...in Fantasy Baseball that is. So at the beginning of this year's MLB season I, like millions of others around in the U.S. took part in a fantasy baseball draft. I am in two leagues this year. The one I am about to write about I've been in for a couple of years now. The league has a core of returning entrants each year, which are my dorm mates from my first year of college. I think its great to get the competitive juices going year to year with the same people. We also keep the same core for fantasy football and fantasy basketball. Anyway, at the start of this year's draft I had a strategy to use my first five picks to take the top starting pitchers and relievers in the league. I figured that I could possibly trade them away later in the season for some power in the lineup. About 1/4 the way through the season I looked like a genius and was sitting pretty atop the league leader board. Well that was short-lived. I am now in 9th place out of 10 teams after having only traded away one of my star pitchers. I'll admit my strategy didn't work and I'll learn from it the next time around. In my other league however I am in 1st place out of ten teams when I didn't employ my "take the top pitchers" strategy. You'll be hearing plenty more about fantasy sports as time goes on. I am in 4 different fantasy football leagues this year so things could get interesting.
On another note, I heard a report on the radio this morning detailing a British study that experimented with mice and junk food. The radio report said that the study fed junk food to pregnant mice and found that the offspring are more likely to have a penchant for junk food. Makes sense. I've always thought that you develop a taste for different foods while growing up but apparently it starts earlier than that.
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