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I need a replacement owner in Clemens* -- who wants a free half season to steward a lovely team back to fair play respectability?
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I'm putting just about everyone out there and ideally looking to either acquire a SP as good as Cody/DaSilva (lol) or younger cost-controlled quality talent
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tatankatonk posted:ANIBAL BELTRE lol
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Nov 22, 2014 02:42
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Scrotos posted:Wait you mean you want to trade aging expensive players for young good players? Who the gently caress does not? yes those aging expensive players that no one should want to trade any young talent for, like Del Lorenzo or Danny Hernandez or King Figueroa or Bo Chamberlain or let's not act like what I'm advertising is automatically some giant rip-off, I've got more quality talent on my ML roster than just about anyone else and don't be jealous because i'm a #trader
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Nov 22, 2014 03:29
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don't everybody TC all at once now you assholes
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Devo posted:No one wants your aging players 
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Nov 23, 2014 19:06
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Devo posted:When people quote me now it shows up yellow and I'm not sure I'm ok with that it's because your posts are piss YEAH, GO ASSBUTT!
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Nov 23, 2014 19:37
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I need someone to take over a Clemens team in dire need of stamina fixing, it's on like a 31-game losing streak. CS wouldn't give it to TMB because he's already taken on another transfer team Need help ASAP
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Nov 24, 2014 19:19
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no it's gonna be hilarious when someone leads forever and then i swoop in and get him on the last day
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lol I already made someone go over 6m for the 97 pitching coach
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Nov 26, 2014 01:43
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my starting first baseman is named fred now
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Nov 26, 2014 18:26
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AlleyViper posted:I am so confused by this Art/nasboat trade he's taking the talented pitchers so he can flip them, while still moving Cole and getting Yasiel He arb3'd Matos so he's walking on him now, I'm gonna take him on and hope he flips for me and extends, Art swaps him for better trade value in Lorenzo I'm jammed up on 1Bs and need to move one but haven't made any sort of other deal yet
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goddamn the stove is HOT tonight in dimaggio
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Nov 27, 2014 01:28
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Fred McGehee is now expendable, I still have an extra SP most likely, and I could use a good bullpen arm and/or other random poo poo that's cool and useful to me let's make a deal
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Nov 27, 2014 02:08
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gardenald posted:Del Lorenzo: The syphilis of the AL North. How the hell is there so much in-division trading in this division because i'm in it
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you always could've, you know, kept your offer in so I couldn't do that. it's what Jeff did during the McKay Ray saga. reverse engineering hasn't been a secret the entire time I've been playing this game so I'm not gonna apologize for adjusting my offer when I realized no one else was maxing him anymore
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Nov 28, 2014 21:31
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I didn't swoop, my BU signed last night and I took the lead at 3:30 a.m., I only adjusted before the last cycle when I checked to see if anyone else was maxing, and it was no secret to anyone who pays attention that I was in on Creek the whole time. My plan was transparent as poo poo. Also I took the risk of losing Creek if anyone sniped me, which was totally 100% possible with him not at a max, so
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Nov 28, 2014 21:33
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I would be all for WIS actually fixing the broken mechanic so that that sort of info isn't readily available; I think if we made a league rule, though, there's really no way to enforce it? Seems like it would completely be on the honor system.
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if nothing else, maybe we can write up something in the OP for everyone that details max contract tiebreakers, the 'unofficial' signing deadline, and the fact that reverse engineering exists and can work for/against you in free agency? if we can't do something to change the mechanics or make a rule, the least we could do is at least make sure everyone is aware?
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Nov 28, 2014 21:39
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One thing I did learn with this particular offseason: no matter how much money you offer a PC to be your bullpen coach, he'll take a ML PC job even at his base asking price. I led on 97 PC Julio Mieses as my BU coach for a few days with a 7.1m offer, until Los Angeles offered him a PC job.
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Nov 28, 2014 21:40
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I think the real lesson here is that I'm just a loser who has way too much time and way too little responsibility to where I can actually waste time reverse engineering a loving fake baseball game
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Nov 28, 2014 21:45
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AlleyViper posted:You were going to do just that after signing Ray! well we did kind of discuss the tiebreakers after that I think. a little. but yeah.
