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Re: UMEBA Realignment

Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 11:10 pm
by lordtoffee
shoeless.db wrote:
Sun Jan 05, 2020 3:51 pm
DugoutDesperado wrote:
Thu Dec 05, 2019 11:21 am
Fat Nige wrote:
Thu Dec 05, 2019 6:48 am
The biggest change I would like to see would be the raising of the UMEBA's reputation a few weeks before our ST so we can get a few new signings in to play a full spring camp
- cry myself to sleep holding onto my Ron Gant teddy bear.

Ron will be the only one that will get the Ron Gant reference.
Thanks for reminding me of my extreme hatred for Kent Hrbek.
I get the Gant reference. As a Twins fan, I love Hrbek more for the double play in Game 7.


I actually like having the BBA guys sometimes turning us down. Of course, maybe I'm thinking that the UMEBA is this world's version of Nippon Professional Baseball or the KBO.

Re: UMEBA Realignment

Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 8:31 pm
by Fat Nige
Expansion for the UMEBA? We only have one vacancy at the moment and two extra teams would certainly spice the league. As a GM developmental league we can always carry a few auto-control vacancies as applicants are pretty frequent.

Re: UMEBA Realignment

Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 11:12 pm
by usnspecialist
as far as I know there are no real plans to expand the UMEBA at this time.

Re: UMEBA Realignment

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:34 am
by Fat Nige
Worth a try lol, like to keep the pot bubbling. If Matt hears “UMEBA expansion” often enough he might believe he sanctioned it :D

Re: UMEBA Realignment

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 3:11 am
by usnspecialist
Fat Nige wrote:
Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:34 am
Worth a try lol, like to keep the pot bubbling. If Matt hears “UMEBA expansion” often enough he might believe he sanctioned it :D
he expanded the reputation of the league, isn't that enough? ;)

Re: UMEBA Realignment

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 5:40 am
by Fat Nige
Matt can never do enough lol. We’re like eight baby birds (or seven at the moment) sitting in a nest screaming away because daddy bird hasn’t been along in the last two minutes and fed us

Re: UMEBA Realignment

Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2020 10:27 am
by recte44
I am considering a two team expansion for UMEBA after the season.

Re: UMEBA Realignment

Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2020 11:17 am
by bschr682
Odd numbered sub leagues? Eeeeeewwwww

Re: UMEBA Realignment

Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2020 11:47 am
by Fat Nige
recte44 wrote:
Sat Jan 18, 2020 10:27 am
I am considering a two team expansion for UMEBA after the season.
I bagsie the Tbilisi Roses, named after the Rose Revolution of 2003 :D

(Logo & Uniforms supplied)

Re: UMEBA Realignment

Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2020 11:34 pm
by lordtoffee
I imagine that there can be a narrative reason for expansion. Maybe attendance has been great, and teams can upgrade with the sweet expansion fees that new franchises will pay to the governing board?

Re: UMEBA Realignment

Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2020 12:19 am
by Fat Nige
The narrative probably is that the league is so successful that so many people want to join it. The BBA managers aren’t turning over so we have to have somewhere to put them lol.

If you see the rise in the league since its inception in 2037 it’s almost inevitable that it would expand at some stage

Re: UMEBA Realignment

Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2020 1:43 pm
by Clayman
If you did a back story it would imo have to be about something like prestige, vanity etc. Reason being attendances are up and down in the UMEBA, the money there making would be peanuts to most middle East businessmen specially as some would have oil money behind them unless oils dried up :)