ARMCHAIR 51 Keepers - $20 million

You want me to watch this stuff???????????? Are you kidding me????????

FYI, a couple of coaches kinda overshot the salary cap and will be making adjustments. I told them to post their drops and players chosen from what was left of diamondope.

One coach is very close and needs a minor adjustment, the other guy, oh well. We will figure this out.

Now if they both want Andres Galaragaa, then they will have to mud wrestle and since they are both on the RIGHT coast they can meet in some neutral conservative thinking wrestling venue.

Person of Interest was great last nite. Anyone catch it???

Since I wasn't in the last league, I don't have access to league mail. Dennis has done a pretty good job of keeping me informed via email.

I've learned that Jon mistakenly thought that the cap had been raised to $140 mil due to that being the stated cap amount on Diamond Dope and that Jon drafted accordingly. I can understand how one would assume that the cap would be $140 mil, as Diamond Dope only supports standard caps and does not support intermediate caps.

I drafted my team in accordance with the $110 mil cap, as that cap was posted here and I received emails stating that the cap was $110 mil.

However, I sympathize with Jon over the confusion created by the $140 mil cap set on Diamond Dope. Now he has to redo virtually his whole team.

I believe that there are plenty of good players left and that it's still possible to revamp the team into a winner at the $110 mil cap. Just for the fun and challenge of it, I'm willing to trade my team for Jon's team right now with the stipulation that I could fill out my draft card as I see fit with players not drafted on Diamond Dope and would not have to include all of the players Jon drafted on my draft card.

A trade like this is pretty much unprecedented, but we all play this game for fun and the challenge and this wold certainly be unique. Further, it would help reduce the impact on Jon of an innocent mistake.

What do you say Jon, are you game?

Please let me know ASAP so that there is no delay in getting my team, whichever one it may be, in the league. - Bernie

Hey Jon. I thought lawyers invented fine print. What's going on you're not reading it?

Since I wasn't in the last league, I don't have access to league mail. Dennis has done a pretty good job of keeping me informed via email.

I've learned that Jon mistakenly thought that the cap had been raised to $140 mil due to that being the stated cap amount on Diamond Dope and that Jon drafted accordingly. I can understand how one would assume that the cap would be $140 mil, as Diamond Dope only supports standard caps and does not support intermediate caps.

I drafted my team in accordance with the $110 mil cap, as that cap was posted here and I received emails stating that the cap was $110 mil.

However, I sympathize with Jon over the confusion created by the $140 mil cap set on Diamond Dope. Now he has to redo virtually his whole team.

I believe that there are plenty of good players left and that it's still possible to revamp the team into a winner at the $110 mil cap. Just for the fun and challenge of it, I'm willing to trade my team for Jon's team right now with the stipulation that I could fill out my draft card as I see fit with players not drafted on Diamond Dope and would not have to include all of the players Jon drafted on my draft card.

A trade like this is pretty much unprecedented, but we all play this game for fun and the challenge and this wold certainly be unique. Further, it would help reduce the impact on Jon of an innocent mistake.

What do you say Jon, are you game?

Please let me know ASAP so that there is no delay in getting my team, whichever one it may be, in the league. - Bernie

You guys truly are unbelievable. The answer is NO Bernie, but I do appreciate the offer and the honor you display in making it. I am already down under $110 Mil and putting the final touches on the Roster wish list. Thanks Dennis for the encouragement and spilling your oh so precious "minutes" on me today!

And Mikey of the Bailey? I have some fine print just for you on my oh so soft toilet paper I'd be happy to rub a dub dub your nose with ...

Go ahead with your original Barry Bonds roster BD. I'll entertain any and all serious trade offers once the League opens for real tonight or whenever everyone gets loaded ... so to speak.

Jonny

Where are your keepers/drops. Please list for the rest of us to beware when we setup our teams. Jonathan. Liberal democrat.

Where are your keepers/drops. Please list for the rest of us to beware when we setup our teams. Jonathan. Liberal democrat.

Coach our teams are drafted, set up and entered in the new league. You want us to pull our teams? Nine of twelve managers have entered the new league. What if the teams with the salary cap issues drops someone we want. Can we take them now? This is starting to be a circle jerk

Whatever, lets playball.

Presiding over this league is sometimes like trying to herd cats, but Dennis does a good job.

I agree with Ric. While the managers who overdrafted obviously hurt themselves, one of the unintended and mostly overlooked consequences of overdrafting is that it deprives other managers who were within the cap of the opportunity to draft those players during the Diamond Dope draft. Further, it does not affect everyone equally, as not all teams have the same needs.

Now everyone will have to scramble during the frenzy to try to get a player they may otherwise have drafted. There's no real remedy other than to move on, as a redraft would be time consuming and problematic now that managers' draft strategy has been revealed. I like Dennis' idea of having the managers post their changes here, but that's where the herding cats analogy applies, as no teams posted the changes and other managers didn't wait around for those unposted changes anyway before entering their teams.

We all make mistakes. Hopefully, they don't get repeated.

Do you want to run for politics? We are looking for an articulate, conservative leader, I will vote for you.

Herding Cats??!!! LOVE It. Exactly, or as my students say zackly.