2008 Winter Waivers Recap

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Winter Waivers
As anticiapted, there were no takers on Eddie Guardado, so our stop-and-go Winter Waivers for this year come to a close. Overall, seven teams participated in the waivers, with 15 players being claimed. That's just slightly more than half the number of players who were claimed last year.

Winter Waivers is always a mixed bag, with varying levels of available, and a number who had moved to the American League by the time they were available on waivers. The two phase approach neccessitated by the Dispersement Draft may have kept the claims lower than usual, and the process wasn't without it hiccups.

Overall, though, it was another successful set of winter action. The full list of players claimed is below -- we'll see how many of them are still around come Roster Freeze Day.

RED HOTS Hong Chih Kuo	BULLS Luis Gonzalez* Jorge Cantu Orlando Hernandez Russ Springer	DEM REBELS Cla Meredith* Greg Dobbs Justin Germano
COPPERFIELDS Juan Pierre* Luis Castillo Wandy Rodriguez Bill Bray	KENNDOZA Cesar Izturis	PICTS Jason Bay Lance Berkman
CLOWNS Benji Molina

Meet Mike Moore

One of our new owners, Mike Moore of Moore Better, was quick to respond to the call for Owner Profiles, and his work is now available in the CFCL Clubhouse. Watch for profiles from our other newbies, which will hopefully be coming soon.

In the meantime, you can get acquainted with Mike here:

http://home.comcast.net/~dmahlan/owners/Better.htm

First Pitch Forums
In a few weeks, Ron Shandler will be bringing his annual caravan to Chicago in the form of his First Pitch Forums - three hours of fantasy baseball immersion. This year's session is scheduled for Sunday March 2 at Noon. I've gone to all but one or two of these since Shandler's been doing them, and highly recommend them.

After a number of years in Oakbrook, they're holding this one in Bannockburn, which I think is a suburb of Racine or something. Still, I might make the trek, particularly if I know other CFCLers will be there. Is anyone else planning to go?

Here's a description of the event:
http://www.baseballhq.com/seminars/index.shtml

Some Nice Things You May Have Missed
News and notes posted since the last "real" report:

• New Home for CFCL Internet Headquarters

New Home for CFCL Internet Headquarters

If you've visited the CFCL page (http://members.aol.com/dmahlan/index.html) anytime in the past few days, you may have noticed a rather disturbing development -- huge banners across the top of the page. One labeling the page as belonging to AOL Hometown and one above that for an AOL advertiser. What the????

Ok, I realize that some of you will reply that it's my own damn fault for belonging to AO-Hell, but, hey, the rest of the family likes it and it's always been a cheap (as in, free with my AOL membership) and fairly convenient host for the CFCL page.

These ads don't sit well with me, however, so I'm taking my HTML and going home. To a new home, that is. From now and for the foreseeable future, the CFCL page will be hosted at Comcast:

http://home.comcast.net/~dmahlan/index.htm

A number of the history pages will continue to live at Geocities, because with the Draft Day audio clips and historical documents, those sections of the site take up a ton of space. Most of the day-to-day things will be at Comcast, though, and should remain ad-free.

If you're clicking around the site and either end up back at AOL (trust me, you'll notice the banners) or find something that doesn't display or a dead link, please shoot me an e-mail.

Oh, and I encourage you not to support any of the AOL banner sponsors...