COPPERFIELDS reserve R Martinez, activate J Eischen from the Reserve List.

COPPERFIELDS reserve S Smitherman, activate R Reyes from the Reserve List.

SIX PACKS reserve D Dellucci, activate M DeRosa from the Reserve List.

SIX PACKS reserve T Adams, activate G White from the Reserve List.

SIX PACKS activate L Overbay from the Reserve List for September Roster Expansion.

HARD HATS claim D Veres on waivers, reserve C Tsao, waive T Hollandsworth (waive period ends 9-19).

HARD HATS reserve J Reboulet, activate G Atkins from the Reserve List.

PICTS reserve D Graves, activate J Brower from the Reserve List.

PICTS claim J Macias on waivers, reserve X Nady, waive O Palmiero (waive period ends 9-19).

LAMBCHOPS reserve M Clement, activate L Hernandez from the Reserve List.

RUFFINS reserve A Fox, activate R Freel from the Reserve List.

STONES reserve J Carroll, activate B Hall from the Reserve List.

STONES reserve J Duncan, activate A Nunez from the Reserve List.

STONES call W Cunnane (.05) from the Free Agent Pool, reserve C Johnson, waive J Duncan (waive period ends 9-19).

DA PAUL MEISTERS reserve C Baerga, activate J Franco from the Reserve List.

DA PAUL MEISTERS reserve L Merloni, activate P Shuey from the Reserve List.

RESERVOIR DOGS reserve R Clayton, activate C Counsell from the Reserve List.

RESERVOIR DOGS reserve Z Day, activate J Suppan from the Reserve List.

TENACIOUS B call C Capuano (.05) from the Free Agent Pool, reserve M DeJean, waive J Bell (waive period ends 9-19).

TENACIOUS B reserve S Hitchcock, activate J Robertson from the Reserve List.

TENACIOUS B reserve T Ohka, activate H Ramirez from the Reserve List.

DEM REBELS reserve E Dessens, activate T Wellemeyer from the Reserve List.

Click here for updated rosters in Excel format.
Click here for the 2004 Rotation Draft Pick Tracker

Or perhaps that should be: “What?  A Race?”   I’m sure no one thought a month or two ago that the race for the 2003 CFCL Championship would be as close as it’s become (certainly the Hard Hats didn’t when they traded the Lambchops two key components of their pitching staff).  There was one day this week when the Schmidt-less Hard Hats had pulled within half a point of the injury riddled Lambchops.  There’s room for both teams to easily gain and lose multiple points – the Hats and Chops are slugging it out head-to-head in the RBI, SB, and HoSv categories – so this one could go right down to the final week.

Likewise, Tenacious B and the Reservoir Dogs have been flip-flopping between 3^rd and 4^th for quite a while, the Meisters and Ruffins are fighting it out for 5^th place and the #1 Rotation Draft pick next year, and the remaining half of the league could literally finish in almost any order.

We’ll do the traditional microscopic look at the races and categories in another couple weeks.  Stay tuned, folks – everybody’s got something to play for.

I hope to have the end-of-season opinion survey ready to go sometime next week.  Keep an eye on your e-mail for notification that it’s been posted.

Based on the feedback I’ve received from the people who bothered to give it, it looks like the banquet is a “Go” for Sunday October 19 following the screening of “Trading the Gator” at the Chicago Historical Society.  No one who has responded is opposed to this date/time/location, though a couple people did say they weren’t sure yet if they’d be able to make it.

One potential monkey wrench is the World Series.  October 19 would be Game 2 of the series, and it’s looking slightly possible that one or both Chicago teams may be playing a game that day.  Rich and I talked about this, and given the rarity of such an event, we wouldn’t want to distract from it by trying to schedule the banquet around it. 

We decided that we would tentatively plan the banquet for the late afternoon/evening of October 19, but we would postpone it if either the Cubs or White Sox make it to the Fall Classic.  I’ll include a section in the opinion survey where you can provide your availability for back-up dates.

I think we’ve reached the end of the line as far as featured league web pages go.  I’ve spent some time looking, but haven’t found any other league pages that are updated enough or otherwise worthy of the honor.  I guess that says a lot about the pages that we did honor.  I’ll leave the list up for one more week so you can revisit them if you’d like to.

Record Book

Week Ending 9/12: No new records were set this week.