Maybe it's the heat. Maybe it's the financial service industry. Maybe it's the average team.Whatever it is, Joe is angry. And he wants you to know about it.
He's angry about the commissioner, he's angry about other managers, and he's angry about the league.
"This league is not in good standing," Joe said during a 16-minute phone call to the commissioner's office Friday night. "There are too many rules that are not distinguished, and there are too many managers who try to rip people off."
Joe didn't exactly elaborate, although it sounds like he's frustrated by his lack of ability to complete a trade. Stuck with the league's worst pitching staff, Joe desperately has been trying to swap some hitting for pitching. Two weeks ago, he had a verbal preliminary agreement in place with Andy, who decided at the last minute to re-neg on the trade.
"Alex Rios is the 13th best player, according to Yahoo!, yet managers are only willing to trade 90-plus ranked pitching," Joe said. "It's hard for teams to work out deals."
I'm sorry, Joe, I didn't know trading was supposed to be an easy thing in a keeper league. We all feel so sorry for you.
Joe singled out a specific trade offer - Carlos Gonzalez for Ted Lilly - that had him furious.
"It's bs," he said. "Certain managers tend to think that pitching outweighs hitting in this league and they don't want to be fair about asking prices, and thus trades don't get done."
As for the commissioner and Joe's anger toward him?
"The blog has been boring," Joe said. "I wanted you to do a story on how you're 1-11 when you pick my games. Why won't you write about that? I'm also insulted that you didn't include my team in the poll question (about who will win the Tiger Woods division) last week. If we win this week, we're a game out of first place. The Peddlers and Snooki Punch are heated rivals now because of that."
Whether he's looking for attention or has a different agenda, Joe's point has been made. Will things change?
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wah wah. joe, u have made 0 counter offers. get over it.
ReplyDeletemoreover, the act of trading takes into account the element of negotiation. i would assume someone with a business background would understand that principle and also take into consideration what the market is demanding, ya know supply and demand stuff, right? i guess that passes up some people, oh well when a manager gets hung up on a single category (losses) and fails to realize all the other things a solid pitcher brings to the table, innings, whip, era, moderate strikeout ratio, i guess the entire league needs to hear the whining....
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