Step 1: Media Saturation; Step 2: ?????; Step 3: Profit!

I was happy to help out Tim Catts of BusinessWeek with his story about the technical problems some free online contests have had lately, including ESPN's fantasy baseball game (as you recall I detailed problems with them hea-ah, and hea-ah).

Later, when he noticed that he couldn't pick up players other teams had dropped, even days after the fact, Furdell decided to sit out the season. ESPN had a problem.

I like that. Take heed, ESPN. When you wrong the Furdell, YOU'VE GOT A PROBLEM.

It's true, I haven't even looked at my team since they reset the rosters. Kind of a shame, because with the Mariners actually playing kind of well, and me on paternity leave, I've been following baseball pretty closely. I've been to several great games in person this year... a tight 2-1 win over the Yankees, a great come-from-behind win over the B*lt*m*re Orioles (the team that doesn't like to admit where it's from), and a win in extra innings over the Red Sox a couple weeks ago with Dice-K pitching (and with my mom in attendance, to boot).

Plus, something really cool happened to the Mariners the other day, something blog-related that's probably never happened before... I'll have to talk about that later.

So yeah, despite all the baseball interest in '07, I bowed out of my ESPN fantasy league early, and the Emory gang has probably played its last season at ESPN. We will most likely head for the greener pastures of Yahoo next year. But I will treasure my 2005 championship banner. I will treasure it... always.

DID YOU KNOW? Also a baseball fan: my adorable new baby son, Alexander.

Seriously, this kid has, like 12 baseball-themed outfits, and I don't think I bought any of them.

(OK, I did buy him a Mariner Moose one, but you could argue that's for the moose content just as much as the baseball content.)