1982 FOOL Offseason Thread!

[Alan T]

The other thread had lived its purpose. Lets get excited about the offseason!

Tonight's fun fact. Masazumi "Slider" Sanu throws three pitches and none of them are a Slider. He throws a Fastball, a Splitter and a Changeup.

[Pike]

Are we running a 9:00 CST tonite? Having a brain fart here. LOL

Pumped about this offseason!

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by Pike

Are we running a 9:00 CST tonite? Having a brain fart here. LOL

Pumped about this offseason!

Yep! 24 minutes

[Pike]

Is there any way I could request a 15 minute stay or so?

My little girl (8 weeks old) is a little cranky tonight, and I haven't been able to really get down to business as I'd like to.

If we can't, I understand!

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by Pike

Is there any way I could request a 15 minute stay or so?

My little girl (8 weeks old) is a little cranky tonight, and I haven't been able to really get down to business as I'd like to.

If we can't, I understand!

If you need extra time, then that is fine. Just say when you're done.

[Pike]

Wilco, thanks Alan. I'm on it as we speak.

[Tasan]

Originally Posted by Alan T

The other thread had lived its purpose. Lets get excited about the offseason!

Tonight's fun fact. Masazumi "Slider" Sanu throws three pitches and none of them are a Slider. He throws a Fastball, a Splitter and a Changeup.

QUIT TALKING ABOUT HIM SOMEONE ELSE MAY NOTICE HIM!!!!11!!1!!!!!!

Any yes, its funny he doesn't throw a slider, but has that nickname. Maybe its more of a wishlist than a nickname?

[muns]

Originally Posted by Tasan

QUIT TALKING ABOUT HIM SOMEONE ELSE MAY NOTICE HIM!!!!11!!1!!!!!!

Any yes, its funny he doesn't throw a slider, but has that nickname. Maybe its more of a wishlist than a nickname?

seriously we all need to be aware of my MLC here

[Tasan]

I think we should have a thread where everyone who bid on "Slider" posts what they bid. It would be funny to laugh at all the outrageous bids he's gonna get.

[Pike]

I need another 10-15 minutes, prolly just 10

thanks for holding!

[Ramzavail]

me too

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by Ramzavail

me too

Is this me too that you need more time? Just making sure I know who I'm waiting for and don't run before someone is ready.

[Tasan]

Ditto on the time. 9:10 should be good for me.

[Tasan]

err, 10:10 for all the east coast wonks. 7:10 for those on pacific time. MT can go screw yourselves.


;- )

[TimGuru]

Originally Posted by Tasan

I think we should have a thread where everyone who bid on "Slider" posts what they bid. It would be funny to laugh at all the outrageous bids he's gonna get.

The Tattler is available in all metro areas serviced by a FOOL major league franchise.

[Tasan]

Ready

[Pike]

still about 5 minutes away or so

[Ramzavail]

im good, thanks

[TimGuru]

I just made an impulse export so please look for it if you had grabbed any yet. Thanks

[Tasan]

Originally Posted by TimGuru

I just made an impulse export so please look for it if you had grabbed any yet. Thanks

Dude, I promise you, Slider won't take "a half stake in the Tattler". It just won't work.

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by TimGuru

I just made an impulse export so please look for it if you had grabbed any yet. Thanks

I haven't grabbed any yet. Waiting for Pike and then I will start it up.

[TimGuru]

Originally Posted by Tasan

Dude, I promise you, Slider won't take "a half stake in the Tattler". It just won't work.

Puh-lease. Baseball is a hobby. The Tattler is my life. I would never give any ownership stake in the Tat to these louts. Half stake, pfffft. 48% max.

[Pike]

and the Black Sox are ex-ported,

thanks again for the wait!

[Alan T]

Ok, grabbing the exports now. Good luck all!

[Pike]

well, after you guys see what I have done.....I may be more unpopular than Mr. Violator.

Definitely went against my usual plan, but we all know what a talent this SP is. If it works out, I will have a cornerstone to my franchise for the next 10 years. It if doesn't, I think I have limited my exposure fairly well.

Still, I can't shake that I might not get him......

[Tasan]

Let the bidding war commence.

[Tasan]

How many days get run right now?

[TimGuru]

82 million, 8 years, VERY front loaded. And you?

[Alan T]

Exports from everyone except Baltimore, Columbus, and Napa Valley

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by Tasan

How many days get run right now?

We sim less than one month tonight. Up until the start of free agency.

[Pike]

40 in 3 yrs

[Tasan]

Pike, could you fix Beens' first name in you sig? As his former team owner, its been driving me crazy. It should be Ite.

