Another night  drinking with the scouts at the Barleymoe       

      Tonight Elijah Craig is joined by Jack Daniels, Jim Beam and Jose Cuervo

Elijah: Does anyone here know anything about the new owners?

Jose: I thought you would would want to talk about the guys who mysteriously are no longer in the league.

Elijah: Well we can do that if you want.

Jack: No! No! he's going to start with that Captain Morgan stuff again. It's urban legend stuff. It never happened.

Jose: Really Jack, sportsguy93 had played 68 seasons of HBD and now he's not in any leagues.

Jack: In 26 seasons of the Stickball league he had 21 winning seasons. Until the last two season he had never had back-to-back losing seasons. He just got bored and is taking sometime off from his Cleveland teams.

Jose: You silly Americans. The Captain, he uses some of ports in my native Mexico. We talk from time to time and I know his ways. If a manager like sportsguy93 disappears between seasons you should consider that the captain is taking hostages and accepting ransom for their relief.

Jim: I believe Stickman has had opportunities in the past to enhance his recruitment of new owners, so maybe what you say is true.

Jack: The Stickman has never paid a ransom and he has never admitted to being asked to pay a ransom.

Jose: Jack, there is a reason why the DiMaggio League is short 14 managers. Commissioner Officialism4 refuses to pay the Captains price and can't recruit anymore manager because the Captain continues to capture his managers.

Jack: I know for a fact that bagpipes28 is in two other leagues.

Jose: That's true but brad11 has disappeared just like sportsguy93. The captain doesn't get them all but he gets most of them.

Elijah: Maybe we should talk about the new guys.

Jim: Well we finally got POKEYSAN to join the league. After 478 season he's finally joined our league.

Jose: How has he managed his teams in the past.

Jack: He has usually operated with really high payroll. Somewhere between the mid nineties to a hundred and forty million per season.

Jim: Well this season he only raised the payroll by 11 million. He's at 114 million this season.

Jose: Doesn't that give him the fourth highest payroll for the season?

Jim: Yes but it falls within the usual high payrolls of the league, historically.

Jose: That is a tough division. All the managers have over a.500 winning percentage. They all budget a  good amount in salary.

Jim: trapapoodle, usibjc, and bwb53 may not be excited by adding him but as a scout I am.

Jack: We also had an original manager rejoin the league, vdaino. In 24 seasons on our league he won his division 7 times.

Jose: Anything you know about him?

Jack: He has a .529 winning percentage. 4.7% world series percentage. 30% playoff percentage.

Jim: The last new manager is dan2044 has only played 15 seasons but made the playoffs a third of the seasons he 's been in HBD.

Elijah: It seems like we got a really good set of new managers. We should have really good season. Time to call the uber Fellas.