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i have a new favorite living author: Mark Helprin Finished his marvelous short story collection "The Pacific and other stories". His writing is exquisite & lyrical, yet manly.

Exactly what i did.

i was just thinking about this last week, and decided that Kupp was my ideal trade target. Luckily, it didn't work out. generally, though, it depends greatly on the quality of your league's waiver wire.

Jamie Foxx (though he went by a different name in HS)

just saw that rotoworld is doing a "greatest seasons" draft, from 1980-2019. using WIS. fantasy-focused, so they are just using the roto stats from the simulated WIS season, not the actual W/L records.

that doesn't address my objection. i've done the same in excel. that part is pretty easy. the annoying part is going to be having to look up every player you're thinking of drafting to see all his years within the timeframe. here's an example: Darryl Kile is in the google sheet, but he would...

i don't like the dice-roll part (in this format) because it leads to this extra-constraint. We can't just filter on the years. We'd have to then also search each player to make sure he has 3 eligible seasons WITHIN the time constraint.

good the oso-call from scoobus. i'm up for this. p.s. not sure i'm over the abandonment of the 2018 BTTF simulation. we just ignoring that now?

don't leave us hanging, my friends.

i really liked One Shot at Forever easy to peg it as the Hoosiers of baseball. it chronicles the early 1970s high-school baseball team from the tiny Illinois town of Macon, who made it to the state tournament (back before they had divisions). Starring a hippie, baby boomer coach.

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WIS forum teaser that 2018 season will be released tomorrow.

Non-HOF* Right Fielders with a higher JAWS score than Baines: Larry Walker Dwight Evans Reggie Smith Bobby Abreu Bobby Bonds Brian Giles Jack Clark Tony Oliva Rocky Colavito Rusty Staub Dave Parker JD Drew Darryl Strawberry Felipe Alou Ken Singleton...

this post was categorically imperative

about halfway through Rick Ankiel's The Phenomenon. A notch or two above typical baseball books.