theme smorgasbord league ..waitlist Topic

Here is how this will work.  As each owner joins, I will assign them a randomly selected player (using baseball-reference.com random player search).  This player must appear on your roster.  Then for each of the remaining 24 roster spots there is a criteria for how they are selected. There are no special requirements as to which players start or sit on the bench.  That's up to you.
The league parameters are as follows:
$140,000,000 cap
no clones (except where noted)
no trades
no AAA
no DH
any stadium.

Here are the criteria for selecting each roster spot.  I have also indicated who I selected for that spot on my roster, so you can see how it works.  Any questions please sitemail me.
Thanks for joining.

1. Randon player - Al Glossop (1940) (you can select any season of your random player)
2. First letter of your username is first letter of player's last name -  Honus Wagner 1905
3. Must be an MVP season for player selected - Mickey Mantle 1956
4. Must be a pitcher with 200 k in season selected - Juan Marichal 1966
5. Player must have homered off player #4 - Joe Adcock 1954 (homered off Marichal on 4/29/61
6. Player must have same birthday as player #5  (in this case Adcock was born on 10/30) Jim Perry 1970
7 Player who played for manager selected for #21 - Trevor Hoffman 1998 (Bud Black is my #20 selection)
8. Must be a pitcher who won a minimum of 20 games for season selected - Clayton Kershaw 2011
9. player must have struck out a minimum of 100 times in season selected - Ken Griffey 1997
10. last letter of player #9's last name is first letter of player #10's last name - Robin Yount  1989
11. player must be rated A/A defensively for season selected - Robinson Cano 2010
12. player must be from same state or country as player #11 (n this case the Dominican Republic) - Adrian Beltre 2004
13. player must have walkee a minimum of 70 times in season selected - Joe Torre 1970
14. pitcher' must have been a contemporary of player #13 and their careers must have overlapped by at least a couple of years - Dave Freiselen 1978 (K'd Torre on 6/1/740
15. must be a clone of any player on your roster - Trevor Hoffman 1979
16. Pitcher must have walked a minimum of 75 batters in season selected - Steve Carlton 1980
17. Pitcher must have won Cy young award in season selected - Justin Verlander 2011
18. player must be rated D/D defensively for season selected - Al Oliver 1984
19. pitcher must have a WHIP of 1.00 or lower for season selected - Bruce Sutter 1977
20 player must have been a teammate of player #19 at some point - Mike Vail 1979
21. must be a player who also managed - Bud Black 1984
22 - 25. player of your choice with maximum $1,000,000 salary

Good Luck!!!
7/12/2012 11:24 PM (edited)
Interested owners:

1. wylie715 *
2. speedfreak - Alex Trevino 1978 - 1990 Catcher
3. antoncresten - Orval Overall 1905 - 1913 Pitcher *
4. sparky2441 - George Pipgras 1923 - 1935 Pitcher *
5. jeff4noles - Darrel Chaney 1969 - 1979 IF *
6. ortails - - Terry Jorgensen 1989 - 1993 IF*
7. go_pre - Mart Callaghan 1922-23, 1928, 30 OF *
8. finn2030 - Pat Moran 1901 - 1914 C/3B
9. The Taint  - Mark Huismann 1983 - 1987 P
10. mensu1954     - Hawk Taylor 1964 - 1967 C/OF
11. shysters3 - Roy Ellam SS 1918 *
12. pttsbrghkid - Harry Billiard 1914 - 1915 P *
13. stlbombers - Paul Menhart 1995 - 1997 P
14. brucel - Tom Shearn 2007 P *
15. BCBSMA - Casey Janssen 2006 - 20212 P *
16. bixman51 - Jeff Francoeur OF *
17. specsman - Mickey Witek, IF *
18. CRTyonker - Les Scarsella 1B/LF 1937 - 1938 *
19. hoosfirst - Ron Klimkowski P 1970 - 1972 *
20. midknight - Mike Perez P 1992 - 1996 *
21. euzly - Charlie Carr 1898, 1903 - 1906, 1914 1B *
22. occsid - Tex Vache 1925 OF *
23. yargespdt - Mark Buehrle P *
24. bagchucker - Victor Martinez 2002 - present C/1B *

Owners names in bold have had their rosters verified. Owners name with an asterix have entered their team in the league
7/22/2012 1:31 AM (edited)
2. freak
7/4/2012 8:09 AM
IN, MANGY CURR!
7/4/2012 8:57 AM
I'M BACK
7/4/2012 4:37 PM
i will try
7/4/2012 7:01 PM
we have 5! Please post your roster here when you have completed it, so it can be verified.
Thanks for joining
7/5/2012 1:06 AM
ortails is in....
7/5/2012 1:07 AM
that makes 6!
7/5/2012 1:20 AM
bump
7/5/2012 10:48 AM
no
7/5/2012 7:21 PM
My roster:

1. 1930 George Pipgras (assigned)
2. 1930 Al Simmons (First letter of username is the same as first letter of last name)
3. 1922 George Sisler (1922 AL MVP)
4. 2004 Randy Johnson (290 Ks)
5. 1993 Barry Bonds (3 career HR off of Johnson)
6. 1976 Jerry Augustine (He and Bonds both born on 7/24)
7. 2008 Derek Lowe (played under Torre for 2008 Dodgers)
8. 1908 Addie Joss (24 wins)
9. 2005 Alex Rodriguez (139 Ks)
10. 1999 Jeff Zimmerman (Z last name/z is last letter of Rodriguez)
11. 1987 Tony Fernandez (A/A defense)
12. 2009 Robinson Cano (From Dominican Republic, like Fernandez)
13. 1984 Tim Raines (87 BBs)
14. 1983 Kent Tekulve (K Tim Raines on 4/24/88)
15. 1998 Randy Johnson (clone)
16. 1971 Vida Blue (88 BBs)
17. 2003 Eric Gagne (2003 Cy Young)
18. 1944 Dick Wakefield (D/D defense)
19. 2010 Hong-Chih Kuo (WHIP of 0.78)
20. 2009 Brad Ausmus (Teammates with Kuo on 2009 Dodgers)
21. 1966 Joe Torre (later became manager)
22. 1996 Manny Alexander (under $1M)
23. 2004 Benito Santiago (under $1M)
24. 1967 Jim O'Toole (under $1M)
25. 2009 Ronnie Belliard (under $1M)
7/6/2012 10:17 AM
I'll keep tinkering and probably go through 20 different rosters before I decide on 1....

my original roster though has 3 players from the above roster...but only 2 from the same category and only 1 player from the roster of the commish





that's pretty good diversity all things considered.....
7/6/2012 6:55 PM
WE WANT ORTAILS TO POST!
7/6/2012 7:06 PM
he gets stage fright....
7/6/2012 7:32 PM
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