<div dir="ltr"><div>Greetings;</div><div>    I too will completely respect whatever the consensus may be.  Samardzija pitches tonight though, so I hope that I can have a compliant roster either way.  Thanks,</div><div>  Rick</div>
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<div>I 100% respect the decision of the league either way. </div>
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<div>I will add that when Rick called to complete the trade I was on the west side of the city six blocks from the United Center feeding homeless children and families. We also went to a shelter for mostly families at Kedzie and Madison-- it's devastating to
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<div>We bring kids out once a month to deliver and hand out homemade lunches which is a great experience for them to see firsthand the way the other half lives.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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On Aug 4, 2014, at 7:59 AM, "Blocker, Mark B." <<a href="mailto:mblocker@sidley.com" target="_blank">mblocker@sidley.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b><a href="mailto:springkerb@aol.com" target="_blank">springkerb@aol.com</a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 03, 2014 8:11 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:announce@usml.net" target="_blank">announce@usml.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [USML Announce] Roster Integrity<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">I think the correct fix is actually to reverse out the trade completely.  It missed the deadline by more than forty minutes.  I'm asking
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From: Rick Gammons <<a href="mailto:ricklgammons@gmail.com" target="_blank">ricklgammons@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: USML Announcements <<a href="mailto:announce@usml.net" target="_blank">announce@usml.net</a>><br>
Sent: Sun, Aug 3, 2014 5:25 pm<br>
Subject: [USML Announce] Roster Integrity<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">   Since our Verlander-Samardzija trade was processed after 12:00, the system took Verlander off my active roster but didn't replace
 him with Samardzija.  Can you please fix it so that Samardzija takes Verlander's spot on my active roster?  Thanks,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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