Mike - I hope you think of us as friends.

I think the PB community is VERY supportive of you. Those that weren't are long gone. I think perhaps you don't realize just how strong the support for PB is within the community.

Your request for suggestions on UNM trades brought responses that either said:

1) Here are some constructive ideas for improving the UNM system

or they said:

2) We like it as it is.

Personally I think those who took the time to provide constructive ideas to improve the UNM system deserve to be considered as friends to PB and not as "negative".

I don't understand why you took the responses so negatively.

This may cheer you up a little bit also:

The Pujols trade was not with Charlotte in K15, that was the Mark Prior trade.

The Pujols trade was with Hawaii in 98RT2 - and Hawaii WON ITS DIVISION this year so perhaps even the Pujols trade worked out.