[Tasan]

Originally Posted by TimGuru

82 million, 8 years, VERY front loaded. And you?

Close, in years.

Not in $$

[Tasan]

Originally Posted by Pike

40 in 3 yrs

Thats not gonna come close.

*edit Not trying to sound like a prick here either, sorry about the possible perceived tone.

[muns]

that war should be interesting

[Alan T]

I remember a similar war for Artie Wiley. He ended up not taking the highest 2 or 3 offers and settling for a much smaller offer.

[Tasan]

Originally Posted by Alan T

I remember a similar war for Artie Wiley. He ended up not taking the highest 2 or 3 offers and settling for a much smaller offer.

Well that could make it headache inducing for someone.

[Pike]

Well he gets 20 in the first year, so that's my only hope.

[Pike]

so how long till we get the results? lol, didn't know if I should leave the computer and make a drink!

[Alan T]

Wednesday, September 30th, 1981
Brooklyn Brownstones: Signed SP C. McNeil to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $800,000.
Toronto Osprey: Signed SP L. Santana to a minor league contract extension.
San Diego Fathers: Signed SP A. Poutanen to a minor league contract extension.
Toronto Osprey: Signed 3B K. Yamada to a minor league contract extension.
San Diego Fathers: Signed CF T. Ikeda to a minor league contract extension.
Toronto Osprey: Signed MR J. Vázquez to a minor league contract extension.
San Diego Fathers: Signed RF A. Rivera to a minor league contract extension.
San Diego Fathers: Signed MR J. Clark to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $5,370,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed SS D. Stine to a minor league contract extension.
Toronto Osprey: Signed C C. Williams to a minor league contract extension.
Chicago Black Sox: Signed MR A. Audelo to a 1-year contract extension worth a total of $385,000.
Toronto Osprey: Signed CF C. Numbers to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $1,500,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed SP M. González to a minor league contract extension.
San Diego Fathers: Signed C B. Brewer to a minor league contract extension.
San Diego Fathers: Signed SP B. Aberdein to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $790,000.
Wyoming Buffalo Soliders: Signed free agent SP C. Birkbeck to a minor league contract.
Wyoming Buffalo Soliders: Signed free agent 3B S. Kawano to a minor league contract.
Wyoming Buffalo Soliders: Signed free agent 3B G. Jenkins to a minor league contract.

[Tasan]

WHAT THE HELL

How does a player take an MLC over a guarenteed contract? I'm tired of that AI team.

[kaosfere]

And then the world ended.

[TimGuru]

If you want a good head scratcher while waiting, check out Yeow-Whye Liao at my AAA level. Specifically, drill down to his ratings and explain his left-right splits to me.

[Alan T]

Thursday, October 1st, 1981
Toronto Osprey: Signed SP K. Gardner to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $800,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed SP R. Cardoza to a minor league contract extension.
San Diego Fathers: Signed 3B C. Varner to a minor league contract extension.
San Diego Fathers: Signed RF A. López to a minor league contract extension.
San Diego Fathers: Signed MR J. Trujillo to a minor league contract extension.
San Diego Fathers: Signed MR A. Gallegos to a minor league contract extension.
San Diego Fathers: Signed CF G. Salinas to a minor league contract extension.
Toronto Osprey: Signed LF J. Michael to a minor league contract extension.
Wyoming Buffalo Soliders: Signed free agent 1B G. Toler to a minor league contract.

Friday, October 2nd, 1981
San Diego Fathers: Signed CL C. King to a minor league contract extension.
Toronto Osprey: Signed SP R. Williams to a minor league contract extension.
San Diego Fathers: Signed SP D. Gibson to a minor league contract extension.
Toronto Osprey: Signed SP R. Sánchez to a minor league contract extension.
San Diego Fathers: Signed RF O. Garza to a minor league contract extension.
New York Panthers: Signed MR T. Watanabe to a 1-year contract extension worth a total of $335,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed SP R. Schultz to a minor league contract extension.
Toronto Osprey: Signed SP L. Gentile to a minor league contract extension.
Rio Grande Roadrunners: Signed SP C. Miner to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $24,855,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed MR S. Faria to a minor league contract extension.

Saturday, October 3rd, 1981
Toronto Osprey: Signed LF E. Anderson to a minor league contract extension.
Hartford Harpooners: Signed RF A. Rosa to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $1,770,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed CF T. Wells to a minor league contract extension.
San Diego Fathers: Signed SP M. Kirby to a minor league contract extension.
New York Panthers: Signed SP M. Clark to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $4,050,000.
Toronto Osprey: Signed 2B R. García to a minor league contract extension.
Toronto Osprey: Signed 2B B. Erickson to a minor league contract extension.

