comedy jokes

i like how all three Mike C's just identified themselves as "Mike." in this case i can tell it's carter (or is czaplicki) writing in the last post, but anyway, about what he says:

1. Auctions. There is a simple way to alleviate how auctions (and the subsequent 'salary cap') suffocate trades during the season: don't use the auction price for in-season transactions. so, even if someone paid $70 for jamie moyer, it doesn't matter until the next year when they try to keep jamie moyer, and then they lose $70 going into the auction -- this is one way of doing it. another way is to say auction values are only relevant during the specific auction. so even if you overpaid once for jamie moyer, you could bring him back next year. by the way, if we do the kind of keeper system being proposed (just keep a guy forever with no penalties) and an auction (with no ramificatiosn for the next season's auction), next year's auction is going to be ($&@#(&ing crucial to every subsequent year of fantasy baseball. like whoever gets pujols, a-rod, santana, etc, is going to have them FOREVER at no additional cost. so there is a serious incentive to just waste all your money on four studs, fill out the rest of your team with $1 players, and then just wait for the next year when you have pujols, a-rod, and santana plus a full budget to play with. which seems unfair, because that advantage would never go away. basically, auctions do make shit complicated. but there is a way to not have them crush trading activity during the season, which is to not make salary a consideration in trading (but it necessarily has to be if we do a keeper system). drafting would obliterate all need to worry abotu this because your value is just implicitly "where you get drafted.' like if you draft pujols and keep him, you lose your first round pick from last year. this is the kind of thing that could really reward someone for getting a sleeper. for instance, if you drafted david wright in the 10th round last year, you can keep him and just lose your 10th pick. (again, this is why it's important to keep only drafted [by someone, not necessarily you] players -- otherwise shit gets weird when someone gets to keep jhonny peralta but give up no picks as a result -- that person will then have gotten ahead of everone else, picked their full team before everyone else. it also solves the problem of superstars getting locked up forever. you can have pujols for his whole career, but you're never going to have a first round pick that isn't him. make sense? of course, if we do an auction, all that goes out the window and pujols' value becomes whatever ~$70 someone paid for him.