[USML Announce] USML - A Plea

[Rick Gammons]

I'm innit to winnit!
   Rick

On Tuesday, January 14, 2014, wrote:

> I'd like to resume with as close as possible to the prior membership of
> the league--whatever will best accomplish that.  I would hope that the
> passage of time--coupled with the fact that IT"S A FREAKIN' GAME--will
> allow people to put any hurt feelings aside and move on.
>
> Mark
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Winick <jhwinick at aol.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'jhwinick at aol.com');>>
> To: Andy Klein <anrklein at gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'anrklein at gmail.com');>>
> Cc: USML Announcements <announce at usml.net <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'announce at usml.net');>>
> Sent: Tue, Jan 14, 2014 4:48 pm
> Subject: Re: [USML Announce] USML - A Plea
>
>  Andy,
>
>  Thanks for the nice note. As long as it isn't an impediment to the
> return of anyone else, I would very much like to return to the league.
>
>  Jeff
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 14, 2014, at 4:42 PM, Andy Klein <anrklein at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   Friends,
>
> I’m not sure quite how to start this note, so I’ll get right to the point.
>  I’m writing with hope that we can set aside any ill feelings from the 2013
> USML season and begin planning our league’s 26th season.
>
> Many of us have been part of this group for more than half our lives.  The
> league has survived longer than an average marriage.  Like any family, we
> have fought, fumed, and argued – sometimes with remarkable intensity.  But
> we’ve also had a lot of fun and shared many of our lives’ most important
> events together.  Without the league to connect us, I doubt we would have
> maintained friendships the way we have for so many years.   To me, it would
> be beyond sad to lose that, and it depresses me to think about a summer
> without the USML.
>
> I am not trying to diminish any hurt feelings from last year.  Rather, I
> am pleading with everyone to do his best to put it in the past and move
> forward.  A few suggestions …
>
> 1.         Let’s have Mark B. will start the annual process of picking a
> draft date for the spring.
>
> 2.         No apologies, no revisiting old issues, no looking back.  Let’s
> buy our software (or in my case a magazine) and start putting together
> rosters.
>
> 3.         If others think it would help, I am open to instituting a “no
> comment” custom on future trades.
>
>
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