Arena The Sixth Baseball Draft - The FODEUSS Awakens (HEELS HAS WON)

I'm not interested in investing, but I'll offer to be your #1 Fan for the low price of 9.99 Intybucks per month for 4 months plus shipping and handling.

 

What about an "Assistant TO the Commissioner" role?

 

Assistant Terrell Owens the commissioner?

 

Depends. What's involved and what does it pay?

 

ANNOUNCEMENT

The Draft Lottery results are in, and the winner is ...



OH MY GOD! IT REALLY IS GOING TO BE HEELS YEAR.

Also - this was the most boring draft lottery ever. Nobody moved up. Here's your draft order for standard odd rounds:

1. Gemini Joe
2. heels
3. Cubbie
4. Rx_Sith
5. LMT Shawn
6. Wang
7. Pointy
8. tom
9. mnjedi
10. Lloyd*
11. AmazingB
12. dp4m

*Lloyd still retains the right to give up his current franchise and go expansion
and/or @MandaloreYak can still show up and clam it
In either of those cases, that team would pick second and everyone else would just drop a slot

And your Division Assignments

SANDLOT DIVISION

dp4m
Gemini Joe
Rx
Wang
Lloyd
Shawn

THINGS THAT PISS OFF DP4M AND MAKE LIFE EASIER ON INTY DIVISION

Amazingb
Cubbie
heels
Pointy
mnjedi
tom

 

Your Era for this draft is

GOLDEN ERA OF BASEBALL (1955-1959)

Please have keepers declared by noon eastern on Monday. Tag me when you declare keepers.

 

As everyone is contemplating their keepers now that we have the era and order in hand, keep in mind that everyone (yes, everyone) on my team is up for grabs before Monday's deadline. So, if you're in the mood to swing a deal, make an offer.

 

@DarthIntegral

Franchise: Ty Cobb
Keeper: Tom Seaver
Keeper: Fireman Bob Feller
Thoroughly ill-advised entirely emotional keeper but I don't care for 75 Intybucks: Charlie Blackwell

Amazing.

 

Due to some crazy Sithi magic, the current team's Hayholt Field has disappeared. With this news, The Sithi of Osten Ard have decided to steal and transport the current Yankee Stadium to Honolulu to replace the missing stadium. If it's possible to add a retractable roof, great, and if not, we may have some rain delays. @DarthIntegral

 

@DarthIntegral

Okay, keepers. I was going to switch up the entrance themes for every player to be their wrestling theme and then a song from the decade we're playing in. But just looking at the Billboard Top 100 from the 1950s... it's like 24 Elvis songs. Slim Jim Park is just gonna end up sounding like a ****in' Johnny Rockets. I may need to reevaluate.

Anyways...

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The Franchise, Ken "Ven" Griffey Jr.

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Spending 10 Intybucks to keep The Left Arm of God, Sandy Koufax

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Spending 5 Intybucks to keep Cleveland's Own "Big" Ed Delahanty

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And finally, spending 80 damn Intybucks to keep Charles "Motha****in'" Johnson

 

Off the cuff, I think the biggest thing would be help keeping the roster spreadsheet updated. I know I often miss an have to backtrack on year changes and sometimes the draft slows waiting for confirmation on who is gone. Plus, I know I've forgotten to charge players for free agent signings.

On top of that, updating the Wiki. Preempting the narcs. Bitch slapping the narcs.

As far as compensation, I can give you the entire value of the Bandwagoners Crypto holdings ...

 

I'll think about it and get back to you soon, probably during the Soup Bowl tomorrow (I hope it's broccoli cheddar...).

 

Remarkably difficult choices here but I love the draft and I don’t have the intybucks, so only three keepers for me.

Franchise Keeper: Josh Gibson (C)
Keeper: Bob Gibson (SP)
Keeper:Bullet Rogan (SP/OF/1B)

@DarthIntegral

 

We have the designated hitter this year!

 

alright here we go, keepers...

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franchise keeper: willie mays

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pedro martinez

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barry bonds

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maybe you're expecting me to keep bobby wallace at this point because he's the only player left on my team who has a foolish baseball video, but we're actually spending 75 intydollars to keep charles albert bender.

 

is this when the draft starts?

 

Roughly. I'll probably officially put you on the clock around 5:00 pm so you can have time to look at the final keeper list and see who is available for that first overall pick

Just FYI, you are sitting at 160 Intybucks and the maximum carryover is 150, so if you wanna grab another keeper for 75 of those, or if you want to make a trade with someone who desperately needs some Intybucks (*cough* @mnjedi *cough*) you've got 10 that are basically gonna get burned if you don't spend or trade them. I mean, hell, you could do both, grab a fourth keeper AND trade some of those Intybucks.

Other players who might want to consider trading some of those precious Intybucks for some draft capital would be @heels1785 (who is sitting on 110 and probably doesn't want to carry over any more players from last year's dumpster fire of a season) and @RX_Sith (who is sitting on 145 Intybucks and I don't see four surefire keepers on his roster, and turning those cool, sweet Intybucks into draft capital probably makes more sense for him anyways but I should probably go ask ChatGPT about that, right?)

I found a few errors on Intybucks totals on the Spreadsheet. Those have been fixed, and declared keepers have been added.

 

Ok, I thought I was lower than I was.

@DarthIntegral Add

Paid Keeper: Elmer Flick (RF)

 

I feel like Flick should come automatically paired with https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/morribu01.shtml

 

The Guardians Expansion Compensation Picks (End of Rounds 1-3) are on the block.

 

@DarthIntegral

Franchise Keeper: Arky Vaughan