Posted by contrarian23 on 1/29/2016 2:25:00 PM (view original):

Posted by cwillis802 on 1/29/2016 2:09:00 PM (view original):
As a Yankee fan I'd like to join the league to stick it to all you fools who root for Boston when I win the WS. But I don't like the high salary cap...never played in a cap more than $160 mil and most likely never will. And based on the rules, it doesn't seem like I'd truly be allowed to join anyway....since it explicitly states you need to be a Red Sox fan. :-)

This league will play like a 60-70M cap I would guess...look at dahsdebater's comments...we're going to exhaust the entire history of the Red Sox in order to field 30 teams.

OK, with the rules clarification, I expect it will play more like a 90-100M league

I'll give this a shot.

I've only been to a handful of Sox games in my life but was at the 1990 game where they clinched the AL East and Tom Brunansky made the spectacular game winning catch in right field.   The most interesting part is I did not see the catch.  We were seated fairly high in the right field grandstands so the wall was blocking Bruno!! 

Love to be a part of this league
Grew up watching baseball (Tigers Fan) in the late 1960s. Saw some great Tigers / Sox games in old tiger stadium. Big George Scott and Reggie Smith fan.
Thanks

I'm In!

My story is similar to others grew up watching Pudge, Rice, and Yas in the 70's with my dad. Louisiana didn't have a team so the good ole Irish Red Socks was our team. Had a collection of their cards also. Would be interesting to see who people go for, Stats or Favs...

I'm happy to see WIS offering a theme league. Cool idea. Just disappointed it's a Red Sox theme. I've never done a live draft before either. If they change it so non Red Sox fans can play, perhaps I'd join if it is slow to fill. But I can't lie...I am totally NOT a Red Sox fan. :-)

Thanks for the clarification Contrarian on how the league will play out. Deuce...I can appreciate your sentiments too!

Deuce...if you decide to join...you can be the Bleepin' Dents and I'll be Aaron F-Ing Boone.

What exactly is a "live draft" and how is it different from the drafts we do in prog leagues (in which most of us are indeed "live" at the time)?

That asked and hopefully answered, I had the same reaction to the $255 mil cap as some others - until I realized there was a draft I thought "everyone will have the same lineup and staff" but I see that is really just "no cap" - since in progs when we have no cap that means we just put the cap so high it is irrelevant. 

Likewise the call for Red Sox fans is just marketing, I gather everyone is welcome. So no offense taken - fellow Yankees fans don't worry about that part, just join if you want. 

But not knowing what a live draft is and living many time zones away, I don't think I can participate in this one. But a good trend, so more of these in the future will be good as well from admin.

How did none of us every come up with an idea like this one before?

Memories that the Red Sox have provided me.

1. Has to be when the Reds beat them in 1975 after a glimmer of hope in game 6 with the Fisk homer. 
     Yup, great team, no doubt.  And (the 1990 fluke aside) that 75-76 club was pretty much the last time the Reds were relevant...during the Ford administration.

2. The Buckner ground ball muff.
     

3. Baseball history books and the Ken Burns documentary talking about the Sox selling The Babe to the Yankees to finance a show.
      

4. Also from those sources how the Red Sox fans had to endure the Yankees winning so many championships with the bulk of their players being former Red Sox.
  Yes, there is no question those early Yankee great teams of the 20s were largely built off of the Red Sox talent.  Yankee Stadium could have more properly been called "The House that Boston Built."

5. Ted Williams choking in his only World Series appearance.
Ah yes, those Reds teams of the late 40s and early 50s were memorable weren't they?  Oh right, they weren't.  Glad Ted could bring you so much joy...but when the team you root for is so mediocre for so long, I guess you have to find happiness whereever you can, even if it's poking fun at a man who was a legend and an American hero.   

Ahh, the memories.

"No player season can be used more than once in the league." 
Does that mean only one team can have the 00 Pedro?
I've never done alive draft before.  I want to be clear on rules.

Is the Live Draft feature the same platform as Live Play? I still can't get Live play to work. I wonder if this bug will ever get fixed so that you can play on newer browsers. I had an old laptop that allowed me to play Live but it's now kaput.