Fantasy Season Cometh

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Is it strange that I'm looking forward to the start of the fantasy baseball season more than the start of the actual 2008 baseball season?

Maybe it's an ego thing: the absolute power that comes from ruling my fantasy team's every move and action. I remember as a kid thinking that I could do a much better job of running my favorite team than whoever the yahoo was in the Yankees head office at the time.

Or maybe it's the draft and everything that follows: laughing at my buddy's "worst pick of the night" while secretly wishing I'd held out for the player he just picked up, over-spending for the beat-up veteran catcher just because he's always on my team and my friends know that, and analyzing eachother's teams to death over the next six months.

Whatever it is, it's still baseball isn't it? It's still this great game that keeps us coming back for more, year in and year out. As a life-long fan, taking it to the next level -- fantasy -- brings back the excitement I felt as a kid when the season was opening and a brand new, unpredictable year was about to unfold.

Let's play ball!