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<div><FONT color=black size=2 face=arial>The Brats are gone, if you ask me. I should have held onto Rodney. (Hell, I should have dumped in May.)</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT color=black size=2 face=arial>Great piece on Machado in today's Daily Dose--reminding us that he was only hitting .262 in AA ball and saying he's gotten lucky while facing some of the worst pitchers in the majors. I think his "sell by" date is rapidly approaching. But, Jeff, go ahead and activate him. He'll almost certainly get his 135 ABs in this year and blow through the first year of his contract anyway. Then he can be next year's Justin Smoak (who you pawned off on me for a perfectly good prospect, Bradley.)</FONT></div>
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From: Brad Jansen <bljansen@gmail.com><br>
To: USML Announcements <announce@usml.net><br>
Sent: Mon, Aug 13, 2012 11:01 am<br>
Subject: [USML Announce] USML Week In Review: Sign of the Beast Edition<br>
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<div>Wow. What an exciting finish to the Olympics. I can't believe the Spice Girls put aside their differences and got back on stage one more time. Too bad the Six Pistols are too dead and damaged to do likewise. That would have been awesome. But it's time to put aside real sports and get back to fantasy baseball and where things stand after dump deals and other disasters:</div>
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<div><STRONG>FLAMING BRATS</STRONG></div>
<div> Per the 8/12 report this team had accumulated <STRONG>666 </STRONG>runs. I'll say no more.</div>
<div><STRONG>WINICK BERLINERS</STRONG></div>
<div><STRONG> </STRONG>Owner took time to compose churlish salvo about Machado, failed to activate him. One of many bad moves this season. Nothing short of a miracle can restore the Berliners to the throne. Ain't gonna happen, but credit Jeffrey for keeping the rhetorical guns a-blazin'. </div>
<div><STRONG>NUKES</STRONG></div>
<div><STRONG> </STRONG> How much can Verlander, Greinke and Haren help those ERA/WHIP/WINS numbers? That's where the final battle lies between second and third.</div>
<div><STRONG>ANGRY YOUNG MEN</STRONG></div>
<div> Creeping slowly into the picture, like a serpent rising from the fiery furnace of Hades. Can team gain further footing with two dead pitchers on active roster?</div>
<div><STRONG>KLEIN NINE</STRONG></div>
<div><STRONG> </STRONG>Hangs on like a bad plague of locusts. </div>
<div><STRONG>HOOSIER DADDIES</STRONG></div>
<div><STRONG> </STRONG>Team has faced its tribulation, now steels itself for Armageddon aka 6th place.</div>
<div><STRONG>MIGHTY RED HOTS</STRONG></div>
<div><STRONG> </STRONG> Owner enjoys rapturous summer, sees iconic images in worn tires, joins Cult of Winick.</div>
<div><STRONG>LAKE MICHIGAN </STRONG>CALAMARI</div>
<div> Prepares for seven months of suffering, plots vengeance on Nukes for foisting the Anti-Konerko upon team. </div>
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