Here is the state of the table top baseball leagues I run. All leagues are 162 game seasons with one 3 game series scheduled per week If you click on a team link you can see their stats, injuries, leaders etc.
As of this week I am adding the wild cards standings for the play-in game
League one All Futility League (all teams lost 96 + games) 2nd Season. Scheduled series time Thursday Mornings.
The SD Jones memorial .500 teams league is a league (all teams were no better than 2 games over .500 or no worse than 2 games under) Initial season . Games are scheduled for Tuesdays. AM
I understand that you have in the past called for boycotts of business that have expressed support for President Donald Trump in a public way. I would like to formally request that you call for such a boycott of this blog and particularly my TipJar
While many other blogs have openly supported President Trump over the entire terms of his administration unique reasons why this blog in particular should be the subject for such a call.
On two occasions as credentialed Press I have questioned Donald Trump. On both occasions not only did I not make the premise of my questions: “Why do you suck, Why does the GOP suck? or not even “What are you going to do about you and the GOP sucking so badly?” But on both of these occasions I was complemented directly by Donald Trump for said questions. In fact at the top of my blog AND is a direct quote of Donald Trump saying to me after such a question: “It’s nonsense nobody reports that, but you do that’s why I like you.” The constitutes a betrayal of the press credentials that I held for those events .
I endorsed Donald Trump twice during his 1st campaign, the 1st time before the GOP convention even before my candidate of choice at the time (Ted Cruz) had consented to do so but more importantly the 2nd time the day after the Billy Bush tape dropped. Such an act of picking up the flag and moving forward when everyone else was running scared. An unpardonable sin.
Finally I’ve not only supported all the attempts to reverse fraudulent moves by the Democrats in multiple states to steal this election even to the point of being locked out of my twitter account six times since election day for daring to put out statistical evidence of Joe Biden’s “magic ballots” but I’ve not paid off bets on said election yet holding the money aside until the final decision of the courts and the state legislatures thus not acknowledging the legitimacy of the MSM calls.
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There is more to life than Democrats creating magic ballots to steal the republic thus crisis or no our Sable / Gerbel face to face tabletop baseball lead held our draft on Saturday.
The Draft order was determined by last years record and draft picks for the 1st five rounds were eligible to trade. Teams were able to retain from 6 to 16 of their previous players and then drafted till they held 35.
Drafting Team
Player
MLB Team
Position
C ?
SP ?
RP ?
Round 1
San Diego
Brett Sutter
MIL
LR
x
Seattle
Emilio Pagan
TB
SR
x
Tampa Bay
Marcus Simeon
OAK
SS
San Francisco
Tyler Glasnow
TB
SP
x
Washington
Javier Baez
ChC
SS
NYY
Michael Brantley
HOU
LF
St. Louis
German Marquez
COL
SP
x
Colorado
Darvish
ChC
SP
x
Round 2
San Diego
Aaron Bummer
ChC
LR
x
Seattle
