Friday, February 27, 2009

GM Profile: Baltimore Orioles

Tony

Location: Philadelphia, PA


Age: 34

Habla Team: Baltimore Orioles (current) Cleveland Indians (original)

Sim Baseball Exp/1st league: Habla has been my only league

Number of Habla Titles: 0 so far :-(

Favorite Actual Major League Team: WORLD BLEEPING CHAMPIONS Phillies

Greatest Sports Memory: Cant think, im guessing the last world series
becaus eit ended our 100 plus sport season drought, and specifically
because of the game 5 2 day rain delay

Hobbies: golf when i can

Favorite Movie: Heat, Goodfellas, Casino, a DiNiro fan i am

Favorite Book: not much of a book reader, more magazines

Favorite Beverage: iced tea in the summer, coffee anytime, and Knobs
Creek in "social " situations

Anything Else You Would Like Us To Know: i have a beautiful 16 month
old girl, who is everything

Toughest Division in Habla: hard to say there are good teams in each
division, trying to think which might have the most good teams, maybe
NL East, or AL Central, but most will have 1 or 2 good teams

Most Overrated Habla Team: HHmmm not sure on that one, Boston !!! HAHA

Most Underrated Habla Team: Anaheim, their pitching looks like its
coming together

Easiest Owner to Work a Trade With: Always have worked well with Luke
from Minn, even when we were rivals in central

If you weren't managing your current team, what's a team you would
like to manage: Cleveland, would like to finish where i started

What you like most about Habla: Its fun and challenging

Player you are dying to see/or make a comeback in Habla: Chane
Winther, as long as i get him on my team

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

GM Profile: MN Twins

Luke

Location: Springfield, Illinois

Age: 26

Habla Team: Twins

Sim Baseball Exp/1st league: HABLA when I was 15. Left then came back in 2001

Number of Habla Titles: 1

Favorite Actual Major League Team: Cardinals

Greatest Sports Memory: Cardinals winning 2006 World Series or Duke
over Arizona in 01.

Hobbies: Baseball Scouting, History, and Reading

Favorite Movie: Braveheart

Favorite Book: Glory of thier Times by Lawrence Ritter

Anything Else You Would Like Us To Know: I have a HABLA family tree.
Brought Casey and Nick in who in turn have brought in Steve and Nate.
Also brought in former owner Brian Vaughn.

Toughest Division in Habla: NL East. Pretty even playing field.

Most Overrated Habla Team: Boston is solid, but not sold on them and
their hot start.

Most Underrated Habla Team: Dodgers. Chris quietly puts a contender together.

Easiest Owner to Work a Trade With: Expos or Astros. On the same
page with them.

If you weren't managing your current team, what's a team you would
like to manage: Cardinals or Blue Jays (I was the Blue Jays in another
league way back)

What you like most about Habla: Civil Nature. I am in a football
league where guys are constantly moaning and groaning at each other
publicly. I also love the historical aspect HABLA brings to the table.

Player you are dying to see/or make a comeback in Habla: Bob Gibson.
He was in it before, but my favorite player from an era not my own.