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uublog posted:lmao if I had known I would lose out on Blanco I'd have just given Louie "I wanna dip my balls in it" Howard 2 years/$10M or whatever the gently caress to beat Jeff, goddammit that's a bargain don't worry, Louie Howard sucks and is not worth it gently caress Louie Howard
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not good signs early on with some of our new owners, between R5 protects and forgetting to do budgets and not logging in for multiple days during the offseason...
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Atheistdeals.com posted:Jeez this is a stacked rule 5. This is even worse than the one with Kennedy/Fox/Hutchinson. I don't know if that's true, just because I think the top level talent of that one (or the really, truly awful Dimaggio R5 -- the one with Brad Willoughby, Jacob Wang, Wally Leary and Bill Bannister back in S15) was better than this current one, but there's definitely a lot of talent out there that should absolutely not be available for free 
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We never did it before and to be honest have the new owners who didn't do protects done anything at all that shows they're actually paying attention?
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not the first guy to flip a 10/5 guy elsewhere, but since, you know, we Win So Many Things in this world we'd better watch me extra close
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then veto the other trade and send Vinny back to me and I'll sit on him
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AlleyViper posted:Do you have examples handy of someone serving strictly as a middleman to skirt a NTC clause to no benefit of their own? Because I don't remember that ever happening, though maybe I'm wrong. no probably not I've just seen it discussed numerous times and I'm sure if you researched you could find guys who were traded, had the rights broken and then flipped. perhaps not in this specific scenario. either way I don't really give a poo poo anymore, y'all do what you want
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I should've just waited 20 games until the waiver order reset and Vinny would take a trade to Charlotte and then no one would complain, but I figured doing it quicker and TMB getting a couple of pieces (I honestly thought he was also getting Grebeck out of this, too) for facilitating was a win for everyone
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the entire deal was supposed to be To Charlotte: Tomas Matos, Vinny Stewart (via LAA), Jade Waner To Seattle: Grant Duvall, Bruce Shaw, Julio Moraga, Marcos Hill To Los Angeles: Morgan Grebeck (via CHA), Addison Clapp and yes the deal was made like that to get around Vinny's 10/5 rights, while TMB picks up two pieces for facilitating and giving up an AAAA reliever so I guess we should be up front about which game mechanics it's okay to exploit and which ones that aren't okay to exploit and get it all out there
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ThatsMyBoye posted:I didn't even know I was supposed to get something out of this I went back and looked and I did mention that you'd get Grebeck and something from Charlotte for facilitating and giving up Hill, but then again it was late at night right before you were going to bed and everything was still unclear at that point on the Charlotte side I think if we were more open about it in thread/world chat or whatever, there wouldn't be much of a problem, because as laid out above, I think the trade is fine on talent returns all the way around (esp. with Vinny's money covered). Unless people were really up in arms about the whole 'getting around the 10/5' thing (which again could have also been solved by the new waiver order, depending on how mine and Charlotte's seasons started). I don't find it to be that big of a deal because it could still be done by others, I didn't think it was a big secret that 10/5 rights disappear after one trade (since the 5 no longer exists).
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EvilBeard posted:Yeah, it's not like TMB picked a guy up and then flipped him for another asset. This trade was done strictly to circumvent the mechanics of the game. except that he's getting Grebeck out of it (I would assume that Charlotte is going to send him there) and therefore he gets something for circumventing said mechanic?
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you can address it to me specifically, I'm the only one who hasn't been overly apologetic about it, the other two have been more than helpful. But god knows *I* won't be doing any of this again, so at least that's one problem solved. And if it causes the world to look closer and set some ground rules about things up front, that's great.
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vote justin cosby i will not rest until justin cosby is in the HOF i don't care if his resume is garbage, let's be irrational about this also never vote paul donovan ever. gently caress paul donovan.
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congarts
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well there you go, at least two guys got in the HOF
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let's win a lot of regular season games and then lose when it matters  the only question is what i'm gonna do with the batting order, I kinda don't like having Don Cole leadoff, might put Duran there with his dwindling power, especially compared to the rest of the lineup
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