The Fantasy Baseball Draft Day...

Blogs are on trend, so after a few months of consideration I decided that I should scribble a little bit on the net as well, but I have no idea on what? Should I put some of my pictures around London, make comments on events or gigs, as I matter of fact I usually go to every concert I can, or maybe a food blog, I could be giving reviews about where to eat, Nahh!! I’m not Jay Rayner, Gael Greene, or Toby Young to be criticising about restaurants here in London, also I prefer to leave that to Carla in "Can be bribed with food", so I couldn’t get anything better than write about NOTHING, to be honest I’m a diehard Senfield fan, I watched the whole 9 seasons more than once so what could be better than write about nothing, Like George Costanza said “Everybody’s doing something, we’ll do nothing” (The Pitch episode). It’s funny and a little bit ironic that a few days back I was telling my dear friend Lesley Maria that she needed to focus her blog "See it, hear it, live it", your topics are too wide, and now I’m doing exactly the same or even worse probably.

Fantasy baseball is finally here, I know is weird I live in London so I should be more into fantasy football or even cricket not baseball, anyway I play every year, I even used to go to the draft day to pick my team with the players I thought were going to have a great season, and then realised I was completely wrong and finished as usual within the last 3 places in our league table. But I moved to London so I couldn’t be at the draft day, so sad I couldn’t go to the big event, the huge day for me and some of my friends back home, the day we get together, do a barbecue (to be honest my friend Cachaco is the one that always does the barbecue), drinks lots of alcohol, and finally pick the players, every manager with more than 3 different lists of players ranked by position, historical performance, steroids and whatever you can imagine. But thanks to technology last year we had an online draft, surprisingly and thanks to the time difference I couldn’t choose my team last year, instead the system choose one for me, so guess what for the first time ever and probably the only one I won.

The best part is the emails to try to organise the draft and I want to share with you Guaribe’s comments in one of the last ones, I think it’s a pretty good description of the events of that day.

“Dear friends and colleagues that every year take my money, but at the end I can care less, basically because the time I spent on the game once the baseball season is on, gives me more rewards than any money I could lose on it.

The Gang

As usual, we should have an early breakfast and then immediately start the manual draft, around noon we probably will be opening the first beer, we will keep drinking beers until 6 when we will change to rum and start the online draft. Yeah!, the online draft, the one we had to adopt to allow our fellow managers outside the country and unable to be present to choose their teams, because they don’t want the system (in our case Yahoo http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/) to choose their players for them, no way, what should Yahoo know more than them about baseball players. So everybody that is actually present choosing their players are waiting for Yahoo, sorry my mistake, for our friends that live abroad to choose their players. I guess it's nice to think they still care and they are in front of their computers picking every player, isn’t?

Later after a few rounds of the online draft, I will probably be completely drunk so I will need to call a taxi leaving my car outside as usual, and as our friends around the world I will let Mr. Yahoo to finish my draft but pretty sure not with the same luck of others that took this tactic before me. However, you can still hear the voices of a few friends that are still concentrated in the draft, complaining about how other manager realised that a certain player was still available and took it (my dear Chewie let me remind you it was Yahoo who realised that), but at least for 4 hours we might think that we are all together again, on THE DAY, OUR DAY, THE FANTASY BASEBALL DRAFT DAY, the day that none of our wives, girlfriends, or any women will understand.”