go crazy

topics for discussion in the comments or elsewhere:

1. A commissioner for baseball. all this entails is checking the league daily so you can approve trades, pretty much. even every two days probably would cut the mustard. and handling the money if there's money to be handled. this year i don't think ben even had to handle money, and what money he did handle, we know what happened. if my willingness to run fantasy fantasy baseball leagues and to start a non-mandatory blog about this is any indication, i'm probably going to wind up being commissioner.

2. a likely weekend for the draft, which is obviously going to be in chicago sometime after spring training is well underway, so we know who's starting and shit.

3. rosters. are we going to start doing a keeper league? can we have an auction, finally, like i have been saying for three years. how many guys per team, can we have minor league slots so we can draft the next felix hernandez and then keep him for six years.

4. stats. i think we all like roto-style 5x5 or 6x6, and everyone seems to be in favor of a balanced rate-stat/counting-stat thing. now would be a time when you could voice your non-compliance with that. i want to have some negative stats, if we could. and i'm in favor of ditching wins, but that might not be possible. final decisions can be made by a vote (if anyone tries to say they'll quit the league over scoring, my head will explode)

5. a tenth person?my friend nathan is a good guy who most of you have met who will absolutely pay attention to his team, unlike other people i have dug up (ben adams, ranere, bharat, zimpleman). he's also probably better than us, since he is a sportswriter and his job is basically to pay attention to things that make you better at fantasy sports. any thoughts.

6. i hope everyone likes the title of the blog -- it's supposed to make people at work think you're a big dork.