Hometown Discount 2010

The Sportsline standings have finally settled and we now know each teams HTD for next year's draft. One thing I noticed was that Dem Rebels had four holds on Sunday which allowed them to pass the Red Hots by one S/H which allowed them to amass 30 points which allowed them to capture 50% of the maximum budget. If you noticed similar movement the last day or weekend of the season I encourage you to post a comment.

Here are the standings:

Red Hots: .06 (Dempster, Kuo, Lindstrom, Fielder, B. Molina)
Bulls: .05 (Milledge, Cantu, Montero, Billingsley)
Revenge: .04 (No Expiring Contracts)
Copperfields: .04 (No Expiring Contracts)
Kenndoza Line: .03 (Jimenez)
Twin Killers: .03 (No Expiring Contracts)
Dem Rebels: .03 (Ianetta, Reynolds)

I will post updated rosters (effectively deleting the expiring and S contracts) in about a week. That will give you time to download the end of year roster sheet.

Ruffins Capture Third Crown

The CFCL 2010 season is complete and the Ruffins pulled away for their third title. Only the Copperfields have won more championships than the Ruffins. Congratulations to The Professor!

A Dubious End

The 2010 CFCL Free Agent Season came to an end with an incomplete bid. The DoorMatts bid the final .05 of their FAAB on Mark Melancon. For good measure the 'Matts also submitted three back up bids. The only problem was they didn't designate anyone to be released which would have left them with 41 players on their roster. Since there was no player designated for release, the bid is incompete/illegal and therefore unaccepted.

I'm sure the 'Matts management hope that Melancon doesn't provide ten points of standing production this week.

I would also like to take this time to publicly thank David's brother, Paul Mahlan, for his help throughout the season. Each Sunday Paul would take time away from his activities to call me with a new password to the Free Agent Mailbox thus ensuring the integrity of the Free Agent Bidding Process. Thank you Paul!

Banquet and End of the Year Updates

Fellow Owners, first of all thank you for your responses for banquet availability and award nominees. From those of you that have responded (Kenn and Professor, whatup? To good to provide us with your banquet availability?) it looks like Sundays have the least conflict (aside from Grage needing to follow his seventeen fantasy football teams). That being said, let's narrow it down a bit. Please e-mail me or click on the comment section below to register your vote.

1) October 10th
2) October 24th

October 3rd may be too fast a turn around to get the ballots out and collected. I have a late soccer game to attend on the 17th (which doesn't actually mean we couldn't have it then, I just would be late or lacking in attendance) and the 31st is Halloween so those of us with kids will be busy raking in tons of goodies.

Let's assume something in the late afternoon/early evening since Monday is a workday for most of us. We'll plan on something in the 4-5pm range at the latest tradition in CFCL Banquet, Home Run Inn on 75th in Downers Grove.

More later.

So Long Soto

Aaron Cunningham
Ruffins .06 (Soto)

One More Reminder/Plea

Gents (. . . ok, I'll do it - and Kenn)

I would like to publicly thank the Copperfields for their nominations for the various award categories. I have also had a pledge from the Ruffins that his submissions will be forthcoming once the season has ended (not wanting to anger the Baseball Gods while in a pennant race).

My goal is to have the Award Ballot out to everyone within a week of the end of the season while everyone's memory of the season is still fresh. Between now and then I will begin to put together the ballot, but greatly welcome any suggetions from you.

Banquet
I have heard from a few owners of their intentions of trying to attend the Banquet. At this point it would seem that the best way to cull down our options would be for everyone that wants to attend to let me know what works best (i.e. Friday nights, Saturday afternoons, etc.) and from there pick a date based on majority.

2011
I completely neglected to ask each of you to let me know about your intentions for next year. If you know you're definitely in or out for next year, please let me know. If you're still considering, I respect that. I would say we need a hard answer by the end of November so that hopefully we can have the new owners (if necessary) in place in time for Winter Waivers (first week of January).

I think that's it - if I've forgotton something I'll add a new post.

Oh,Gee!

Dillon Gee
DoorMatts .07 (Clement)

Jeremy Jeffress
Bulls .05 (Edmonds)

Justin Maxwell
Bulls .05 (Maholm)

Micah Hoffpauer
Bulls .05 (Renteria)

Cory Luebke
Ruffins .06 (Coffey)

** AS A REMINDER -- ALL PLAYERS ACQUIRED TODAY WILL BE ASSIGNED A CONTRACT OF 'S' AND WILL BE RELEASED AT THE END OF THE SEASON **