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

[Andrew Klein]

Master Jansen,

Apologies for my delayed response.  Several points ...

1.  Jeff Winick -- you know me better that.  I did *not* wash down the 
Vicodin with cheap wine.  It was 12-year old Macallan whisky. Give me a 
little bit of credit.

2.  As for the pitchers, I scoured rosters for someone as valuable as, 
say,  a $10 Martin Perez who might be sporting a 5.00 ERA in AA.  But, 
alas, no such creature was available this year.  So I took two 23-year 
old guys who are likely to have rotation slots next year with a combined 
salary of $7.  They might end up being shitty.  But if they rise to even 
below average, they fit the K9 strategy pretty well.

3.  As for A-Gone, he is $35, not $31.  And when I traded him to the 
Brats, he had only 10 homers for the year.  I had no idea that he would 
go absolutely bonkers the minute he left my roster. Apparently John 
did.  Of course, that's why John is  making zillions of dollars for 
people on Wall Street while I'm toiling away teaching fledgling lawyers 
in Indiana.  (And looking back on my earlier trade, how the hell did 
John know that Jeff Keppinger was going to turn into Ryne Sandberg?!  
Really, people, we need to stop squabbling about baseball and start 
buying John's investment newsletter!)

That is all ... except that I still plan to finish in fifth place to 
earn next year's first rotation-round draft pick.  And if I do, I'm 
going to pick a bean.  You heard it hear first!!

That is all.

-Andy

On 8/13/12 7:46 PM, Brad Jansen wrote:
> When will the Professor weigh in on this?
>
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 2:57 PM, JOHN FRUIT (NUVEEN INVESTMENTS I) 
> <jfruit1 at bloomberg.net <mailto:jfruit1 at bloomberg.net>> wrote:
>
>     well, the market for the $31 A-Gone was pretty thin by our trading
>     deadline.
>     Netting any prospect rated as high as Two Eggs was a better
>     proposition than
>     letting Gonzalez rot on the Professor's roster ( pun slightly
>     intended).
>     Besides, I'm pretty sure Andy was strung out on Vicoden and cheap
>     wine, not
>     Demerol.
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