Latest CFCL Bulletin and Roster Changes

06/07/03

"[On-Base Percentage] is the statistic off which everything else follows. It is unquestionably the single most important statistic in the game. It's everything." -Barry Bonds

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June 1

COPPERFIELDS reserve M Stanton, activate Mike Crudale from the Reserve List.

June 2

LAMBCHOPS reserve M Mantei, activate D Holmes from the Reserve List.

TENACIOUS B reserve R Rivera, activate S Sosa from the Reserve List.

SIX PACKS reserve Z Day, activate R Quevedo from the Reserve List.

SIX PACKS reserve M Koplove, activate O Villareal from the Reserve List.

June 3

DA PAUL MEISTERS reserve P Shuey, activate M Batista from the Reserve List.

June 4

TENACIOUS B reserve R Belliard, activate M DeRosa from the Reserve List.

HARD HATS reserve M Remlinger, activate J Uribe from the Reserve List.

DA PAUL MEISTERS reserve M Williams, activate L Merloni from the Reserve List.

June 5

LAMBCHOPS reserve Henry Mateo, activate D Roberts from the Reserve List.

PICTS reserve K Ainsworth, activate C Reitsma from the Reserve List.

June 6

LAMBCHOPS reserve D Dreifort, activate S Torres from the Reserve List.

June 7

COPPERFIELDS reserve M Crudale, activate M Stanton from the Reserve List.

COPPERFIELDS reserve M Myers, activate K Saarloos from the Reserve List.

COPPERFIELDS call A Ashby (.05) from the Free Agent Pool, reserve him, waive M Crudale (waive period ends 6-13).

COPPERFIELDS claim T Clark on waivers, reserve him, waive M Myers (waive period ends 6-13).

LAMBCHOPS reserve L Hernandez, activate J Nathan from the Reserve List.

DOORMATTS reserve K Lockhart, activate A Good from the Reserve List.

DA PAUL MEISTERS reserve T Glavine, activate P Shuey from the Reserve List.

DA PAUL MEISTERS reserve M Hampton, activate J Franco from the Reserve List.

STONES claim J Castro on waivers, reserve P Reese, waive J Conti (waive period ends 6-13).

STONES claim J Vizcaino on waivers, waive A Fox (waive period ends 6-13).

STONES call W Franklin (.05) from the Free Agent Pool, reserve R Dempster, waive J Medrano (waive period ends 6-13).

STONES call E Gonzalez (.11) from the Free Agent Pool, reserve M Barrett, waive H Cota (waive period ends 6-13).

STONES call J Valverde (.13) from the Free Agent Pool, reserve J Jimenez, waive B Diggins (waive period ends 6-13).

STONES reserve D Ward, activate J Carroll from the Reserve List.

TENACIOUS B reserve F Heredia, activate J Robertson from the Reserve List.

TENACIOUS B call G Vaughn (.07) from the Free Agent Pool, reserve him, waive R Rivera (waive period ends 6-13).

PICTS claim R Gonzalez on waivers, reserve B Clark, waive Q McCracken (waive period ends 6-13).

PICTS call V Alvarez (.05) from the Free Agent Pool, reserve him, waive C Condrey (waive period ends 6-13).

PICTS call R Beck (.05) from the Free Agent Pool, reserve him, waive S Sullivan (waive period ends 6-13).

HARD HATS reserve G Kapler, activate R Hidalgo from the Reserve List.

HARD HATS call J Manon (.07) from the Free Agent Pool, reserve him, waive J Gautreau (waive period ends 6-13).

HARD HATS call B Tollberg (.06) from the Free Agent Pool, reserve him, waive G Kapler (waive period ends 6-13).

HARD HATS reserve L Vizcaino, activate J Bong from the Reserve List.

HARD HATS reserve B Boehringer, activate R Cormier from the Reserve List.

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Free Agent Bids and Waiver Claims

Tony Clark (wv)
Copperfields
Stones

R Gonzalez (wv)
Picts
Hard Hats

Jose Valverde
.13 Stones
.07 Six Packs

Brian Tollberg
.06 Hard Hats
.05 Copperfields

This Week's Featured League

Each week (or close to it) I feature the web page of a fantasy baseball league that I’ve surfed across. Note that this is NOT intended to be a "review" of each site, nor is it intended to be a competition. It’s simply a way of exploring the fantasy baseball community beyond the CFCL and a way of recognizing those leagues with a presence on the Internet.

