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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Jeff/others:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> We can discuss most of this over lunch, but a few points of my own.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">1. I want to extend a hearty congratulations to Jeff W on winning the USML title. You took a team that I thought had no chance to win and turned into a title
winner. Kudos to you on a job well done. You and I even made a trade late in the season that helped both of us!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">2. You are right about the close finish. No one really seemed to notice, but all I needed was a handful more RBIs and 1 more win that final week (there were
some other possibilities too, but this is the one that seemed most achievable). Check to see who would have won if that would have happened. I had enough starters going on Sunday to make this realistic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">3. I echo your sentiments on the Lubeasts. An excellent addition to the league. Frank probably needs another tutorial on FAAB bidding, but he has some nice
undervalue for next year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">4. As for Klein, I bested him, as usual.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">MARK</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">BLOCKER</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><br>
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<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""> announce [mailto:announce-bounces@usml.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeffrey Winick<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 05, 2015 4:27 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> announce@usml.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [USML Announce] All Hail The Berliners<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Of course, thank you for your kind sentiments. A few comments of my own:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">1.<span class="apple-tab-span">
</span>Congratulations to Mr. Blocker on successfully overachieving this year by a full three positions. In fact, he even made it close at the finish. But the view from Second Street isn't quite as nice as the one from First Avenue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">2.<span class="apple-tab-span">
</span>Condolences to the K9 for their sputtering finish. And congratulations to the Hoosier Daddies for an excellent season.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">3.<span class="apple-tab-span">
</span>Hearty congratulations to the Lubeasts for having the good sense to unload most of their pathetic White Sox. Samardzija was a disaster, but we all saw that coming (or at least should have). David Robertson, on the other hand, was supposed to be good.
Clearly Mr. Luby knows exactly what he's doing. Speaking of Samardzija - thank you Mr. Klein for saving me from myself. Had you accepted my trade offer for Samardzija the final results might just have turned out differently.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">4.<span class="apple-tab-span">
</span>I stand by my critique of Roberto Osuna. He will be a PAN in the upcoming magazine. I know he's only $5, but he's got fluke written all over him. Some statistics that are interesting: His BABIP (batting average on balls in play) is .240. Major league
average is .270. That's means he's been lucky. Elite closers have K/BB in excess of 7. Mr. Osuna's is 4.69 and has been 2.00 for the last month. That' means he's just not that good. Mark K., if I were you I'd see what Andy will offer you to get him back.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">5.<span class="apple-tab-span">
</span>I'm not sure I understand your 5th item....is it good to be like Nick Castellanos under any circumstances? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Congratulations to everyone on a great season. The state of the USML is strong!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Berliner's trading window is now open. Let's make some deals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">And, most importantly......GO CUBS!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Andy Klein <<a href="mailto:anrklein@gmail.com">anrklein@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: USML Announcements <<a href="mailto:announce@usml.net">announce@usml.net</a>><br>
Sent: Thu, Oct 1, 2015 11:29 am<br>
Subject: Re: [USML Announce] All Hail The Berliners<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">1. Congratulations to Jeff and the Berliners, who will be hoisting the Damon next spring!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">2. Congratulations to Mark B. for preventing the K9 from from achieving its top annual goal of beating the Bombers. (Rick, I'd congratulate
you, as well, but am not quite ready to concede third to the Hoosier Daddies.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">3. Congratulations to the Lubeasts for foisting Jeff Samardzija and Jeremy Guthrie on me in the franchise's first trade since returning
to the league. (Frank - please don't tell anyone that I specifically asked for Guthrie when you were offering Chris Young. Sigh.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">4. Congratulations to Mark Kerber for being the only guy in the league to laugh off Winick's "anti-puffery" as I shopped Roberto Osuna.
I hope the Nukes enjoy owning a $5 closer on the AL's best team. (And, thanks Kerbs, for the 1.3 innings that Jason Vargas contributed to my team. Grrrrr ...)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">5. Congratulations to the AYM for trading Nick Castellanos immediately before he became Evan Longoria ... in exchange for Evan Longoria
just before he became Nick Castellanos. And don't even get me started on Annibal Sanchez. (Doug - I do recognize that you traded Chris Davis to me in 2014, and he did end up having a pretty nice season. :) )<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Maybe most important, congratulations to all for a great season. I'm already looking forward to next year's draft. (AND GO CUBS!!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Rick Gammons <<a href="mailto:ricklgammons@gmail.com" target="_blank">ricklgammons@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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save-punting strategy didn't work! His wily pitching improvements in the other 4 categories proved to be too much. Now it's down to the last day for 2-4 places.........<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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