[USML Announce] Draft Day (Night)
springkerb at aol.com
springkerb at aol.com
Fri Mar 5 07:18:19 EST 2010
Like Andy, I could go with the Mulligan proposal (subject to timing), but am also OK w/ our existing rules. If we go with the Mulligan rule, I think we need to provide more time than the night before the draft.
Mark
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From: Andrew Klein <anrklein at gmail.com>
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5:30 start will work for me. On balance, I'd prefer to just go with the dump a dog rule, but I'm OK with the mulligan change if that's the consensus.
-Andy
jhwinick at aol.com wrote:
> Excellent. Now that I have your attention:
> > 1. How early are people able to start the draft on Wednesday? Any > chance we can start at 5:00? Please respond to this email.
> 2. What is the location of the draft? In the past few years we've > drafted at Sidley and Morningstar. Mark and Rich, are they available > this year? > 3. Buddha - if you're out there, you need to connect with Mark Winick > to provide him draft strategy, player lists, keepers, etc. Call me > and I'll make the introduction.
> 4. Assuming there are no objections - retention lists are due a week > from Friday by 10:00 p.m. Please submit rosters to announce at usml.net > <mailto:announce at usml.net>
> 5. Mulligans are due by Tuesday night at 10:00 p.m. You can drop a > player, add a player (if you have room) or swap players. Please > submit any changes to announce at usml.net > <mailto:announce at usml.net>. If after reviewing the mulligans, you > want to change your mulligan - please submit your change to > anounce at usml.net <mailto:anounce at usml.net> prior to 11:00 p.m. on > Tuesday night.
> > That is all.
> > TOeFuKi >
>
>
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> From: Richard Robbins <RERobbins at iTinker.net>
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> Sent: Thu, Mar 4, 2010 1:19 pm
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>
> That all sounds very reasonable.
>
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> Gentlemen (and Brad Lee),
> > Subject to Buddha's approval, I've prevailed upon my brother Mark to > pinch hit for Buddha. As those of you who know Mark can attest, > despite my efforts, Mark's politics fall right in line with Buddha's. > It should be a match made in heaven.
> > However, there are some things that need to be sorted out in order to > make this happen.
> > First - we'll need to keep our Mark's straight. Mark Winick claims > the name Mark at the draft. Kerber and Blocker can be called whatever > they like, other than Mark.
> > Second - Mark would like to start the draft as early as possible. He > will be coming in from the suburbs and would like to return to the > safe confines of the suburbs as early as possible. How early can we > start?
> Third - I know this is a potentially explosive subject, but that's > never stopped me before, so why start now. Mark would like to know if > he can bring his son to the draft with him. That request ties in with > the second request, so it may be that this won't be an issue if we > can't start early enough. But if we can start relatively early, Mark > would like to bring Josh. FWIW - you guys would get a kick out of > Josh - I'd put his baseball knowledge against anyone else's in the room.
> > Fourth - Strategy - Mark has agreed to bid $1 more than Blocker, as > long at it appears to be a guy that Mr. B really wants since that's > the penalty for being the defending champ. I've advised him that when > Brad's voice gets louder it means he really wants the guy, so you can > safely bid him up another dollar or two. He's been alerted that > Kerber price enforces, so he should always be prepared to leave Kerber > hanging when Mr. K goes that one extra dollar. I told him that any > hot prospect young pitchers (especially if they pitch in Minnesota) > will be purchased by the Brats, so he should take them off his draft > list. It goes without saying (but I told him anyway) that because > many rookies will be eligible at the draft even if they aren't > expected to make the opening day roster that it will be safe to > announce those names since they're sure to wind up on the Red Hots. > Are there any other "strategies" of which I should advise Mark?
> > On a more serious note, we also need to agree on pre-draft deadlines. > I propose the following:
> > Final retention rosters distributed to the league by Friday, March > 12th at 10:00 p.m.
> > Finally, in light of the very early draft this year, I propose that we > slightly modify the dump a dog rule. In one of my other leagues, when > we draft more than a week or two prior to the season we agree that > everyone is allowed to make one change to their roster by 10:00 p.m. > the night before the draft. So, a team would be allowed to drop a > player from his retained roster OR add a player to his retained roster > OR swap a player on this retained roster with a player that hadn't > previously been retained. Since things will still be in flux at > Spring Training, I think this is an excellent idea. To avoid > gamesmanship, everyone would send their announcement to the rest of > the league prior to 10:00. If someone wanted to change their decision > based upon what others had done, they would be allowed to do so by > sending a follow up email to the balance of the league before > midnight. I'll understand if people want to stick with dump a dog, > but this seems like an improvement that would benefit all of us.
> > That is all.
> > TOeFuKi
>
>
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> Sent: Thu, Mar 4, 2010 7:15 am
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>
> Greetings;
> March 17 it is! What time are we looking at? I can be downtown > late afternoon if need be. Anyone up for a pre-draft > meal/get-together? I just realized that it'll be St. Pat's day, so it > could make for an interesting atmosphere downtown.
> Rick
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