Fantasy

The Cubs won't play until 7:05 PM tonight, when the Colorado Rocks come to town. So I have to find a way to waste time until then.

The easiest way for me to waste time is to play fantasy baseball. I'll simply go online and check my standings in the 2007 Open.

In a league with twelve teams, my team is in seventh place and shows no likelyhood of gaining. After one week of play, the first-place team has 205.5 points. I have 162.5 points, which means I have no chance in a hail storm of ever catching the leader. The Cubs will win the World Series before I ever get out of seventh place.

The players on my team include Jorge Posada, Derrek Lee, and Placido Polanco. All the others are so obscure that you've never heard of them. If they ever start scoring any points, I'll try to learn their names.

Fantasy Baseball Failure

I'm presently playing fantasy baseball, courtesy of Major League Baseball. The only good thing about this is that it doesn't cost me anything to play. Otherwise, I would have lost everything I own, which isn't much, but it's all I have.

Consider the game "Home Run Beat the Streak." If I could pick a player each day who will hit a home run, and if I do that 11 or more times, I might win $10,000.

The player presently in the lead has a streak of 9.

Thus far, my longest streak is 1, and my present streak is 0.

I'm beginning to lose hope.

Then there's the game called "Survivor 2007." In this game, all I have to do is pick a winning team each day until I have reached a winning streak longer that any other player.

If I do that, I'll win 2 season tickets for the team of my choice (the Cubs) for the 2008 season.

At present, the leading player has built a winning streak of 19 (nineteen) games.

By contrast, my longest streak was 3, and my current streak is 0.

I'm beginning to wonder if I have the right stuff for MLB fantasy baseball.