[USML Announce] Climb Every Mountain

[Richard Robbins]

Brad has glass stones?

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From: announce-bounces at usml.net [mailto:announce-bounces at usml.net] On Behalf
Of Blocker, Mark B.
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 3:59 PM
To: USML Announcements
Subject: RE: [USML Announce] Climb Every Mountain


Brad:
 
  Thank you kindly for your message, which actually made me chuckle.  In the
Post-Riptorn-Dump part of the season (April 15 onward ?), we have not heard
nearly as much from you as usual (insert here debate about whether that is a
plus or minus).  But please, must you lampoon one of my few remaining
hobbies?  Now that my limited roto skills make my team perennially
non-competitive, I cannot reach the roto summits, so outdoor summits are all
I have.  And I can scrimp and save all I want, but that won't allow me to
buy enough help for draft day.  And let me assure you that you will not see
footage from our trip on "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" or its
sister-show, "The Shandler Arizona Fall League Conference/Gathering of
Pixelated Roto Pundits."  My permit to climb Mt. Whitney cost $5 -- about
the same as the ice cream cone you are saving for -- all of my water was
free (no charge to dip your bottle in the streams), and what few groceries I
brought fit into one small shopping bag purchased from a run-down store in
the heart of Death Valley and returned change from my $20.  And keep in
mind, I am not driving to the summit -- this is old-fashioned leg power,
available for far less than the $5/gallon that you spend to keep refueling
that 2008 SUV of yours.  So next time, please grab a backpack and we can
look together for this Path to Righteousness of which you speak...
 
  -- Mark B.
 
P.S. The guys I traded to Rich, while valuable to a contender, have contract
status "FA," not Y2 with a $2 keeper salary, so be careful not to cast
stones from your glass house !


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From: announce-bounces at usml.net [mailto:announce-bounces at usml.net] On Behalf
Of Brad Jansen
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 3:31 PM
To: USML Announcements
Subject: [USML Announce] Climb Every Mountain


Dear Commissioner Mark the Mountain Man:
   After reading countless news accounts of hardworking Americans trying to
survive from paycheck to paycheck, hoping to buy another weeks' worth of
groceries, praying that they can stave off foreclosure or eviction, and
maybe even save enough pennies to afford an outing to the local ice cream
shoppe, it indeed was enjoyable to read your account of your epic "struggle"
and remind myself to be happy about the more fortunate.  One hopes the
carbon footprints left by you and your band of Merry Mountain Men did not
tramp down the Path to Righteousness that some of us (well, Jeffrey, anyway)
try to follow on our daily travails.
 
Regards,
Brad "The Inconvenient Truth" Jansen
 
p.s.  That trade with Rich "Gets Richer" Robbins for Howie Kendrick, teen
phenoms, et al. suggests some deprivation of oxygen occurred on your
Sojourn....please double check your cognitive skills--I think Jeffrey has
some exams for you!!

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