[USML Announce] USML - A Plea

[Richard Robbins]

Sorry for the late reply, I'm in.


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Andy Klein <anrklein at gmail.com> wrote:

> Friends,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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 …
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> 1.         Let’s have Mark B. will start the annual process of picking a
> draft date for the spring.
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> 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.
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> 3.         If others think it would help, I am open to instituting a “no
> comment” custom on future trades.
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> 4.         If someone still won’t play, I might propose holding a
> franchise “open” for the year.  Personally, I’d rather play with a smaller
> group this year than lose anyone for the long term.
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> Thanks for listening.  I’m open to any other suggestions that moves us
> ahead.
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> -Andy
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