Choose Your Own Theme XV $120M Topic

We are back for the 15th season of this theme-themed theme.

Sometimes, themes out there can be overly restrictive, complicated, or just not interesting. Or sometimes you get an idea for a theme, but you know it would be nearly impossible or simply too boring to fill an entire league around that one theme idea. In this league, you get to avoid all those problems because you're the one choosing your theme, and no one else can use it.

Build a team entirely of guys named Dick, an all-franchise squad, (almost) anything you want. If you want to pick a theme that uses some randomized variables, I'll be happy to do the randomization for you to get started.

League # sitemailed after signing up your theme

$120M Cap
No AAA
No DH
No Waiver Wire
No trades
No clones (unless your theme specifically involves clones)
Injuries on
Standard 24-team schedule
Any stadium

Additional rules:

Themes must affect all 25 players on your roster. No offense-only or pitching-only themes.
No stat-restriction themes will be allowed. So nothing like "All my hitters will hit over .330 and my pitchers will have OAVs under .200". Your team should have an actual theme and not just stat restrictions.

Describe your theme details when signing up so I can Ok it and verify rosters more easily...I'll reserve the right to deny a theme if it offers virtually no restrictions at all (For example: "My team will not have any players named Zeke" is not a reasonable theme).

Please try to choose a team name that somehow identifies your theme.

Feel free to get creative or crazy. Have some fun and good luck to all who play...

Wall of Champions
I - Pfattkatt (Triples Theme)
II - Pfattkatt (Deadball Players Theme) 2-time champ
III - Skunk206 (All names had Mc, O', or -son)
IV - Skunk206 (All players shared a last name with a HOFer from another sport)
V - thurst63 (All hitters had fewer than 10 HR, all pitchers allowed fewer than 10 HR)
VI - josiah31 (All left-handed players)
VII - alleyviper (All players are former MVPs, Cy Youngs, RotYs and Rolaids Relief winners)
VIII - Skunk206 (All players cloned except the 25th man - "Walternates")
IX - uncleal (All players from seasons ending in 8)
X - dweigel (All players played their entire career for one franchise)
XI - Skunk206 (All players from Chicago franchises) 4-time champ
XII - alston (Franchise soup)
XIII - jbar8888 (All batter first names and pitcher last names start with J, B, A, or R)
XIV - finn2030 (All players were 6'1" per bb-r.com)
XV - ozomatli (All players from cities where ozomatli has lived (New York, Philadelphia, Miami, Los Angeles)

TOC Champs
Season IV - Skunk206
Season XIII - jbar8888
10/10/2015 9:23 PM (edited)
Owners and their themes: (bold = team is entered and roster is OK, * = league number sent)

*1. Skunk206 - All players from teams with alliterative nicknames (i.e. Chicago Cubs or Buffalo Bisons) 
*2. 2chair - 5 random seasons (1891, 1900, 1956, 1975, 2014) and at least 3 players from each season
*3. alston - All players from teams with a color in their nickname 
*4. flakfizer - All players from the 14 posted rosters skunk206 has used in this league and at least one player from each season
*5. ozomatli - "Neighbors" - All players from cities where ozomatli has lived (New York, Philadelphia, Miami, Los Angeles)
*6. d_rock97 - "Canadian Baseball"  All players from the Expos or Blue Jays  
*7. celticus - "Brotherly Love" All players from a season they played for a Philadelphia team
*8. finn2030 - All 25 players will weigh 170 pounds, as listed in baseball-reference.com 
*9. hacker7 - All players from New York teams
*10. tribe_fan_09 - All players from Boston teams
*11. brewmeisters - All players named Joe
*12. hogger0223 - All players were on the Padres at one time, using a season they did NOT play for the Padres 
*13. CSRB1980 - "Six Degrees of Pete Rose" - All players played with or were managed by Pete Rose 
*14. DoctorKz - All hitters from the AL and all pitchers from the NL
*15. dodgebob - "Pedro Got it Twisted" All players will have at some point been a teammate of Pedro Martinez
*16. bfhendricks - "Family Ties" - Roster made up of fathers/sons and brothers only and have BOTH (or more) family members
*17. schwarze - "Easy as ABC"  Roster will consist of players whose last names begin with the letters A, B or C. 
*18. jmcoombs1 - All players will have a name (first or last) that beings with letter "M" 
*19. brucel - "Odd Year Soup" All players from 25 consecutive odd numbered seasons, one from each season 1965-2013
*20. SophieGiants - "Not Really All In The Family" All players will have at least one teammate with the same last name
*21. dweezil - 25 players who died during their MLB career 
*22. yargespd1 - All players named George (given name) 
*23. doubletruck - All players wore number 42 
*24. midknight - All players from 1960's expansion franchises 
 
8/4/2015 10:02 AM (edited)
As per my usual custom, I'll post my roster below for easy verification and transparency:

Jack Clements - Philadelphia Phillies
Dan Brouthers - Buffalo Bisons
Rogers Hornsby - Boston Braves
Mike Schmidt - Philadelphia Phillies
Honus Wagner - Pittsburgh Pirates
Tommy Holmes - Boston Braves
Billy Hamilton - Boston Beaneaters
Reb Russell - Pittsburgh Pirates
Mike Grady - Philadelphia Phillies
Turner Ward - Pittsburgh Pirates
Jeff Stone - Philadelphia Phillies
Jim Mosolf - Pittsburgh Pirates
John Wehner - Pittsburgh Pirates
Dave Martinez - Chicago Cubs
Ramon E. Martinez - Philadelphia Phillies
Mordecai Brown - Chicago Cubs
Jake Northrop - Boston Braves
Pete Alexander - Philadelphia Phillies
Babe Adams - Pittsburgh Pirates
George McQuillan - Philadelphia Phillies
Nick Maddox - Pittsburgh Pirates
Bruce Sutter - Chicago Cubs
Jack Pfiester - Chicago Cubs
Jose Fernandez - Miami Marlins
Hank Wyse - Chicago Cubs
7/27/2015 4:11 PM
"Neighbors Theme" - All players selected must come from years in which they played in cities where I have also lived during my life (New York, Philadelphia, Miami, Los Angeles*).

* = Anaheim Angels do NOT count
7/27/2015 4:54 PM
I'd like to join.
Canadian Baseball. Only using seasons from the Expos and the Blue Jays
7/27/2015 5:14 PM
Welcome aboard, guys...
7/27/2015 5:52 PM
"Brotherly Love" = All players from a season they played for a Philadelphia team.
7/27/2015 6:26 PM
I'm back with this: All 25 players will weigh 170... as listed in baseballreference.com.
7/27/2015 6:48 PM
Both are good, welcome
7/27/2015 8:30 PM
All New York teams
7/27/2015 10:38 PM
All Boston teams
7/27/2015 11:08 PM
New York versus Boston, nice
7/27/2015 11:15 PM
10 joined in about 7 hours.  Fantastic start.
7/27/2015 11:16 PM
I'd like to do a skunk206 theme.  Every player will have been on one of your 14 listed rosters from the incarnations of this league (minus the first, where we can't seem to find that roster).  I'll use each year at least once.  

I haven't checked at all to see if this can possibly work. 
7/28/2015 10:00 AM
Can I have a second team? I'd like to do the "A Team" everybody has fielding and range of ATLEAST an A-. Also, flak, if you could do that team, that'd be amazing
7/28/2015 10:09 AM
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