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Me about to pour YooHoo on Scott Menet (Mike Capilo in background)

The 1985 ESL YooHoo Ceremony

Me pouring YooHoo on Scott Menet with Drew Gallagher holding him down (Mike Capilo in background)

2026 DRAFT DATE:
Friday, March 13th, 2025
5:30PM

DRAFT LOCATION:
Blair DeWalt's house
19 North 3rd Ave
West Reading, PA 19611

Since some of you
forget every year:
You must draft
26 players for $290
(2) C, 1B, 1/3, 3B, 2B, 2/S,
SS, IF, (5) OF, DH, U, (10) P

ESL ROSTER FREEZE:
Friday, March 6th, 2026
5:30PM

You may retain up to 16 players. You must also note any contract extensions at that time. You must also note any rookies that you will retain on reserve. You may submit your freeze list early - you can change it as many times as you like up until the dead-line. However, once you submit your list, you may no longer make any trades until after the draft.

2025 ESL Summary
Drew Gallagher, 9/30/25

The Eternal Squabblers League has existed for 41 years. Zap and Blair were not born when Caps arrived late to our alphabetical draft and drafted Steve Garvey and Dwight Gooden in quick succession. For the first 40 years, Chris had won exactly half of the championships. Now, he is batting above .500 with his 21st title in 41 years.

Once upon a time, Chris was offered a seat at a national draft because of his world-renowned excellence (before online drafting) with the agreement that I would be his co-owner which meant I would drink free beer and not make him draft ex-Red Sox. The only rub was that we had to provide airfare and hotel to get to Las Vegas players like Bruce Hurst. We were young and not independently wealthy so we passed on the opportunity to showcase Chris' greatness with the hope that we would also be preserving our young marriages.

The world will never know, but after 41 years of him kicking my ass I can attest to his greatness (although I did beat him in the ASL this year).

The 2025 season also marks the high-water mark for the team formerly known as the Baserobbers and now known as the Reservoir Dogs. In Robbie's first 14 years in the league he never cashed. Now he has cashed for the fifth season in a row and reached the lofty heights of a second-place finish. Tom Holland would be proud of the 13-year old he once knew.

Rounding out the Top 5 were the Question Marks, the Slickers, and the Beachrats who cashed and also grabbed the first overall pick in the reserve draft. Leave it to me to finish last in the first season where that pick does not get the first pick in the reserve draft. My timing is brilliant.

Rick went back to Virginia with a $29 K-Rod, and a $26 Corey Hart...and a $20 Jason Bartlett?

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Chuck landed a $42 Michael Bourn, and a $40 Ryan Howard.

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ESL TRADING RULES:
Between Draft Day and noon on August 31st, teams may accept only TWO "asterisk" players total and those must be from different teams. On the flip-side, a team may trade AWAY as many "asterisk" players as they like (but no two "asterisk" players to the same team.) "Asterisk" players are any players auction drafted for $20 or over, any players FAAB drafted for $60 or over, players of any salary in the final year of their contract, and players traded to the A.L.	Each team is allowed one "asterisk for asterisk" trade during the season. The trade is only one asterisk for one asterisk and other players cannot be involved in the trade. This trade can be utilized at any point in the season up until the trade deadline. The intent of the rule is to allow fair trades. Again, it is simply one asterisk player for one asterisk player. It is not two or three asterisks for two or three asterisks and no other players (or rookies) can be included in the trade. This trade does not count against a team�s limit of two asterisk trades. However, you may not make two trades involving that same team within +/- 30 days. In other words, if you have made a trade with that team within 30 days prior, you may NOT make your asterisk-for-asterisk trade with that team; and likewise if you make your asterisk-for-asterisk trade with a team, you must wait 30 days before making any additional trades with that team.	Friday after the All-Star Game, 12:01 p.m. thru noon August 31st: Restricted trading, you may trade with any team +/- 5 points in the standings (based on the most up to date standings on the front page of the All-Star Stats web-site. "Live" standings will not count, as there will be no way to verify it later.) Also during this period, teams with less than 40 points and not in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th place will also be able to continue trading with each other. The asterisk rules will apply during this period. Between 12:01 p.m. on August 31st thru the end of the regular season: NO trading what-so-ever.

Final 2024 Stats and Standings
		Avg	RS	HR	RBI	SB	W	S+H	K	ERA	Ratio
Beachrats Rick Frantz	88.5	.2514 9	1131 10	292 8	1127 10	240 9.5	110 9	163 8	1777 10	3.55 8	1.227 7
Malcontents Chris Malinowski	72	.2501 6	1035 7	258 6	984 6	166 6	97 7	140 6	1634 9	3.53 9	1.149 10
City Slickers Marty Slickers	70.5	.2464 3	1001 6	306 10	1031 8	146 3.5	101 8	194 10	1421 7	3.74 7	1.194 8
Reservoir Dogs Rob Miller	70	.2502 7	1083 9	301 9	1078 9	143 2	115 10	158 7	1616 8	4.03 5	1.283 4
Ball & Oates Jon Perkins	54	.2507 8	1054 8	266 7	996 7	173 7	67 2	138 5	1037 2	3.95 6	1.301 2
Scottsmen Dale Scott	49.5	.2555 10	978 4	221 2.5	902 5	211 8	79 5	127 3	1392 5	4.09 4	1.300 3
Pottsville Maroons Matt Zappacosta	48	.2427 2	985 5	244 5	826 1	161 5	70 3	134 4	1146 4	3.46 10	1.152 9
Blair Pitch Project Blair DeWalt	37	.2420 1	837 2	196 1	831 2	142 1	96 6	168 9	1408 6	4.10 3	1.236 6
Question Marks Mark Bennett	31	.2485 5	938 3	221 2.5	856 3	240 9.5	71 4	111 1	994 1	4.25 1*	1.291 1*
Druids Drew Gallagher	29.5	.2475 4	819 1	223 4	892 4	146 3.5	66 1	114 2	1081 3	4.23 2	1.282 5