2012 Adoption Draft: It's That Time of Year
by free f.p. #14 on Feb 5, 2012 10:41 PM PST
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PrintFellas and ladies: it's that time of year again. It's time to do the annual McC adoption draft. Here's how we're gonna start: here is the list of all currently adopted Giants and their "parents." Unless you "de-adopt" your son, that player/executive/human is not available for adoption. For this thread, the only thing we're going to do is decide whether or not you're keeping your son. I'll start this off; I'm throwing Jose Flores back into the pool (it was a good run, buddy). Commence the adoption thread!
Hat tip to nvsfg for the list of adopted Giants on the McWiki. That makes my job infinitely easier.
We'll give people until Wednesday night at 8pm PST to ditch their adoptees, then we'll move on to the next phase of the process.
Please don't rec this post, we'll have a lot of these and we don't want them clogging up the recommended FanPosts section.
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Is there a draft slot list?
Because that will determine if I throw Kruk back or not
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Last year, there was a weighted system of comments, FanPosts, and FanShots that I will attempt to resurrect from the depths of the Internet. Its not perfect, but it’s the best I got. The system is open to revision, of course, but that will be a future post.
With over 21,000 comments, it’s safe to say you’d draft pretty high.
by free f.p. #14 on Feb 6, 2012 1:16 AM PST up reply actions
BTW...
Merope did the hard work of compiling the names. All I did was format it and add the content to the mcwiki. Credit merope for the initial list, I just made it a little more user friendly.
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
You're running this too?
I’m going to part ways with Carter Jurica! Sorry man, it’s nothing personal. I’m just not ready for this type of commitment.
/Adopts new player.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Feb 5, 2012 10:49 PM PST reply actions
Apparently I'm still the father of Hensley Muelens too.
He can go right back into the pool as well.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Feb 5, 2012 10:51 PM PST up reply actions
I’d like to get back in on this, since my last adoptee got picked out from under me without my knowledge last year.
"I see these guys walking around with rings on, and I want one. That's what it's all about." -Ryan Vogelsong
oh god this could be my last year as Matt Cain’s adopted mother :((
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
I lost my son. So I am back in.
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
:(
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
YOU ARE NOT THE BOSS OF WHAT I REC
Cash rules everything around me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
by El Person on Feb 5, 2012 10:55 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
Lost my son , the unstoppable bat
so I am back in
Sometimes you just have to look death in the face and say whatever man
Come check out the McC Book Club Start Date 1/21
Proud parent of Jeff Keppinger's better half
by operation carrot on Feb 5, 2012 10:57 PM PST reply actions
Seth has displeased me
I ain’t gonna adopt no one who looks like a bullpen arm.
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
wait wait wait wait wait wait wait
are you giving up seth rosin?
I think my love of seth rosin has been well documented on this site
Shit i hope i end up high enough to get rosin
he is my favourite player in the giants farm
Sometimes you just have to look death in the face and say whatever man
Come check out the McC Book Club Start Date 1/21
Proud parent of Jeff Keppinger's better half
by operation carrot on Feb 6, 2012 11:18 AM PST up reply actions
although depending on how hiw i am i may want to take someone from the last years draft instead
Sometimes you just have to look death in the face and say whatever man
Come check out the McC Book Club Start Date 1/21
Proud parent of Jeff Keppinger's better half
by operation carrot on Feb 6, 2012 11:19 AM PST up reply actions
Someone will bag Rosin, that's for sure.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Feb 6, 2012 4:02 PM PST up reply actions
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
Also, Thanks f.p. for taking the lead on these again.
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
All executives, shareholders, mascots, etc., are available for adoption, assuming they haven’t been adopted already.
Also, if you do adopt him, you need to change your avatar picture to the monopoly man.
by free f.p. #14 on Feb 6, 2012 1:17 AM PST up reply actions
Yes.....
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
by nvsfg on Feb 6, 2012 7:57 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
can I adopt the woman next to Monopoly man?
If not, I am sticking with my pal from Panama.
Marvin Barrios, come on I'll show you your bedroom. Don't stay on the phone too long to Panama, please.
That is Charles Johnson’s daughter. You would probably need to sit down with him in the parlor and have that discussion with him.
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
Hangin on to Panik.
COMIN' ATCHA, FROM ANCHORAGE, ALASKA!
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
Proud adoptive Father of Joe Panik. 2011 NWL MVP .
Job 1:14-15
by bigboneded on Feb 5, 2012 11:54 PM PST via mobile reply actions
Except you don't have Panik because he was a 2011 draftee and thus hasn't been up for adoption yet...
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
by quincy0191 on Feb 6, 2012 12:17 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
+1
There’s only 1 draft each year and there’s no in-season adoptions.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
Yeah I should Panik because I was an early booster!
(Before anyone replies I know it doesn’t work like that).
