Trade Update

The Outlaw Stars send their 2008 7th round pick to the Wyoming Pigs for right fielder Brad Hawpe.

Winter Meeting Agenda

*Treasury - treasurer? Annual report? Discretionary budget?
*Expansion stuff - quorum, lottery, expansion draft drawing
*Protocol for ownership - hiring, GMs, firing, transfer/sale, approval?
*Penalty for picking up someone else's minor leaguer
*Spelling out division layout, if applicable
*revising our minor league restrictions, both maximum roster sizes and eligibility rules.
*Let's codify, in some form or other, what the minimum lineup composition ought to be.
*I'd like to propose that beginning next season, league fees are actually due by Draft Day, and any owner that has an outstanding balance is barred from making transactions until they pay up.
*Protocol involving regular season games played after the final scheduled Sunday ...
*1-year Review of Playoff Roster Maintenance rule Limits of Arbitration Committee: Championship hearing
*Minor league roster: have they been on your major roster?
*The 2008 semi-finals: one week or two?
*Redo rulebook's page 7 section on defining a week
*Arbitration panel procedures
*Rulebook combing

All-Time Franchise Standings

1. Pine Tar Incident 1,000-813-113 (.549)
2. VP Golden Sox 1,563-1,368-183 (.531)
3. DaFaze 1,560-1,371-183 (.530)
4. Walden Warriors 1,545-1,374-195 (.527)
5. Wyoming Pigs 1,536-1,395-183 (.523)
6. Outlaw Stars 1,513-1,428-173 (.514)
7. Renegades 1,444-1,492-178 (.492)
8. UD Bleacher Bums 1,387-1,519-208 (.479)
9. Oedipus Mamas Boys 832-980-114 (.462)
10. Wrigley Bears 318-395-43 (.450)
11. American Giants 1,238-1,673-203 (.430)
12. Bald Bombers 2 90-421-45 (.413)

Found my ticket stub

ARod

I know we all know this, but as the list of players who are un-tradeable grows, we may find it's a good practice to include said status on this blog, along with minor league rosters and draft picks.

As a best practice, it's just a suggestion.

Dirty Stache

Minor League List

Updated 4/5/11
***Maximum 5 Roster Slots***


American Giants
Tim Beckham, SS (Rays)
Brett Lawrie, 2B (Blue Jays)
Scott Sizemore, 2B (Tigers)
Brent Morel, 3B (White Sox) 

Oedipus and the Mamas Boys
Chris Carter, 1B (Athletics)
William Myers, C (Royals)
Aaron Hicks, CF (Twins)

Walden Warriors
Jesus Montero, C (Yankees)
Kyle Drabek, SP (Blue Jays)
Kyle Blanks, 1B (Padres)
Jordan Walden, RP (Angels)
Brett Jackson, CF (Cubs) 

UD Bleacher Bums
Justin Smoak, 1B (Mariners)
Matt LaPorta, LF (Indians)
Tyler Colvin, OF (Cubs)
Domonic Brown, OF (Phillies)
Casey Kelly, SP (Red Sox)

Pine Tar Incident
Dustin Ackley, 2B (Mariners)
Matt Moore, SP (Rays)

Newman's Renegades
Pedro Alvarez, 3B (Pirates)
Chris Tillman, P (Orioles)
Brett Wallace, 1B (Astros)
Julio Teheran, SP (Braves)
John Lamb, SP (Royals)

Wyoming Pigs
Travis Snider, LF (Blue Jays)
Mike Stanton, RF (Marlins)
Jacob Turner, SP (Tigers)
Manuel Banuelos, SP (Yankees)
Mike Montgomery, SP (Royals)

Outlaw Stars
Michael Moustakas, 3B (Royals)
Shelby Miller, SP (Cardinals)
Chris Archer, SP (Rays)
Tyler Matzek, SP (Rockies)

DaFaze
Wade Davis, SP (Rays)
Jarrod Parker, SP (Diamondbacks)
Michael Pineda, SP (Mariners)
Simon Castro, SP (Padres)

