03-05-2011, 08:49 PM
If the expansion proposal is for this offseason then no matter how good it looks I will be voting no. It's not fair to teams to have no prep time for their rosters. Its like saying "screw you GM's we are not letting you get any value for your players that you worked so hard to get when you didn't even know expansion was coming." On one hand you can say well thats the point of expansion is because of exccess talent. On another hand though its not fair to give a gm no time to manuver his roster around so he can protect who he wants to protect. I'm not even a gm that would have to worry about that but its still not fair to teams like the yanks who have extra talent lying around. If come next year they couldnt find a suitor for any of that talent then so be it but they should be given a chance to get something.
Also I think you guys are way underestimanting just how long this could take. Not everyone checks in everyday, so its more like 3 days to get your list in. Then you have to have the draft which could take a couple days, then FA needs to start which is a week long ordeal due to the 72 hour rule and the subsequent 24 hour rule after that, then we sholud be given a few extra days to trade since trading right nowe is pointless when we dont know how many players we can protect. So we are looking at, at least an extra week. That doesnt even include the voting process on if we even allow expansion which will likley take 2 days. Thats also assuming nobody has any issue with it, if they do then another proposal would need to be written. Too many things to do and too little time to do it in since no one wants to wait 3 weeks for the season to start. Even if you don't agree with my roster manuevering arguments, you can't deny the timeline arguments.
*hopfully not too many spelling erros, no time to read this over
Also I think you guys are way underestimanting just how long this could take. Not everyone checks in everyday, so its more like 3 days to get your list in. Then you have to have the draft which could take a couple days, then FA needs to start which is a week long ordeal due to the 72 hour rule and the subsequent 24 hour rule after that, then we sholud be given a few extra days to trade since trading right nowe is pointless when we dont know how many players we can protect. So we are looking at, at least an extra week. That doesnt even include the voting process on if we even allow expansion which will likley take 2 days. Thats also assuming nobody has any issue with it, if they do then another proposal would need to be written. Too many things to do and too little time to do it in since no one wants to wait 3 weeks for the season to start. Even if you don't agree with my roster manuevering arguments, you can't deny the timeline arguments.
*hopfully not too many spelling erros, no time to read this over