Hey, now
There has been precedent before. And I posted a thread and invited anbody who wished to voice concern, as had been done before, and the consensus was fine.
COMIN' ATCHA, FROM ANCHORAGE, ALASKA!
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
Proud adoptive Father of Joe Panik. 2011 NWL MVP .
Job 1:14-15
by bigboneded on Feb 6, 2012 9:34 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
No, the adoption draft is the adoption draft. Some thread you posted is just some thread you posted. I personally refuse to acknowledge mid-year adoptions’ legitimacy, for just this reason: I feel that what you did was basically jump the line, and I’ve had no truck with cutters since about the second grade. Luckily, I have zero authority on the issue.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 6, 2012 10:51 AM PST up reply actions
Not a problem.
It had been done before was the only thing. But I don’t want to get a bunch of panties in a wad over it.
I’ll get back in line. Didn’t mean to step on errbody’s Jedi robes.
COMIN' ATCHA, FROM ANCHORAGE, ALASKA!
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
Proud adoptive Father of Joe Panik. 2011 NWL MVP .
Job 1:14-15
Johnny D's panties are not a pretty sight.
Umm…so I’ve heard, anyway.
"If it's weird, you know it's probably Wilson's." - Matt Cain
yeah i tried this with gary brown
only way to adopt is through the draft my friend
Sometimes you just have to look death in the face and say whatever man
Come check out the McC Book Club Start Date 1/21
Proud parent of Jeff Keppinger's better half
by operation carrot on Feb 6, 2012 11:21 AM PST up reply actions
I'm sticking with Belt.
Unlike Bochy.
Belted!
by AndYourBirdCanSing on Feb 6, 2012 1:12 AM PST reply actions
Also, a note
as it was last year, people who lost their son through no fault of their own get first priority, so the adopted parents of Cody Ross, Henry Sosa, Zack Wheeler, etc will get first crack at a new adoptee, then the rest of us hacks who are so selfishly giving up on our sons will get our chance.
Do people who gave up their adoptees have priority over those of us who have never adopted?
@legaleagle88
I'm not crazy. My mother had me tested.
by kdl on Feb 6, 2012 6:47 AM PST up reply actions
Are you sure this is how it went last year? I’ll go on record as saying that we should change ths policy. Everybody who will be drafting should be ranked by the same rules. Let me explain why. The players that are most likely to get traded or released each year are minor leaguers and lower-drafted players. Should the guys that had adopted Travis Ishikawa, Waldis Joaquin, Max Ramirez, Jose Flores, … (all of whom drafted well down the list) really be put in front of older more-established members?
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
Speaking of older estAblished members
let’s talk about my penis!
Bold Prediction: Pablo Sandoval finishes 1st or 2nd in 2012 NL MVP voting. I'm Twittering now (well maybe not literally now): @GoofusMcP
by Goofus on Feb 6, 2012 7:33 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
I will mention that I had Travis Ishikawa (along with a pair of Co-dads little seen around these parts nowadays), since before you joined McC, whippersnapper.
Bye Travis and thanks for 2010! Good luck with the Brewers!
I was just picking him from a list of guys that are no longer in the org. The point that I was trying to make is that you and active/long-running members like you, will be getting a very high draft slot under the current system. People shouldn’t get to go to the front of the line just because their son got traded/let go.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
Why not?
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 6, 2012 10:35 AM PST up reply actions
Because it allows for the cynical manipulation of the draft.
Let’s say that I draw a low slot for this year’s adoption draft for whatever reason (rarely post, new member), so by the time I get to choose there’s very slim pickings left. I want to get a really good slot in next year’s draft so I cynically choose a player this year that I think will be released from the org before next year’s adoption draft (Joel Weeks, Drew Berger, Jesus Navarro, Luis Munoz, Brennan Flick, …). Let’s say that I guess right and my adoptee does indeed get released. That means that I automatically vault to the top 5 or top 10 of the 2013 draft (ahead of many very active and/or long-term members) without ever having to contribute much to the community. I’m virtually assured to get a good shot at one of the top 2012 draftees, or a new free agent signed in the offseason, or somebody released back into the pool.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
I’d say you should be rewarded for your cunning and for turning your crappy player into something good!
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Game of Thrones ?
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
Or they don’t get traded/released and you’re stuck with your shitty, cynical pick.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 6, 2012 3:51 PM PST up reply actions
If the adoption draft position is that important to you
You should get bonus points for figuring out the system.
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
TBH, I don’t remember if you’re son was a free agent then you got to pick first, only if he got traded. Of course I’d be down to debate the process. Save this conversation for the rules thread, perhaps? That’ll happen in the next day or so.
by free f.p. #14 on Feb 6, 2012 8:12 AM PST up reply actions
Even though your guy was traded or left for free agency if you really like the guy, you can keep him…cuz you know, in 10 years he’ll be a gritty veteran who returns to the giants.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
I thought it was guys whose player gets traded get first crack at the acquisition. Otherwise you just get thrown back in the pool. So Wheeler’s adopter could have gotten Beltran and is now in the general pool. I guess whoever had Verdugo and Sanchez would have to fight over Cabrera and the loser ends up getting some sort of boost. Same goes for Torres and Ramirez.
