'85 Tip O'Neill--OF (14th Rd. Rest of the World)

Round 14: 

chargingryno		Illinois
cleonjones		Appalachia  and Caribbean (from grayfoxx)  Robinson Cano 2B 2005
mini157		Stagecoach
stroh23		Down the Mississippi
shysters3		Rest of the World   Tip O'Neill--OF 1885
grayfoxx		traded pick
coloradokid		Atlantic Coast
bagchucker		Calfornia 1990 on
benfc		New York       Orel Hershiser P 1984
shawbigred		Pennsylvania   P Bruce Sutter 1976
cardsfan		Texarkana      Clayton Kershaw, P-2008.
sooners07		Midwest Progressivism
dnmchill		California pre-1990
crazyamos		Ohio (from italyprof)
italyprof		New England (from crazyamos)  Davey Lopes 2B 1973
bublooo		Dixie

Players already selected: (by region): 

Atlantic Coast                Babe Ruth     Jimmy Foxx  Lefty Grove   Derek Jeter  Chipper Jones   Cal Ripken  Steve Carlton   Billy Hamilton  Doc White  Dwight Gooden Vic Willis Al Kaline  Tim Raines

California pre-1990         Ted Williams   Tom Seaver  Joe Dimaggio   Lefty Gomez  Don Drysdale    Harry Heilmann  Joe Gordon  Butch Wenslof  Graig Nettles  Duke Snider  Orval Overall   Tony Lazzeri  Ernie Lombardi

California 1990 on         Barry Bonds   Randy Johnson  Mark McGwire  Tony Gwynn  Eddie Murray  Gary Carter  Michael Young  Dennis Eckersley Jim Edmonds  Trevor Hoffman Dan Quisenberry   C.C. Sabathia  Ryan Braun 

 Ohio                                    George Sisler    Cy Young  Ed Delahanty  Roger Clemens  Mike Schmidt  Pete Rose  Barry Larkin Jack Pfiester  Buck Ewing  Rube Marquard  Dutch Leonard  George Mullin  Miller Huggins

Texarkana                          Ernie Banks   Rogers Hornsby   Tris Speaker  Arky Vaughan  Greg Maddux  Eddie Mathews  Dizzy Dean  Joe Morgan  Frank Robinson  Nolan Ryan  Lou Brock   Brooks Robinson  Joe Nathan   Clayton Kernshaw
 
 New York                             Lou Gehrig      Warren Spahn   Alex Rodriguez  Eddie Collins  Willie Keeler  Frankie Frisch  Sandy Koufax  Hank Greenberg  Jim Palmer  Joe Torre  Ed Morris  Craig Biggio   King Kelly  Orel Hershiser

Midwestern                          Addie Joss    Al Simmons  Mordecai Brown   Chief Bender  Charlie Gehringer    Kid Nichols   Bob Feller  John Smoltz  Chuck Klein  Babe Adams Ed Reulbach  Bill Freehan  Eddie Cicotte

Down the Mississippi          Carl Hubbell     Yogi Berra  Ron Guidry   Mel Ott   Bill Dickey   David Cone   Mel Stottlemyre  Smokey Joe Wood  Jimmy Williams  Glenn Wright  Silver King  Vida Blue  Mort Cooper

  Illinois                                     Rickey Henderson     Joe McGinnity   Lou Boudreau  Fred Lynn  Kirby Puckett   Red Schoendienst    Bret Saberhagen  Robin Roberts   Robin Yount  Freddy Lindstrom  Red Ruffing   Wally Berger  Jim Thome

New England                           Nap Lajoie           Tim Keefe   Mickey Cochrane  Carlton Fisk  Hugh Duffy  John Clarkson Jack Chesbro  Roger Connor Jeff Bagwell  Gabby Hartnett  Jocko Flynn   Joe Kelley  Pie Traynor  Davey Lopes

Pennsylvania                          Stan Musial  Honus Wagner  Christy Mathewsonn  Ed Walsh   Eddie Plank   Mike Piazza  Ken Griffey, Jr.   Rube Waddell  Dick Allen  Hughie Jennings Reggie Jackson   Nellie Fox  Stan Coveleski    Bruce Sutter

