Not Quite "Scott Free"

EVANSTON, Ill. (CBS) - WMAQ-Ch. 5 sportscaster Mike Adamle is facing DUI charges after being arrested in north suburban Evanston early Monday morning.
Adamle, 61, of Evanston, was arrested at Main Street and Judson Avenue in the southeastern part of Evanston about 1 a.m., Evanston police said.
The former running back for the Bears and the Northwestern University Widlcats was driving his four-door, 2002 BMW when he was pulled over for failing to observe a flashing red light at Main Street and Sheridan Road, Evanston police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said.
The arresting officer suspected Adamle had been drinking and put him through a field sobriety test, which he failed, Parrott said.
Adamle was then taken back to the Evanston police station, where he exhibited some “erratic behavior.” He was subsequently taken to Evanston Hospital for a drug screen, Parrot said.
Those tests were submitted to the Illinois State Police Crime Lab. The results are pending.
Adamle is scheduled to appear in Cook County Circuit Court in Skokie on Feb. 14.
He was charged with disobeying a traffic control device, driving while under the influence and a minor vehicle code violation — failure to notify the Secretary State’s office of an address change.
Adamle is a freelance staffer at NBC 5, who appeared on weekend newscasts and the “Sports Sunday” show. He was scheduled to appear next on Channel 5 newscasts Friday.
Station spokeswoman Toni Falvo had no immediate comment about the DUI charge or Adamle’s status at the station.
Adamle graduated from Northwestern in 1971 after earning team captain, All-America and Big Ten MVP honors his senior season. He still holds four NU rushing records.
He was a fourth-round draft choice of the Kansas City Chiefs in 1971, and also played for the New York Jets before joining the Bears from 1975 to 77.
Since retiring from football he’s held a variety of sportscasting jobs, including stints with NBC Sports, ABC Sports, ESPN, ESPN2 and WLS-TV ABC 7. He hosted the “American Gladiators” TV show from 1989-94, and was also CBS 2′s princpal sports anchor from 2001 to 2004.

Y! Announces New Features For 2011

Yahoo! Sports is proud to bring you the 2011 Fantasy Baseball season. Full Season Registration begins on Tuesday, February 8 and continues until Saturday, April 30. This year, Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Baseball has undergone a another serious overhaul to deliver an even more intense and customized Fantasy Baseball experience.

• League Renewals - All returning leagues will be renewable.
• League Updates - A centralized location where you can go to see all of your leagues recent communication activity.
• Email Notifications - Keeps you aware of message board posts, smack talk, team slogan updates, and more.
• Offline Draft Tool - Commissioner can submit Standard or Auction Draft results.
  
• Franchise Invitations - Invite existing managers back to the league, invite a new manager to the league to take over an existing team, and invite a new manager to the league to manage a new team.
  
• Lock Teams - Allows the commissioner to lock teams so they can change the draft order, assign keepers, add and remove managers, etc.
• Team Ownership Transfers - Allows a commissioner to assign a team to a new manager.
  
• Trade Draft Picks - Make your league more strategic by allowing trades of next years picks.
• User Ratings - Rate the commish or another manager.
• Custom Schedules - Allows a commissioners the ability to set a fair and balanced schedule, to play rivals, and to control the leagues schedule.
  

Batting Order

3B-extraordinaire Pablo "Cheetos" Sandoval had at least 1 AB in each spot in the lineup this season.

Yahoo! Activation Date

Yahoo! site is scheduled to be launched on Tuesday, February 8th.

DRAFT DAY 2011 (Announced)

Draft Day will be Saturday, March 26^th @ 6 pm.  

Per our usual procedure, keeper deadline will be Saturday, March 19^th at midnight.  I will compile and email out the list on Sunday.

• Each team must keep a min of 4 and a max of 6
• Supplemental picks for all who keep less than 6 will be held between pick #6 and pick #7 of the first round of the draft
• Supplemental rounds are NOT reverse serpentine, but the actual draft is.  

We will re-visited potential rule changes in FEB once Y! is active again.  I want to see what their options are before we put anything formal to vote.  As I see it, the core issues are as follows:

• Expanding our player pool (either in the form of expanding to 14 teams or in adding roster spots)
• Playoff length (tbd based on Y! options)
• Transaction limitation (weekly limit, year long limit, FAAB, or leave as is)
• Buy in, Pay outs (keep at $65 or raise to $100, how does this impact payouts)

Draft Day 2011

I would like to propose that we have our draft on Saturday, March 26^th beginning at 6 PM EST.  I understand that this time might not be ideal in Communist China, but the last two drafts have been in the morning to compensate for the time difference, so this year I’m asking the Chinese to play along.  (I have to work until 4pm on this date) 

If you cannot draft on this date please respond.  I will naturally assume silence is means you are able to draft on this date/time.  I am hoping to officially finalize the date by JAN 31.