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
dont forget stoffel
Sometimes you just have to look death in the face and say whatever man
Come check out the McC Book Club Start Date 1/21
Proud parent of Jeff Keppinger's better half
by operation carrot on Feb 6, 2012 1:30 PM PST up reply actions
keeping my guy.
he’s dead, so he’s really low maintenance.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
by Merope on Feb 6, 2012 1:54 AM PST reply actions 5 recs
This comment really should be recommended
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
How does one enter into the draft if they've never drafted before?
I'm just a simple Niners fan trying to make my way in the universe.
by Tim Lincecum's Bong on Feb 6, 2012 2:29 AM PST reply actions
I hear he has an iPad now.
He bought a Blackberry Playbook. It had veteran grit, and he could get it cheap.
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
I laughed when I went through the list and saw that was your adoptee.
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
I picked the MadBum...
…even as Dr. B was plummeting past him on the stairs. Keepin’.
My son is Madison Bumgarner, the Bipolar Stuffed Sheep of pitching prospects. My other son is a Porsche.
Keeping Gary Brown....
…..until Sabes trades him away for 2 months of Willie Harris….
Proud supporter of the Fightin' Hydrants.
Since Travis is off to the Brewers
I’ll release him back to the wild, and hope for a high draft pick this year.
Bye Travis and thanks for 2010! Good luck with the Brewers!
I'll keep Angel Pagan.
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
You don’t have him.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
I believe the rule states that when your adoptive player is traded, you get first dibs on who he was traded for. He had Torres.
"Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out." -Ty Cobb
"Ask GiantPain about my penis" - Billy Beane
Mayor of Smug.
keeping Huff
Bold Prediction: Pablo Sandoval finishes 1st or 2nd in 2012 NL MVP voting. I'm Twittering now (well maybe not literally now): @GoofusMcP
by Goofus on Feb 6, 2012 7:36 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
When I established the adopt-a-giants program way back when
The rule was, if your player is traded, you immediately can claim the player he was traded for and he’s yours right hten and there. If GP claimed Pagan, he’s his. I guess this rule is still in place.
Bold Prediction: Pablo Sandoval finishes 1st or 2nd in 2012 NL MVP voting. I'm Twittering now (well maybe not literally now): @GoofusMcP
Okay, but what was the rulle where it took multiple players to get 1 new Giant?
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
Sword fight.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
I see what you did there. Is this called the "Goofus Rule" ?
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
First dibs
Bold Prediction: Pablo Sandoval finishes 1st or 2nd in 2012 NL MVP voting. I'm Twittering now (well maybe not literally now): @GoofusMcP
it was like this between myself and raising cain for kepp
i had stoffel
he had sosa
I never heard from cain so I just dibs’d him myself
but i also included the “better half” line just in case
but its all for naught
im kepp is gone so I need a new son
Sometimes you just have to look death in the face and say whatever man
Come check out the McC Book Club Start Date 1/21
Proud parent of Jeff Keppinger's better half
by operation carrot on Feb 6, 2012 11:17 AM PST up reply actions
I had Torres.
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
If the person who had RamRam wants to challenge my claim to Pagan
Via some sort of internet-based gladiatorial contest, that’d be fine. But I haven’t heard nuffin’ from him, and Pagan certainly belongs to either me or him. He’s not an FA.
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
capnk has Ramon Ramirez
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
BLOG FIGHT
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Jake Dunning goes back into the pool
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
I will not abandon Dan Burkhart just because he is the seventh ranked backup catcher.
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
BTW...at the end of this process
If no one adopts Carlos Valdez, I would like to add him as a second adopted son. I know my cost will increase due diapers and food , but I am willing take on the additional cost without assistance from the state.
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
I think I’m going to give back Jorge. I’ll always be rootin for you son but I think I should take me mentoring skills elsewhere.
It’s quite true. I did much better developing Pablo. Maybe I’m like the anti-Giants: I can only develop hitters.
Only solution – pick a non-player or a former Giant. I’m probably going to go the former Giant route this year unless I get a shot at a really good player/prospect.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
I'll put Barr back into the pool
Read Me At: Twitter/Giants Nirvana
by Gobroks on Feb 6, 2012 8:17 AM PST via mobile reply actions
None of you boneheads are good enough for Susan
She will remain with me.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
Azmanz Bet: 1st HoF: Clemens > Bonds
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 6, 2012 8:26 AM PST reply actions
I'll keep my son.
