SIM COMPLETE - 1984 - FA 1

[Riverman]

So if you add up all of those negatives... you get a right?

Absolutely, Linty, if it makes you feel any better I'm with you.

If I'd needed a catcher I'd of grabbed him and even argued a lot harder than you did that he should be mine. It's not your fault that the new guy can't keep his 40-man roster straight. It's goody goodies like Clay who put the perceived best interests of the league ahead of their own selfish interests who need to learn the importance of greed in making the world work like it should.

If Plastic had lost Houck it would have taught him a valuable life lesson that he probably won't learn now. And the next time he is not paying attention there may not be some silly rule to bail him out - guys on the active roster have to be on the 40-man roster - who needs that.

[Andrew]

FYI, I'm going to let the results of the Rule 5 draft stand as is. It's impossible to go back at this point and reconstruct the draft since we don't have access to the lists anymore. I also advised people to check their active rosters to make sure all players were on your 40 man (LINK). It sucks that some people are getting punished because of a glitch in the game but I'm not sure how else we can handle it.

[Lintyfresh85]

Ok... just to be fair to Morgantown... I will trade you Houck back for 280k (or whatever his current contract is).

Sorry if that undercuts you Andrew... I just feel bad about ripping off Morgantown's starting catcher.

[Riverman]

FYI, I'm going to let the results of the Rule 5 draft stand as is. It's impossible to go back at this point and reconstruct the draft since we don't have access to the lists anymore. I also advised people to check their active rosters to make sure all players were on your 40 man (LINK). It sucks that some people are getting punished because of a glitch in the game but I'm not sure how else we can handle it.

I think what Clay wrote above is true. Anyone who received a BLB contract via auto renewal had to have been on the 40 man roster for that to happen. And since the auto renewals happened in late November, there was no time to waive them and thus remove them from the roster in time for the Rule V draft.