<div dir="ltr">Far from excited. Rips have no upside, MRH have significant upside and plenty of time to regain first. So I shall go back down to the tunnel and into the clubhouse and draft my concession speech. I keep checking Amazon for a Nick Franklin action figure to award myself for second place but alas none on MacFarlane's release list. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Blocker, Mark B. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mblocker@sidley.com" target="_blank">mblocker@sidley.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">It promises to be an exciting race…perhaps not for the participants, but certainly for the rest of us.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Brad, Rich weighed in. Where are you?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:announce-bounces@usml.net" target="_blank">announce-bounces@usml.net</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:announce-bounces@usml.net" target="_blank">announce-bounces@usml.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Doug Shabelman<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 18, 2013 10:02 AM<br><b>To:</b> USML Announcements</span></p><div><div class="h5"><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [USML Announce] The Race<u></u><u></u></div></div><p></p></div></div><div><div class="h5">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Remove the name Winick from the string, please. He quit and I’m not sure why anyone cares to focus on him rather than the exciting race that is taking place. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:announce-bounces@usml.net" target="_blank">announce-bounces@usml.net</a> [<a href="mailto:announce-bounces@usml.net" target="_blank">mailto:announce-bounces@usml.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b><a href="mailto:springkerb@aol.com" target="_blank">springkerb@aol.com</a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 18, 2013 9:56 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:announce@usml.net" target="_blank">announce@usml.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [USML Announce] The Race<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">
<u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I'd recommend that you just set your line-up and forget about the whole thing. As Jeff explained, there's abolutely no way you can lose ("Inconceivable!"*), so managing your squad for the next couple of weeks would be a waste of time.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mark<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">* "I do not think that word means what you think it means."<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">-----Original Message-----<br>From: Richard Robbins <<a href="mailto:rerobbins@itinker.net" target="_blank">rerobbins@itinker.net</a>><br>
To: USML Announcements <<a href="mailto:announce@usml.net" target="_blank">announce@usml.net</a>><br>Sent: Wed, Sep 18, 2013 9:45 am<br>Subject: Re: [USML Announce] The Race<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Still waiting for the Winick prophecy to take place. . .<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Rick Gammons <<a href="mailto:ricklgammons@gmail.com" target="_blank">ricklgammons@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Greetings;<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Guess it'll be up to us to pen some congratulatory tunes if the 'Torns hang on. On a semi-related note, I don't know if any of you are doing the Shandler September league, but in my 29-team league I was in 28th at the first reporting period - now I'm in 3rd, on the heels of Shandler, who's team is in 2nd. I must say it is a blast seeing daily reports with double figure RBIs & runs scored, as well as a QS or two. Hurry up, 2014 season.........<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Rick<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 7:02 AM, JOHN FRUIT <<a href="mailto:jtfruit@msn.com" target="_blank">jtfruit@msn.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">yes Brad, here's hoping you didn't fall through the hole at that Hayward outhouse. <br>
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</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 06:59:56 -0500<br>From: <a href="mailto:blockermark@gmail.com" target="_blank">blockermark@gmail.com</a><br>
To: <a href="mailto:announce@usml.net" target="_blank">announce@usml.net</a><br>Subject: [USML Announce] The Race <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><br>
<br>Hey Brad, you have been awfully quiet these last couple of weeks. Any comment on the exciting USML title race? <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Note to self: maybe I should sit on a cardboard box at next year's draft.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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