IBC

http://www.quicktopic.com/13/H/x5yajGWeJvQ/p1.15
This was the original Messageboard for the IBC. many of the teams have moved since then (almost all in fact) and many of the GM's are no longer with us, but I thought it might make for some amusing reading.
Interesting note... 146 posts in the first 3 days of the league.

Who was that idiot running the Expos?

Not me , I wasn't Expos until May.

Soon enough it shall be revealed...

that and Shawn's death star.

I don't remember, but I really hated that kid. I think I booted him halfway through April, he drove me up the wall.

And you got this stud to replace him, nice job Bren and Aaron for recruiting me. And you're welcome everybody for Shawn.

Bren didn't do crap in recruiting JP, it was all me. So, if you wanna break down my league contribution like they break down the Bill Walsh coaching tree, it goes like this:

JP who brung in Shawn and Jake and through Jake we got Seth. Gotta include Ryan there as well. We're not counting Matt LeRoy because we don't count useless pussies.

I brought in Gabe and me and him together brung in Kegan, who gave us DT and a year or so of Ricky who was halfway decent

man.. how many original members do we got left?

man.. I was pissed when bren took adam dunn on draft day... and aaron stole kearns from me on day 2 when I got too stoned, forgot about timezones, and showed up an hour or two late..

ropers.. did I bring you in post draft? ropers as the pierats.. lol. brought together by espn message boards and a trade of ken griffey jr.. linked by the ibc today. marinersrock2000!!!

oh joe kraut.. haha..

crash...

& the good ol days of bishop vs. morgan vs. ropers & bren vs. everyone else

We used to have guys marked that've been here since Day 1. Let me think.

Bren and JB in the ALE
Andrew and Degan in the ALC
Nobody in the ALW

Nils in the NLW
Me and Nate in the NLC
Nick in the NLE

So we've got 8 guys left by my count that have been here since the original draft. Unless Pat Bishop was here but I thought Rich brung him in midway through the first year. But if you look, we've got a ton of guys that were brought in halfway through the first year or before the second year that's still around

I started before the '03 season. My team could not have sucked worse, and I don't think I made one good trade in my first year. As I recall, my three best players were Tim Wakefield, Mike Piazza, and Woody Williams.

Teams with Dave Burba as their Ace... Rickey being Rickey...
Brennan was in the league for Game 1, but not for the draft. Pat didn't start the season with the league, his original team was TB and we had a couple replacement GM's for that team first.
Rich was here for Game 1 but not the draft.
JB was here for Game 1 but not the draft.

I missed the draft and the first month. My rotation when I started was:
Dave Burba
Blake Stein
Chris George
Joe Beimel
Jeff Urban

Their was the one guy who could never trust Bren not to cheat, got pissed when he got kicked out, put a link to gay porn on the board.

Chrash and Joe, the kings of the ridiculous trade offers.

Ahh, the good old days before net nanny and responsibility at work when I could post more regularly.

My original team (or as close as I've been able to get to it). http://www.geocities.com/internationalb ... -orig.html
I only took Dunn because Beckett was nabbed a few picks ahead of me.

me and jp are practically original members. we got here in may of the first year, and our excessive trading (especially JPs) single handedly kept thel eague alive at times.

Pat - agree to a point on Chrash and Joe - but the all-time worst was Pickett...

fucking pickett! lmao..

I also forgot nils was the cubs year 1.. was pat G the stros then?

I believe Pat G was the Astros that season... that explains the arguing with the A's/Josh.

Pat G was not originally Houston. He came in after I was here.

I still have my original roster on a geocities somewhere, let me find it.

Rotation:

Freddy Garcia
Darryl Kile
Carlos Hernandez
Brandon Duckworth
Kyle Lohse


Lineup:

1. Christian Guzman-SS
2. Trot Nixon-RF
3. Albert Pujols-1st
4. Terrence Long-CF
5. Erubeal Durazo-LF
6. Sean Burroughs-3rd
7. Jason Varitek-Catcher
8. Brent Butler-2nd


Bench:

Michael Barrett-C/3rd
Austin Kearns-RF
Bo Porter-CF
Gary Matthews Jr.-CF/RF/LF
Desi Relaford-2nd/SS

Bullpen:

Bob File
Ryan Kohlmeier
Mike Matthews
Scott Sullivan
Tim Spooneybarger
Jeff Fassero
CL--Braden Looper

I have no desire to find my original rosters. Annus terribilis!

andrew using the word anus. typical.

annus = year
anus = old woman

Get your Latin straight.

Digging deep for old thtrads.. The link Bren posted still works for me.