There aren’t too many SD-born baseball players and probably just the one in the Giants system.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Shane Loux
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
No, I meant that I believe Pill was born in SD.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
According to BBRef he was born in San Dimas.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
So the statement "Pill was born in SD" is technically true, then.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Feb 6, 2012 10:38 AM PST up reply actions
I’m afraid this won’t be a very popular idea but…
As someone who worked on the list I think the adoption list should be thinned out a little bit.
There are people on the list that you never see or hear from, I know there are lurkers, but there are ways to see if they have at least logged on sometime in the past 9 months or so.
I dunno…I’m willing to copy my original list of adopters and remove from the list everyone who puts in a claim or gives up their adoptee. This way I’d end up with a list of absentee parents, who may be subject to GPS intervention (Giants Protective Services).
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Won’t somebody think of the children?!
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
I propose a new rule. If someone has adopted a player and that person has no activity since the last draft, we throw that player back in the pool
Bold Prediction: Pablo Sandoval finishes 1st or 2nd in 2012 NL MVP voting. I'm Twittering now (well maybe not literally now): @GoofusMcP
zero activity in a year, that sounds like a fair definition of inactivity.
that means if they lurk and read but don’t post anything, they are out of luck.
What if they vote in a poll or 2?
Marvin Barrios, come on I'll show you your bedroom. Don't stay on the phone too long to Panama, please.
The idea is you're supposed to defend/promote said adoptee
If all you did in the last year was vote in a poll, you were probably a lousy parent.
Bold Prediction: Pablo Sandoval finishes 1st or 2nd in 2012 NL MVP voting. I'm Twittering now (well maybe not literally now): @GoofusMcP
If they don't post anything
they aren’t doing their job.
Bye Travis and thanks for 2010! Good luck with the Brewers!
I agree. With the caveat that everybody should be able to chime in before some set deadline and state that they are keeping their adoptee.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
Sounds fair.
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
I don’t have anybody. I guess this means I draft in the later rounds,
Oooh Aaah, Oooh Aaah, Oooh Aaah, Cantona! Oooh Aaah Cantona!
And since 'Crash is too busy
I’ll go ahead and post for him. He is keeping Brian Sabean.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
Azmanz Bet: 1st HoF: Clemens > Bonds
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 6, 2012 8:41 AM PST reply actions
I hope he's gonna come back once the season starts
The Giants need his art!
2012 is going to be awesome!
Ah what the hell I'm a gambling man
I love you Kruk but I want an actual player. I’m tossing Krukow back
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Should've said actual CURRENT player
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
BUT WE ARE THE DYNAMIC DUO!
Honorary parent of Duane Kuiper, beloved solar powered broadcaster and power hitting coach for the Giants.
by Giant Voodoo on Feb 7, 2012 12:54 AM PST up reply actions
I'll toss Chuckie back
Drafting a toolsy-but-raw high schooler wasn’t the glamorous cosmopolitan lifestyle I had hoped for.
Chuckie Jones: soon to make Salem-Keizer look like Child's Play.
as I recall, I was eager to draft him but you got to him first.
vrooooomm
Marvin Barrios, come on I'll show you your bedroom. Don't stay on the phone too long to Panama, please.
by foothillsfan on Feb 6, 2012 11:53 AM PST up reply actions
Chris Lofton
Disappointed me this year, but I won’t disown him just yet. Seems ready for a CAL league aided breakout.
That is, if Shawn Payne doesn’t jump him.
Imagine you could have a do-over with Fred Lewis, without the bad routes and melancholy. I grant you Chris Lofton.
I see you as Evan Crawford’s adoptive parent?
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Crawford was traded for Fontenot
In 2010, no less. List must not have been updated.
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
Lurker Resurfacing
In the words of the Madonna. Im keepin my baby
Or lip-synched I guess would be the better term…
Fine Steven. You keep your OBP above 350 and Ill keep calling you 'Nick'.
You might want to explicitly state that you’re speakinf of Nick Liles.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
Doh
keeping Lil’ Steven ‘Nick’ Liles
btw Fla you do some really nice work “down on the farm”
Fine Steven. You keep your OBP above 350 and Ill keep calling you 'Nick'.
The scare quotes demand a
TWSS.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Feb 6, 2012 4:10 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
You can have my Jon Miller when you prise him out of my cold, dead hands.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 6, 2012 10:39 AM PST reply actions
That can be arranged
Bold Prediction: Pablo Sandoval finishes 1st or 2nd in 2012 NL MVP voting. I'm Twittering now (well maybe not literally now): @GoofusMcP
jcb9 knows some people who know some people, you know?
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Feb 6, 2012 4:19 PM PST up reply actions
I will be reporting this thuggery to the proper authorities, I assure you.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 6, 2012 8:03 PM PST up reply actions
Penis neck
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
Azmanz Bet: 1st HoF: Clemens > Bonds
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 7, 2012 7:16 AM PST up reply actions
I have nursed Will Clark back to health
and do hereby release him back into the wild.
Run free, Li’l Nush!
