rebuttals

1. it's not like i have a trade worked out with anyone or have even talked to another owner about possible interest in trading an extra keeper slot. i just thought it would be an interesting wrinkle. it would be fun is all.
2. like pedrag i also enjoy trading. in addition to the burrell-myers hate crime, i also spent circa 1000 paid hours at work last summer working out the ortiz blockbuster with mo and the trading deadline-jason bay deal with mcart. the negotiating is probably my favorite part of fantasy baseball, and i think it would fun to try to figure out what a keeper slot is "worth" (whether a deal actually happens or not). it would just be another thing to keep people interested and engaged and i think it would be fun.
3. similarly, the matsuzaka thing that andy came up with is just meant to be a fun, one-time deal. nobody is saying that he's going to be the next santana. it's a jokey way for us to mirror the bid process in the mlb for non-free agent japanese pitchers. it's not pushing us down a slippery slope regarding the drafting of players. rather, it's a one-time bid process thing that we can do the night before the draft when we do the ping pong ball lottery. the only by-product of the bidding, that i can see, is that it will be fun. and the winner will have to buy everyone a round of sapporo.