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robbyberto said:
If you have a yahoo profile with a good track record I think that would go a long way.

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I sent him a PM yesterday asking if he had ever played before.  Haven't heard back yet so I went through his post history.  The only posts he made re baseball were about the botched call in the perfect game, the Phillie fan who puked on people and condolences to the Rockie's family of fans when the owner dropped dead.  That's it.  Maybe a total of 6 or 8 posts.  So I'm going to  give a for the same reason I gave a to MadSeasonAbove.  They aren't baseball fans.

As of right now we have 7 registered.  I expect Cowgold to eventually sign on because he took the active step to send me his e-mail.  Madtown, not so much so let's just assume that we have 8.  Which is fine.  It would also be fine if we add up to 4 more committed baseball fans.  What isn't fine is adding a bunch of flakes and phonies just to pad the numbers.

If we end up with just 8 teams I am probably going to add more active positions just so we don't have a situation where there is too much talent in the free agent pool.  With 12 teams of 23 players each we have 276 players on rosters and, between relievers and hitters, 140 players active on any given day.  I don't count starters there because they are functions of the innings limit.  At any rate I would like to try to maintain that kind of depth even with fewer teams.  This can be accomplished by adding more active player spots and possibly raising the innings limit.  I am less sure of the latter but classic rot has 2 Catchers, 1 Corner Infielder, 1 Middle Infielder and 5 total OFs active on any given day.  That adds 5 hitters, which will offset the decreased size and give us 14X8 hitters (112) as opposed to 9X12 (108) in the larger league.  Further, we could add an RP spot to the 2 current ones which would yield similar closer quantities.  Finally, I will add 1 or 2 Bench spots just to keep the total number of players tied up about the same.  Finally, there will definitely be an even number of players selected just to maintain the equanimity of the snake draft.

None of this will be determined until we fix the league size, though, so if anybody wants to recruit genuine baseball fans who aren't flaky dipshits, like leanin, then you should get on it.

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Gastronomicus said:
I'll draft him and trade him for Nick Markakis again

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zappaisgod said:




As of right now we have 7 registered.  I expect Cowgold to eventually sign on because he took the active step to send me his e-mail.  Madtown, not so much so let's just assume that we have 8.  Which is fine.  It would also be fine if we add up to 4 more committed baseball fans.  What isn't fine is adding a bunch of flakes and phonies just to pad the numbers.

If we end up with just 8 teams I am probably going to add more active positions just so we don't have a situation where there is too much talent in the free agent pool.  With 12 teams of 23 players each we have 276 players on rosters and, between relievers and hitters, 140 players active on any given day.  I don't count starters there because they are functions of the innings limit.  At any rate I would like to try to maintain that kind of depth even with fewer teams.  This can be accomplished by adding more active player spots and possibly raising the innings limit.  I am less sure of the latter but classic rot has 2 Catchers, 1 Corner Infielder, 1 Middle Infielder and 5 total OFs active on any given day.  That adds 5 hitters, which will offset the decreased size and give us 14X8 hitters (112) as opposed to 9X12 (108) in the larger league.  Further, we could add an RP spot to the 2 current ones which would yield similar closer quantities.  Finally, I will add 1 or 2 Bench spots just to keep the total number of players tied up about the same.  Finally, there will definitely be an even number of players selected just to maintain the equanimity of the snake draft.

None of this will be determined until we fix the league size, though, so if anybody wants to recruit genuine baseball fans who aren't flaky dipshits, like leanin, then you should get on it.

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robbyberto said:
I am intensely determined to beat you. My amount of knowledge about the players is fairly ridiculous.

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