David Fletcher
ANA
3B
Tampa Bay
Victor Robles
WSH
CF
San Francisco
Zach Gallen
ARI
SP
x
Washington
Lorenzo Cain
MIL
CF
NYY
Roberto Perez
CLE
Cat
x
Tampa Bay
Roman Laureno
OAK
CF
Colorado
Charlie Morton
TB
SP
x
Round 3
San Diego
Casey Sadler
LAD
LR
x
Seattle
Max Keplar
MIN
RF
Tampa Bay
Howie Kendrick
WSH
1B
San Francisco
Ryu
LAD
SP
x
Tampa Bay
Pettit
TB
LR
x
Tampa Bay
Oliver Drake
TB
LR
x
St. Louis
Starling Marte
PIT
CF
Tampa Bay
Lucas Giolito
CWS
SP
x
Round 4
San Diego
Mark Melancon
ATL
RP
x
Seattle
Alex Gordan
KC
LF
Tampa Bay
Wilson Conteras
CHC
C
x
San Francisco
Josh Hader
MIL
RP
x
Washington
Yadier Molina
StL
C
x
NYY
Justin Turner
LAD
3B
St. Louis
Christian Vazquez
BOS
C
x
Colorado
Eugenio Suarez
CIN
3B
Round 5
San Diego
Tony Walters
COL
C
x
Seattle
Matt Chapman
OAK
3B
Tampa Bay
Josh Bell
PIT
1B
San Francisco
Tyler Duffy
MIN
SR
x
Washington
Whit Merrifield
KC
2B
NYY
Cory Seager
LAD
SS
Tampa Bay
Andrelton Simmons
ANA
SS
Tampa Bay
Manny Machado
SD
3B
Round 6
San Diego
Yolmer Sanchez
CWS
2B
Seattle
Maillex Smith
SEA
CF
Tampa Bay
Buster Posey
SF
C
San Francisco
David Doll
COL
OF
Washington
Odorizzi
MIN
SP
x
NYY
Steven Strausberg
WSH
SP
x
St. Louis
Joe Musgrove
PIT
SP
x
Colorado
Alex Cologme
CWS
RP
x
Round 7
San Diego
Peon Braxton
SEA
CF
Seattle
Miguel Rojaz
MIA
SS
Tampa Bay
Edwin Encarnacion
NYY
1B
San Francisco
Brad Peacock
HOU
SP
x
Washington
Robby Ray
ARI
SP
x
NYY
Jonathan Villar
BAL
2B
St. Louis
Eric Sogard
TB
2B
Colorado
Jorge Solair
KC
OF
Round 8
San Diego
Yuli Guriel
HOU
1B
Seattle
Ross Stripling
LAD
LR
x
Tampa Bay
Brandon Workman
BOS
SR
x
San Francisco
Hanser Alberto
BAL
2B
Washington
Domingo German
NYY
S/RP
x
x
NYY
Mike Soroka
ATL
SP
x
St. Louis
Oscar Mercado
CLE
CF
Colorado
Danny Santana
TEX
1B
Round 9
San Diego
Evan Longoria
SF
3B
Seattle
Chad Green
NYY
LR
x
Tampa Bay
Cam Bedroisian
ANA
RP
x
San Francisco
Andrew McCutchen
PHI
OF
Washington
Gabriel Ynoa
BAL
S/RP
x
x
NYY
Marcus Stroman
NYM
SP
x
St. Louis
Eduardo Escobar
ARI
3B
Colorado
Hunter Renfro
SD
OF
Round 10
San Diego
Trevor May
MIN
RP
x
Seattle
Colin Mchugh
HOU
S/RP
x
x
Tampa Bay
Liam Hendricks
OAK
SR
x
San Francisco
Nick Wittgren
CLE
RP
x
Washington
Marcus Waldon
BOS
LR
x
NYY
Mike Zunino
TB
C
x
St. Louis
Melvis Goloria
KC
C
x
Colorado
Miguel Sano
MIN
3B
15 minute break
Round 11
San Diego
Carlos Santana
CLE
3B
Seattle
Tyler Clippard
CLE
RP
x
Tampa Bay
Ehire Adranza
MIN
SS
San Francisco
Mitch Garber
MIN
C
x
Washington
Sergio Romo
MIN
RP
x
NYY
Zach Britton
NYY
RP
x
St. Louis
Julio Urias
LAD
RP
x
Colorado
James McCann
CWS
C
x
Round 12
San Diego
Hunter Wood
CLE
RP
x
Seattle
Anthony Bass
SEA
RP
x
Tampa Bay
David Peralta
ARI
LF
San Francisco
Kevin Newman
PIT
SS
Washington
Anibel Sanchez
WSH
SP
x
NYY
Alex Verdugo
LAD
OF
St. Louis
Brandon Kintzler
CHC
RP
x
Colorado
Billy Hamilton
ATL
OF
Round 13
San Diego
Cesar Hernandez
PHI
2B
Seattle
Kyle Seager
SEA
3B
Tampa Bay
Zach Plesac
CLE
SP
x
San Francisco
Byron Buxton
MIN
CF
Washington
Kurt Suzuki
WSH
C
x
NYY
Alberto Mondesi
KC
SS
St. Louis
Jose Berrios
MIN
SP
x
Colorado
Kyle Schwarber
CHC
LF/C
x
Round 14
San Diego
Jose Altuve
HOU
2B
Seattle
Dee Gordon
SEA
2B
San Francisco
Josh Osich
CWS
RP
x
Washington
Francisco Lindor
CLE
2B
NYY
Glaybar Torres
NYY
ss
St. Louis
Albert Pujols
ANA
1B
Colorado
Ian Happ
CHC
2B
Round 15
San Diego
Vladimer Guerrero Jr.
