Thank you Jeff and for all the welcomes I've received both on here and slack it's much appreciated.
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Welcome back Neil! I hope you have fun this time around and do well (but not TOO well, seeing as you are a Desert Hills division rival
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Welcome back to the league and the best division in PEBA.
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welcome guys!!!
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Welcomes have been much appreciated, apologies for the delay in responding but so much to do when joining a league specially the PEBA.
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And just like that, we have a change in the Central Valley - a new man will take the helm in Bakersfield... Stay tuned...
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welcome!!!!
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Sorry to range a full page back to quibble about timelines, but Neil would not have been the Yuma GM from 2007-2010. The original Bulldozers GM was the youngest of the four Dobney brothers who had teams in PEBA's early days (the others managed Duluth, Canton, and Omaha--the franchise now in Hartford), and he--I believe Jared was his name?--ran the team for several seasons before having to give them up due to some health problems if I recall correctly.Neil wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 3:18 pmIt would have been between that time but not all that time, real time I was only in about 4 maybe 5 months.Bulldozers wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 3:02 pmFor some reason, Neil, your previous history has been lost. The StatsLab records show me as GM of Yuma from 2007 (when the league began) to the present, but I didn't come aboard until 2010. So I'm guessing you were GM from 2007-2010. Does that sound right?
If so we'll have to get someone to correct the historical record.
Bob
Edit: and my memory is correct--a brief search turned up this forum post from 2011 in which Bob himself confirms his predecessor was Jared Dobney! Mystery solved! This would also seem to imply that Neil never formally took the reins in Yuma; perhaps he was a caretaker GM running the club for Jared if he had to be away or some such thing.
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