This week’s Featured League Web page belongs to the BML:

http://www.cybercreate.com/bml/index.shtml

Wow. Wow. If you visit any of the league pages I suggest this year, visit this one. And prepare to spend considerable time there. What a well-done, informative, and entertaining site. This is everything a fantasy league web site should be. Wow.

Before I continue gushing, here are the essential stats: BML is a 12-team, NL-only, traditional 4x4 rotisserie league that started with three teams in 1988. After considerable hunting, I found that BML stands for "Baseball Mail League," though I couldn’t find an explanation of that name on the site. For the most part, the league is referred to simply as BML.

This is really a site that needs to be experienced rather than described, so I’ll just hit some highlights here :

The main page is chock-full of information – the current standings, league leaders, and current league news such as trades and player/pitcher of the period awards. This information is available for every season going back to 1998 in the New Archives section.

An extensive History section, including year-by-year standings.

A Clubhouse section, featuring individual pages for each team that include team logos and histories, plus owner profiles.

An Owner’s Box page that provides news and notes about owners in the league (be sure to check out the pictures from the Dave & Busters outing).

Two outstanding, outstanding newsletters:

The BML Enquirer, a sarcastic, at times caustic, but always witty monthly. You old-timers remember the old CFCL newsletters in which Rich mercilessly persecuted the Bald Eagles and their owner Bob Monroe? The Enquirer is often reminiscent of those classic pieces. Though I don’t recall Rich every using the quality of illustration that accompanies the "Out of It on Mother’s Day" feature.

The BML Beat, also a monthly, is more light-hearted than the Enquirer, but is no less humorous and entertaining. Excellent, excellent use of pictures (see the February 5, 2003 issue in the archives). Also be sure to check out the celebrity interviews with Samuel L. Jackson (April 9), Donald Rumsfeld and Mohammed Saeed-al-Sahaf (April 30), and Austin Powers (June 4). Very clever stuff. The Jackson interview is outstanding (though it helps quite a bit if you’re familiar with Jackson’s performance as Jules in "Pulp Fiction").

It’s amazing how consistently good these newsletters are. The archives of each include issues going back over 10 years, when they were put out on good, old-fashioned paper.

CFCL Featured League Web Pages

Criteria

Previously Featured Pages

Pages selected based on:
- Information
- Sense of community
- Fun
- Extra "stuff"
- History
- Personality
- Upkeep
- Design

Puget Sound Sports League (5/24)

 - http://www.psslbaseball.com

No Fehr Rotisserie League (5/31)

 - http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Sideline/8850/index.html

 

 

Record Book

Week Ending 6/6: The Six Packs became the latest team to tie the weekly record for Saves+Holds in a week, with 8.

Weekly Records Seasonal Records
CAT CFCL TEAM STAT PERIOD CAT CFCL TEAM STAT YEAR
TB Tenacious B 149 5/30/03 TB TBD TBD 2003
R Tenacious B 60 5/30/03 R TBD TBD 2003
RBI Copperfields 70 9/12/00 RBI Copperfields 1201 2000
SB Ruffins 20 7/29/97 SB Bald Eagles 312 1988
OBA Hard Hats .4327 4/4/03 OBA TBD TBD 2003
QS Reservoir Dogs 10 4/25/03 QS TBD TBD 2003
HoSv Copperfields
Copperfields
Stones
Stones
Tenacious B
Da Paul Meisters
Six Packs		 8 4/4/03
4/11/03
4/18/03
5/2/03
5/9/03
5/16/03
6/6/03		 HoSv TBD TBD 2003
ERA Copperfields 0.81 9/18/00 ERA Mudville Sluggers 2.828 1985
WHIP Stones 0.675 5/30/03 WHIP Copperfields 1.15048 1992
K:BB Stones 4.88 5/30/03 K:BB TBD TBD 2003
OFF Copperfields 45 2000
PIT Copperfields 44 2001
TOT Copperfields 88.5 2000
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