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

Richard Robbins RERobbins at iTinker.net
Fri May 15 16:57:56 EDT 2009


When you do that deal give me a call. . .
 
It's an odd year when I'm able to get a deal done with Blocker but Brad is
unwilling to trade.

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From: announce-bounces at usml.net [mailto:announce-bounces at usml.net] On Behalf
Of springkerb at aol.com
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 3:12 PM
To: announce at usml.net
Subject: Re: [USML Announce] JHW Demonstrates How Best Defense Is Good
Offense


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
<mailto:announce-bounces at usml.net?> ] On Behalf Of springkerb at aol.com
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 11:09 AM
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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>
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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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