Thanks to everyone for using the rosters spreadsheet option. To say you greatly decreased my work in doing the stats, if you can call it work, is an understatement.

Guys,
I’m heading to the beach for a week. Should have internet connection, but since we’re reshuffling our entire teams, I implore you to use the rosters spreadsheet option (the permanent link is always on the right column). The chances of me reading 10 separate typings of entire up squads, with players in random order, and retyping w/the actual player’s names in the appropriate position into my system instead of opening another cold one & watching my kids play in the water on Friday/Saturday aren’t very good.

Use the spreadsheet.
Make your changes.
Highlight your team.
Hit Edit/Copy.
Come to this site & go to a comment box.
Hit Edit/Paste.

This one time, please. If you want to see the stats.

Steve Phillips is truly the worst GM of all time.  Not only did he hand over a young Kazmir for Victor Zambrano, he negotiated this:

One year from today, the Mets will add to their payroll a 47-year-old, past-his-prime power hitter who has a reputation as a malcontent—a player who has been retired from professional baseball for nine years and won’t play another game again.

Nevertheless, starting on July 1, 2011, Bobby Bonilla will remain on the franchise’s payroll for 25 years, collecting an annual salary of $1,193,248.20. Those are the terms the Mets agreed to Jan. 3, 2000, when they bought out the final year of Mr. Bonilla’s contract.

Bonilla should rename a kid after his agent.

Anyone got the number to Al Gore’s masseuse?

Proposal
First, this would go into effect beginning with the second half & we’d see how it’d work and then maybe revisit at the beginning of next year to see if we wanted to continue or revert back to the way things are now. Second, some background: as we all know, 95% of the time the MLB week consists of a team having two separate series, the first going from Monday-Thursday, with team days off usually taking place within those four days, and then every MLB team playing the weekend series from Friday-Sunday. Currently, our stats period go from Monday-Sunday & any and all trades are reflected during that stat period. With that being the case, most trades take place on the weekends, otherwise you trade and then pray that your new guy doesn’t get hurt before he appears on your team.

The actual proposal is that the trading structure change to coincide with MLB’s team series concept and the players that are traded in the RRL go to their respective “new” teams for the weekend series (beginning Friday) if they’re traded prior to the series. If a trade takes place after that series begins, it would be treated just like it is now. So, if you make a trade on M, Tu, Wed, Thur or Friday before the games begin, your “new” player comes to your team for the weekend series beginning on Friday. If you trade after Friday’s games begin, your “new” player comes to your team at the beginning of the next stat period, which is Monday.

A lot of words, but in a nutshell it is simply that trades officially show up on teams’ stats twice per week, either on Friday or Monday, instead of just Monday. So, if you traded Lou Gehrig for Babe Ruth on Wednesday, you’d get the Babe officially on your team’s stats beginning with the weekend series instead of waiting until the following week.

I have the caveat of possibly revisiting this, should it pass, because I want to know how much this will affect my weekend time prepping the stats since 99% of my work, if you wish to call it that, takes place on Tuesdays to type in each move/trade. If it’s what I think it’ll be, everything should be fine. Of course, if everyone used the rosters/spreadsheet option, we could have every trade take place immediately in the stats, but that’s another discussion (ahem).

FYI, I’ve been chosen for jury duty beginning Monday the 14th.

No idea how that’ll change things, but the chances are very good that stats will be updated in the evenings next week.

Update: Keep an eye on the drummer. Allen, this is the style you should adopt.

Always nice when you get a win from a pitcher who didn’t even play that day (Burnett).