TOR
3B
Seattle
Adam Frazier
PIT
2B
San Francisco
Biggio
TOR
2B
Washington
Delino Deshields
TEX
2B
NYY
Scott Kingery
PHI
CF
St. Louis
Luis Rendiko
ANA
2B
Colorado
Stephan Creighton
ARI
LR
x
Round 16
San Diego
Jason Hayward
CHC
OF
Seattle
Harison Bader
StL
CF
San Francisco
Wil Harris
HOU
RP
x
Washington
Kyle Farmer
Cin
2B/C
x
NYY
Tanaka
NYY
SP
x
St. Louis
Greg Allen
CLE
LF
Colorado
Madea
LAD
S/RP
x
x
Round 17
San Diego
Francisco Cervelli
ATL
C
x
Seattle
Michael Conforto
NYM
RF
San Francisco
Robinson Chirinos
HOU
C
x
Washington
Austin Hedges
SD
C
x
NYY
Roberto Osuna
HOU
RP
x
St. Louis
Brian Anderson
MIA
3B
Colorado
Anthony Desciafani
CIN
SP
x
Round 18
Seattle
Isaih Kiner-Falefa
TEX
C/3B
x
San Francisco
Mike Canha
OAK
OF
Washington
Adam Plutko
S/RP
x
x
NYY
Pedro Baez
LAD
RP
x
St. Louis
Trevor Bauer
Cin
SP
x
Colorado
Joc Peterson
LAD
LF
Round 19
Seattle
Daniel Vogelbach
SEA
1B
San Francisco
Hunter Pence
Tex
OF
Washington
Wade Miley
HOU
SP
x
NYY
Scott Oberg
COL
RP
x
St. Louis
Daniel Murphy
COL
1B
Colorado
Lance Lynn
TEX
SP
x
15 Minute Break
Round 20
San Francisco
Matt Baumgardner
SF
SP
x
Washington
Edwin Diaz
NYM
RP
x
NYY
Danny Swanson
ATL
SS
St. Louis
Hector Neris
PHI
RP
x
Colorado
Ryan Pressley
HOU
RP
x
Round 21
San Francisco
Tommy Phan
TB
LF
Washington
Eric Hosmer
SD
1B
NYY
Jandal Gustave
SF
RP
x
St. Louis
Ansel Robles
ANA
RP
x
Colorado
Carson Kelly
ARI
C
x
Round 22
San Francisco
Sean Doolittle
WSH
RP
x
Washington
Ryan Braun
MIL
OF
NYY
Ian Kennedy
KC
RP
x
St. Louis
Jeff Samarga
SF
SP
x
Colorado
Yoan Moncada
CWS
3B
Round 23
San Francisco
Nikki Lobez
KC
2B
Washington
Jason Kitmas
CLE
2B
NYY
Austin Meadows
TB
CF
St. Louis
Jiman Choi
TB
1B
Colorado
Jordan Hicks
STL
RP
x
Round 24
San Francisco
Sevy Zavala
CWS
C
x
Washington
Colin Moran
PIT
2B
NYY
Rowdy Tellez
TOR
1B
St. Louis
Brandon Drury
TOR
3B
Colorado
Christian Walker
ARI
1B
Round 25
Washington
Chris Owings
BOS
2B
NYY
Brett Gardner
NYY
OF
St. Louis
Jorge Polanco
MIN
SS
Colorado
Noah Sindergarten
NYM
SP
x
Round 26
Washington
Leroy Garcia
CWS
3B
NYY
Luis Serverino
NYY
SP
x
St. Louis
Jorge Polanco
MIN
SS
Colorado
Homer Bailey
OAK
SP
x
Round 27
Washington
Eddie Rosario
MIN
OF
Colorado
Dede Gregorious
NYY
SS
Round 28
Colorado
Carlos Carrera
HOU
SS
Round 29
Colorado
Reyes
HOU
RF
Round 30
Colorado
Adrian Howser
MIL
RP
x
Round 31
Colorado
Shane Green
ATL
RP
x
In addition to the standard draft there was the AA draft. This is a draft of any fringe player (fringe meaning a batter with a % or a pitcher with a spot start rating and no relief rating )
