[USML Announce] JHW Demonstrates How Best Defense Is Good Offense

Fri May 15 15:54:33 EDT 2009

I think it's time for some Green Day......

On 5/15/09, springkerb at aol.com <springkerb at aol.com> wrote:
>
> The difference is that I'm making a serious offer.  I am literally
> proposing that Brad and I exchange franchises.  This is not hypothetical.
> If he's up for it, you can kiss your comfort zone goodbye.
>
> Here to kick your butt, Mark K.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blocker, Mark B. <mblocker at Sidley.com>
> To: USML Announcements <announce at usml.net>
> Sent: Fri, 15 May 2009 12:57 pm
> Subject: RE: [USML Announce] JHW Demonstrates How Best Defense Is Good
> Offense
>
>   Brad:
>
>   Just by way of analogy, I went to an auto dealer last weekend (not a
> Maserati dealer, so I did not see Jeff W. there), and they told me that, if
> they were me, they would be in the market for a new car.  I know that was
> unbiased advice, so I may start shopping in earnest soon.
>
>   -- Here to Help,  Mark B.
>
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> *From:* announce-bounces at usml.net [mailto:announce-bounces at usml.net<announce-bounces at usml.net?>]
> *On Behalf Of *springkerb at aol.com
> *Sent:* Friday, May 15, 2009 11:09 AM
> *To:* announce at usml.net
> *Subject:* Re: [USML Announce] JHW Demonstrates How Best Defense Is Good
> Offense
>
>
> Tell you what, Brad.  I'll take over management of the Rips, you take over
> management of the Nukes, and then you can dump to me.  If I were where you
> were, I'd have my foot firmly on the gas.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Jansen <bljansen at gmail.com>
> To: USML Announcements <announce at usml.net>
> Sent: Fri, 15 May 2009 9:32 am
> Subject: [USML Announce] JHW Demonstrates How Best Defense Is Good Offense
>
>  My Dear Brother Jeffrey:
>     I know none of your caustic remarks were aimed at me since I already
> have made trades to enhance my team this year; two, in fact, and both with
> you (and as unseemly as it is of you to trash the very players you traded
> the Bombers to support your claim that his team can be beat, I must mention
> that the likes of  Sonnanstine, DeRosa and Beltre have not exactly done
> wonders for my place in the standings, but we can discuss that another day,
> specifically when I negotiate the return of Brandon Wood as part of my dump
> deal to you).
>     But I must call you to task on your missive, in which you frankly
> come off like Dick Cheney, grousing that he cannot now access memorandum
> previously classified confidential by virtue of his own fiat.  Here you
> chide owners for their reticence in making deals, but that reticence results
> from your own actions, to wit, your trade to the Bombers that enabled them
> to acquire such a huge lead. Now as you know, I am taking a
> correspondence course in economics offered by Harvard, so I know a little
> about irrational exuberance (i.e., your  love of Wieters) and the notion
> that the market --and you know I very much am a free market man-- does not
> always reflect rational thinking (i.e., your  love of Wieters).  So while
> you may think it irrational that other owners are not spending or buying in
> this current market, they very well may think that their actions are quite
> rational.  In any event, the market will determine whether or when other
> owners feel it appropriate to dip in and take a risk.  They do not
> need another owner to serve as the USML's Timothy Geithner.
>    As I review your missive, I think that perhaps your anger results from a
> deep disdain of popular culture. You do not like, and you have never liked,
> popular songs, least of all parodies of them. But, Jeffrey, popular culture
> is the only culture I know.  Unlike yours, my family did not spend summers
> in Cape Cod sailing with the Buckleys and drinking with the Cheevers.  We
> did not spend our summer nights listening to classical music played on the
> Atlantic shores. I was lucky if my dear departed father could afford a
> single A battery for my transistor radio.  So if my parody of "Let It Be"
> (Beatles, 1970) set you off, I apologize. But let me reach out to you and
> offer you a hand of friendship, a hand that bridges our cultural divide, a
> hand that heals.
>   It's a long and winding road, my dear brother. Give us a chance to take
> our sad teams and make them better.
> Regards,
> Brad Lee
>
>
> On 5/14/09, jhwinick at aol.com <jhwinick at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> The thought of concession, let alone to the Bombers, has always have been
>> and always will be sacrilegious.  No song here, guys....just some facts to
>> chew on.
>>
