[USML Announce] USML Week In Review: Sign of the Beast Edition

Brad Jansen bljansen at gmail.com
Mon Aug 13 14:11:12 EDT 2012


I had hopes that this week's USML Week In Review would facilitate serious
theological discussions. Jeffrey and Mark, thank you for your thoughtful
and contemplative comments.
--Brother Brad

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Jeffrey Winick
<jwinick at harriswinick.com>wrote:

>  Mark,****
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> So much for peacemaking, huh?  First he’s Tuffy Rhodes and now he’s Justin
> Smoak?  I’ll take the over and give you generous odds.****
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> But at least you and I can agree on something.  The Brats will win the
> Damon.   A nicely played season started with taking advantage of the young
> guy (Brett Lawrie and a bucket of bolts nets Pujols, Morneau and Mauer) and
> then closed by taking advantage of the Professor while he was apparently
> under medication (Adrian Gonzalez for Jake Odorizzi (a Kansas City pitching
> prospect??)).****
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> *From:* announce-bounces at usml.net [mailto:announce-bounces at usml.net] *On
> Behalf Of *springkerb at aol.com
> *Sent:* Monday, August 13, 2012 11:56 AM
> *To:* announce at usml.net
> *Subject:* Re: [USML Announce] USML Week In Review: Sign of the Beast
> Edition****
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> The Brats are gone, if you ask me.  I should have held onto Rodney.
> (Hell, I should have dumped in May.)****
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>  ****
>
> Great piece on Machado in today's Daily Dose--reminding us that he was
> only hitting .262 in AA ball and saying he's gotten lucky while facing some
> of the worst pitchers in the majors.  I think his "sell by" date is rapidly
> approaching.  But, Jeff, go ahead and activate him.  He'll almost certainly
> get his 135 ABs in this year and blow through the first year of his
> contract anyway.  Then he can be next year's Justin Smoak (who you pawned
> off on me for a perfectly good prospect, Bradley.)****
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>  ****
>
> Mark****
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Jansen <bljansen at gmail.com>
> To: USML Announcements <announce at usml.net>
> Sent: Mon, Aug 13, 2012 11:01 am
> Subject: [USML Announce] USML Week In Review: Sign of the Beast Edition***
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> Wow. What an exciting finish to the Olympics. I can't believe the Spice
> Girls put aside their differences and got back on stage one more time. Too
> bad the Six Pistols are too dead and damaged to do likewise. That would
> have been awesome. But it's time to put aside real sports and get back to
> fantasy baseball and where things stand after dump deals and other
> disasters:****
>
>  ****
>
> *FLAMING BRATS*****
>
>    Per the 8/12 report this team had accumulated *666 *runs. I'll say no
> more.****
>
> *WINICK BERLINERS*****
>
> *    *Owner took time to compose churlish salvo about Machado, failed to
> activate him. One of many bad moves this season. Nothing short of a miracle
> can restore the Berliners to the throne. Ain't gonna happen, but credit
> Jeffrey for keeping the rhetorical guns a-blazin'.     ****
>
> *NUKES*****
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> *  *   How much can Verlander, Greinke and Haren help those ERA/WHIP/WINS
> numbers? That's where the final battle lies between second and third.****
>
> *ANGRY YOUNG MEN*****
>
>      Creeping slowly into the picture, like a serpent rising from the
> fiery furnace of Hades. Can team gain further footing with
> two dead pitchers on active roster?****
>
> *KLEIN NINE*****
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> *      *Hangs on like a bad plague of locusts. ****
>
> *HOOSIER DADDIES*****
>
> *       *Team has faced its tribulation, now steels itself for Armageddon
> aka 6th place.****
>
> *MIGHTY RED HOTS*****
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> *    *   Owner enjoys rapturous summer, sees iconic images in worn tires,
> joins Cult of Winick.****
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> *LAKE MICHIGAN *CALAMARI****
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>        Prepares for seven months of suffering, plots vengeance on Nukes
> for foisting the Anti-Konerko upon team. ****
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>         ****
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