Teams were able to hold the rights to up to five AA players who can not be used this season. Franchises can retain up to five rookies that they already had rights to and then can fill any remaining spots via said draft.
1st Rnd
Team
Player
Position
San Diego
Jose Rodo
RP
OAK
Seattle
Chad Walch
C
MIA
Tampa Bay
Wil Smith
C
LAD
Washington
Adam Haseluy
CF
PHI
NYY
Bo Bichette
OF
TOR
St. Louis
Genesis Cabrera
S/RP
StL
2nd Rnd
Seattle
Tim Lopes
CF
SEA
Tampa Bay
Dustin May
RP
LAD
Washington
Emmanuel Place
RP
TEX
NYY
Austin Riley
LF
ATL
St. Louis
Adam Duval
OF/1B
ATL
3rd Rnd
Seattle
Austin Adams
RP
SEA
Tampa Bay
Wendelken
RP
OAK
NYY
Eric Kratz
C
TB
4th Rnd
Seattle
Marco Hernandez
2B
BOS
Tampa Bay
Gonsolin
SP
LAD
5th Rnd
Seattle
Tyler Alexander
RP
DET
St. Louis also has Sean Manaea
If a player retains “fringe” status the following season a team may keep them on their AA roster. If said player gets fulltime status they must either be kept on their standard 35 man roster or be released.
Opening Day is Black Saturday (Nov 28th) for a 60 game season. Good luck to all.
If you have an interest in joining next year contact us. if we have multiple players interested a short AA season might be possible as a test run to be played at the same time as the regular season using the non-drafted fringe players as a roster.
After seeing emails from CEO and facebook messages that my son have recieved saying if you’re voting for Trump to unfriend them it seems that the case for re-election needs to be made to folks like this and being a Python fan this song came to me almost at once:
(Sung to the tune of “What have the Romans ever done for us?” from the Monty Python Opera “Not the Messiah” )
♫ Oh Trump he's a bastard,
he offends us every night,
He's tweets out very nasty things
and there's no end in sight,
and we're embarrassed in return
while he triggers up such fuss,
what has the Donald ever done for us? ♫
♫ What has the Donald,
what has the Donald,
what has the Donald ever done for us? ♫
The tax cut?
What?
...he, he gave us the Tax cut...
♫ Yes, he did give us that, that's true
And Isis is crushed and now they're through
The tax cut I'll grant is one
thing that Donald Trump he may have done
And the regulations he's cut right back too
And the embassy move ♫
♫ Well, apart from ending ISIS and regulation,
And the Jerusalem relocation
And safety from terrorists for all the nation
Apart from those, which are a plus,
what has the Donald ever done for us ?♫
♫ What has the Donald,
what has the Donald
what has the Donald ever done for us? ♫
The Wall?
What?
...He's built hundreds of miles of real wall...
♫ Oh, yes, he did... ♫
♫ The southern border now is more tight,
and the New Space force will be ready to fight.
