Fantasy Baseball

Gentlemen,

The Milwaukee River is slowly thawing and once again it appears time for me to suggest that Flip do a bunch of work and set up fantasy baseball.

Though I may be much maligned for this, I suggest that we use a league where you only have to update your lineup once a week. While the everyday adjustments may prove who is the best manager, I think it just causes people to lose interest after a couple months (namely me...which accounts for my meteoric rise, and equally meteoric plummet last year). As usual, I suggest that Flip figure out a way to solve this problem. Either way, I'm in.

And Dave, if you can do some weekly in depth analysis (charts, graphs, sabermetic calculations) and post them on a weekly basis, that would be great. Frankly, I just don't have enough stuff to check when open up Firefox.

Oh, and I also suggest that we organize some sort of "Winter Meetings" in Pinehurst, where, in Don Corleone fashion, Moe must accept any trade proffered on his son's wedding day.

Bigamy

Unfortunately for Tribe fans everywhere, William and Mary's all Jewish Whitewash wasn't able to topple George Mason, but the situation raised an interesting question between Michael and myself.

If W&M won, they would have been about a 14 seed, and would have had a good chance of playing Xavier in the first round. I asked Hanley who he would be rooting for, mainly in jest, and his answer shocked me... he said Xavier without hesitation. When I looked at him like he had just committed adultery, he hesitated, but still said Xavier, so that raises a question.

In a world without divisions, would you root for your alma mater or the school you have rooted for your whole life?

Personally, I think anyone who answers their childhood team should have their diploma revoked, but then again not everyone went to a psycho-athletic, extreme school spirit school like Wabash. I am not saying you can't root for both teams, but if they play, I think you always have to root for your alma mater.

I Have a Confession...

I really enjoy the Duke Blue Devils this year. I love their offensive approach- the way they are virtually interchangible on offense, the way they penetrate and kick for teammates, and the green light they have from Coach K to shoot 3's at any point in a possession.

I will be rooting for them this March.

There. I said it.