"Nothing in life is as magical as having a catch with your father, especially when you are no longer a child. If my friends ever ask me what is so great about baseball, I point right to that scene and tell them of the pure joy and love that is expressed by a father and son as they quietly throw a ball back and forth." - Glenn Schneck Jr.

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June 16

STONES reserve D Cruz, activate R Durham.

June 17

TEDDY'S SPLENDID SPLINTERS reserve A Osuna, activate G Rusch.

RUFFINS reserve T Linden, activate S Sosa.

RUFFINS reserve D Wise, activate C Everett.

June 18

HOT SLUDGE SUNDAE reserve T Phelps, activate F Beltran.

June 19

COPPERFIELDS reserve T Van Poppel, activate B Webb.

STONES reserve G Bennett, activate J LaRue.

STONES reserve R Simon, activate K Garcia.

PICTS reserve R Beck, activate J Michaels.

HOT SLUDGE SUNDAE claim A Almanza on waivers, reserve V Santos, waive J Germano.

BY KENNEN reserve J Castillo, activate D Mohr.

BY KENNEN call B Koch (.11) from the Free Agent Pool, reserve Ohka, waive T Durrington.

DA PAUL MEISTERS reserve M DeRosa, activate M Grudzielanek.

RESERVOIR DOGS reserve H Nomo, activate A Good.

RESERVOIR DOGS reserve M Gallo, activate D Wells.

RESERVOIR DOGS reserve A LaRoche, activate R Klesko.

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Free Agent Bids and Waiver Claims

Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to all you dads and would-be dads!  As always, we hope the kids treat you well and your favorite team wins on your special day (unless you're an Oakland fan).

Father's Day and this week's quote remind me that "Field of Dreams" (which was once voted the best baseball movie of all-time in a CFCL poll) has been released in a special 15th Anniversary 2-DVD set.  Along with newly mastered audio and video, the discs supposedly come packed with extras.  If you don't already own the film in it's earlier DVD version (which also had some nice extras), there are few better ways spend $15-$20.  

Transaction Request

Back in my CFCL hey-day (before kids and a job that keeps me pretty busy), I was usually aware of any roster movement in the NL (disabled list, promotions, demotions, etc.).  Now, though, I'm lucky if I know what's going on with my team half the time.  I think the stat service has made us a little lazy from that perspective.  Anyway, these days I can't keep track of MLB transactions as well as I used to, which creates a little extra work for me when teams submit mid-week roster moves.

As a small request, when you e-mail a mid-week transaction it would be very helpful it you mentioned the MLB roster move that makes your transaction possible.  For example, "Polanco came off the DL, so I'll activate him and reserve Grabowski."  In most cases, this will eliminate me having to look up each player involved in your transaction in order to validate it.

It's not a huge deal, but it could save me some time and trouble when doing transactions.  Thanks!

TQS Update

It looks like TQS has corrected the errors we identified.  I actually addressed the missing Bautista/Gryboski issue myself and just added them to the Splinters and DoorMatts in a retroactive transaction effective Opening Day.  The missing IP for Daigle, Aardsma, and Wuertz no longer seem to be missing.

I haven't heard anything from TQS as to why these things happened to begin with, and since that's an unknown right now (as far as we're concerned), I guess we ought to be on the lookout for future problems of the same sort.

Disappearing players should be fairly easy to notice as long as their significant contributors – Bautista's missing stats cause a rather large movement in the standings.  However, it wasn't until I started digging that I noticed Gryboski was also MIA.  Likewise, missing stats for players who aren't even active can be hard to spot.

I'd suggest that each Saturday, after the weekly transactions have been entered, you take a close look at your roster at TQS and make sure that 1) all your players are there, and 2) the stats for anyone you reserved that week look reasonable.  Let me know if you spot any potential problems.

Topper Watch

In 2005, the teams that finished in 5^th-12^th place in 2004 will receive a budget of up to .06 to use toward reacquiring players who had played out their option with the team (B-contract players). The exact amount each team receives will be based on how far behind the 5^th place team they are at the end of the year, in terms of a percentage of the 5^th place team's point total.

Based on the standings through last Thursday, here are the teams that would receive Topper Budgets for use in the 2005 Draft and the amount each team would receive: