[USML Announce] I'm Out

Sun Aug 4 14:12:37 EDT 2013

Agreed with Rich, Jim and Doug-  all owners are fully capable of hashing out the best deals for their respective teams -  I also have raised an occasional eyebrow at league trades when I thought it wasn't fair value for one team or another - perhaps a little chiding transpires and then that's it.As for last week's trades with Rich and Mark-  hopefully everyone here realizes all I was doing was playing GM of the Brats and maximizing long-term value.  Others in the league know I negotiated fairly and at length, and simply took what I felt was the best deal on the table.  Nothing that hasn't been done year after year in this league as normal business  -  I'm still a bit confounded as to what all the hubbub is about.  It is hard to win this league- as these last few trades today show, teams that are in it to win it many times have to take drastic measures and mortgage some of the future.  As I told Andy, it's almost a responsibility of those bringing up the rear to extract a pound of flesh from the leaders, lest these same teams are looking up in the standings again next year.

From: Doug.Shabelman at burnsent.com
To: announce at usml.net
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2013 17:33:21 +0000
Subject: Re: [USML Announce] I'm Out

Agreed

Doug Shabelman
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From: Jim Barrett <chicagojab at gmail.com> 

Date: 08/04/2013 12:30 PM (GMT-06:00) 

To: USML Announcements <announce at usml.net> 

Subject: Re: [USML Announce] I'm Out 

I'm against league review of trades. 

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 30, 2013, at 4:23 PM, Rick Gammons <ricklgammons at gmail.com> wrote:

Gentlemen;

    Should we bring up the feasibility of league voting for all trades, or would that create a possibility for ill feelings?  Did we ever discuss this in the past?

 Rick

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Jeffrey Winick 
<jwinick at harriswinick.com> wrote:

Guys,

I’ve spent 48 hours trying to come to terms with the weekend trades involving the Brats.  I can’t. 

The trade with Rich effectively ended what should have been a great finish to the season.  There were 5 teams with at least a shot to win this year in what was the tightest race in the history of the USML.  Now we have a runaway winner
 crowned not because of great strategy or foresight, but because one team was prepared to turn the season on its head one week before the trading deadline.

Dump trades happen every year and they are always upsetting to one team or another.  And unbalanced trades, even absurdly unbalanced trades happen on occasion.  I get it.  It’s entirely conceivable that a dump trade could have been completed
 this last weekend that would have put one of the teams in the driver’s seat to win this year.  But when a DUMPING team trades away four legitimate keepers (Joe Mauer ($16), Raul Ibanez ($2), Anibal Sanchez ($20) and Omar Infante ($6)), I’m left to wonder why
 I’m playing this game.  I am not and I REPEAT, I am not, suggesting that there was any wrongful intent involved in this weekend’s transactions.  But I honestly can’t understand them and I have made a concerted effort to do so. 

I’ve been really angry for 48 hours thinking about these trades.  That’s ridiculous.  I haven’t slept well for two nights because of my frustration about what has now happened to this season.  That’s nuts. 

So I’m going to do the responsible thing and stop subjecting myself to a game that is supposed to make me happy but is instead making me miserable.  I’m out.  I’m not going to dump my team, although I’ve considered it.  Even were it possible
 (and it isn’t), I’m not going to try to duplicate the type of ridiculously unbalanced trades that just took place.  I’m just essentially going to stop playing this year.  In that way I hope to minimize the impact on the rest of the teams in the league while
 at the same time moving on from this set of circumstances.

I’m sure that with 4 months to cool down I’ll be ready to give it another go next year.  But in fairness, I’m not presently prepared to make that commitment.

Jeff

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