<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Good question and I dont see that it's addressed in the constitution.  Is it a 10-way tie, or just a write-off?  If it's a 10 way tie, do we just draw lots for the draft?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Mark</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S8 Active, an AT&T 5G Evolution capable smartphone</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000" dir="auto"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Frank Luby via Announce <announce@usml.net> </div><div>Date: 6/11/20  5:30 PM  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: USML Announcements <announce@usml.net> </div><div>Cc: Frank Luby <zachfehsvater@yahoo.com> </div><div>Subject: Re: [USML Announce] Fwd: The latest from Jason Gay </div><div><br></div></div><div class="ydp1c7b39b9yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div></div>
        <div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The bigger question is: what do we do if there is no season? Pretend there actually was one, and then redraft for 2021 with all contract statuses changed as if there was a season?</div><div><br></div>
        
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                <div><div id="ydp6020ff05yiv6529445989"><div>They ain’t gonna play <br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 11, 2020, at 4:22 PM, springkerb--- via Announce <announce@usml.net> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<div style="margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Exchange;line-height:27px;">Friends, I only want a few things in life: peace on earth, equal opportunity and justice for all, health and happiness for my family, decent tequila, and maybe—maybe—a talking cat that knows how to play tennis and make a frozen margarita. If I never have to log into another Zoom call ever again, that would be swell, too.</div>

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<div style="margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Exchange;line-height:27px;">What’s going on? The NBA <a shape="rect" class="ydp6020ff05yiv6529445989gmail-icon ydp6020ff05yiv6529445989gmail-none" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-nba-has-a-plan-to-restart-the-season-11591207131" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(2, 116, 182); outline: none;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">is prepping</a> an invite-only, no-bad-teams basketball bubble in Disney World—the thrill of Space Mountain, without the blah of the Knicks. Hockey <a shape="rect" class="ydp6020ff05yiv6529445989gmail-icon ydp6020ff05yiv6529445989gmail-none" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/nhl-proposes-a-return-to-play-with-24-team-playoff-11590533718" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(2, 116, 182); outline: none;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">has a two-city plan</a> with a Stanley Cup free-for-all. <a shape="rect" class="ydp6020ff05yiv6529445989gmail-icon ydp6020ff05yiv6529445989gmail-none" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/nascar-makes-move-announces-may-17-return-from-coronavirus-11588282060" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(2, 116, 182); outline: none;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nascar has already</a> started taking left turns, literally and <a shape="rect" class="ydp6020ff05yiv6529445989gmail-icon ydp6020ff05yiv6529445989gmail-none" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/nascar-bans-the-confederate-flag-from-its-races-11591827836" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(2, 116, 182); outline: none;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">figuratively</a>. The UFC just announced a waterborne idyll called “Fight Island,” which sadly isn’t Nantucket.</div>

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<div style="margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Exchange;line-height:27px;">The country’s most stubborn sport is doubling down on its obdurateness, deadlocking itself <a shape="rect" class="ydp6020ff05yiv6529445989gmail-icon ydp6020ff05yiv6529445989gmail-none" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/baseball-had-a-chance-to-be-the-first-team-sport-back-it-blew-it-11591700401" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(2, 116, 182); outline: none;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">in a dispute over money</a>, blowing a golden opportunity to delight a starving American sports audience.</div>

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<div style="margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Exchange;line-height:27px;">I’m not a serious baseball nut—if the Journal’s great baseball writer <a shape="rect" class="ydp6020ff05yiv6529445989gmail-icon ydp6020ff05yiv6529445989gmail-none" href="https://twitter.com/jareddiamond?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(2, 116, 182); outline: none;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jared Diamond</a> is an 11 on a scale of 1 to 10, I’m somewhere around “less than Jared”—but the standoff still makes me shake my head. I want to leap out of the dugout like the late, great Baltimore Orioles skipper Earl Weaver, throw my cap, cover home plate with dirt and shout at everyone involved.</div>

<div style="margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Exchange;line-height:27px;"><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;">Bleep bleep !@#$%!! Is it too much to ask to play some !@#$%! ball?</em></div>