Vets now have choice instead of grief
The China travel ban and COVID relief
Killed the deal funding the Iran terror hoards
and new stock market records ♫
♫ Well apart from China and the VA choice,
Space force, Iran, relief and 401k rejoice,
And the wall stopping the immigration fuss
what has the Donald ever done for us? ♫
♫ What has the Donald,
what has the Donald,
what has the Donald ever done for us? ♫
Justice Reform?
What?
...Criminal Justice Reform...
♫ Oh, yes, yes... ♫
♫ Criminal Justice reform made a wrong a right,
and new trade deals mean a fair trade fight.
Abundant Energy for our needs,,
Right to try and NATO deals
the great new judges for all our nation
and funding black education ♫
♫ Well apart from, Health, Judges, trade and NATO deals,
Independence from Arab oil fields,
And black colleges funded instead of handcuffs,
what has the Donald ever done for us? ♫
♫ What has the Donald,
what has the Donald,
what has the Donald ever done for us? ♫
Brought peace.
Peace, Oh, shut up!
I know I added an extra verse to the song but the list of the President’s accomplishments is so damn long that even with the extra verse there was plenty to left out.
If you’ve never seen or heard the song this is based on here it is
and here’s the Monty Python Clip from Life of Brian that inspired it
Update: Just to clarify Donald Trump is NOT the Messiah…
…but Joe Biden & Family have been very naughty boys
Update: And now the song What has Joe Biden ever done for us?
♫ Joe Biden he's a bastard,
he's a deep state parasite,
In DC forty seven years
as if it was his right,
and we're got nothing in return
while his family's stock goes up,
what has Joe Biden ever done for us? ♫
♫ What has Joe Biden,
what has Joe Biden,
what has Joe Biden ever done for us? ♫
....I'm thinking....
Our Dynasty Face to face league finished our SF Giants team won the world series in six and we are preparing the groundwork for a new season.
There will be a meeting at Zeda’s Pizza in Fitchburg MA today at noon any interested players are more than welcome.
Our draft will be November 14th again at Zedas. Depending on how many players we have there may be an expansion draft before the basic one. We will be playing with the 2019 season cards.
NOTE IF YOU WISH TO JOIN AS AN EXPANSION TEAM YOU NEED TO JOIN AND LET ME KNOW BY OCT 31st.
Additionally there are three online leagues that are either now or will be looking for players that I’m running.
Our 2nd season of the all pathetic league (all teams that lost at least 96 games) is now 12 games into a 162 game season, we play once a week (scheduled time Thursday 10 AM EST but you can reschedule at will) and there are currently 12 of 24 teams open. If you think you can take a bad team and make it the best of the bad we’d love to have you.
Our all time great league 2nd season is currently in playoffs in the league divisional round. By the rules of the league all playoff teams are retained for the next season and players who wish to keep their current teams may do so. But there are always openings and new teams that will be included. If you would like to manage a great team, either a playoff team that has been abandoned or a great team that is added in you are welcome to jump in. We will be reducing this league to once a week to make room for our third online league…
This will be the all mediocre league. This will consist of teams that finished with a record between two games under .500 & two games over .500 (in a 162 game season 80-82 – 82-80 in a 154 game season 73-75 – 75-73. Unlike the all pathetic league you will find a few starts on such teams and maybe more than an handful of HOF players in said league. Unlike the great teams league these are teams that were usually on the rise that hadn’t made it yet or good teams on the decline (or the teams like Connie Mack’s favorite the 4th place moneymakers)
It is more profitable for me to have a team that is in contention for most of the season but finishes about fourth. A team like that will draw well enough during the first part of the season to show a profit for the year, and you don’t have to give the players raises when they don’t win.
Connie Mack
This type of team would win about 60 games vs the all time greats (last season I demonstrated this when I accidentally put such a team the 2013 Diamondbacks in the ATG league instead of the 2001 team that I intended) and would dominate the all pathetic league. It will be interesting to see what they teams that are good enough to dominate bad teams and just good enough to put up a fight against great ones will do against each other.
