The GUBA is looking for approximately one-point-seven new faces to come and join the fray. Here are the teams available:
The Manhattan Myst
Manhattan is a team in need of just a couple of shrewd moves to put them over the top and make them contenders. They've got a legit Ace in
Ernesto Ortega and they have the big hitters
Antonio Nunez and youngster
Cristobal Rodriguez. They've also got a perennial reliever of the year candidate in
Taisho Ohayashi, a 24 year old rookie flamethrower. With a miniscule $47 million payroll and a budget of just over $94 million, the ability to aquire some high priced talent is there. A few solid moves and Manhattan is right back in contention in the MBBA Atlantic division.
The Pago Pago Coconuts
For being a fairly sucky team in recent history, Pago Pago can at least boast a celebrity-filled list of alumni owners. None other than OOTP's very own Steve Battisti is on the list of former owners, as well as former MBBA Commissioner and current Milwaukee Brewers homer/OOTP Beta Tester Matt Rectenwald. Recte is still the GM, but is looking for an assistant GM to keep an eye on the team while he starts putting more of his OOTP time into testing the new version and making sure that the sound is authentic.
As far as the Coconuts, Recte had a TON of money for free agency, and wasn't afraid to spend it. The new outfield consists of superstars
Felipe Valencia,
Antonio Mejia, and
Clancy Cardenas. Shortstop
Marcos Sierra may be the best player on the team, and he's not even arbitration eligible. The pitching is average, with
Juan Reyes getting off to the quickest start on the young 2011 season.
Pago Pago is a
great opportunity for somebody without a lot of online league experience to get their feet wet, and (even though he's a douchebag) get a helping hand from one of the better OOTP owners out there.
As always,
The GUBA forums are the place where the traveshamrockery takes place, and registration is on admin-approval to avoid spambots. If you're interested in either of the teams available, reply to this and let me know what you registered as a username on the forums so I can get you approved and get you into a team.
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