Just to inform all two of you who might be interested, the online fantasy baseball season is upon us! After my amazing performances last year, I’m back to win it all. This may sound terribly geeky to most of you, but I honestly enjoy playing online fantasy baseball (and football). For one, it gives me an excuse to follow my favorite sport while secluded in a far off country without any televised games. And then there’s the fact that I get off on analyzing the statistics and giving my mathematical muscles a workout. OK, maybe it is a bit geeky… but so am I!

I’ll be playing in two different leagues this year – the same ones as last year. Both are run on Yahoo and organized by friend and former Barcelona resident turned responsible father, Clayton. One is a ‘keeper league’ so my roster is the same as last year. As you probably remember, this is the same league in which I won the championship last October. The other is a draft league. I am proud and at the same time ashamed to admit that I have spent more time preparing for this draft than any other online draft I have ever participated in. I preranked my players, formulated my cheatsheets, and created more than one comprehensive spreadsheet to aid in my draft. Yesterday was the big day and I’m happy to say that all of my planning appears to have paid off. I could write out an in-depth review of why I think I’ve got a strong lineup, but I’ll just let you see for yourself. Behold the glory that is my 2006 fantasy baseball team:

Happy birthday, Clay.
Now how about a Spanking?!