"Professional" Baseball team trades 9 players, releases 14 others

[Chris17]

Extremely entertaining story from Chicago area...

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/6466649-419/fielders-trade-nine-players-release-14-others.html

SNEAK PREVIEW:
It involves Jose Canseco throwing knuckleballs, Kevin Costner owning his own baseball team, and said baseball team trading or releasing pretty much their entire roster in one day. Enjoy.

 

[Killick]

... and Pete LaCock, an SportsJournalists.com favorite.

 

[Sea Bass]

Extremely entertaining story from Chicago area...

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/6466649-419/fielders-trade-nine-players-release-14-others.html

SNEAK PREVIEW:
It involves Jose Canseco throwing knuckleballs, Kevin Costner owning his own baseball team, and said baseball team trading or releasing pretty much their entire roster in one day. Enjoy.

The players wanted more money because they had high SLG, but the team said they put waaaaay too much importance on SLG and released them [/crossthread]

 

[JC]

They were tired of their players hitting home runs and wanted more singles.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Is this Tim Johnson the same one who was fired by the Blue Jays after lying about his Vietnam service record?

 

[HanSenSE]

I'm still wondering how they plan to pay the players they just traded for.

 

[Chris17]

Yep, same dude. So let's recap.... the managers in this story are Tim Johnson (the Vietnam guy), Jose Canseco (all around ass clown), and Pat MaCock.

BTW - rumors are the NABL doesn't even recognize batting averages. Just slugging, home runs, and overall hit distance. Dream league for Canseco.

 

[Beef03]

For some strange reason my initial reaction when I saw the first post and the link was "The Cubs did what now?"

 

[cjericho]

Yep, same dude. So let's recap.... the managers in this story are Tim Johnson (the Vietnam guy), Jose Canseco (all around ass clown), and Pat MaCock.

BTW - rumors are the NABL doesn't even recognize batting averages. Just slugging, home runs, and overall hit distance. Dream league for Canseco.

this story is tremendous. how about “All our bills and airfares have been paid," teams in this league fly on road trips? Canseco is an assclown but i feel a little for him now. He just seems to be remorseful about being the Henry Hill of the steroid era (keeping quiet when all was good but ratting on everyone when it went bad). how great is it that Canseco pitched and also put pitchers in the field. he should've tried to raise money with a charity boxing match vs. Tim Johnson. another great quote in the story --
"They can cash their checks tomorrow once the Bank of Waukegan opens."

 

[HanSenSE]

Yep, same dude. So let's recap.... the managers in this story are Tim Johnson (the Vietnam guy), Jose Canseco (all around ass clown), and Pat MaCock.

BTW - rumors are the NABL doesn't even recognize batting averages. Just slugging, home runs, and overall hit distance. Dream league for Canseco.

this story is tremendous. how about “All our bills and airfares have been paid," teams in this league fly on road trips? Canseco is an assclown but i feel a little for him now. He just seems to be remorseful about being the Henry Hill of the steroid era (keeping quiet when all was good but ratting on everyone when it went bad). how great is it that Canseco pitched and also put pitchers in the field. he should've tried to raise money with a charity boxing match vs. Tim Johnson. another great quote in the story --
"They can cash their checks tomorrow once the Bank of Waukegan opens."

The NABL is a Rube Goldberg league. One division is centered mostly in the Southwest (Yuma plus Texas teams Mc Allen, Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg and San Angelo) left over from the UBL; the rest some remnants from the GBL: Chico, Edmonton, Calgary, Lake County and Maui ... so, yeah, they gotta fly some.

 

[Matt1735]

Lake County was in the Northern League last year, as a first year team, not the GBL.

The eight-team Northern League folded when four teams went to the American Association (Gary, Fargo-Moorhead, KC and Winnipeg). The remaining four were going to be in the NABL. Then Joliet and Schaumburg fell apart in disputes with the respective cities. Joliet was sold and joined the Frontier League. Schaumburg was sold and is dark this year (rumored to be going into the AA next year).

Rockford folded, then Kalamazoo from the Frontier League was moved there and Rockford ended up back in the FL.

The left only Lake County as a team in the NABL.

 

[Beef03]

The joys of minor league baseball.

I know when Edmonton joined the GBL a few years ago they promoted it as and Independent league at roughly a AA level, for those that follow the league, would this still be accurate?

 

[SoCalDude]

The joys of minor league baseball.

I know when Edmonton joined the GBL a few years ago they promoted it as and Independent league at roughly a AA level, for those that follow the league, would this still be accurate?

Doubt it's Double-A level. Over the summer they get 3-4 guys who sign with real organizations and get sent to Class-A. The rest of them are just playing for fun.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Their announcer rips the team after a broadcast, and quits:

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/07/18/minor-league-announcer-quits-while-hes-on-the-air

 

[cjericho]

Lake County was in the Northern League last year, as a first year team, not the GBL.

The eight-team Northern League folded when four teams went to the American Association (Gary, Fargo-Moorhead, KC and Winnipeg). The remaining four were going to be in the NABL. Then Joliet and

fell apart in disputes with the respective cities. Joliet was sold and joined the Frontier League. Schaumburg was sold and is dark this year (rumored to be going into the AA next year).

Rockford folded, then Kalamazoo from the Frontier League was moved there and Rockford ended up back in the FL.

The left only Lake County as a team in the NABL.

too bad Schaumburg and Rockford are gone. place i used to work both of those teams would fax over every move, pretty much when they named the batboy they'd have a release. if more teams followed whoever those pr guys/gals were it would be a lot better.

 

[CarltonBanks]

My area has a Frontier League team. Was successful at first, then the owner decided he wanted to make money off the team. End result? They now do not even have a media relations person. The press box is worse than a high school football game for cheering and good luck getting any statistics or even game boxes for the paper. Went from fairly well-run to a total joke because the owner wanted to go cheap and did not think the media was going to make much of a difference. Real brilliant.