The last-ditch, eleventh-hour push to launch a second season of professional baseball in Israel continues as the upstart Israel Professional Baseball League gets closer to the unlikely prospect of an Opening Day this summer of 2008.
IPBL frontman Jeffrey Rosen, the Miami millionaire Magnetix maven and former Israel Baseball League investor who split off from the troubled operation and announced the new league in November, tells Our Man Elli in Israel (who happens to be in the United States now and wasted no time at all in breaking more news in this important and historic saga while standing outside Wrigley Field) that he and the IPBL are "going forward... working away... to create an viable plan." Rosen says he and his team "hope to make a formal announcement soon.
"Rest assured we are working hard to undo the mess of last year."
Rosen ignored Our Man Elli's specific questions:
I understand the IPBL has been certified by the IAB. Is that true?
How many fields are there, and how many teams?
Who and how many different owners are there?
Who are the managers and coaches?
Is the next tryout happening?
Where are the players sleeping and eating?
Is there an agreement with a bus company, an EMS car, a medic, a trainer?
Is there any national advertising?
Merchandising agreement?
Bats and balls?
How many fields are there, and how many teams?
Who and how many different owners are there?
Who are the managers and coaches?
Is the next tryout happening?
Where are the players sleeping and eating?
Is there an agreement with a bus company, an EMS car, a medic, a trainer?
Is there any national advertising?
Merchandising agreement?
Bats and balls?
"Thanks for your continued interest," said Rosen. Not much, but then again, any statement at all from the very tight-lipped IPBL camp is significant, coming days before its Sunday player tryouts and amid rumours that the league has been certified by the Israel Association of Baseball, the country's governing body for sport which canceled the IBL's contract in January (as we reported exclusively).
Sources tell us that no deal has yet been made with the IAB. But the ball is rolling...
hey scooper, boy it took you a long time to find out rosen was not playing in bat yam. everyone already knew that!!!!
ReplyDeletescooper , marv goldklang is a real great source!!! yep, we know that too.
scooper, want some more inside information? Chaim Kats is trying to go behind his IAB and cut a deal and Peter his Secretary general in the IAB works for Rosen and has an interest in doing the deed with Rosen and so he will be pushing for the signing of the next "DPBL" (Dead Pro Baseball League)
more to come !!! Oh , What in the world do you know about Israeli Politics ?????
I understand the IPBL has been certified by the IAB. Is that true?
ReplyDeleteTRUE AND KATS IS REALLY MOVING ON THIS
How many fields are there, and how many teams?
HAD 2 ONE FELL, THE SECOND ONE WILL NOT BE GOOD ENOUGH AND THE OTHERS HAVE BEEN CLOSED TO US
Who and how many different owners are there?
HAD A COUPLE, SOME GUY WHO DRINKS WINE , HEH HEH, AND ANOTHER ONE WHO PLAYS WITH HIS KIDS IN RAANANA BUT THEY ALL LEFT ME HOLDING ON TO MY WET DREAM OF BEING BIG IN ISRAEL
Who are the managers and coaches?
PROBABLY JUST MIAMI DADE COACH AND HIS HELPERS
Is the next tryout happening?
OF COURSE WE HAVE TO BE SURE THAT BARAS BELIEVES WE ARE STILL GOING TO PLAY (EVEN THOUGH WE ARE NOT)
I CAN ALSO MAKE A FW BUCKS ON THE SIDE BECAUSE THE PLAYERS WHO WANT TO TRYOUT NEED TO COUGH UP SOME MONEY)
Where are the players sleeping and eating?
I HAVE MY TEAM IN ISRAEL WORKING ON THAT , WE WILL BE UPGRADING FROM LAST YEARS FIASCO AND GOING TO EAT AT MCDONALDS AND SLEEP IN YOUTH HOSTELS ALL OVER TEL AVIV
Is there an agreement with a bus company, an EMS car, a medic, a trainer?
OF COURSE, I HAVE ALL THAT IN PLACE , ACTUALLY KATS IS WORKING ON ALL THAT FOR ME , I PAY HIM WELL OH YEAH AND PETER IS ALSO ON MY PAYROLL
Is there any national advertising?
HEY, OF COURSE , WHAT DO YOU THINK I PAY ELLI FOR:-)
Merchandising agreement?
WE WILL HAVE ALL THE MERCHANDISE PREPARED IN THE BRONX AND SHIP IT TO ISRAEL IN TIME FOR OPENING DAY (WE EVEN HAVE NAMES OF TEAMS READY BUT WE WILL WAIT UNTIL OPENING DAY TO GIVE THEM OUT)
Bats and balls?
OF COURSE I HAVE BALLS, WHO WOULD DO THIS WITHOUT BALLS. WHO WOULD SAY HE IS GONG TO HAVE A SEASON READY , HAVE PLAYERS PAY FOR TRYOUTS THAT WILL LEAD TO NOTHING, BALLS , MINE ARE VERY BIG.....
BATS, KATS SAID I CAN USE HIS , SO I DO NOT NEED THEM
HEY SCOOPER, GOLDKLANG IS GETTING READY TO TRY AND TAKE OVER FROM ROSEN AND KURTZER WANTS TO BE HIS COMMISH.
ROSEN DOES NOT EVEN KNOW THAT THE IAB ARE TRYING TO SQUEEZE HIM FOR ALL HIS MONEY AND HE IS FOOLISH ENOUGH TO FALL FOR THIS. EVEN FROM INSIDE HIS OWN 'CAMP' IN MIAMI HE HAS AN INFORMANT WHO GVES GOLDKLANG DAILY UPDATES, BOY I BET HE WOULD FALL IF HE KNEW.
STAY TUNED FOR MORE SCOOPS SCOOPER , HEY AND I DON'T MIND YOU TELLING EVERYONE IT IS YOU WHO IS GETTING ALL THE SCOOPS, WE WILL KEEP THIS BETWEEN US :-)