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Feb 6, 2012 10:46 AM PST reply actions
Kepping Timmeh's father
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
Lou Seal is mine, jackasses
You can’t have him.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
Chris Gloor
is now free again to continue his career in the lower minors without my guidance as I hereby proclaim my desire to draft anew…
California Leaguers beware: Chris Gloor will strike you out faster than you can say "Quinnipiac", or he would have if he had pitched more than five innings this year before getting hurt...
by crazedcrustacean on Feb 6, 2012 12:03 PM PST reply actions
If he ever stays helathy for a full season he could be a great LOOGY candidate.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
Agreed – and due to his age I could see him jumping up to AA at some point this year if, like you say, he stays healthy. But the lure of a shiny new draft pick is just too much to ignore…
California Leaguers beware: Chris Gloor will strike you out faster than you can say "Quinnipiac", or he would have if he had pitched more than five innings this year before getting hurt...
by crazedcrustacean on Feb 6, 2012 2:37 PM PST up reply actions
I drafted the WS MVP 2 years ago
Of course, he’s not even in the league now so I look forward to drafting the 2012 WS MVP again.
"I don't get out of bed, for a million bucks!"
- Edgar Renteria or a hooker bribing a family man?
Waldis is back in the wild
My last two adoptees left the organization under my watch (RIP Bowkermania), so for the safety of the current roster, I’ll stick with adopting former players or inanimate objects.
In hibernation 'til Spring Training.
by rightcenterfielder on Feb 6, 2012 2:12 PM PST reply actions
I wanted to keep my son, but stupid Brian Sabean traded him for Orlando Cabrera
and I don’t want to keep him and neither does Brian Sabean or anyone else, so he retired. As such, I need a new guy.
"There was no torture in the end. Only rapture." - Mike Krukow
Flags Fly Forever
"Orlando before Zod" doesn't have the same nice ring to it.
by nostocksjustbonds on Feb 6, 2012 2:16 PM PST reply actions
Sorry, you’re stuck with Cabrera forever.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
argh!
"There was no torture in the end. Only rapture." - Mike Krukow
Flags Fly Forever
"Orlando before Zod" doesn't have the same nice ring to it.
by nostocksjustbonds on Feb 6, 2012 2:23 PM PST up reply actions
I would like to de-adopt brandon allen
Adoptive father of 18th round draft pick and future ace, BRANDON ALLEN
Cruel. Heartless. How will he be able to put enough food on the table?
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
signing bonus?
Adoptive father of 18th round draft pick and future ace, BRANDON ALLEN
by Nnamdi Asomugha on Feb 7, 2012 7:06 PM PST up reply actions
I will throw WIllie McCovey back into the pool
He deserves better than me.
No shit.
Seeing as how you’re apparently the type to cast a feeble old man of uncertain swimming abilities into a pool.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Feb 6, 2012 4:22 PM PST up reply actions
WHAT?
You question his swimming ability because he’s black? Weak.
Alas!
I have been unpacked!
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Feb 7, 2012 8:37 AM PST up reply actions
Keeping Bond
LOL ME!
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
On second thought
Scratch that, Brock Bond is back in the draft pool. Sorry Brock, I’m back in love with le upside.
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
BTW, thanks free f.p. #14 for doing this!
All that work in the Community Prospect List, and now this. You are awesome!
@legaleagle88
I'm not crazy. My mother had me tested.
by kdl on Feb 6, 2012 7:38 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
Haha, not awesome
Only desperately searching for ways to procrastinate on studying for midterms :D
by free f.p. #14 on Feb 6, 2012 7:54 PM PST up reply actions
How the hell did it become week 5 already?
Didn’t the year just start?
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
I’m into week 6
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Feb 7, 2012 2:54 AM PST up reply actions
Since my young boy Verdugo was traded away
does that mean I get Melky Cabrera? Or do I have to share custody? Or go back into the pool?
Adopted Giant: Ryan Verdugo. The next Javier Lopez.
You can fight with whoever had Dirty for who gets Melky. Do you want Melky?
by free f.p. #14 on Feb 6, 2012 10:28 PM PST up reply actions
Sanchez’s previous owner was rotorueter. Let the throwdown commence!
by free f.p. #14 on Feb 6, 2012 10:29 PM PST up reply actions
I don’t want Melky.
"Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out." -Ty Cobb
"Ask GiantPain about my penis" - Billy Beane
Mayor of Smug.
No Uncle Melky?
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 7, 2012 9:36 AM PST up reply actions
I believe in buy low, sell high.
Our comeback kid, the long lost Giant prospect turned feel-good story of 2011 is now on the market, folks.
You heard right folks. I know it’s impossible to believe, but you can adopt him all for yourself.
Step right up and post your offers for the ERA leader pre-Allstar break in 2011, the holder of a guaranteed 2 year $8M contract with the Gigantes, the Japanese reJuvenation Sensation, one, the only, ….
drumroll
more drumroll
Ryan Voooooooooooo….
