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

Mon Aug 13 15:57:32 EDT 2012

Wait, you could have had Wieters and Santana?  That would have appeared
really sweet -- a year ago.  Oh Carlos, what happened.

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 1:46 PM, <springkerb at aol.com> wrote:

> You turned that down?!?!?!?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey Winick <jwinick at harriswinick.com>
> To: USML Announcements <announce at usml.net>
> Sent: Mon, Aug 13, 2012 1:40 pm
> Subject: Re: [USML Announce] USML Week In Review: Sign of the Beast Edition
>
>  Look, I’ve already turned down an offer of Wieters for Hosmer and
> Machado.  Having walked away from an offer as generous as that, how could I
> possibly just give him away to you?
>
>
>
> *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:* Monday, August 13, 2012 1:32 PM
> *To:* announce at usml.net
> *Subject:* Re: [USML Announce] USML Week In Review: Sign of the Beast
> Edition
>
>  But 474 in Japan.  So 487 combined.
>
>  I'll tell you what.  I'll take on Machado at no additional charge to
> you.  If he gets to 488 (including any in Japan) you can have him back.
>
>  Just because I'm a nice guy.
>
>  Mark
>
>   -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey Winick <jwinick at harriswinick.com>
> To: USML Announcements <announce at usml.net>
> Sent: Mon, Aug 13, 2012 1:23 pm
> Subject: Re: [USML Announce] USML Week In Review: Sign of the Beast Edition
>   I stand corrected.
>
>  By the way, Tuffy finished his major league career with 13 home runs.
> As I said, I’ll take the over.  You name the amount of the wager.
>
>  *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:* Monday, August 13, 2012 1:21 PM
> *To:* announce at usml.net
> *Subject:* Re: [USML Announce] USML Week In Review: Sign of the Beast
> Edition
>
>  I think I actually said something more like "he's *no* Tuffy Rhodes."
>   -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey Winick <jwinick at harriswinick.com>
> To: USML Announcements <announce at usml.net>
> Sent: Mon, Aug 13, 2012 12:09 pm
> Subject: Re: [USML Announce] USML Week In Review: Sign of the Beast Edition
>    Mark,
>
>   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.
>
>   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??)).
>
>
>
>
>
>   *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:* 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
>
>    The Brats are gone, if you ask me.  I should have held onto Rodney.
> (Hell, I should have dumped in May.)
>
>    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.)
>
>    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
>    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*
>    *  *   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*
>    *      *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*
>    *    *   Owner enjoys rapturous summer, sees iconic images in worn
> tires, joins Cult of Winick.
>    *LAKE MICHIGAN *CALAMARI
>           Prepares for seven months of suffering, plots vengeance
> on Nukes for foisting the Anti-Konerko upon team.
>
>
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