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Elendil · 07-01-2007, 12:29 PM

Opening Day

The morning of May 7th, the Commissioner assembled all the players whose contracts needed to be renegotiated and all their general managers and put them around a conference table at the league office in Anchorage. In this city and in others across Alaska, teams were getting ready to play without them.

The Commissioner gave an introduction in which he frankly and matter-of-factly laid out the league's dire financial situation. If this deal did not get done, this year would be the league's last - and then no one would be collecting any salaries for playing a boys' game.

Before the hard-tacks negotiation could begin, the players asked the Commissioner and GM's to leave the room so that they could confer. After about five minutes, they came out. They would take the 10% pay cut.

The players then hustled to get on planes to take them wherever they needed to be, and the GM's took out their laptops and got on the phone with free agents. The frenzy to acquire Robbins, Mays, Abston, and others was on - but the negotiations were likely to prove difficult, because teams still did not have a great deal of money. Most of these players would have to accept salaries substantially below what they had made before.

The day game kicking off the 2010 season was played in Kodiak, at the Grizzlies' home field, Kodiak Island Park. The Oilers were the visiting team.

Aerial view of Kodiak and Near Island

Ron Quinton defeated Stephen "Spud" Hill for the visiting team, sparked by a 4-for-5 performance by leadoff hitter Tommy Lambert. Final score: Peninsula 8, Kodiak 4.

Around the league, the Glacier Pilots defeated the Bucs 4-0 in their traditional Mulcahy Stadium faceoff; the Nicks destroyed cross-town rivals Fairbanks, 13-2; the Jets downed the Mushers on a three-run walk-off home run by Lindsay Beals, 4-3; the Miners edged the King Salmon in 11 innings, 4-3; and the Sentinels crushed the Senators in Juneau, 10-1.

07-01-2007, 12:29 PM	#65
Elendil Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the dynasty forum Posts: 2,318	Opening Day The morning of May 7th, the Commissioner assembled all the players whose contracts needed to be renegotiated and all their general managers and put them around a conference table at the league office in Anchorage. In this city and in others across Alaska, teams were getting ready to play without them. The Commissioner gave an introduction in which he frankly and matter-of-factly laid out the league's dire financial situation. If this deal did not get done, this year would be the league's last - and then no one would be collecting any salaries for playing a boys' game. Before the hard-tacks negotiation could begin, the players asked the Commissioner and GM's to leave the room so that they could confer. After about five minutes, they came out. They would take the 10% pay cut. The players then hustled to get on planes to take them wherever they needed to be, and the GM's took out their laptops and got on the phone with free agents. The frenzy to acquire Robbins, Mays, Abston, and others was on - but the negotiations were likely to prove difficult, because teams still did not have a great deal of money. Most of these players would have to accept salaries substantially below what they had made before. The day game kicking off the 2010 season was played in Kodiak, at the Grizzlies' home field, Kodiak Island Park. The Oilers were the visiting team. Aerial view of Kodiak and Near Island Ron Quinton defeated Stephen "Spud" Hill for the visiting team, sparked by a 4-for-5 performance by leadoff hitter Tommy Lambert. Final score: Peninsula 8, Kodiak 4. Around the league, the Glacier Pilots defeated the Bucs 4-0 in their traditional Mulcahy Stadium faceoff; the Nicks destroyed cross-town rivals Fairbanks, 13-2; the Jets downed the Mushers on a three-run walk-off home run by Lindsay Beals, 4-3; the Miners edged the King Salmon in 11 innings, 4-3; and the Sentinels crushed the Senators in Juneau, 10-1. Last edited by Elendil; 07-20-2007 at 02:37 PM.