…
gelllllllllllllll….
…
song!!!!
Fine print: I reserve the right to yank him off the market if all I get are offers like Melky Cabrera, Chris Dominguez, and Brock Bond.
So you want to trade Vogelsong?
He is NOT just released to the draft list?
Bye Travis and thanks for 2010! Good luck with the Brewers!
OOTP tells me that this is a fast track to a cranky player.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Feb 7, 2012 8:40 AM PST up reply actions
Shhh....
/covers his son’s ears.
He doesn’t know he’s being shopped.
Besides...
at least I’m not trading him for a 2 month rental.
Trades are allowed, if both parents agree, I presume.
I don’t see any reason why not?
I would be open to any package including high slot draft picks, as I really loved this last draft class, and would love to nurture and promote a growing minor league star.
It’s not an exchange. Either shit or get off the pot.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 7, 2012 9:36 AM PST up reply actions
Gonna give up Baggs
In an attempt to trade-up to the best hack writing about the Giants….
Proud of both my adopted son, Baggs, and my ward, Ryan LOLlis.
Grant Bisbee is probably taken already.
Marvin Barrios, come on I'll show you your bedroom. Don't stay on the phone too long to Panama, please.
by foothillsfan on Feb 7, 2012 11:06 AM PST up reply actions
He's not on the list
Also, it’s a secret.
Proud of both my adopted son, Baggs, and my ward, Ryan LOLlis.
I’ll keep Rowand. May Miami find you a spot to doo in, my son.
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Feb 7, 2012 12:03 AM PST reply actions
I have no idea what this game is, but damn it, I want to play! I checked the list, and the Giant I want to adopt is not adopted!! Wooh Hoo! Now I wait for the next post regarding the draft?
Yes! I DO have Nate's number tattoed on my ass. It's a long story.
http://www.leftymalo.com/2011/08/the_number_twelve.php
I have no idea what this game is, but damn it, I want to play!
It’s the Game of Porcelain Thrones.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Feb 7, 2012 8:42 AM PST up reply actions
looks like
I’ve been adoptive father to a free agent for over a year. So I guess it’s time to ditch ol Mr. Mehhhh-ders and pick someone new.
So I cast Brandon Medders, Free Agent, back into the ether.
If you don't like Brandon Medders you're not a true fan.
I know we have an awesome list of the adoptees and their parents, but is there a list somewhere of every guy in the organization right now? (I can’t believe I don’t know this.)
@legaleagle88
I'm not crazy. My mother had me tested.
Here’s a org-wide depth chart for hitters and pitchers. The hitters one will have some overlap, but it’s the best I could find.
by free f.p. #14 on Feb 7, 2012 1:02 PM PST up reply actions
Also, its a depth chart for 2011, so is probably missing some 2011 draftees, and includes players like Dirty and Verdugo.
by free f.p. #14 on Feb 7, 2012 1:05 PM PST up reply actions
Thanks! You’d think the organization, itself, would maintain some kind of master list online, but I guess not.
@legaleagle88
I'm not crazy. My mother had me tested.
by kdl on Feb 7, 2012 2:09 PM PST up reply actions
This is a good place to start
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
Thanks! It will change after ST, but at least we have a list of all of them. :)
@legaleagle88
I'm not crazy. My mother had me tested.
by kdl on Feb 7, 2012 4:41 PM PST up reply actions
Caution
It’s a pretty good list, but not entirely correct.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
Thanks, Fla. I hadn’t looked at it that closely yet.
@legaleagle88
I'm not crazy. My mother had me tested.
by kdl on Feb 7, 2012 5:57 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah there is still some guys on there from last year especially.
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
Sorry, Pat the Bat. You retire from the Giants, you retire from me...
…but you can still drop by to do your laundry.
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
OT: hey, what's your sig mean?
I assume it’s Gaelic. I googled it and, uh, all I got was a bunch of your posts on McC.
by Lies and Perfidy on Feb 7, 2012 5:54 PM PST up reply actions
Google translate says it means ‘Mbuaimid giants that!’
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 7, 2012 6:09 PM PST up reply actions
Looking forward to participating for the first time.
Cleared sig space and everything.
I have about 3 hours to kill and I’m too tired to actually DO anything so maybe I will go through and look for dead beat parents.
btw… anyone know if a skunk has to be standing still to spray?
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
I want to rid myself of Affeldt
Giant Dirtbags: :(
Jeremy Affeldt is terrible.
by Giant among Angels on Feb 7, 2012 5:03 PM PST reply actions
Am i allowed to keep Jarrett Parker??
