The Beer League is a Progressive League that walks through baseball history two years at a time. We are currently drafting the 1999-2000 rookie draft but we are short two owners.The Beer League was WIS's first Progressive League. The first ever Progressive pick on WIS was made on June 19, 2003 and the first player ever picked in a Progressive League was Sandy Koufax.

The idea of a Progressive League was a long time getting started, but once started it was an instant hit. My ad sat in the league forum for months before we got the 24 owners we needed to start the league. The biggest problem we had that first year was that as soon as we started drafting, we started getting people asking to be on a waiting list in case an opening came up. Pretty quickly new copycat leagues started forming and Progressive leagues have been a standard in the WIS world for more than a decade with the Beer League flourishing throughout.

Now we need help. We are drafting for the 1999-2000 season and we have two openings.

Texas is the first team and the owner of this team did a fine job running the franchise before having to leave. The meat of this team is a powerful lineup with players in the peak of their careers. The lineup will boasts a 3-4-5 of Edgar Martinez (who the owner got as a steal as the 10th pick a few drafts ago), John Olerud, and Fernando Tatis.

Here is the full roster. You can use either the 1999 or 2000 seasons

C- Scott Servais
C- Kirt Manwaring

1b- John Olerud
1b- Edgar Martinez

2b- Scott Spiezio
2b- Julio Franco

3b- Fernando Tatis
3b- Phil Nevin

SS- Jay Bell

O- Quinton McCracken
O- Rondell White
O- Matt Lawton
O- Alex Ochoa
O- Jeremy Giambi

Pitchers

Mike Hampton
Mark Portugal
Kent Mercker
Mike Remlinger
Pete Schourek
Sidney Ponson
Jay Powell
Rick White
Curt Leskanic
Ricardo Rincon

Drafted for this team so far in the 99-2000 draft

Rounds

1- Joe Nathan (P)
2. Bengie Molina (C)
3- Julio Lugo (SS)
4- Dan Reichart (P)

The other open franchise is ACME.

Since 2003 ACME was run by the same owner. In fact the entire "Division of Doom" was run by the same four owners, DodgerDon, crickett, fredbird and Chazzzz. It was an awful lot of fun having the same four strong owners fighting each other every year for over a decade. The long streak has been broken and now the ACME team needs a new owner.

You can see the type of team ACME has been by looking at the key players, Johnny Damon, Ray Lankford and Jorge Posada. ACME has always been a team of good defense and well rounded lineups. They kill you with doubles and speed.

Here's the whole roster...

C- Jorge Posada
C- Darrin Fletcher

2b- Chuck Knoblauch

3b- Jeff Cirillo
3b- Charlie Hayes
3b- Greg Norton

SS- Royce Clayton
SS- Kevin Stocker

O- Ray Lankford
O- Brett Butler
O- Carl Everett
O- Bubba Trammell

Pitchers

Aaron Sele
Hideki Irabu
Scott Karl
Masato Yoshii
John Thomson
Jeremi Gonzalez
Jose Silva
Carlos Castillo
Wayne Gomes
Carlton Loewer
Doug Jones

1999-2000 draft picks

1. Jeff Zimmerman (P)
2. Matt Herges (P)
3. Mike Venafro