These are the available teams by franchise
Orioles 57, 95, 15
Senators 67 Rangers 06
twins 73, 74
Yankees 71, 73
whitesox 74, 97, 98 .02
indians 75, 04, 08, 11, 15
Redsox 93
mariners 93
Brewers 96, 05, 09, 14
Angels 2000, 10, 17, 18
bluejays 2001, 05, 11, 15
tigers 2010
a’s 2010
Royals 2016, 17
Devil Rays 2017
Phillies 57, 74, 02, 12, 18, 19
Pirates 67, 73
braves 71
astros 73, 74, 96, 06
mets 75, 01,
Cardinals 75
giants 75
Padres 82, 05
dodgers 93, 94, 07, 10
cubs 95
Marlins 96, 10
reds 96, 06
Rockies 2000
diamondbacks 2008, 12, 13, 18
Nationals 2011, 18
If one of these teams is to your liking contact me online. this will be a 162 game season 3 game a series played once a week.
So if you want to play some sports where there is still no political grandstanding going on I’d love to have you, either in person or online. Either stop by at Zedas or leave a comment here and we’ll go from there.
“Justin, the cot’s yours” said Pat, “Stay as long as you want.”
“Many thanks friend Stripsey” For I’ve been sorely troubled.”
Pat & the others left. Yolanda trailing the rest caught the The Shining Knight eye as he sat sword in hand. “Tis good to be among friends…” he began then abruptly stopped “The door!” he cried pointing at the wall.
Wildcat gasped. “You see the door?” she exclaimed!
“See it, I’d know it anywhere” said Justin. He rose & boldly strode though.
As it closed behind him she heard a familiar voice “Welcome Sir Knight, you’ve come to confess?”
“I’ve never saw that anyone like that with the JSA” said Pat.
“When I left the room I was suddenly in bed, could I have dreamed it?” asked Yolanda
“The main thing is you’re OK” said Courtney, “We’ll watch for him.”
“Thanks Court…”, she began then pointed at the wall in disbelief. “The Door!”
“What door?” answered Pat seeing but a wall.
“You don’t see it?”
“There’s nothing there” answered Courtney.
Wildcat nodded but understood. She had not imagined The Stranger or Fr. Anastasius & knew that he was right about God’s mercy & where she could find him again.
“For your penance Wildcat you shall pray a Divine Mercy Chaplet…”, said Father Anastasius.
Yolanda was taken aback, one chaplet for killing a man?
“…and offer the merits of your next three Eucharists for Brainwave.”
“But father”, she asked confused. “I killed him, he’s dead. How can that do him any good?”
Anastasius smiled a smile of faith hope & love: “Perhaps, but daughter, can it really be that after the Lord in his love provided you the Stranger to bring you here & me the extra decades needed to hear your confession, you still doubt God’s capacity for mercy?”
The monastic cell door creaked as the white gloved hand opened it. Yolanda saw a hooded figure kneeling in prayer before an image of the Divine Mercy, As they entered a voice ancient & weak seeped from his cowl.
“Has the angel of death finally remembered me? I am ready”
“I bring not death friend Anastasius” replied the stranger, “but a penitent seeking absolution.”
The priest turned smiling melting away years, his eyes alight: “It has been many decades since I’ve confessed a hero.” Yolanda watched awestruck as new life seemed to gush into the holy venerable face. “Come child.”
“Lord help me!” Yolanda prayed sobbing. “How I confess my sins if my priest won’t believe what I confess?”
“The answer is obvious Wildcat…” came a voice from behind. She turned to see a man in a black cape & hat, his face hidden in shadow at her bed’s foot “…you need a priest who will.”
“Who are you?” She gasped, “What are you doing here? How do you know who I am?”
“I am but a stranger, I go where I’m needed and few secrets are denied me” He replied offering his hand, “Come let’s answer your prayer.”
