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I’ve decided to make a change to the Waivers rules in order to minimize the amount of chasing I have to do to find out who wants what for a pick. The current system while practical for a face to face league get rather difficult when you have a dozen players all over the country.

So without further ado here is are the new rules which will apply to both Waivers and Early waivers.

Waivers

Waivers for all teams will begin week 6 of the season and will end when rosters expand in September. “Early Waivers” will take place before this but only teams who have forgone draft picks will be eligible for early waivers.

All players that have a card for the season played that are not currently on a team’s Roster or DL will be eligible to be picked off waivers.

A team may only acquire one player off of waivers each week.

The waivers procedure will function as follows:

Waiver Claims

1. Starting on Saturday Morning a 12:01 AM EST any team may make a waivers claim for any player not on a Roster or DL of any other team.
2. Said claim is made by sending a message to the league and/or commissioner via the Dynasty system. A claim may also be made by posting it in the slack room.
3. Said claim must include the name of the player, the position he plays and what team is on his card.
4. If no team has made a counter claim by 1 AM EST on the following TUESDAY the player will be placed on the claiming teams 35 man roster.
5. If the team is already at the Roster limit the claiming team MUST room for said player by either releasing a player already on the roster or placing a player already injured on the DL.
6. If a eligible team with an equal or inferior winning percentage makes a counter claim before that time then the waivers pick is forfeited to the team making the counter claim. If multiple eligible teams make such a claim the team with the lowest winning percentage shall have their claim upheld.

Waiver Counter Claims

1. When a team announces a waivers claim or counter claim any eligible team may, if they choose, make their own counter claim for said player.
2. A counter claim is made by replying to an original claim either via the Dynasty system using the MESSAGE ALL TEAMS button and/or making said counter claim publicly in slack (if possible do both but the Dynasty message takes precedence)
3. A team may make a counter claim for a player picked in waivers if ALL of these conditions are true:
   1. The team making the counter claim has an equal or inferior winning percentage than the claiming (or counter claiming) team
   2. The team making the counter claim has not already acquired a player off waivers that weekend due to a successful claim or counter claim.
   3. EARLY WAIVERS ONLY The team making the claim must be eligible for early waivers for that round
4. One an eligible team has made a valid counter claim they are treated as if they were the original claiming team for the player and if no valid counter claim is made by 1 AM EST TUESDAY the player will go on their 35 man roster at which time said team.
5. As with regular waivers the player MUST go on the 35 man roster, if there is no room the claiming team must either release a player or place an already injured player on the DL.

All players released to make room for a player claimed in waivers will be placed in the waivers pool for the following week.

The great part of this new system is that people who have no interest in waivers can ignore it while people interested in waivers will be able to dive right in.

Here is the Current waivers list.

Batters:

• Aaron Tommie Taken Montreal Early Waivers Round 2 Pick 2
• Adair Jerry Taken Chicago White Sox Early Waivers Round 2 pick 1
• Alvis Max
• Amaro Ruben
• Baker Frank
• Barry Rich
• Barton Bob
• Bateman John
• Beauchamp Jim
• Billings Dick
• Blefray Curt Taken NY Mets Early waivers round 1
• Bobb Randy
• Boehmer Len
• Bosch Don
• Bowens Sam
• Boyer Ken
• Breeden Danny
• Brinkman Chuck
• Brooks Bobby
• Brown Gates
• Brown Larry
• Browne Byron
• Bryant Don
• Burda Bob
• Campanis Jim
• Campbell Dave
• Cannizzaro Chris Taken by Washington Early waivers round 1
• Chaney Darrel
• Charles Ed
• Christian Bob
• Clark Ron
• Collins Kevin
• Corrales Pat
• coulter Chip
• DaVanon Jerry
• Davis Bill
• Davis Ron
• Dean Thomas
• Donaldson John
• Duncan Dave
• Ellis John
• Etheridge Bobby
• Fairey Jim
• Floyd Bobby
• Gabrielson Len (Taken Pittsburgh early waivers round 2)
• Gamble Oscar
• Geiger Gary
• Gil Bus
• Gosger Jim
• Gutierrez Cesar
• Hague Joe
• Hall Jimmie
• Haney Larry
• Harrell John
• Harrison Chuck
• Healy Fran
• Heath Bill
• Hermoso Remy
• Hershberger Mike
• Hicks Jim
• Hinton Chuck
• Holman Gary
• Hriniak Walt
• Hutton Tom (Claimed by Pittsburgh acquired by Chicago by counter claim)
• Jackson Sonny
• Jeter Johnny (Claimed by New York Yankees / Highlanders)
• Johnson Lou
• Jones Dalton
• Kelly Van
• Kendall Fred
• Keough Joe
• Kolb Gary
• Krug Chris
• Lahoud Joe
• Lee Leron
• Llenas Winston
• Lock Don
• Lyttle Jim
• Manuel Charlie
• Martin JC
• Matchick Tommy
• May Dave
• McGraw Tommy
• McDonald Dave
• McFadden Leon
• McNulty Bill
• Miller John
• Morales Jerry
• Nagelson Russ
• Nelson Dave
• Northey Scott
• Oliver Gene
• Oliver Nate
• Oyler Ray (PIcked Round 3 Cincinnati early waivers)
• Paepke Dennis
• Pagliaroni
• Peterson Cap
• Phillips Adolfo
• Qualls Jim
• Quilici Frank
• Ranew Merritt
• Reid Scott
• Renick Rick
• Repoz Roger
• Ricketts Dave
• Rico Fred
• Rios Juan
• Robinson Bill
• Robles Rafael
• Rogers Buck
• Rollins Rich
• Roznovsky Rick
• Ruberto Sonny
• Rudolph Ken
• Satriano Tom
• Scheinblum Richie
• Shannon Mike (picked round 4 early waivers SF Giants)
• Shopay Tom
• Simpson Dick
• Sipin John
• Slocum Ron
• Smith Dick
• Snyder Russ
• Spangler Al
• Spence Bob
• Spriggs George
• Stahl Larry
• Stanley Fred
• Stephenson John
• Stewart Jimmy
• Stinson Bob
• Stone Gene
• Stone Ron
• Stuart Dick
• Tartabull Jose
• Tatum Javis
• Tepedino Frank
• Tischinski Tom
• Torres Hector
• Valdespino Sandy
• Velazquez Freddie
• Vidal Jose
• Ward Pete
• Watkins Dave
• Webster Ramon
• White Bill
• Whitfield Fred
• Wicker Floyd
• Williams Jim
• Woods Ron

Pitchers

• Allen Lloyd
• Arlin Steve
• Baldschun Jack
• Baney Dick
• Barber Steve (Taken Chicago W Sox early waivers wk 1 1st pick)
• Belinsky Bo
• Bell Gary
• Bertaina Frank
• Boozer John
• Boyd Gary
• Brandon Bucky
• Buchart Larry
• George Brunet LHP SEA (Released by NYY to make room for Johnny Jeter)
• Carlos Cisco
• Champion Bill
• Clark Rickey
• Corkins Mike
• Crider Jerry
• Culver George
• Dukes Tom
• Ellis Sammy
• Everitt Leon
• Farrell Turk
• Fisher Jack
• Fitzmorris Al
• Foster Alan
• Fuentes Miguel
• Garman Mike
• Geishert Vern
• Guinn Skip
• Hamilton Jack
• Jackson Al
• James Jeff
• Jaster Larry
• Jones Steve
• Kealey Steve
• Kline Ron
• Koonce Cal
• Kroll Gary
• Lamb Ray
• Law Ron
• Lazar Danny
• Lersch Barry
• McBean Al
• Miles Jim
• Morehead Dave
• Morris John
• Nottebart Don
• Nye Rich
• O’Riley Don
• Palmer Lowell
• Pascual Camilo
• Pina Horacio
• Priddy Bob
• Purdin John
• Raffo Al
• Ramos Pedro
• Rath Fred
• Raymond Claude
• Ribant Dennis
• Robertson Rich
• Roggenburk Garry
• Ross Gary (Taken Pittsburgh early waivers round 3)
• Sembera Carroll (Taken White Sox Early Waives Round 4)
• Severinsen Al (Picked White Sox Early Wavers round 3 pick 1)
• Shaw Don
• Shea Steve
• Short Chris
• Sisk Tommie
• Spama Joe
• Sprague Ed
• Talbot Fred (Taken NY Mets early waivers round 3)
• Taylor Gary
• Wagner Gary
• Washburn Greg
• Wsahbum Greg
• Watkins Bob
• Wynne Billy (Taken NY Mets early waivers round 2)
• Zachary Chris

Nothing says “Democracy” like NH revote on the vaccine money taking place without the public realizing it was being brought up.

I’m old enough to remember when people thought it was important for Government to be responsive to the people.

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There is some talk that former senator Scott Brown might jump into the NH Senate Race.

