[Lucky]

I totally forgot about this until I found Army's money order sitting in my mail Wednesday.

Payment is again $25. Check, money order, or cash if you want to risk it. Can't do Paypal, sorry.

Chris Lopez
259 Washington St
Tappan, NY 10983

Regular Season champ gets $50
3rd Place gets $25
2nd place gets $75
1st place gets $150.

In years past I set a deadline of May 1st and said if you didn't pay you couldn't play with your minor leaguers. Its April 17th when I'm bringing this up so we'll push that back. Truth is, I never actually enforced that anyway.

If you don't pay by June 1st you can't win regular season money. If you have a financial crunch let me know. We're all returning owners and buddies so leeway can be granted but still, no one wants to risk an owner deciding he's done with the league and doesn't want to pay if he ain't getting anything back. So if you don't pay by June 1st we reserve the right to withhold any money purse and kick you out if we decide you were playing games. We've never even considered doing that with anyone so I doubt we will this year. But have to say it. If you don't think I'll have a check in hand by June 1st at least make sure to open the lines of communication so I know you're aware of it.

[Lucky]

Got AA's payment yesterday. Got Army's awhile back.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Totally spaced on this. I'll send my check this weekend.

Also, what's a money order?

[DevSop]

If I paypal someone the money, can they add it to their check for Lucky? My checkbook is packed somewhere at the moment.

[Lucky]

I spaced on it too so I can't really blame you or anyone else, Solly.

[National Champion Chris Cole]

Lucky, I've been spotty at best on this site. Did I pay yet? I'm thinking I haven't but I want to be sure before I send the check.

[Lucky]

I haven't come across anything but life's been a little hectic. I'll take a look around and make sure it didn't get lost in a pile somewhere but I don't have payment I recorded.

[Lucky]

Mike's paid. I'll get the checks in tomorrow.

[National Champion Chris Cole]

Most likely means I didn't pay. I'll try and get a check in the mail this weekend.

[Lucky]

Kid and Solly are paid.

[Lucky]

You guys haven't gotten paid yet, I know. I believe I've spoken to all the winners in private but I'm once again apologizing and I think you know the deal. I'm trying to get it together and resolved and I take the full blame for letting it linger this long. Suffice it to say things will work a little different this year as I guess I'll be writing you guys checks instead of the other way around.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

I really hope that someone who hasn't paid isn't allowed to come back. I don't want to sound like a dick, I mean I know things come up but we all knew the "rules" going in. If you can't come up with $25, then FLB ain't your biggest concern and you definitely shouldn't be playing.

[Lucky]

If they don't pay they're not allowed back. Its as simple as that. No one gets to draft/declare keepers if they haven't paid.

The reason I'm giving this much leeway is that (a) I've never actually enforced deadlines in the past and lots of people have paid late over the years, albeit not this late. (b) I was a total flake last year and never pushed for payments so almost every one paid "late" because I never even mentioned it. (c) I've continued to be a total flake all winter and not followed up.

Nevertheless all negligent parties were emailed a few days ago that they pay or they're out and I've heard back from all but one. So I'm confident there will be at most only one guy and honestly I have less of a problem kicking him out for non-payment than I have reworking the payments so no one gets screwed.

But its simple. We need 12 people to say they're in. All 12 people must be paid. So anyone who raises his hand and hasn't paid is out, and if he doesn't raise his hand he's out anyway.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Is there an update? Have the 11 remaining owners paid?

[Lucky]

Yes, all 11 owners are paid. I'm running around today so I don't have the numbers in front of me but I have a whole mess of bills of financial stuff I have to do this week so once things settled down on Tuesday or Wednesday I'll fill you in. Basically, all but the 3rd place finisher will have a little less in their payoff than expected due to the 12th owner and if there are no issues I'll deduct $25 from all the payments to cover your 2010 payment.

[Mikey]

Feb 7, 2010 13:55:34 GMT -5 Lucky said:

I'll deduct $25 from all the payments to cover your 2010 payment.

sounds good to me.

[National Champion Chris Cole]

Have I missed the 2010 payment thread?

[Lucky]

I just sent the 2009 checks out this week so I wasn't pushing the 2010 payment, because that would be amazingly douchy. I'll pull that together next week.

[Mikey]

Did you send that check to my old address?

[Lucky]

I don't know. Its whatever I had. I should have double checked. But I had a fresh address for Solly so if he hasn't gotten it then something went wrong. I left the checks in an office mail room instead of heading to the post office so the middle man might have screwed me. Let me know, Solly and Army. If you guys didn't get anything I'll cancel the checks and do it over double checking everything.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Nothing yet

[The Jewish Cunthead]

*BUMP*

I still haven't gotten anything, I don't think the other winners have either.

[Lucky]

Let me hit my "office" this afternoon and see if I fucked up and lost them in a pile. Which at this rate I'd bet I did because I've managed to fuck this up every stage of it.

[Lucky]

I never got there today. I went home for lunch, picked my first ever home grown cucumbers, ate my first cucumber ever, and learned that cucumbers make my head spin, throat swell up, and stomach turn. I'll hit my office tomorrow. Its highly possible I have the envelopes lost in a pile of shit since I've been known to do that shit.

[DevSop]

For payments, until Lucky gets everything in order...I'm willing to pay the winners as soon as possible, but I need to get a few of the fees for 2010 first. Ideally, Lucky will get back to me soon and pay me for whatever I wind up spending out of pocket to get the 2009 winners paid. Here are the calculations I came up with which includes a missing $25.00 from Vols for 2009 that I may just pay to keep everything in check.

Solly owed 125 – paid for 2010
Mikey owed 50 – paid for 2010
Army owed 50 – paid for 2010

Lucky owes 300
Pun owes 25
Lou owes 25
GM owes 25
I owe 25
AA owes 25
MKid owes 25
Grover owes 25
Moose owes 25

If anyone has paypal, that'd be preferable, but if not PM me and I'll send you my address. At worst, I'll get Solly and Mikey paid by the end of the month.

Just if everyone can let me know as soon as possible about paying me or any issues, that'd be great.