VP Golden Sox
Drew Stubbs, CF (Reds)
Logan Morrison, LF (Marlins)
Eric Hosmer, 1B (Royals)
Jameson Taillon, SP (Pirates)
Dayan Viciedo, 3B (White Sox)

Wrigley Bears
Austin Jackson, CF (Tigers)
Martin Perez, SP (Rangers)
Mike Trout, CF (Angels)
Paul Goldschmidt, 1B (Diamondbacks)
Zach Britton, SP (Orioles)

Bald Bombers
Desmond Jennings, OF (Rays)
Drew Storen, RP (Nationals)
Bryce Harper, RF (Nationals)
Brandon Belt, 1B (Giants)
JP Arencibea, C (Blue Jays)

Traded Draft Picks

2012 Traded Picks
Updated 4/6/11

Bombers' 1st to Bums
Bombers' 2nd to Oedipus
Bums' 2nd to Bombers
Bums' 6th to Oedipus
Oedipus 7th to Warriors
Oedipus' 8th to Bums
Sox' 6th to Oedipus

Mad for March

Here's the link for the official ICA NCAA Tournament bracket contest. Even if you don't know college hoops, fill out a bracket. Winner gets a medal for his team trophy case.

Also, if you'd like to participate in the winner-take-all bracket pool, note that on the league message board. If you choose to play for cash, it's a $20 entry, and the highest scoring bracket among money players gets all the dough.

http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/group?groupID=11425&password=fuggin

Colby-Meer Trophy

I'm giving declaring a rivalry between Oedipus and PTI, as they were expansion cousins. It is to be known as the Green Wooden Monkey Award -- apparently 2004, the year the two teams joined the league, was the Chinese year of the Green Wooden Monkey. Look it up!

Time for some rivalry trophies

One of the coolest features of our new ESPN site is the ability to create all kinds of trophies and awards, which ESPN will retain for posterity in each team's trophy case. Tom came up with the idea for some rivalry trophies, like are commonplace in college football.

I'm creating the Comiskey Cup, which will be awarded annually to the White Sox Fan who has the best cumulative record against other White Sox Fans -- think the ICA's version of Philadelphia's Big Five.

Apparently only I have the power to create new trophies and award them, but I'm having lots of fun with this. If anybody wants a trophy created, drop a line or add to the comments area.

Roll Out the Expansion Effort

Today, I received our first application for expansion.

If all 10 owners were able to find one person who would make a good owner to apply for an expansion franchise, we would have a pool of applicants that would very well serve us.

I hardly think that one per owner is a difficult burden.

Please brainstorm a few people you know from work, from your social circles, who have an interest in baseball. Talk up our league, and give them an app. The league is better for it.

Mid-Season Tailgate

Let's pick a date for the Second Annual ICA Mid-Season Tailgate Festival.

Last year, of course, we saw a thrilling Brewers victory over the Marlins at Miller Park. This year, we're going to an American League ballpark, U.S. Cellular Field.

I'm in favor of doing it earlier in the season, ideally before our trading deadline. It would be fun to be able to talk trades while tailgating.

Here's a few possible games. Let's settle on one before too long so we can get a block of tickets, as mid-summer Saturday games will certainly sell out.

3 p.m. Saturday, July 7 vs. Twins (Beach Towel Day)
6 p.m. Saturday, July 28 vs. Blue Jays (Fireworks Night)
6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11 vs. Mariners (Fireworks Night)

If there's interest in a Sunday or Friday game instead, those are options too. So what's the consensus?

Change your mock drafts (trade update)

The Outlaw Stars send 3b-Garret Atkins to the Walden Warriors for SP- Roy Halladay.

I'm on board with ESPN!

When you get a chance, check out ESPN.com's fantasy baseball setup. It's incredible. It's got everything we could ever ask for, even allowing for customizable year-to-year keepers -- it will save our 13-man rosters, in other words.

I made a sample account, and I encourage all of you to play around with it. Screenname choochy657, password fuggin.

(FYI, I accidentally set the sample league to head-to-head points instead of head-to-head categories, so don't freak that it looks a little odd.)

I can't wait for the Subcommittee! Who's coming, and who's hosting it?