Sunday, October 4th, 1981
San Diego Fathers: Signed SP J. Plemmons to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $1,470,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed SS J. Bennett to a minor league contract extension.
San Diego Fathers: Signed 1B B. Arrington to a minor league contract extension.
Toronto Osprey: Signed SP J. Coutu to a minor league contract extension.
San Diego Fathers: Signed MR J. Soto to a 1-year contract extension worth a total of $405,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed MR M. Rosas to a minor league contract extension.
Toronto Osprey: Signed SP H. Watanabe to a minor league contract extension.
Hartford Harpooners: Signed MR Q. Medici to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $7,425,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed 2B F. Duncan to a minor league contract extension.
Atlanta Firecrackers: Signed MR A. McPherson to a 1-year contract extension worth a total of $335,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed 3B J. Carner to a minor league contract extension.
San Diego Fathers: Signed SP R. Allbutt to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $800,000.
New York Panthers: Signed SP T. Campbell to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $790,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed 3B J. Forget to a minor league contract extension.
Toronto Osprey: Signed SP S. Lane to a minor league contract extension.
Colorado Rancheros: Signed 3B R. Edwards to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $930,000.
Toronto Osprey: Signed LF A. Zapata to a minor league contract extension.
Atlanta Firecrackers: Signed CL D. Moore to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $670,000.
Colorado Rancheros: Signed SP V. Espinoza to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $1,800,000.
Toronto Osprey: Signed SP V. González to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $2,740,000.
Brooklyn Brownstones: Signed 2B S. Endo to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $1,770,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed CF J. Maxwell to a minor league contract extension.
Toronto Osprey: Signed CF S. Carpenter to a minor league contract extension.
Toronto Osprey: Signed 2B M. O'Reilly to a minor league contract extension.
San Diego Fathers: Signed SS M. Maeda to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $920,000.
Toronto Osprey: Signed SP D. Simpson to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $9,070,000.
Boston Bombers: Signed RF R. Bannerman to a minor league contract extension.
Toronto Osprey: Signed C T. Uchiyama to a minor league contract extension.
Toronto Osprey: Signed C C. Johnston to a minor league contract extension.
Toronto Osprey: Signed SS P. Villanueva to a minor league contract extension.
San Diego Fathers: Signed SP J. Ramírez to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $1,560,000.
Toronto Osprey: Signed RF H. Santos to a minor league contract extension.
San Diego Fathers: Signed CF M. Daniels to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $4,250,000.
Boston Bombers: Signed C A. Hurtado to a minor league contract extension.
Toronto Osprey: Signed 2B E. Vera to a minor league contract extension.
New York Panthers: Signed C L. Williams to a 1-year contract extension worth a total of $290,000.
Toronto Osprey: Signed RF M. Day to a minor league contract extension.
Toronto Osprey: Signed 1B C. Ray to a minor league contract extension.
Toronto Osprey: Signed RF S. Cantagalli to a minor league contract extension.
Toronto Osprey: Signed RF R. Magana to a minor league contract extension.
Toronto Osprey: Signed SS C. White to a minor league contract extension.
San Diego Fathers: Signed 1B C. Ortega to a minor league contract extension.
San Diego Fathers: Signed SP J. Cline to a minor league contract extension.
Toronto Osprey: Signed MR L. Bowers to a minor league contract extension.
San Diego Fathers: Signed 2B C. Hoffman to a minor league contract extension.
San Diego Fathers: Signed SS J. De Los Santos to a minor league contract extension.
Atlanta Firecrackers: Signed 2B L. Castillo to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $930,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed CF J. Corchero to a minor league contract extension.
Toronto Osprey: Signed CF T. Woodworth to a minor league contract extension.
Hartford Harpooners: Signed MR D. Ch'oe to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $2,880,000.
Brooklyn Brownstones: Signed 3B H. Eperaima to a minor league contract extension.
San Diego Fathers: Signed SP D. Ch'oe to a minor league contract extension.
San Diego Fathers: Signed LF J. Bruno to a minor league contract extension.
Toronto Osprey: Signed MR F. Padilla to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $1,590,000.

Tuesday, October 6th, 1981
Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed free agent MR M. Collingridge to a 2-year contract worth a total of $570,000.

Wednesday, October 7th, 1981
Boston Bombers: Signed free agent CF K. Kichida to a minor league contract.