 Stagecoach                           Mickey Mantle   Walter Johnson  Pete Alexander  Wade Boggs   Bob Gibson  Paul Waner  Johnny Bench Curt Schilling  Ron Santo  Ryne Sandberg  Ken Williams      Earl Averill  Harmon Killebrew

Dixie                                          Ty Cobb  Henry Aaron  Willie Mays  Shoeless Joe Jackson  Don Sutton  Joe Sewell   Deacon Phillippe  Bill Terry  Heinie Manush  Craig Kimbrel  Frank Thomas  Cecil Travis   David Wright

 Rest of World                        Mariano Rivera     Ichiro Suzuki    Miguel Cabrera  Ferguson Jenkins   Rod Carew  Johan Santana  Bert Blyleven  Fernando Valenzuela  Felix Hernandez  Manny Sanguillen  Dave Concepcion   Larry Walker    Russ Ford  Tip O'Neill 

 Caribbean                               Albert Pujols   Manny Ramirez  Pedro Martinez  Pudge Rodriguez  Juan Marichal  Vladimir Guerrero   Luis Tiant  Roberto Clemente Miguel Tejada  Robert Alomar, Jr.  Minnie Minoso  Hanley Ramirez  Tony Perez   Robinson Cano

Appalachia                              George Brett   Jesse Burkette  Wilbur Cooper   Todd Helton    Gaylord Perry   Hoyt Wilhelm   Bob Caruthers  Luke Appling  Catfish Hunter  Earle Combs  PeeWee Reese  Carl Mays  Rick Ferrell

Pennsylvania....P Bruce Sutter(1976)

I am trading my Ohio pick in this 14th round to crazyamos for his 14th round New England pick. 

To be confirmed by crazyamos.

Deal

14th rd Carribean - Robinson Cano 2B 05

The Anacharsis Cloots delegation that is cleonjones' squad may prove to be more formidable than we have expected, as he continues to fill his Pequod crew with brilliant selections from the round the Horn, and around Good Hope and past Perdition's Flames before he gives up a pennant chase...

from New England as result of the trade:

Davey Lopes 2B 1973

An unusual choice but it strengthens my bench for a long time and in the short-run fills some holes before superstars come online as full timers.

Ok, I will give you an explanation: The quotes are all from Moby Dick. I learned why it was a great book from a small book by a guy named CLR James (Trinidadian political thinker and world's greatest writer on the game of Cricket - author of the best book EVER on any sport: "Beyond a Boundary") - his book on Melville is called "Renegades, Mariners and Castaways", and is about the crew of the Pequod which was a crew from every part of the world, led by American officers, on what was at the time the most technologically sophisticated workplace in the world (1850s) - a whaling ship. The ship was a factory on the sea - you had to process whale blubber down to oil and move on to the next whale sighting, on and on for 3 years or more around the world until the hull was full of oil, the energy source for the lights of the world before petroleum. 

Anacharsis Cloots was a Polish nobleman who supported the French Revolution and wanted it to spread its ideas around the world, to create a world republic of all peoples. So when Melville calls the crew an Anacharsis Cloots delegation he is saying something about an international team. Hence the analogy to cleonjones' squad largely of "Rest of the World" and Caribbean players - CLR James would have liked it. Maybe Melville too. 

That'll be $40,000 please.

apiece. 

Did you all know that there is no tuition outside of the US, Canada and the UK (where it is a recent phenomenon) and that in Australia where it does exist you pay according to your income to go to college? 

In Italy and much of the rest of the world there are only registration fees. 

But I digress. Waiting on news of another trade deal...

i love all the trading now...lots of jockeying going on

Posted by italyprof on 7/17/2014 7:05:00 PM (view original):
Did you all know that there is no tuition outside of the US, Canada and the UK (where it is a recent phenomenon) and that in Australia where it does exist you pay according to your income to go to college? 

In Italy and much of the rest of the world there are only registration fees. 

I knew this. It makes me wish (a little bit) that I had saved myself by going to community college instead indebting myself 35K in just one year at NYC's most pretentious private university. Ugh I need a time machine; first to see Lou Gehrig smash a baseball, and then to knock some sense into 17-year old me and convince me that it just isn't worth it!