salas wrote:Look out in 2001, Chicago and Omaha!!

The big fight for less than 90 losses

Interesting article! But i doubt that this quote below is true still, might have been some years ago, but from what i read on the forums etc. fans have become more concerned about the financials of teams. "Let's face it, if the fans had the ultimate say, then everyone's payroll would be $250 million...

Agree totally, would buy it immediately if i had someone to play with Thats then the amazing beauty of the internet for me

Thx for the link! Found an interesting article http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/sports/baseball/03fans.html?_r=1 which suggest attendance i voerall a bit down due to weather and Mets & Dodgers troubles. But it also says there And the Colorado Rockies, who are in first place, have sold 19.8 percent ...

I was just quickly taking a look at the Mets vs. Colorado game on MLB.tv, and was astonished how many empty seats i saw. Stadium looks like its only 20% filled. A Rockies problem, or is the whole MLB (maybe beside the really big teams) struggling with not enough paying visitors?

And its the first time i hear about APBA ... i even tried to create something similar on myself in the 90s in Vienna, far away from any american Baseball resources. Of course i failed. Sounds like a really fun game!

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Thx for that work, very interesting

He's signed through 2003 ... guess if you find some starting arms beside him which are able to clearly stay below an ERA of 5 we might see him in the postseason

Well, luck is coming back to him, last game he got the W with 6 runs, 12 hits over 6 innings

Series Omaha @ Black Sox 2:1 Well, we got our win in the final game of this series. Despite an 2.2 inning outing of Jamaica with 6 earned runs we were able, thx to good hitting and very nice bullpen work, to win in the 15th inning! 5 hits by Bunjiro were the key in the end i think. Oh, and i got a ...

generally i would say hes worth his money, especially since hes the ace of the team. Only thing that would worry me considering the contract are his post-season stats, no matter how small the sample size.

good point, thx But still hes young enough to wait with that gamble for one more year i think, and on the other side i like not-that-intelligent closers .. (why i'm thinking of someone called Papelbon like now? )

Thats great and amazing, looking forward to it and thx in advance!

CHICAGO BLACK SOX RF Roberto Martinez Martinez is a young outfielder with some upside. He's played exclusively RF where he's ok defensively but i think a move to LF would make him even more valuable. He has blazing speed but his average instincts and skills will keep him from being an elite base st...

Monorubu seems to be really quite worth his money

fascinating read!

lynchy34 wrote:What a wild card race in the Fl. Vegas and Des Moines tied, Marquette one back and Atlantic City three back.

really nice, also interesting to see how different the situation in the JL is.

Dankeschön!

And the uniforms / logs etc. are amazing, i am honestly always astonished when im looking through the pages and i notice the level of detail which has been achieved here