<div style="margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Exchange;line-height:27px;">(That’s my Earl Weaver impression. I know: It’s amazing. Thanks.)</div>

<div style="margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Exchange;line-height:27px;">At first, baseball seemed to have its act together. The change-resistant sport got serious about getting back to action as soon as public-health officials deemed it safe. It mulled a cactus quarantine season in Arizona before settling on a realigned, regional structure in which teams would play in their home ballparks before no fans.</div>

<div style="margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Exchange;line-height:27px;">Opening Day on the Fourth of July was presented as a target. Kind of perfect, to be honest. Made me a little nostalgic and misty. Hot dogs on the grill and baseball? What’s not to like?</div>

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<div style="margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Exchange;line-height:27px;">Then baseball…went baseball. A sport that’s no stranger to labor strife started going sideways. With zero chance of playing a complete, 162-game season, owners and players began squawking over compensation. The players say they already took a financial haircut, when they agreed in March to have their salaries prorated to however many games they wind up playing. The owners want players to get a bigger haircut, because stadium revenues will be dramatically smaller.</div>

<div style="margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Exchange;line-height:27px;">Round and round it goes, with counterproposals, dramatic claims of permanent damage and no solution in the offing. The situation veers from pessimism to optimism to screaming into the void, depending on the hour. The owners are using a familiar tactic, trying to corner the players as greedy and hoping public opinion turns against them. The players think the owners aren’t being fair—or financially transparent—in trying to renegotiate.</div>

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Live sports are starting to come back after months of coronavirus-enforced standstill. Among the changes: quieter stadiums, ubiquitous face masks. The WSJ’s Andrew Jeong attends a baseball game in South Korea to see how they play through a pandemic. Illustration by Crystal Tai</div>

<div style="margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Exchange;line-height:27px;">What a swing and a miss. As Jared <a shape="rect" class="ydp6020ff05yiv6529445989gmail-icon ydp6020ff05yiv6529445989gmail-none" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/baseball-had-a-chance-to-be-the-first-team-sport-back-it-blew-it-11591700401" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(2, 116, 182); outline: none;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wrote the other day</a>, baseball had a chance to get on the diamond before any other major American sport came back. With a nation climbing out of virus-driven lockdowns, it was a golden shot for an old sport with shrinking public mindshare to earn good will and the attention of casual fans.</div>

<div style="margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Exchange;line-height:27px;">Think about it: This has been a long, challenging spring for this country. People are exhausted; lives have been derailed. I don’t buy into that treacly <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;">baseball is a metaphor for life</em> mumbo-jumbo, but the sport is undeniably a soundtrack of the summer. Wouldn’t it be nice to turn on the radio in July and hear a ballgame?</div>

<div style="margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Exchange;line-height:27px;">I’d be so happy baseball came back, I wouldn’t even make fun of the Trash Can Thumpin’ Houston Astros. <a shape="rect" class="ydp6020ff05yiv6529445989gmail-icon ydp6020ff05yiv6529445989gmail-none" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/baseball-wanted-everyone-to-talk-about-baseball-just-not-like-this-11582227326" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(2, 116, 182); outline: none;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OK, that’s a lie</a>. I’d still make fun of the Trashstros. I’m sorry. It’s too funny.</div>

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<div style="margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Exchange;line-height:27px;">Instead, we have a standoff—shades of the canceled season disaster in 1994. Every passing week means baseball’s calendar shrinks. At this rate, MLB is going to limp back in November with a twi-night double-header. Meanwhile, other sports are getting ready to jump into the pool.</div>

<div style="margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Exchange;line-height:27px;">Could baseball blow it entirely and fail to come back? It’s possible—and it would be an unmitigated disaster—but I don’t want to go there just yet.</div>

<div style="margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Exchange;line-height:27px;">The optimist in me says: this huffing and puffing, this is tactics, this is negotiation, this is what happens. Everyone in baseball must know it would be terrible to not get a season under way, so at the end of the day, there will be an agreement and a return to the field.</div>

<div style="margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Exchange;line-height:27px;">I sure hope so. Summer’s coming, and baseball’s already behind in the count.</div>

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