This is interesting because Brown lost in NH the last time very much due to his conflicts with the base on Abortion and Guns even though the establishment loved him, BUT he was also an early supporter of Donald Trump which was contrary to the NH GOP Establishment which was NeverTrump before there was such a term as “Never Trump”

An optimists might say that he appeals to both the establishment and base, while a pessimist might say he’s offended both.

Of course in a primary for any Pro-Life Catholic there is no question of supporting Brown if General Bolduc is in the race but if he does win the primary there is also no question that he’s a better choice than any Democrat.

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Eric Adams is discovering that you can’t appease the BLM left simply by being a Democrat. The threat of riots and violence are quite real.

But the real danger here is that the prosecutors in NY will not actually enforce the law if people do riot. As long as BLM knows there is no actual risk to violence, looting or murder there is no incentive for them to stop.

Eventually people get sick of living in fear of riots and will eventually decide to fight back, and when that happens they will not be very restrained in their targets. The question is, will Adams us his police force to enforce the law to keep the people from eventually reaching that point. It rather amazes me that said point has not been reached already.

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Speaking of prosecutors I can’t think what is going through the mind of the team going after Rittenhouse. If they hadn’t blown their case before he took the stand they sure did afterwards.

Of course this case should never have reached trail but the same dynamics of threat that are in play in New York, Portland and Seattle are in play here and maybe with people already openly making threats concerning the jury they figure the fix is in.

That I am seeing this kind of thing disgusts me to no end.

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Via HotAir this statement really sums up where we are as a country:

“The bloodlust you see for Kyle Rittenhouse is exactly what I see every day for January 6 defendants,” she wrote on Twitter. “Up against corrupt prosecutors, a vicious news media, and libelous social media influencers. If they could arrest and charge all of us, they would.” 

People don’t seem to have a concept of what this is going to lead to. A lot of people are restraining themselves but once they stop all bets are off. The left is counting on this never happening.

They’re wrong.

The last time I posted on the backup site was to note that the main site was down in a post titled:

Everything is Down & My Host has Seemingly disappeared

Well what happened before is happening again.

Technically the site is up and the old posts are there and visible but problems abound to wit:

First our SSL ran out but that should have been an easy fix but for some reason the buy of the new cert hasn’t caught up with the site 3 days later. As you can guess it’s tanked traffic pretty bad.

If that’s not enough apparently our host has not updated their PHP so now I’m getting the same type of blank screen when I try to write a post that I did with godaddy three years earlier. (I’m writing this post i the draft section of the dashboard to get around it as a temp measure)

The owner of the hosting service who bought it from my friend has proved just as invisible as before when it comes to getting ahold of him to resolve this

Frankly life has been too busy lately for this nonsense so I’ll be doing what I can to get around things but likely can’t get a full day of it in till Friday.

Last time this happened it was all resolved in a few days but I have a nasty feeling it’s not going to be that easy this time, we shall see.

What a wonderful setup for the blog’s 13th anniversary which is practically ancient in blog years.

So for now I’ll be posting here and I think I’ll start moving forward with contingency plan but I have an awful lot on my plate right now and I’m at the point so it might be slow going.

I was perusing the next this morning and spotted this at Powerline on the Biden Administration’s energy policy

So at the same time the administration is trying to block oil and gas leases on federal lands, it contemplates leasing federal waters for wind turbines. Wind turbines are environmentally awful and produce electricity less than half the time, so along with wind farms watch for many billions of dollars to be spent on natural gas plants that will operate the majority of the time when the wind turbines produce no electricity.

I didn’t think it would be possible to produce an energy policy this mind-numbingly foolish, but the Biden administration has exceeded my expectations.

As usual this piece is worth reading but it is making a simple error when it classifies the Biden Administration policy as “dumb” and the origin of said error is based on a faulty assumption.

The author assume that the goal of the Biden Administration is the same as the goal the Trump administration had, namely to make America energy independent and to lower fuel prices to help the economy and the working class.

Now if this was the goal of the Biden Administration then, yes this would be a really dumb energy policy.

BUT if your goal is to use government power, funds and taxes to enrich allies who will in turn enrich you and your relatives and your hangers on and to support those who are advancing your goals of remaining in an exclusive powerful rich elite, then not only are these policies not dumb, they are VITAL to reach said goal.

Once you realize that this is the goal of the Biden Administration then you realize that it is far from dumb.

Now if you want to argue that’s it immoral , or bad for the interest of America and Americans then fine, but don’t call it dumb, because its primary result, satisfying the powers that support them, is being achieved.