Everyday, we are that much closer

Emails from this morning:

I don’t know about you, but I am pretty excited for this upcoming season.  Everyone seems to be putting a bit more effort into it this year, and, whether misguided and retarded or not, it is still great to see.

We had our third trade of the offseason today, and man, was it a doozy.  Jesse Loves Paymon GM Steve McIntyre could only give this look after it was approved (he knew it was wrong, but it felt so right):

In summary, Not Poodle!!! GM gave up his 1st and 2nd round this year for Marian Hossa and Milan Lucic.  Now, I am a firm believer that people in this league overvalue draft picks, because the first round is actually the 7th round, but in this case, you can clearly see what happened.  Hossa is getting up their in years, and doesn’t have long term keeper prospects.  Marian Gaborik and Marian Hossa are interchangeable in my mind, and since Fatty already had Gaborik, the upgrade here just doesn’t exist.  Then there is Lucic.  The guy has peaked as a second tier player, nothing more.  He would probably have been available in the third round.   Fatty will have to get rid of a better player to keep Lucic.  So, he gave up a pick higher than what he would have and got rid of a better player.  When you add it all up, it only equals one thing.  Trade rape.

Kudos for Steve for getting away with it.  Jesse Cook of Anzoolander observed that Fatty probably made the concessions above in return for Steve blowing it all over Fatty’s face after a good sodomy session.  The transactions and trading workbook has been updated to reflect the trade.

After the feedback from everyone, looks like the date of the draft will be 9/30 at 8 pm.  Everyone may want to participate and set rosters, because the season for us might start the next day (it might start the next week, I don’t know for sure, so just be safe).

The amount everyone owes can be found here.  Get payments in to puckyourself @ live dot com via Paypal, before roster control gets shut off.  It is sad that sometimes that happens and people don’t even notice.

JM.