Appreciate your acknowledging the otherwise unanimous support of 5/3 from the 8 other returning owners and find it Bigly of you to be on board (albeit, with duly noted objection). Btw, Jeff/Dire did register consent with the change last nite. But after kicking our butts silly the past several years, he's probably just interested in finding a new challenge!
I believe you pov is well taken regarding freedom, which was a big factor in the league voting out the 5/3 original requirement back in the Alan Shiffert Scheduling Manager heyday of the early aughts.
Dave, Kenny, Scottie and myself were part of the change from 5/3 to Any8 Ps back in the day. Like flower children in the 60s, we were intrigued to experience/experiment with the new freedoms of inclusivenss and letting pithers be free to heave without the hangups of labels like sp and rp, man. And shee-it, once the BigO came into office in '08, could we ever regress back to the founding fathers 5/3 totalitarian dogma?
Look. If the Hilary had been a better candidate, we probably wouldnt be having this discussion. But as goes the Nation, so goes Fasano. Constitutional orthodoxy is back in vogue and I ask you this? Can a 10-member society of fantasy misfits hold back the ebb and flow of cultural mores?
Yeah, it could... But in this case it didn't... Seriously, my suprise at the near unanimous support for a change back to the game's original pitching construct (and a fareweall to the hedonistic experiement that brought us rosters perverted with an un-naturel abundance of SPs and rampant venerial infections) is equal to yours!
No changes can happen after the draft without Unanimous League Vote. If there were a bloc of owners against this rule reversal, I would reluctantly side with the No camp. Several days before the draft is NOT a good time to alienate owners, as we need all 10 on board to raise this Phoenix Sunday night.
To that end, I appreciate your expressing acceptance of the "mandate," as well as your support for "individual freedom to choose". I am very surprised (but pleased) this return to orthodoxy has met with wide acceptance - mainly because both points of view have intrinsic merit. But then again, with Roe v. Wade hanging by a thread and the pendulum of societal norms on the move, surprised is likely the new norm.
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