Proud adoptive father of the fastest guy in the Giants system, Jarrett Parker
One of the best moments in Giants history, 11/1/2010
Sure, if you want him…
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
YES
Proud adoptive father of the fastest guy in the Giants system, Jarrett Parker
One of the best moments in Giants history, 11/1/2010
wait, nah, i'll throw the kid back out into the water, make him available to others
Proud adoptive father of the fastest guy in the Giants system, Jarrett Parker
One of the best moments in Giants history, 11/1/2010
It helps a lot if you let us know the name of the player you are keeping, some are in signatures and some aren’t.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
What are the options if, say, I’d like a shot at a guy but don’t want to give my current guy up in case I’m not ranked high enough to get him? Do we get to see potential ranking in order to help us make a decision?
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
Presumably when the algorithm is worked out
There will be a draft order posted. I would imagine you could de-adopt at that point as well – it doesn’t seem unfair to anyone as long as you make a decision before the draft starts.
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
Found the algorithm
DP=#comments + (20*#months of membership) + (35*#fanposts/shots)
according to the way it was done last year.
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
I was just looking that up. I was going to keep the same formula, but the subject is up for discussion of course. Tomorrow I’ll put up a rules thread where we can discuss this sort of thing.
by free f.p. #14 on Feb 7, 2012 6:20 PM PST up reply actions
Considering that I do not even remember adopting Andy Skeels, I am hereby pressing the ejector seat button.
Andy Skeels is a free man….
I'm not sure entirely how this works, but damnit, if you're letting him go
Then I should step up and give this poor child guidance.
How Hot
will the return to the fold guys be?
Burres, Hacker, Hensley and of course… Boof Bonser
Arias, Blanco and Theriot are the other new guys. I wouldn’t mind The Riot. I’m gonna be low on the totem though…
Sorry, didn't realize I was supposed to check in
I will KEEP Juan Perez.
Juan "Doesn't Cheat The Game" Perez, future CF for the World Champion San Francisco Giants.
"And besides, if I wanted to participate in a mindless patriotic ritual where my voice isn’t really heard, I would vote." - Chris Marcil
Technically, you don’t have to check in if you’re keeping your adoptee. But it’s fine to let everybody know anyway.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
See
That’s something we should talk about. I feel like that would lead to a lot of guys getting kept by people who leave.
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
If you scroll way up towards the top you’ll see that we discussed this when Goofus proposed the following new rule:
I propose a new rule. If someone has adopted a player and that person has no activity since the last draft, we throw that player back in the pool.
Implicit in that suggestion is that youi don’t have to chime in saying that you’re keeping your adoptee as long as you post at least a few times a year.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
Rules thread will go up later to discuss this, but I’m sure that of the 100 or so members that Merope is eyeing right now, we could carve 50 or so right off the top as users we recognize, but simply haven’t been around to this FanPost to chime in. It’s the names we don’t recognize that we’ll want to check.
by free f.p. #14 on Feb 8, 2012 4:18 PM PST up reply actions
right.
And some people may want a change.
I’m not going to say like tj or baron are absentee parents!
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
But you’re just sayin’.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 8, 2012 6:22 PM PST up reply actions
Are there any new prospects I feel like trading Joe Staley for? Hmm…
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
Sorry don't have internet at home currently
Dumped my cable provider and been without internet for over a month. I’ll get another provider for ST games but I’m in no hurry for TV.
I’m keeping Crazy Crab. I always take a picture of him every year at Fanfest to keep the family album up to date, funny he never ages. Wish I could say the same.
McCoven: A Heinous CircleJerk
Proud Parent of Adopted Giant: Crazy Crab
yay, down to 100!
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Throwing keppinger back in
I like relievers
Sometimes you just have to look death in the face and say whatever man
Come check out the McC Book Club Start Date 1/21
Proud parent of Jeff Keppinger's better half
by operation carrot on Feb 8, 2012 3:45 PM PST reply actions
that also mean stoffel is gone just in case anyone feel like adopting an astro
Sometimes you just have to look death in the face and say whatever man
Come check out the McC Book Club Start Date 1/21
Proud parent of Jeff Keppinger's better half
by operation carrot on Feb 8, 2012 3:46 PM PST up reply actions
whoah for some reason i thought this was new thread
Ive already said i was giving him up but oh well
a few more reps does the trick
Sometimes you just have to look death in the face and say whatever man
Come check out the McC Book Club Start Date 1/21
Proud parent of Jeff Keppinger's better half
by operation carrot on Feb 8, 2012 3:49 PM PST up reply actions
maybe im just padding my comment count for the draft
Sometimes you just have to look death in the face and say whatever man
Come check out the McC Book Club Start Date 1/21
Proud parent of Jeff Keppinger's better half
by operation carrot on Feb 8, 2012 3:50 PM PST up reply actions
jesus ive been a memebe for 5 years and only have 5000 comments
oh lurking
youve cost me my chance at rosin
Sometimes you just have to look death in the face and say whatever man
Come check out the McC Book Club Start Date 1/21
Proud parent of Jeff Keppinger's better half
by operation carrot on Feb 8, 2012 3:52 PM PST up reply actions
hey carrot when do we talk about Cormac McC's The Road?
