[USML Announce] Reserve This!

[Brad Jansen]

Dear Chairman Mark "Bernanke" Blocker:
     With your academic grasp of the numbers, you make interesting but
incomplete points.  You must consider the athletes' youth, their potential
and recent growth trends.  As someone who trumpeted all season long the
merits of Tim Beckham, David Price, Joba Chamberlain and Brian Matusz, one
would think you of all owners would be somewhat sympathetic to the bumps and
bruises that come with talented young players.  And with respect to Clay
Buchholz, none other than roto expert Jeffrey Winick can attest to his
brilliant showing in the just-completed AFL. At 5/y1, he remains a serious
candidate for slotting on someone's roster, if not yours  (as does Phil
Hughes, 5/y2, well recovered from in-season ailments; as for Boof, I really
was kidding, but I appreciate your statistical analysis nonetheless).
      As you know, I am not one for prognostications, but you can take this
to the bank: the Rips *will* finish in the money next year, even if you
conduct the draft in an undisclosed location
without me.
Securitized,
Brad Lee


On 12/3/08, Mark Blocker <mbblocker at aol.com> wrote:
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>   Can you still even hype Clay Buchholz with a straight face?  Didn't he
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>   In fact, your e-mail is a sort of trifecta of overhype.  Look at these
> ratios:  Buchholz (1.76), Hughes (1.71), and Bonser (1.48).  If I pick up
> Brien Taylor and Todd Van Poppel, can I trade them for all three guys?
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