Incidentally, Opening Day is Thursday, March 31^st

Rockers and Labatts drop bombshell!

The Rockers have decided to throw all convention into the wind and field an undrafted 2011 squad!  GM Leo Pare was commented as saying,  "the biggest challenge will be staying sober through the first 2 hours of the draft after boredom sets in." 

Rockers send Ellsbury, Lester and picks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9

for

Tulowitski and Labatt picks 11, 12, 13, 15, 16 and Charlie's 14

Brace yourselves for the messageboard meltdown that is about to follow.

Draft Day

So the New Year is upon us and January is flying by.  We are 33 days away from pitchers and catchers.  It is a good time to start speculating about Draft Day/Time.  I would like to get this nailed down early so that those who choose to travel can make their arrangements.  My initial thought is that the two best weekends are FRI-SAT, March 18-20 or March 25-27.  Opening Day is March 31st this season, so we those are the final two weekends in March before the draft.

Please post your comments.

HOF

Trevor Hoffman was awesome.

Fenway Flats Complete Overhaul In Blizzard Of Activity

The Fenway Flats would like to announce two trades on this Wednesday Nor'easter holiday.

• TRADE#1:  Fenway Flats deal TIM#2 and LISI#2 to Multiple Scorgasms for 3B Alex Rodriguez
• TRADE#2: Fenway Flays deal 3B David Wright to The Rockers for LF Matt Holliday

#29

Apparently Julio Borbon is not going to be getting a Tag Heuer for giving up his number to the incomparable? Adrián Béltre. Béltre had his number added to his contract. Youkilis is playing 3rd....

Keepers and Roster Tenure

I would like to call this the people who are afraid move talent list, so that I can save Mike the trouble of leaving this in the comment section.

LONGEST TENURED PLAYERS (seasons on same team)

1. Johan Santana......IL.....6
2. Miguel Cabrera....IL.....5
3. Justin Morneau.....RR....5
4. Carlos Lee...........YS....5
5. Felix Hernandex...CM...4
6. CC Sabathia........MS....4
7. Jimmy Rollins.......MW...4
8. Ryan Howard......DC.....4
9. Mark Teixeira......CM.......4
10. Cole Hamels........BP......4
11. Albert Pujols.......BP.......3
12. Evan Longoria.....CM.....3
13. Chase Utley.........CM.....3
14. Carl Crawford.....DC......3
15. Brian McCann.....MW....3
16. Matt Kemp.........MH......3
17. Roy Halladay......RR.......3

26 players, if kept will enter their second season with their respective team.

MOST TENURED PLAYERS PER TEAM (players with 2+ yrs on current team)

1. Chin Music.................4
2. Irish Labatt.................2
3. Royal Rooters.............2
4. Melrose Warriors........2
5. DC Dynasty................2
6. Boston Pilgrims...........2
7. Yellow Stars................1
8. Multiple Scorgasms......1
9. Metal Heads................1
10. Fenway Flats...............0
11. Thunderlips..................0
12. The Rockers................0

PLAYERS WHO HAVE BEEN ONLY DRAFTED ONCE

These are the players who were drafted in our inaugural draft, but who have been kept by one team or another every year since.  They are the only players to have been kept in every single year of our league history.

• Ichiro Suzuki (GIL, IL, DC, TL,TL, DC, IL, IL)
• Albert Pujols (CM, CM, CM, CM, CM, BP, BP, BP) 
• Carl Crawford (DC, TL, CM, CM, IL, DC, DC, DC)
• Miguel Cabrera (CM, PB, PB, IL, IL, IL, IL, IL)
• Mark Teixeira (GY, PB, PB, DC, CM, CM, CM, CM) 
• Alex Rodriguez (GIL, CM, DC, DC, MW, MW, IL, MS)
• Johan Santana (DC, DC, IL, IL, IL, IL, IL, IL)

FBB Goes International

I am proud to welcome the recent international viewers who have hit on our blog over the past 30 days.  We are truly becoming a global game.  Check out our stats...

United States 1,449 Croatia (Stojko Vranković) 4 China (Patrick before communism shut him down) 1 France (Rheal Cormier) 1 Malaysia (Jack Dunleavy) 1

Fenway Flats and Chin Music Announce Trade

Fenway Flats trade TIM#5 pick to Chin Music for Carlos Santana.

....and yes Joey, this one is for real.

CORRECTION:  The Braun for Haren trade between MH and FF never took place.  Rosters are correct as currently listed.  Apologies to all for the dumb joke, except for you Joseph.