BoaB: Mark Ellis Division Draft

Whoever is the next person up would then have until Tuesday at 1.

tomorrow huh? Way to be patriotic people!

my dad said if I kept procratinating like this I’d never amount to anything, but I a sure showed…

Um, excuse me while I go kill myself

ESPN had it listed at $460,750 in their battle of budgets. So who knows.

I assume you just took service time X last season?

Corrected. $436,513 k for 2009. Thanks to NYRoyal for reminding me

Okay, time for my backup option.

It was a tough choice for me, pay the extra $3M or not.

I looked at his 2010 price again. Ugh.

390k x 1.1 = 429

if we are going to be gone for an extended period of time, and we wanna keep the ball rollin’, is there someone maybe we could email our preferences to? that might be nice. not sure who wouldn’t mind volunteering for something like that.

Impressed, lets get through round 3!

to shortening to 2 hours, as long as we can make up our picks if we miss the window.

But it’s the only way to get things done reasonably quickly. I’m really busy during the day with work and classes and such, but I’ll do the best I can. So no, I’m not opposed.

picking up the pace would be good.

as for fearing you’ll miss your pick, you can always put together a “cheat sheet”. If you’re not around, TucsonRoyal has agreed to take our picks via email. If you’re four picks away from your turn but won’t be around, just send him your top preferences.

It seems like samt isn’t around necessarily, so are we going to hold him to the 2 hr or 4 hr limit?

I don’t know if jhmoore is aware of the proposed 2 hour time limit. I’m ready to pick (hopefully before noon ET), but I’ll hold off until jhmoore or R.J. confirm.

then, not than.

Since your pick was at 1152 EST, I think he’s got until 1352 EST, no?

and away from the computer. fortunately, i’m not up for another 12 picks. i did sent my list of preferences to Tucson Royal, he said he could enter them in yesterday, hopefully nothing has changed.

By the rules Sky agreed to, unless specified on Cots, signing bonuses are divided equally among the guaranteed years of the contract. So it is only $6M + 0.25M = $6.25M.

it is Someguys turn to select. You still have to wait to late in the fourth.

Recent picks have gone:

slowjo
mlbnotebook
zola

The next picks would be

someguy
someguy
zola
mlbnotebook
slowjo

The draft is currently at the opposite end of the snake from you.

If he’s still there.

was I supposed to pick there at all or not….

Geez… I’m sorry guys. I really did have my thing all planned out to keep things moving… I thought I was the snake guy again, and was going to pick one of (player x) or (player y) and then Weaver, I did weaver because I wanted to get it over with… if I “stuck” with him, that’s cool. I was trying to move things along for everyone, and now I f-cked it up.

I quit!

Close the door behind you.

So he’s got until 7:11?

It was discussed a bit last night, and I woke up this morning and found it had become official. An email probably should’ve been sent.

I was tempted to take him, even though I already had a catcher…

took him two picks ago. I was so close, I even had his name typed in, but changed last minute.

I very nearly took him with my pick as well. Very tough to tell where he should fall.

not gonna change anything, just checking

By when tomorrow do I have to make it if I decide to call it a night?

Now we can all check out until 1300…

sorry to hear about your shoulder. nice picks.

Salaries for Slowey and Jones would be $434,500 and $429,000, I believe. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

$0.5M over 4 years = 1.1 + 0.125 = 1.225M

I think you used his 2008 salary without the bonus

give me a minute

for the next 4 hours or so. I’ll have access to email (can’t post from the blackberry), but will not be able to post. R.J. (or anyone), please email me if my pick comes up and I’ll email you my pick. Email’s on my profile.

I’ll try to check in periodically, but at this point, it’s not looking like it’s getting back to me anyway.

The clock stops at 9, right? Not to be anal, but I feel like that’s how that should work.

you don’t have to wait. you can pick now.

was hoping he’s snake back around to me. Nice pick

I’d prefer the time limits to keep things moving, but I’d want R.J. or Sky to confirm before we skip too many people.

Over two hours after this pick, but I’ll give R.J. until 2 PM EST to post his pick or email me. Otherwise, I’m moving this forward.

I wanted to keep things moving along but it appears that things are stalling on the weekend anyway. If you’d like to switch or anything, let me know.

I’m good with whatever

I’d prefer to at least have some time limit over the weekend, perhaps we move back up to 4 hours. I’d hate to waste an entire weekend.

The only reason I pushed the issue was because of the uncertainty and the fact that I would have to make the choice.

dun dun DUN

now on to plan B!

This bonus was paid upon signing out of the draft. I don’t think we’re counting draft bonuses, so I would go with $1.5M.

[snark, snark]

He is gonna be the Ray’s 5th starter, right? Right?!?!

I guess I’d better spend some cash.

instead, genius me opts for price.

things haven’t affected me directly, and I don’t really follow much besides what players are getting picked and when I’m supposed to pick, but we should at least give people adequate notice if we are changing things from how things started out. Yeah, we all wan tto get down ASAP, but some people have more access than others on the weekends, etc.

I didn’t see that in the original rules. It just said the clock ran from 9-9. I don’t think it said M-F only. Perhaps this was a rule that was discussed and agreed upon later.

It worked fine for me, and I learned my lesson after that Kelly Johnson incident. It’s a fantasy baseball league so there’s no reason to be anything other than laid-back about it, I just don’t remember any opposition when the time limit changed, or when we started picking on the clock on weekends.

but obviously you’ve been insulted in addition to the rule changes.

but can you reply or talk to us over in the discussion thread?

…or do I?

My next 10 picks are all going to be cheap middle infielders!

I didn’t think that he qualified last year.

until 1500 EST