Hi all,

Baseball payoff time. Take a seat Andy. Calm down Willo.
Here we go.

The Hogmen put on a late season surge to comfortably take the 
title with 70.5 points, led by MVP Sammy Sosa, and fueled in 
part by a flurry of early August trades. The race for second 
place was hot, with the Busters, Invincibles, and Foxes 
changing ranks daily down the stretch and the end of the 
regular season finding the Busters and Foxes tied for second 
at 63 points and the 'Bles just one point behind. The Foxes 
fell back into third, at 62.5 points, when they were tied by 
the Tamales in the strikeout category during the wildcard tie 
breaker NL game. It can't get much closer than that. The 
Invinvibles had led the league handily through much of the 
year, but fell back to fourth when almost all their players 
decided to cool off for the second half. The Nuzzahs and 
Tamales were both coming on strong towards season's end but ran 
out of time. 

Here is a summary of who won/lost what.  The summary does not 
include the bottles of wine or scotch, but the who pays whom 
list below does contain that info.

Follow the side bet link off the web page to see how all the 
side bets were resolved.  

The entry fee shown below includes an extra $10 to be donated 
to the Johnny O'Brien Zahm Hall fund, as agreed to by 
consensus during the sidebet feeding frenzy. The Costs get
paid to Hans since he paid for the Internet costs. The JOB
money will go to Gabes, for him to deposit into the Johnny
O'Brien Zahm hall fund in the names of Willo ($110) and
Andy ($).

Owner   Entry  Moves  Finish  Category  Sides   HtoH  Totals 
------------------------------------------------------------
Albert   -70   -38                      -215    + 5   -318.00
Andy     -70   -29                      -420    + 5   -514.00
Gabes    -70   -38   +140.12  +74.73    +250    +20   +376.85
Hans     -70   -18            +37.36    +110    +30   + 89.36
Ikey     -70   -21                       -20    -15   -126.00
John     -70   -23                      - 75    +20   -148.00
Fox      -70   -33            +93.42    + 60    +10   + 60.42
Mags     -70   -50                      - 40    -20   -180.00
Sobo     -70   -82            +56.04    - 60    +15   -140.96
TAP      -70   -44                      -140    -60   -314.00
Willo    -70   -58   +457.75  +74.73    +500    -10   +894.48
JOB                  +110.00            + 50          +160.00
Costs                +159.85                          +159.85
--------------------------------------------------------
Totals  -770  -434   +867.72 +336.28       0      0      0.00
          -1204          +1204


Everybody look this over, double check the numbers if you
like. I'll give you until Friday, 10/9, to see if this
adds up right to everyone. If nobody yells and scream by then,
we'll call this official. In that case, we will handle payoffs
as follows ...
                                       
Andy pays Gabes   514.00  (Gabes puts 160 of this into JOB)
Al pays Hans      249.21  (159.85 of this is for costs)
Al pays Willo      68.79
John pays Fox      60.42
John pays Willo    87.58
TAP pays Gabes     22.85
Tap pays Willo    291.15
Ikey pays Willo   126.00
Mags pays Willo   180.00
Sobo pays Willo   140.96 

So congrats to the big winners, Willo and Gabes, and an extra 
thanks to Willo for showing the rest of us how to be a 
gracious victor. Also, thanks to Hans for all his work setting 
up the stats and updating rosters as the year went on.

Fox