Thursday, October 8th, 1981
Boston Bombers: Signed free agent 3B J. Kim to a minor league contract.
Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed free agent 3B T. Koda to a minor league contract.

[Tasan]

Seriously, I offered ELEVEN million over a few season to Birkbeck to sit in my minors for at least a year, and he takes an MLC?

[TimGuru]

We really need someone running the AI team so we can have some hope of prying talent out of there in trade.

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by TimGuru

If you want a good head scratcher while waiting, check out Yeow-Whye Liao at my AAA level. Specifically, drill down to his ratings and explain his left-right splits to me.

Was an "issue" that we found with several players that we think Markus ninja fixed in the last patch. Markus's comment regarding fixing players that have sudden rating dropings mid season without injuries involved we think was this issue.

My hypothesis on this was the player's ability got so high it somehow wrapped to the bottom again on one side. We've seen about a dozen players with similar issue.

We have not seen any happen though since the patch so hope/think it is fixed.

[Alan T]

Saturday, October 10th, 1981
Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed free agent 2B G. Tovar to a 2-year contract worth a total of $980,000.
Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed free agent 2B K. Tanaka to a minor league contract.
New York Panthers: Signed free agent CL L. Hynes to a minor league contract.
Boston Bombers: Signed free agent 2B S. Orga to a minor league contract.

Sunday, October 11th, 1981
Rio Grande Roadrunners: Signed free agent RF R. Ortega to a minor league contract.
Boston Bombers: Signed free agent LF S. Maeda to a minor league contract.
Boston Bombers: Signed free agent 3B R. Bourdin to a minor league contract.

Monday, October 12th, 1981
Boston Bombers: Signed free agent RF M. Sato to a minor league contract.

Tuesday, October 13th, 1981
Rio Grande Roadrunners: Signed free agent CF J. Álvarez to a minor league contract.
Boston Bombers: Signed free agent 3B D. Faivre to a minor league contract.
Boston Bombers: Signed free agent CF P. Chevalier to a minor league contract.

Wednesday, October 14th, 1981
Boston Bombers: Signed free agent RF F. Monroe to a minor league contract.
Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed free agent RF T. Hirano to a minor league contract.

Thursday, October 15th, 1981
Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed free agent C H. Orga to a 2-year contract worth a total of $1,000,000.
Rio Grande Roadrunners: Signed free agent CF E. Díaz to a minor league contract.
Hartford Harpooners: Signed free agent CL C. Tasköprülüzâde to a minor league contract.
Boston Bombers: Signed free agent 3B T. Zaganos to a minor league contract.

Friday, October 16th, 1981
Hartford Harpooners: Signed free agent MR D. Jones to a 1-year contract worth a total of $2,500,000.
Boston Bombers: Signed free agent MR C. Yi to a minor league contract.

Saturday, October 17th, 1981
Colorado Rancheros: Signed free agent CF T. Kousoulas to a 3-year contract worth a total of $1,800,000.

Sunday, October 18th, 1981
Boston Bombers: Signed free agent RF T. Kouno to a minor league contract.
Brooklyn Brownstones: Signed free agent LF L. Rodríguez to a 2-year contract worth a total of $3,000,000.
Boston Bombers: Signed free agent 1B R. Musselwhite to a minor league contract.
Colorado Rancheros: Signed free agent MR S. Yi to a minor league contract.

Monday, October 19th, 1981
Rio Grande Roadrunners: Signed free agent MR K. Inalcik to a 2-year contract worth a total of $870,000.
Boston Bombers: Signed free agent MR K. Pak to a minor league contract.

Tuesday, October 20th, 1981
Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed free agent MR C. Márquez to a 2-year contract worth a total of $840,000.
Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed free agent MR B. Romano to a 3-year contract worth a total of $1,485,000.

Wednesday, October 21st, 1981
Boston Bombers: Signed free agent CF I. Nakashima to a minor league contract.



Aaaaaaand the winner of the Masazumi Sanu sweepstakes is...........

[Commo_Soldier]

Originally Posted by Tasan

Seriously, I offered ELEVEN million over a few season to Birkbeck to sit in my minors for at least a year, and he takes an MLC?

We discovered this back in the early 60's. This is why we went to a draft instead of just offering contracts to newly created players.

[muns]

Originally Posted by TimGuru

If you want a good head scratcher while waiting, check out Yeow-Whye Liao at my AAA level. Specifically, drill down to his ratings and explain his left-right splits to me.

He got steven harmoned!!!! do a seach for steve harmon and that should hook you up with the scoop on that bad boy