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August 8

STONES reserve A Everett, activate D Bautista.

August 9

PICTS reserve K Calero, activate TJ Tucker.

August 11

DEM REBELS reserve P Munro, activate V Padilla.

August 12

DA PAUL MEISTERS reserve K Griffey, activate M DeRosa.

HOT SLUDGE SUNDAE reserve D Weathers, activate J Kennedy.

August 14

COPPERFIELDS reserve A Eaton, activate L Vizcaino.

COPPERFIELDS reserve A Nunez, activate E Chavez.

HOT SLUDGE SUNDAE claim H Nomo on waivers, reserve him, release J Jones.

HOT SLUDGE SUNDAE sign J Piedra (.05) reserve T Goodwin, release J Huber.

HOT SLUDGE SUNDAE reserve M Gonzalez, activate E Dessens.

HOT SLUDGE SUNDAE reserve N Green, activate R Martinez.

STONES claim SW Kim on waivers, reserve him, waive M Kinney.

STONES sign C Eldred (.05), reserve him, waive M Jones.

LAMBCHOPS reserve P Burrell, activate R Ledee.

LAMBCHOPS reserve A Leiter, activate K Merker.

RUFFINS sign H Cota (.05), reserve M Piazza, waive K Ishii.

RUFFINS sign J Rauch (.08), reserve him, waive J Bautista.

RUFFINS reserve J Christiansen, activate J Thomson.

PICTS reserve T Olson, activate D Garcia.

RESERVOIR DOGS sign C Vargas (.05), reserve him, waive E Diaz.

DA PAUL MEISTERS reserve T Glavine, activate P Wilson.

DA PAUL MEISTERS reserve M DeRosa, activate T Zeile.

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Free Agent Bids and Waiver Claims

OFF TOPIC:  If You Love a Book, Set It Free...

This is one of those things that have nothing to do with the CFCL or baseball, just me using my little corner of the Internet to spread the word about something good.

For some time now there's been a little "running book" icon on the main page, just above the MLB headlines.  If any of you have ever clicked on this icon, you were taken to a delightful website called BookCrossing.com.  More than just a website, it a gathering of booklovers and, more importantly, the hub of a worldwide book exchange.

Here's the concept in a nutshell:  BookCrossing members register books at the website, and each book receives its own BookCrossing ID number.  The bookcrosser writers this BCID on an explanatory sticker and pastes it inside the book's front cover.  They then leave the book somewhere – on a park bench, in a coffee shop, a phone booth, a hotel lounge, the pocket behind an airplane seat – anywhere the book might be found.  They then post "release notes" for that specific book on the BookCrossing website. The hope is that someone, either another bookcrosser or a non-member, will find the book, go to bookcrossing.com, enter the book's BCID and report that they've "caught" the book.  Hopefully, that person will read the book, post their thoughts about it, then send it back on its way for another reader to find. Theoretically, the book will travel the globe over time and have its entire journey detailed on the website.

The person who originally released the book can follow it on its way, watching its progress (you get e-mail notification whenever someone makes a journal entry for one of your books), and each subsequent "catcher" can look up the book's history to see where its been and who's read it.

I say "theoretically" because not everyone who finds a book bothers to record their catch on the website, so many books (unfortunately, probably the majority) vanish without a trace.  Still, it's great fun releasing books, as well as trying to track them down.  You can use the website to find books that have been released in your area and go hunting for them – you can even sign up for e-mail notification of when a book is released nearby.

I've been a BookCrossing member for about a year now and have released maybe a dozen books (three have been reported as caught).  My problem is that I love my books TOO much, and can seldom bring myself to give them up.  Those books I have released are mostly books I didn't care for or had no intention of reading (I've been releasing a lot of my mom's romance novels that were left over from the garage sale), so my bookshelf (http://bookcrossing.com/referral/copfield) isn't necessarily a reflection of my reading tastes.

I love the idea of bookcrossing, though, and will be making more of an effort to put some books out there.  I'd also encourage any of you other booklovers who have volumes gathering dust on your shelves to get involved as well.

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:

Week Ending 8/13:  No new records were set this week.