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I finally got a chance to check out my email. I just wanted to applaud all those who participated. There were a lot of great articles out there. Also now that IL has won the All-Star game and Writing Challenge, hopefully we can get a clean sweep by getting the Rodriguez Cup next!

Yeah, what he said .... IL RULES!!!

We just let you guys win so you wouldn't go crying around like whiny crying babies. Who cry.

Geez he named the championship trophy after himself? No, no ego there!

Rudel.Dietrich wrote:Geez he named the championship trophy after himself? No, no ego there!

Ugh, you see what you guys did? Somebody please explain to Rudel that I had absolutely no part in the naming of our championship trophy! I'm thoroughly embarrassed now.

What we did? A nice little piece of revisionist history from the guy who demanded that his name grace the championship trophy as "a permanent token of [our] appreciation" for your service as commish. A nice try to play that off as something we did, like it was a surprise birthday present, but I'm blowing the whistle and Rudel's not falling for it.

Happy Valentine's Day John!

Borealis - Commissioner wrote:

Rudel.Dietrich wrote:Geez he named the championship trophy after himself? No, no ego there!

Ugh, you see what you guys did? Somebody please explain to Rudel that I had absolutely no part in the naming of our championship trophy! I'm thoroughly embarrassed now.

Although I enjoy Joel's take, the real story is that the league named the trophy the Rodriguez Cup over loud protests by John. There was a vote and everything. You can dig up the old thread.

Creating a league like this takes a tremendous ammount of hours. Everything in the game can be named after him and it would not bother me. :)

Coal Sox wrote:

Borealis - Commissioner wrote:

Rudel.Dietrich wrote:Geez he named the championship trophy after himself? No, no ego there!

Ugh, you see what you guys did? Somebody please explain to Rudel that I had absolutely no part in the naming of our championship trophy! I'm thoroughly embarrassed now.

Although I enjoy Joel's take, the real story is that the league named the trophy the Rodriguez Cup over loud protests by John. There was a vote and everything. You can dig up the old thread.

Well, I remember some sort of vote, but John never did explain how there were 78 votes for Rodriguez cup when we only had 24 teams...

j/k

Oh, and if you think that's a lot of words, you should see the NaNoWriMo annual contest...my brother has attempted a couple of times and succeeded at least once. I realize we're not writing novels here, but it's tough. And I think we did a heckuva job writing that many words and articles that were so varied and interesting.

Rudel.Dietrich wrote:Everything in the game can be named after him and it would not bother me. :)

That would cause a bit of confusion, I think. "Rodriguez, champions of the Rodriguez League, face off against the Rodriguez League's pennant winners Rodriguez in this year's battle for the Rodriguez Cup..."

Codgers wrote:

Rudel.Dietrich wrote:Everything in the game can be named after him and it would not bother me. :)

That would cause a bit of confusion, I think. "Rodriguez, champions of the Rodriguez League, face off against the Rodriguez League's pennant winners Rodriguez in this year's battle for the Rodriguez Cup..."

You make it sound like he would be playing with himself or something.

Calzones wrote:

Codgers wrote:

Rudel.Dietrich wrote:Everything in the game can be named after him and it would not bother me. :)

That would cause a bit of confusion, I think. "Rodriguez, champions of the Rodriguez League, face off against the Rodriguez League's pennant winners Rodriguez in this year's battle for the Rodriguez Cup..."

You make it sound like he would be playing with himself or something.

Um, pass.

Hitmen wrote:
Well, I remember some sort of vote, but John never did explain how there were 78 votes for Rodriguez cup when we only had 24 teams...

j/k

Ummm yeah, Politics in Chicago