Marvin Barrios, come on I'll show you your bedroom. Don't stay on the phone too long to Panama, please.
I lost my adoptee
and my mid-season adoptee
so I’m in.
The Golden Bear is ever watching
2011 Giants Adoptee: Orlando Cabrera (because everyone needs to be loved)
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
So when does the “hasn’t been seen for a year” begin?
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Jan 2011?
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
or from the end date of the last draft? something Feb 2011?
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
cuz you know, like if they drafted… they were here
I’ve found one that hasn’t logged in since august
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
and how the hell do some people not have any comments and yet have adopted a player?
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
for example:
DubsFanByTheZoo
http://www.sbnation.com/users/DubsFanByTheZoo
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
berry, berry sneaky
it’s weird cuz it says 105 comments and supposedly 73 of them are on McC, but I couldn’t find the one listed as “most recent”
hmmmm…I wonder if this individual had comments flagged or removed by mods? or they were bludgeoned by the ban stick? Or Ticket Squid came to collect?
sorry, that’s all I got! ;D
"All I've had today is, like, six gummy bears and some scotch."
"Holy shit, you geeks are badass!"
right, or maybe the SBN database barfed up their particular info?
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
ewww, I’m not cleaning that up! :-X
"All I've had today is, like, six gummy bears and some scotch."
"Holy shit, you geeks are badass!"
I don’t see you on the list. You don’t have an adopted Giant?
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
nope, I was still pretty green round these parts, also, I barely poked my head in here last off season so I missed this, but I hope to this year! :D
"All I've had today is, like, six gummy bears and some scotch."
"Holy shit, you geeks are badass!"
I guess I shoulda asked, can I participate in this year’s adoption draft? Please? :)
also, ugh! math! that algorithm is gonna make me cross-eyed! LOL
"All I've had today is, like, six gummy bears and some scotch."
"Holy shit, you geeks are badass!"
everybody can play.
I just picked an olde tyme guy … no chance of anybody else wanting him and there was a curse to be broken.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
"Recent comments" has a timeline
I looked up sharksrog earlier because I thought he still had Lincecum (SFGuy does now) and he’s still listed as having something like 6000 comments despite not having logged in for a year. He also has nothing under recent comments/posts. Evidently they just list comments past a certain date and if you don’t have anything after that date you don’t have any recent comments.
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
I would give a bit of a cushion
His last login was March 17th, in the middle of spring training. It’s quite likely there are people who don’t come around during the offseason, but they shouldn’t lose their adoptees. But if someone hasn’t been on since last January that means they spent the whole 2011 season and most of the offseason not commenting on anything. That’s a long enough period of inactivity IMO.
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
right, but my point is that if we use January 2011 as the cut off … when the draft itself was in Feb of 2011 then what’s the point, because technically, who would that exclude?
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Anyone who hasn't posted since the last draft
I was trying to provide a bit of a cushion. I’m sure there are people on the list who adopted someone in the 2010 draft then quit sometime between then (Feb 2010) and Jan 2011. Those are the people I’m trying to exclude, most of whom presumably wouldn’t have been cut off the 2011 draft, unless the inactivity period then was only a couple months.
For example, say User adopted someone in the 2010 draft. They continue posting through Nov. 2010. In the 2011 draft, that person would not automatically lose their adoptee (only three months of inactivity: Dec., Jan., Feb.). But now, they haven’t posted since Nov. 2010, so that’s more than a year of inactivity, and they lose their adoptee.
Someone else who adopts in Feb. 2011, however, does get to keep their adoptee. I guess that part’s debatable – I would give a one year bye to adopters. Perhaps you disagree. I wouldn’t oppose moving it to Feb. 2011 – I suggested Jan because anyone who hasn’t posted since then has definitely been inactive for a year. Feb 2011 would catch almost everyone though.
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
I think the list was updated last draft though, no dead beat parents from the Feb 2010 draft should be on the list.
I don’t think, out of the 100 people left that there will be more than maybe 10? that haven’t commented in even the last 6 or 7 months.
TSFGWTWS in Nov of 2010 so in 2011 we had more newbs drafting.
So far the case of dubsfan is an anomaly.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
I'm with Nivra
The point of the draft is so that a McMember is around to support and report on their draftee. To find the silver lining in their 6.5 ERA or .250 AVG. So that someone actually notices when the player moves from DL to inactive to Japan. Drafting then lurking doesn’t cut it. Nothing wrong with lurking – I read far more than I post – but I’ve walked into the other room, opened McC and waited as 1500 comments loaded just to type “IshiBOOM” in a GDT after Travis hit a dinger.
Bye Travis and thanks for 2010! Good luck with the Brewers!
I'd like to be in this
I haven’t done it before and would like to join in. Not sure if this is the “sign up” thread or not.
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