Post by stinie3 on Apr 27, 2008 16:55:13 GMT -5
The majority of the league might not have posted in the thread earlier asking if we should or should not sim day 2, but the majority of the league has posted recently asking to have the league sped up. It was sped up. Losing out on someone that you wanted sucks, but it is going to happen if we speed up (and speeding up is best for the league). The fact that two active GMs missed out on players sucks, but their activity is also irrelevant to me. Aaron made the perfect point. Did you guys not export for Day 1? Absolutely nothing changed, because pretty much no one got signed. If there was a minor change, then that sucks, but I'm pretty sure there weren't any signings that damaged anyone's FA money to the point where they'd have to severely edit their bids for day 2.
Bob and Josh have absolutely no reason to apologize. To ask them to is pretty ridiculous, IMO. They take a lot of shit about the speed of the league (or lack thereof), so no, they shouldn't have to say a word about this. They should be thanked, honestly. It sucks to lose out on guys you wanted, but it happens.
What could potentially alter my opinion on this for both STL and ARZ is what were you guys doing with Day 1? Did you not have bids in, and were waiting for Day 2? Did you have bids in and wanted to adjust them? Did you miss the whole thing? What's the deal.
Did I have bids in for Day 1? Yes I did. Did my bids change? Sure they did...I had an offer in on David Ortiz that took up some of my money. Once he signed with NYY, that opened up 11 mil or so of my FA money to spend. That's where bids for 2 of the P I put in for Day 2 (late) that took that 11 mil from Day 1. I'd say that's a pretty severe edit on my bids from Day 1.
Again, it's over, I'm done....I missed the sim..oh well. I'll survive and find help elsewhere.
While this is technically true, you still have over 61M to sign free agents. You could have bid 25M on Ortiz and still put in multiple 10M offers to FA pitchers. Had they all signed, that's where the problem would have come in to meet payroll.
Either way, I see your point. Just stating that Ortiz signing elsewhere didn't suddenly give you money that wasn't available.