LOTO FINALS - STADIUM DRAFT - cubs

[ROBERTVOZZA]

Great job coming back to take it all as you did. Condolences, Mike(Riggo)...Maybe next year will be the one. I think you may have the highest Win Pct. of all LOTO Teams alltime tho.

Hoist the LOTO Championship Flag for your team, AT...Well deserved and well earned. :wink: :D Robert

[ROBERTVOZZA]

In the late Spring(May/June) I will definitely help whomever is interested in keeping the 2007 LOTO TOUR Alive...I am thinking Cummings, AT and maybe Stoney or anyone who is used to putting together tours.

I sure missed the JaserD Tour this past year. Heck, I might even place a team under a different name - Like my wife's - And play anonymously. (Only 1 team of course - but no swpsychic/Robvoz team.)

I might pick a slutty woman's name and play all my games in a miniskirt, tights and high heels. :lol: :wink:

I will probably do a similar format minus the 100M League - Maybe 80-60-80 and have most of the rest be the same. We'll see come Spring. I'll definitely keep in touch - At least until all my 06' teams are done.

Robert

[doctrcpa]

Robert - thanks again for running LOTO and also for inviting me aboard for my rookie LOTO tourney!!! Good luck with all of the outside projects that you have planned for this year!!!

Chuck

[ROBERTVOZZA]

You have always been a great competitor in every league we've ever been in together...And thanks for the kind wishes. If I didn't take winning so seriously and be able to just play and enjoy the process, I'd probably be able to carry a few teams. But 10-20 hrs of my frree time a week has taken its toll - almost like another PT job.

I used t play the board game when I was a kid and then again in my mid 20's with a group of my friends. about 8 of us each had a National and American League Team. And we'd have a 16 team Draft from all the players. Each League would play about 60 games and we'd have a World Series. I played 5 yrs and my AL team won titles in the 1st, 3rd and 5th seasons and my NL team made the Finals in Season 2 - All keeper Leagues. it was tremendous fun.

Then, after 5 yrs of 20 hrs a week input into those Leagues(I was 27 at the time) and had finally finished Film School in Bridgeport, CT - I figure it was time to get serious with my life and parlayed that extra 20 hrs - in addition to my fulltime job working courier in the major metro NY area into writing screenplays. The writing part worked over the next 7 yrs. The selling them didn't...Inherited a Family with 2 kids along the way after that - Then a Divorce and what was seemingly and endless stream of business failures, deaths in my family, auto accidents, a ton of debt a second marriage and family and a plethora of injuries between age 43 to just last year when I turned 53 in September...

I diodn't think my body could take another year of 60 Hr work weeks, but I commited to changing my life at that time - working my butt off until the debt was paid so I could free my creative mind again and work on some solid, lucrative ideas I had along the way...Now I am on the verge of digging myself out of the huge hole I dug for what seemed like an eternity...

And as I did after 5 yrs of SOM the 1st time, I decided to transfer this parttime job into the development of a life saving medical device that I want to market through an infomercial 1st in the US and Europe(English speaking Nations) and then finally worldwide - Especially China, India and Japan...

I figure i am on borrowed time and want to leave something of value for my 3 children before I am gone.

So that's the story...I am grateful to bothe this fun game as well as this great community for comfortable escape it has provided me the past 5 yrs. I have made many good friends - several I have actually met in person, who I believe I will remain friends with - both here on the Boards as well as in REAL LIFE - They all know who they are.

The creation of LOTO eveolved out of Private Leagues with those friends growing past 24 players - I didn't feel i could leave anyone out withot hurting people's feelings, so I just created a Tour and added more players. It has just grown to a proportion where I'd have to add 12-24 more in 07'...But definitely too time consuming to do again under the circumstances...

So with this post, I'd like to thank everyone who has ever participated in LOTO the past 3 years - It has been a great pleasure for me and hopefully as enjoyable for everyone else.

But the time has arrived to bid you all a verfy fond farewell... :( :) :wink:

My best always,

Robert - The Swpsychic

[ArrylT]

[b:cffefe372c]Team Awards:[/b:cffefe372c]


MVP - Bobby Abreu

Was my key bat in this slimmed down offense.

CY Young - Mark Mulder

My only 20 game winner and led staff with ERA

Rolaids Relief - Latroy Hawkins

Hard to pick 1 cheapie reliever out of all of them, but he was one of the best

Pleasant Surprise - Joe Blanton

2nd most wins amongst pitchers, and a very impressive era/whip.

Disappointing Performance - Willy Taveras

Pretty pedestrian despite facing mostly RH pitching

Playoff MVP - Joe Blanton

Went 3-0 with a 2.10 .86 stat line and pitched great in Game VII to help us win the title

Playoff CY Young - Horacio Ramirez

While my big guns went 2-4, Ramirez & Blanton went 5-0, and Ramirez shut down his opponents for 14 consecutive innings, which was critical since he won BOTH games 1-0.

Playoff Relief - Duaner Sanchez

Maybe no wins or saves, just 10 IP of almost lights outs pitching

Playoff Surprise - Bobby Abreu

Guess he wanted to make up for the missed opportunity with the Yankees. ;)

Playoff Disappointment - Randy Johnson

Only pitched 14 IP in 3 starts, giving up double digit runs.

[ArrylT]

robvoz: Guess all good things come to an end sooner or later. Thanks for all your efforts re: LOTO and other leagues. Glad to hear you'll be keeping in touch, and hope you'll give 2007 a try, even if just once during the year. :)

[ROBERTVOZZA]

Your LOTO Finals team kind of reminds me of that one of mine - That just made the post season on the last day of the season, but then played their best ball of the year in the 2 playoff rounds - The finals round was against your team. glad to see the great come from behind wins. Must feel good.

I will be arond - popping in now and then...Just too many people I have gotten to know and respect to just disappear altogether.

Robert