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CBL LINKS
MY
POLICY REGARDING TRADE CONFIRMATIONSI
believe I
have been in
charge of the rosters for six or more years.
I
don't recall a single instance in the CBL where a trade was announced
and then found to be counter to what both parties had agreed upon.
For this
reason I have
never compelled members to "confirm" trade announcements.
I
realize that most other leagues require this and given the
idiosyncrasies of those organizations it is probably an advisable
maneuver.
But
I still don't see the necessity for a CBL member to announce to me, or
to the whole league for that matter, that they confirm a trade that has
been announced.
A
trade, in my opinion, becomes official when notification has come to me
and I have posted the trade on the webpage. I try to not post
the
trade until I've updated the database and adjusted the draft pick grid
(even though I do not usually upload the draft pick grid to
the
webpage link at that time).
| Managers may trade draft picks for the next free agent draft only. As soon as the free agent draft begins, picks for the subsequent draft may be traded. A manager may trade as many of his draft picks as he wishes, but must have at least six draft picks at all times, two of which must be in the fourth round or higher. |
TRADES MADE ON DRAFT DAY
(SUNDAY NOV 8th) Whiz Kids
trade Heath Bell to Cubs for Cubs 2010 #1 Whiz Kids trade 2009 picks #10 and #110 to Rogues for Rogues 2010 #1 pick and 2009 pick # 58 Whiz Kids trade pick # 90 to Comets for Comets 2010 #5 Ungulates trade pick #36 to Sluggers for Sluggers 2010 #2. Ungulates trade pick #14 and #32 to Ponies for #9 and #69 Baseball trades Todd Helton + picks #38 & #41 to Titans for Neftali Feliz & Delmon Young Revival trades Drew Stubbs and 2010 #3 to Titans for Marco Scutaro A's trade Pick #48 to Mavs for 2010 #2 Ungulates trade picks #69 and #74 to Zips for pick #54 Baseball trades picks #87 & #118 to Titans Revival 2010 #3 Ungulates trade Brandon Morrow and pick #112 to Bombers for pick #92 Zips trade Brandon Phillips, 2010 Zips #1 and pick #74 to Ungulates for picks #20, #24, and #40 Zips trade pick #54 to Ungulates for picks #69 and #74 Ponies trade Joe Thatcher to Titans for Titans 2010 #3. Ponies trade pick #42 to Canes for pick #116 and Canes 2010 #2 Zips trade picks #134 and #154 to Dream for Dream 2010 #6. Bombers trade Bombers 2010 #5 to A's for pick #108 Ungulates trade 2010 #7 to Sluggers for pick #153 Mitts trade pick 142 + Mitts 2010 #8 to Comets for Comets 2010 #6 Revival trades Carlos Ruiz and Kaz Matsui to Comets for Jose Lopez and Koyie Hill |
Available: Felipe Lopez, Yorvit Torrealba, Lyle
Overbay, Josh Willingham, Kyle Kendrick, and Aaron Cunningham.
Joe Crede available (probable 3b-2 with an OPS of 775 vs RHP)
Comets
seeking an inexpensive straight righty reliever with at least 50 IP and a decent
card. No objection to old as the hills
Revival has for sale signs up on Jose Arredondo, Juan Cruz, Braden Looper and
Alfonso Soriano
A's have extra SP available. Willing to trade 1 from
group of Johan Santana, Wandy Rodriguez or John Maine
Mike Hampton,
Bobby Jenks, Chad Qualls, Clayton Richard, Miguel Olivo, Jamie Carroll,
Mark DeRosa, Adam Everett, Placio Polanco, Edgar Renteria, Chris
Coghlan, Corie Hart, Manny Ramirez 
Jorge de la Rosa, Howie Kendrick, Adam LaRoche, Aaron
Harang, Jr Towles, Yusmeiro Petit, Andy Sonnanstine, Ramon Hernandez.
THANKSGIVING MESSAGE by Randy As the approaching Thanksgiving holiday provides us focus to reflect on the elements of our lives for which we are thankful, Larry has asked me to write our traditional, one CBL member’s perspective. To be honest, as is likely true for all of us, I could not hope to include in only a paragraph or three all the things for which I am thankful. Hopefully, my highlights will resonate with yours. First and foremost, I am thankful for the health and good fortune of my family. The cast includes most prominently my loving wife, Laurie, and son, Tyler. Laurie has been unwavering through more than 30 years of life’s highs and lows, and she shares my life’s passions of dogs, baseball, and travel (although a “married-into-it” rather than “born-into-it” Red Sox fan, she has now eclipsed my devotion). Tyler, despite earlier challenges in life, is now progressing wonderfully into a very capable, enjoyable, adult as a Junior at Virginia Commonwealth University (those of you longer-toothed CBLers may remember that it was the requisite time to serve Tyler’s need’s that led to my reluctant original resignation). I should also not want to leave out my brother and sister and extended families, and especially not my parents who thankfully are thriving and active as they move along in their 80’s. For these blessings of family I am profoundly grateful. Beyond giving thanks for family and a litany of the mundane necessities and economic opportunities that I try mightily not to take for granted (and without which, the luxury of this more philosophical reflection would not be possible), I give thanks for the lessons that life has taught me. Significant among those lessons is that life truly is more about the journey than the destination. Successes and failures come and go. The moments shared and relationships created with family, friends, teammates, and others along the path to those events are life’s real enduring treasures. They are truly what should be watched for and cherished and are that for which we should be thankful. In that light, as Thanksgiving approaches, I am tremendously thankful for the camaraderie and memories from this collection of friends that we call the CBL. I am sure that we all have our cherished moments from our CBL time. Mine span the gambit of two old-time draft days at my house with five or six managers studying lists and waiting for updates, to a multi-manager extravaganza game-fest at Larry Smith’s house to Great Neck road trips for Strat-O-Matic’s card release day, to O’s games with Bob, Andy, Ted Marconi, and Doug Williams, to stopping at a pay phone en route to a Maryland Eastern Shore vacation and finding out the Icons had lost just enough games in their final series for the ‘Jacks to squeak past them into the playoffs, to a long late-night discussion of the ideal characteristics for a baseball simulation with John Shirey after he had just beaten my brains out in Chicago for yet another CBL championship to many, many others. We have an amazing league with many long-enduring friendships, father and son participants, and countless memorable moments from this tiny slice of life's journey. For that we should all be thankful. Thanks guys and have a happy and safe Thanksgiving. |
