[USML Announce] Riptorns Suspend 2012 Championship Campaign

[Brad Jansen]

Mark, at this time I don't know what to offer besides condolences.
--Brad Lee

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:08 PM, <springkerb at aol.com> wrote:

> I'm still waiting for that offer, Brad.
>
> Mark
>
>
>   -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Jansen <bljansen at gmail.com>
> To: USML Announcements <announce at usml.net>
> Sent: Tue, Apr 10, 2012 2:28 pm
> Subject: [USML Announce] Riptorns Suspend 2012 Championship Campaign
>
>  Reporting from Jeff Winick's Hot Tub--
>
> Riptorns executive Brad Jansen announced Tuesday that he will suspend the
> Riptorns' 2012 campaign but vowed “we are not done trading.”
>
> “While this championship race is over for us, for me…we are not done
> trading,” Jansen said. “ We are going to continue to trade for those
> keepers…. There’s a lot of greatness, a lot of greatness in this league.”
>
> In a somber press conference in Jeffrey Winick's sauna, the conservative
> Riptorn CEO said he and his family had made the decision to draft players
> like Smoak, Conger and Chisenhall during a discussion at White Castle's,
> and that it was similarly a family decision to suspend the 2012
> championship campaign. He recounted the nearly monthlong campaign.
>
> “It was a love affair for me, going from team to team and seeing the
> differences, but seeing the wonderful, wonderful people of this USML,” he
> said.
>
> "But now it's time to provide opportunity for fine ballplayers like
> Andrus, Lind, Upton, Jones and Danks to play for a winner who will go all
> the way and fight for what's right: The Damon."
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