Believe It or Don't! Topic

I got a fever!  And the only prescription is more waiver wire moves!



From an OL I'm in:

10/22/2015 6:25:00 AM Andrew McCutchen '15 Released pitt
10/22/2015 6:25:00 AM Ray Culp '63 Claimed pitt
10/22/2015 6:24:00 AM Francisco Liriano '15 Released pitt
10/22/2015 6:24:00 AM Rollie Fingers '81 Claimed pitt
10/22/2015 6:22:00 AM Dave Kingman '73 Claimed pitt
10/22/2015 6:22:00 AM Jed Lowrie '15 Released pitt
10/22/2015 6:21:00 AM Alfonso Soriano '01 Claimed pitt
10/22/2015 6:21:00 AM Neil Walker '15 Released pitt
10/22/2015 1:59:00 AM Addie Joss '05 Claimed pitt
10/22/2015 1:59:00 AM Joe Horlen '67 Released pitt
10/22/2015 1:58:00 AM Joe Horlen '67 Claimed pitt
10/22/2015 1:58:00 AM Zack Greinke '15 Released pitt

The first game hasn't even simmed yet!

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10/22/2015 7:57 PM
wow... first guess... someone was building a team for a 2015 league and inadvertently entered them in an OL
10/22/2015 10:36 PM
The fever has somewhat subsided.  Only a couple of moves after an opening day loss:

10/23/2015 3:45:00 AM Cliff Lee '14 Claimed pitt
10/23/2015 3:45:00 AM Jared Hughes '15 Released pitt
10/23/2015 3:44:00 AM Davey Lopes '76 Claimed pitt
10/23/2015 3:44:00 AM Pedro Alvarez '15 Released pitt

And not uncalled for, either.  Alvarez had only one at-bat, but he left a man stranded at third with the team down by a run.  Hughes faced two batters in the bottom of the 9th, drilling the first and letting the second bat him in for the game-winning run. I have to say, I approve of this George Steinbrenner-style managing -- impetuous and reproachful!

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10/23/2015 5:00 AM
George Steinbrenner was never a manager. A meddler yes, not a manager. 
10/23/2015 7:50 AM
Yes, I wondered about the wording as I wrote it (thought of writing "ownership" instead of "managing").  Still, it's George Steinbrenner-style to release players for a bad at-bat, or inning on the mound.  I recall George ordering a player released (or demoted to the minors?) for making an error in a game.

P.S. A couple more moves since I last posted:

10/23/2015 12:58:00 PM Jim Kaat '73 Claimed pitt
10/23/2015 12:58:00 PM Rollie Fingers '81 Released pitt
10/23/2015 6:24:00 AM Lance Lynn '14 Claimed pitt
10/23/2015 6:24:00 AM Ray Culp '63 Released pitt

We're one game into the season!

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EDITED TO ADD: For a few games, things were all quiet on the WW front -- eerily so -- but tonight, ahead of the AM game (game 7 of the season), another outburst of activity:

10/24/2015 10:12:00 PM Jaime Garcia '15 Claimed pitt
10/24/2015 10:12:00 PM Pedro Alvarez '15 Released pitt
10/24/2015 10:09:00 PM Freddy Galvis '12 Claimed pitt
10/24/2015 10:09:00 PM Loren Babe '53 Released pitt
10/24/2015 10:07:00 PM David Wright '15 Released pitt
10/24/2015 10:07:00 PM Harley Boss '29 Claimed pitt
10/24/2015 10:00:00 PM Alfonso Soriano '01 Released pitt
10/24/2015 10:00:00 PM Chone Figgins '04 Claimed pitt
10/24/2015 10:00:00 PM Jacoby Ellsbury '15 Released pitt
10/24/2015 10:00:00 PM Pedro Alvarez '15 Claimed pitt
10/24/2015 9:54:00 PM Dave Kingman '73 Released pitt
10/24/2015 9:54:00 PM Loren Babe '53 Claimed pitt
10/24/2015 9:50:00 PM Jim Kaat '73 Released pitt
10/24/2015 9:50:00 PM Neil Walker '15 Claimed pitt
10/24/2015 9:49:00 PM Brett Gardner '09 Claimed pitt
10/24/2015 9:49:00 PM Davey Lopes '76 Released pitt

In just 6 games, 2015 Pedro Alvarez has been drafted, released, claimed, and released again.  This owner's personal Billy Martin!

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10/25/2015 12:10 AM (edited)
it will stop soon on the way to a 16-146 season
10/26/2015 12:25 PM
10/26/2015 5:18:00 AM Elvis Andrus '15 Released pitt
10/26/2015 5:18:00 AM Jimmy Rollins '14 Claimed pitt
10/26/2015 5:16:00 AM Clayton Kershaw '09 Claimed pitt
10/26/2015 5:16:00 AM Gerrit Cole '15 Released pitt
10/26/2015 5:16:00 AM Lance Lynn '14 Released pitt
10/26/2015 5:16:00 AM Randy Johnson '08 Claimed pitt
10/26/2015 5:15:00 AM Harry Harper '19 Claimed pitt
10/26/2015 5:15:00 AM Jaime Garcia '15 Released pitt
10/26/2015 5:15:00 AM Mariano Rivera '06 Claimed pitt
10/26/2015 5:15:00 AM Starling Marte '15 Released pitt
10/26/2015 5:14:00 AM Chone Figgins '04 Released pitt
10/26/2015 5:14:00 AM Gregory Polanco '15 Released pitt
10/26/2015 5:14:00 AM John Anderson '95 Claimed pitt
10/26/2015 5:14:00 AM Vince Coleman '86 Claimed pitt
10/26/2015 5:13:00 AM Addie Joss '05 Released pitt
10/26/2015 5:13:00 AM Miguel Cabrera '13 Claimed pitt
10/26/2015 5:12:00 AM Joe Morgan '69 Claimed pitt
10/26/2015 5:12:00 AM Neil Walker '15 Released pitt

10 games into the season and down to a $70M team salary!

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10/26/2015 12:32 PM
I wonder if he realizes his team salary is going down.
10/26/2015 12:39 PM
I'll reiterate what I guessed above...someone built a 2015 team for a theme league, and inadvertently entered it into an OL.  He's scrambling to make his team competitive.  Won't work, but better (I guess) than playing out the string with a team that you know can't compete...
10/26/2015 12:44 PM
Eventually I'll ask him what's up -- maybe after the transaction deadline.  I don't want to be like those anthropologists in the field who mess up their research by inserting themselves into the action.
10/26/2015 12:52 PM
10/26/2015 1:52 PM
Maybe it's just a new idea for a crazy theme: Draft an $80m team, and you have to replace the whole team on the waiver wire within the first week. No trades!
10/26/2015 2:45 PM
I've had a theme like that in mind for a while:

Everyone drafts the 1962 Mets to start.  Salary cap is $90 or 100M.  Once we have a schedule we all go apey adding and dropping players, and in the forums we get the owners who play only Open Leagues moaning about the dearth of quality on the WW.  

Truthfully, the most enjoyable aspect of the theme would be the dearth moaning.
10/26/2015 4:44 PM
agreed would certainly join that theme and put a open team in at the same time just  so i could monitor the dearth moaning lol
10/26/2015 6:44 PM
Ok I did it. Took 6 of the worst teams in mlb history. $100M cap. Unlimited WW use. Thread is up and running in the classifieds...
10/26/2015 8:15 PM
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