[USML Announce] Hoosier Dads Provide Berliners Little Ray of Hope

[Blocker, Mark B.]

Brad:
 
  Thank you for the oblique promotion of new A's closer Andrew Bailey, who I acquired a week ago.  I am now a team with four closers, and it seems likely I will really only need two of them going forward, so if Rick or others need a cheap closer for next year (Bailey, Morrow, Francisco), please give me a call.  I know you, Brad, are probably shopping all of those catchers you FAAB-ed off the scrap heap, like Corky Miller, so I am just hoping to keep up.
 
  -- Mark B.
 


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	From: announce-bounces at usml.net [mailto:announce-bounces at usml.net] On Behalf Of Brad Jansen
	Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 3:39 PM
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	Subject: [USML Announce] Hoosier Dads Provide Berliners Little Ray of Hope
	
	
	Only one team obstructs Jeffrey Winick's quest to become the first ten-point team in USML history: Rick Gammmons' Hoosier Daddies.  "I can easily plummet to the bottom in wins, Porcello and Cecil willing," mused the ever-scheming Roto Meister Jeffrey Winick.  "But to accomplish my goal of achieving just ten points, the Hoosier Daddies have got to get at least 4 saves this year.  I can't believe I'm still ahead of him, 3 to 0.   With Chris Ray on his staff I thought that would never be possible.  But alas, I'm no longer so sure."
	 
	"Look," responded the ever-thoughtful and always-bearded Rick Gammons.  "I'm doing everything I can to keep my team afloat, from trading my cornerstone  Betancourt to bidding $80 of my FAAB on Mitch Maier.  Nothing is working right now, but I fervently hope Scott Linebrink can net me a few saves while Bobby Jenks serves his 45-day suspension for dying his beard pink. That would help the Berliners achieve their goal and, if Nix, Pods and Getz get it into gear maybe I'll have a shot at the Nukes.  And with guys like Thome and Betemit on their active roster, I think I can stay within striking distance. Of course, Blocker keeps pestering me to trade him Carlos Pena and Grady Sizemore for the likes of Andrew Bailey and Matt Palmer, his alleged 'closers-in-waiting'...but until he puts Andy Marte on the table there's no point talkin'.  And how 'bout them Hawks, eh? And I ain't talkin' NBA, boys."  
	 


 
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