<div>Brother Winick:</div>
<div> I know how uncomfortable you are challenging the actual evidence I lay before you, so I understand your need to attack me personally. I'm a management lawyer. I can take it.</div>
<div> But I intend to stick to the facts. Contrary to your analysis, the facts clearly demonstrate that teams other than the Nukes, Berliners and Brats have a shot to win the Damon this year. Add an Adam Lind to the Red Hots; there are six easy offensive points to pick up and suddenly you're within range; mix in an Andrus or a Jennings and suddenly you're swapping SB points with them. And if the Bombers or AYM trade their coveted players to the likes of the LMC or Daddies, well then, good sir, your loft at the top of the standings will not be so sturdy. There's plenty of baseball left. And the K-9 have plenty of bark left in 'em. The book on this year is nowhere near finished. Don't write off your competition so dismissively.</div>
<div>Brother Brad<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Jeffrey Winick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jhwinick@aol.com" target="_blank">jhwinick@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Brad Lee,<br><br>Are those "warm regards" or the "warm bucket of spit" that John Nance Gardner once famously referred to? No need to answer - I think it's self evident.<br>
<br>I am curious though since you seem to quote from my email. Where did I use the terms "load" or "owe"? Again - no need to answer - I didn't.<br><br>I made a statement and an indication in interest in a trade. No intimidation was intended, nor do I (apparently unlike you) think so little of my competition to believe that they would be intimidated. That fact is that the likely winner of this league is going to be the Brats, the Nukes or the Berliners. The standings suggest, at least to me, that the remaining teams have too much ground to make up. And you're correct that each of the "non-contenders" have DL players just like the Berliners. The difference is their place in the standings versus where the Berliners sit.<br>
<br>But thanks, as always for your ever so valuable insight.<br><br>Jeff
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<div class="h5"><br><br><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Brad Jansen <<a href="mailto:bljansen@gmail.com" target="_blank">bljansen@gmail.com</a>><br>To: USML Announcements <<a href="mailto:announce@usml.net" target="_blank">announce@usml.net</a>><br>
Sent: Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:48 am<br>Subject: [USML Announce] Berliners At The Precipice<br><br><br>Jeffrey:<br> I do not know what algebraic formula you used, but my best advice to you is to retain your players that will "load" your team next year, or so you think.<br>
You put too much stock in the DL players on your roster. Heck, if all of them perform as you expect, you would not need to solicit a dump deal now, wouldya? Feliz will be a middle reliever, Santos will be lucky to set-up, Danks likely won't pitch again this season and Markakis is well, Markakis--modest power, modest BA (but certainly better than that Pearce fellow you spent $16 to acquire). That said, if you can acquire about 15 new players through your dump deals with the Bombers and AYM you very well may not need much from your DL guys.<br>
I also am offended how your "math" subtracts the Red Hots, Daddies and LMC from the pennant chase. Each of those teams can follow your lead and point to injured players who soon will lead them to the Promised Land. And, each of those teams can point to various cheap keeps to offer in deals, as can the Nukes and Brats.<br>
So, don't try to restrict trade or intimidate those of us (in particular, the K-9) who carry the goods you seek to purchase at discounted prices. We don't "owe" you anything or anyone, no matter how you calculate the ways to manipulate us.<br>
<br>--With warm regards.<br> Running Dog Jansen <br><br><br>On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Jeffrey Winick <<a href="mailto:jhwinick@aol.com" target="_blank">jhwinick@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br>Gentlemen,<br><br>I've done the math and I encourage you to do the same. Short of a significant and unlikely turn of events, this league will be won by one of three teams this year: Brats, Nukes or Berliners. I've sent out feelers to those of you who aren't likely champions and the lack of response suggests that either you disagree with my assessment, you're biding your time or you're willing to settle for a finish somewhere other than first without having improved your prospects for next year.<br>
<br>Despite the tales of woe spouted by my good buddy Brad Lee, my title prospects remain strong. Wil Myers will be recalled soon. Nick Markakis, John Danks, Neftali Feliz and Sergio Santos should return shortly after the break. And sooner or later Hosmer, Youkilis and Moore will heat up to the extent they haven't already. And yet, I sit a mere three points behind the Brats and only 2 1/2 points behind the Nukes.<br>
<br>Hosmer, Cabrera, Doumit, AJax, Santana, Plouffe, Moore, Nova and Peavy are all sure to help a team next year. And prospects like Myers, Machado, Lindor, Buxton and Walker will provide help for the future and/or trade bait.<br>
<br>If there's no interest in a deal beyond the nonsense that Brad Lee has been sending my way lately, then so be it. I'll see if my team has the cojones to pull this off without any outside help and then come back next year loaded for a repeat. But if you want to get a head start on the 2013 Damon - you know where to find me.<br>
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