>> Sure, the Little Ripper's got a nice lead on the field.  But its May 14th
>> for heaven's sake.  Not to pick at an old wound, but the Hoosier Daddies
>> enjoyed a considerably more commanding lead well into August a few years ago
>> and we all know who got the last "laffey" that year.  Heck, if no one among
>> you is man enough to make a run at the Bombers, I'm half tempted to reverse
>> engines a la the Big Rippers and come after him myself.
>>
>> Lets take a closer look, shall we?
>>
>> This is an offense that has only one superstar hitter in Kinsler.  The
>> rest of the offense is built around guys like Garko, Aybar, Figgins, Rivera,
>> Ordonez, Wells, Scott, Rolen, Kendrick.  Are you kidding me?  And there is a
>> suggestion that everyone should just step aside and allow him to accede to
>> the throne.  Just for kicks, take a look at the total number of DL days for
>> Figgins, Rivera, Ordonez, Wells, Martinez, Scott and Rolen the last 3
>> years.  'nuff said.
>>
>> I'll admit that the pitching looks good on the surface.  But look a little
>> closer.  Galarraga's ERA is now up past 4.6.  Burnett's ERA has been
>> climbing steadily and now exceeds 5.3 and he's on a Yankees team that looks
>> like a disaster waiting to happen.  Bedard has been great but is already
>> complaining about how his arm feels.  The King might finally be coming
>> around, but with that pen behind him and that team (not) putting up runs for
>> him, there won't be many wins.  I'll admit that Garza looks great.  In fact,
>> he's looking like a nice keeper at 15.  But he'll not nearly enough to
>> support a wire to wire victory.  Joba has been decidely ordinary (1.55
>> WHIP) and looks like a guy that would be better off closing games than
>> starting them.  Another pain in Mariano's elbow and the next thing you know,
>> Mr. B finds himself even deeper in closers.  And speaking of
>> closers....Morrow blows another one today (taking a win away from King Felix
>> in the process), Francisco is ailing and Andrew Bailey is...well....Andrew
>> Bailey.  And don't even get me started on the clown with the dead squirel
>> hanging from his chin.
>>
>> The bottom line is that the Little Rippers haven't yet been pushed.  There
>> hasn't been any of the consolidation of talent that has marked the last few
>> years of our league's history.  If the Nukes really are throwing in the
>> towel, there is enough talent on that team alone to push Buddha, the Big
>> Ripper or the Calamari to a title.  And both the Hoosiers and the Red Hots
>> still have plenty of talent to move around themselves.  If David Price nets
>> King Felix and Matt Garza, what is Evan Longoria worth?  Hard to imagine,
>> but I'm eager to find out.
>>
>> The year has only just begun.  As I see it, at the very minimum, the
>> Little Rippers have a few more keepers that they should be compelled to
>> move.  If the season ends with a Little Ripper title and the likes of Joba,
>> Morrow, Francisco, Garza and Masterson still on their roster, we should all
>> be ashamed of ourselves.
>>
>> Now get out there and make it interesting.  Otherwise, come June 1, I'll
>> be entertaining offers for my beans
>>
>> That is all.
>>
>> TOeFuKi
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: springkerb at aol.com
>> To: announce at usml.net
>> Sent: Wed, 13 May 2009 8:28 pm
>> Subject: Re: [USML Announce] "Just Concede".....With Apologies to Beatle
>> Paul
>>
>> Great work, but I can remember when such thoughts were sacrilegious in the
>> Berliner camp.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Brad Jansen <bljansen at gmail.com>
>> To: USML Announcements <announce at usml.net>
>> Sent: Wed, 13 May 2009 4:30 pm
>> Subject: [USML Announce] "Just Concede".....With Apologies to Beatle Paul
>>
>>  When I see my team fall in the standings, Brother Blocker comes to me
>> Speaking words of wisdom, just concede
>> And there with Jeff and Robbins, he is trading right in front of me
>> Speaking words of wisdom, just concede
>>
>> Just concede, just concede, just concede, just concede
>> Listen to Mark Blocker, just concede.
>>
>> And when the Bombers and Berliners finally and for once agree
>> There will be Matt Wieters, just concede
>> And though Price is just a prospect there's no doubt about his pedigree
>> And what about that Bailey, just concede.
>>
>> Just concede, just concede....
>>
>> And now with third place fading, I must worry about the Calamari
>> And who's trading for that Morrow, just concede
>> When I've heard enough from Winick, Brother Blocker comes to me
>> Speaking words of wisdom, just concede.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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