The Daily Grind: July 4th Edition, Invitational

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July 4, 2015

Agenda

  1. Happy Independence Day
  2. The Daily Grind Invitational

1. Happy Independence Day

Howdy folks. Yesterday’s Grind was interrupted by a minor family emergency. Everything is fine now, but it has spilled over into today’s scheduling. Next week could still be a little hinky through Tuesday or Wednesday. It’ll all be back to normal soon.

Enjoy your July fourth!

2. The Daily Grind Invitational

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I would have skipped today’s post as well, but there’s one topic that requires urgent action. On Wednesday, I discussed the idea of building a reader’s league (or possibly several). I have created a basic league on Yahoo and a Google Sheet for signups.

The draft is at 8:00PM ET on Wednesday July 8. Scoring starts the next day. It’s a standard 5×5 roto league with a $260 auction. Positions include C, 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, CI, MI, 4OF, 2UTIL, 2SP, 2RP, 5P, 4BN, and 2DL. There is a 700 IP cap.

If you know you are available for the draft and will be an active participant, you can sign up here. Some of my colleagues have expressed a desire to participate so there will probably be at least one more league. If you miss one of the slots on my league, sign up for the waiting list. We’ll do our best to help everybody.

My league is free and the only prize is bragging rights. My original inclination was to require some sort of buy in, but it would be tough to get everything together by next Wednesday. I’m going to trust that my readers will be active participants.





 

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stockhfcrx
10 years ago

Looking forward to the midseason league. Let me know if I need to do anything else to get in.

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