July II Sim Done -- Trading Deadline

Game Date:  Jul 30 2027

Standings:
Adams: London has a one game lead over Atlanta
Zotti:  See Scott's recent post
Signorino: Antelope Valley has a nine game lead over Maui
Wild Card: Brick leads Atlanta by four games

Awards & Accomplishments:
Maui CF Ernesto Salcido named Player of the Week (7/19, 2nd award this season)
Seattle CF Yvon Settignano named Player of the Week (7/26, 3rd career award)
Brooklyn SP Kevin Kepner pitched back-to-back five-hit shutouts (7/24 & 7/29)

Significant Injuries:
Shackamaxon RF Juan Arroyo will miss 2-3 weeks with a sprained ankle.

Milestones:
Maui's Raul Ortega recorded his 2000th hit (7/25)

Commissioner's Note:
This week is the trading deadline.  I'm giving a few extra days before the next sim to allow for extra trading and because of Thanksgiving.

Email 
My primary email account is a Yahoo! account.  I also have a Yahoo! Small Business account where I keep the izev domain.  For years, I simply had all the email from my izev accounts flow into the regular Yahoo! mailbox.  I set up filters to catch the OOTP mail and have it put into a special folder.

For whatever reason, as of last month, the forwarding from the izev account just stopped.  As a result, my izev email remained in my Small Business mailbox.  This meant that, aside from now having to check my email in two places, the filtering was no longer working (since it was set up only on my primary account).

I saw that Yahoo! acknowledged this as a problem.  Their status page gave me the old "we're working on this" status and so, being the patient sort, I left it alone for a while.  Unfortunately, this sometimes caused me to miss league emails -- something I should have been more vigilant about.

Yesterday, I finally got fed up with waiting for Yahoo! to fix the forwarding from the Small Business account and decided to take matters into my own hands.  The steinhardtfamily domain (as well as a few others I own) are hosted by a different service (not Yahoo!).  So, I set up an email there and set it up to forward to my primary Yahoo! mailbox.  I tested it out and found out that it was not forwarding.  I found it odd that both Yahoo!'s forwarding and this other services would *both* be broken, so I decided to do a little testing.

I changed the new email address to forward to my izev address instead of my primary Yahoo! mailbox and, lo and behold, it worked.  So it seems that the problem isn't as much that the Small Business account isn't forwarding to my primary email box, it's that my primary email box isn't accepting forwards!  Has anyone ever had this sort of problem before?

I'm going to try to contact Yahoo to get this resolved.  It's so frustrating, I'm considering switching to another service, even though I've had this Yahoo! address and used it as my primary address for the last seventeen years.

For now, if you're going to send me a league email, please make sure it has OOTP in the subject line. I set up a filter on my Small Business account to catch those, so that, until I get a more permenant solution in place, this should catch league emails.

I'm sorry for the long winded explanation and for the problems this has caused for all of you.  Thank you for being patient while I work this through.

Trivia Question:
Last Week's Question:
Since the dawn of the expansion era, who is the only person to start the inaugural game for more than one franchise?

Answer:  Diego Segui who was the Opening Day starting pitcher for both the Seattle Pilots in 1969 and for the Seattle Mariners in 1977.

This Week's Question:
In some other baseball universe, World War II pulled many able-bodied men from their jobs to the armed services to fight in the war.  Baseball players were not excused, as many of the games stars and everyday players were drafted.

This left teams sometimes scrambling for talent and almost anyone who could play half decently got a shot.  Probably the most famous of these "wartime players" was Pete Gray, who played 77 games for the St. Louis Browns in 1945, despite not having a right arm.  Brown, however, was not the only person who played that year despite missing a limb.

Which player played in the major leagues during the war years, despite missing a leg?

Next sim:  Saturday night, Nov 28.  Happy Thanksgiving everyone!