurry.
Bitter Optimist
Which parks are taken?
"I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame."
- Sammy Sosa
"Get a comfy chair, Sammy, cause its gonna be a long wait."
- Craig Ashley (AKA Windy City Fan)
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--The list and the division you are assigned to (you're replacing the Dollar Signs) are in post 1 of this thread.
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Our first article:
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Skipjacks Stepping Into the Majors
Ray "Scoops" McRae
After years of dominating the small pond, the Skipjacks are ready to try a bigger body of water.
At 7pm last night, Owner T. D. Dum and his team officially declared themselves part of the new BBF leagues. The Leagues annouced their full alignment, with 12 teams in their inaugural season, divided evenly. The Skipjacks will be placed in the William Hulbert Division alongside two other teams who dominated their respective leagues, the Nails Quakers and Lew Legends.
Mr. Dum was delighted upon the news that his team was granted a spot in this recontruction project. "After all that's happened in the past couple years, the entire baseball community was afraid we may have lost our sport. Thanks to Mr. Leece it looks like we won't miss much more than a beat... and everyone here is delighted to be part of this league."
After the sudden dissolvement of the Major Leagues surrounding their latest much-talked-about opium scandal and bankruptcy, Mark Leece, owner of one of the nation's most prominent minor-league franchises, declared his intentions to take reigns of the situation. Amidst rumors of backrooom deals allowing his cronies to participate, he power-played the cash-stripped Majors, taking only three small market teams (Phillies, Royals, Senators) and forcing the rest of the teams out of business. He proceeded to grab stadium and merchandising rights in breathtaking manner. Rumor also has it that he and his cronies are in the process of distributing the entirety of Major League talent between them as I write.
This kind of secrecy from the public is giving the Skipjacks' fan base mixed feelings about the whole thing. Says local baseball afficionado Arnold "Bubba" Jameson of Reisterstown:
"I don't know (about whether to keep being a fan)... I mean, you know (how the Majors dissolved amidst contraversy) and stuff (hasn't been conducive to rooting for the new teams either)."
Mr. Dum isn't phased. "We've put in a request for Memorial Stadium so we can stay in the area, and we intend to do a better job. We are a model organization, a clean organization, and we are here to put a better product on the field for the fans. Sure it may take a couple years to gain their trust, but I am confident we will."
Whether this proves true or not, the Skipjacks are moving up in the world and everyone is enjoying it at the moment.
"Man this is just unbelievable, I'm thrilled", says outspoken manager Willie "Codfish" Spatz. "How can you not get pumped up coaching Mic... uh, the caliber of players we'll be getting?"
General Manager Phillip "Beanie" Bills is more cautiously optimistic. "This is a seminal moment in the history of our sport, and it is up to us to make it last. Hopefully we can establish a system that will carry major-league baseball into the next century."
Ultimately, no matter how their feelings are manifested, Sparrow's Point ironworker Mickey M. Bitzko sums everything up best: "Hey, like a (blank) it can't be beat!"
For full division alignment information, see page 1.
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From the Gotham Daily
--Turmoil continues in the start up of the new league. The initial player draft was slightly delayed as the owner of the newly founded Dollar Signs failed to come up with the cash to build a team. Former DM owner Windy City Fan stepped up and brought the Thunder into the league, allowing the draft to go forward.
--Edgar's Raptors also failed to show and surrogates made his 2nd-5th picks for him. Edgar's owner has a shakey track record in the minor league history of the DM League and faces a short deadline to put his house in order or lose his franchise. Another former DM league owner, ElHalo, has offered to assume the reins if Edgar can't get the job done. Elhalo guided his team to the championship in DM I and a playoff berth in DM II before slipping last season and temporarily stepping away from the game. he would be assuming the team in time to make the team's 6th pick.
--The Thunder don't as yet have a stadium lined up, but are confident that wont be a problem. The Raptor may well move under new ownership as well. Getting a project of this size off the ground never seems to go smoothly, but I'm confident that the new DM League will be the future of professional baseball.
The Tools of Ignorance
I love being a cronie!!allowing his cronies to participate
Nice work, guys. Didn't know we had so many unpublished authors in this league!
You see, you spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. J. Bouton
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--Okay Elhalo has a team, drafting in the Raptors spot. EH, you will need to give me a team name and pick a stadium. Current draft lineup is JW, WCF, Nails, C24 and then Elhalo.
The Tools of Ignorance
Welcome back, ElHalo! You were always an excellent adversary. Good luck and enjoy!
You see, you spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. J. Bouton
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Mark and I were discussing what might happen with the forced free agent situation if a team had two players with equal salaries. For example if, after a trade, I have two players making $8 million, tied for the 4th highest salary, and I finish with the third or 4th best record, I would need to give up one of those players to free agency. My idea is that owners would have the right to choose which of the two players to give up. What do others think?
Bitter Optimist
I would agree, the owner can choose.
"I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame."
- Sammy Sosa
"Get a comfy chair, Sammy, cause its gonna be a long wait."
- Craig Ashley (AKA Windy City Fan)
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--I'll go along with that, although it wasn't my original position. I would like to propose a twist though. The guy you want to keep gets a larger than scale (250K) raise. It could be as little as 500K or as much as 1m depending on what you guys think.
Last edited by leecemark; 11-27-2005 at 03:42 AM.
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--I'd like to make another proposal too. The rules currently state that if your forced free agent is on a multi-year contract he would be a hold out until you trade him. I got to thinking that you might have a player who was so expensive that nobody else could or would want to afford him. Or maybe nobody else just thinks he is worth what you're paying him. You could end up paying a guy not to play all season (or even several years). I'd like to have that holdout end a month into the season and allow the player back into your lineup if you haven't traded him. Of course, you could just refuse to trade him also f you were willing to play without him for a month rather than make a deal.
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