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No thanks on the scrimmage. Without my 21 yr olds I would only have 6 players. The team I have chosen to scrimmage has the same problem. I will start U-20s and will bring the 21 yr olds off the bench.

Thanks for hearing me out, guys. While all this ex-pat/adopted business is on the table, I wanted to ask (as a manager) what is the level of participation from the non-english speaking teams? Are they pretty active and training?

On a good day, Bahamas has 2-3 active teams. 2 of them train consistently. We have one draft, rest of the prospects are late season saves that are way behind. I've had to put my own money out (D3 USA is not exactly bizzilionaires) to release players to the market. This approach has been successful, which included spending $300k on my current #3 trainee A. Gale-Sewell (31773677). He is currently a 19yo MVP with 49 (21/28) up from 41 when I first bought him and ended up in a bid war that drove his price way higher than he was worth.

Your country generally has 20+ active teams listed so that's enough for at least two leagues. My wonder is if the grass is truly greener on the other side.

@Mr.Cake - Too bad on the scrimmage. Though I was curious about my S26 lineup going against an Andou-free squad. He obliterated us back in S24 (25600). Our squad was a whole different animal back then so I wanted to see the progression. I do see he's injured though. Would love to see how we match up in S26 to compare the new development. Maybe the first game of the new season, if we're both still in office.

@Malice - Have you seen Kobe's new 40+ mill extension at work? Thoughts? ;) http://youtu.be/jhFqSlvbKAM

@Anybody Also, Wolph in Pakistan? Seems so.....right.

Last edited by Mix at 12/5/2013 10:55:30 AM

Your country generally has 20+ active teams listed so that's enough for at least two leagues. My wonder is if the grass is truly greener on the other side.

Depends what you mean by "active". As far as concerning the NT, I'd guess we have about 10-12 teams that are trying to help out with the NT. Maybe not that many.

@Malice - Have you seen Kobe's new 40+ mill extension at work? Thoughts? ;) (http://youtu.be/jhFqSlvbKAM)

Here's the thing: by signing Kobe to this extension (which I agree - way overpaid), they tell every other elite player in the league that 'if you come to the Lakers, we will look after you'.
LA has a history of doing this (have a look at Magic's contract! ), and it's just a continuation of their history.
That said, I STILL wish Kobe had gone the Timmy route...

Gasol... not sure, but LA hold his Bird rights, so he could re-sign with them end of this season for a pittance (if he chose to, but why should he when Kobe gave 'em no discount?).

What they get from external sources (as you mentioned - TV/Merch) more than covers Kobe's contract (that and a WHOLE LOT more)...
How quickly the Lakers pushed this through kinda blew my mind. I do think it's an attempt to play to their history, and entice future elite FAs via a belief that you will "get looked after" if you come to the Lakers. I think that maybe they're saying to the players "We're an old school franchise who looks after their own, in a day and age where everybody else will nickel 'n dime you."
Might work...

Shinaga will go bot either next Monday or the Monday after. He has a 19 yr old HOF player who is not bad...

Hmm... kinda bad timing. I'll be waiting to see what the draft is. I *should* do ok out of it...

His two players should come off the TL the day after the draft is out.

Oh nice. Perfect timing then.

Tough loss... for a scrimmage! Nice to see Kenny Tom-tom get his first U21 game tho'!

Just look at the Boxscore and you can see why....I ran a blank for the fun of it and they had Ariyoshi(PF with crap passing) starting at PG.....I won't be running a blank again.