Fantasy Baseball?

Sorry, no.

Baseball season has ended. For the O's fans, it ended around June 15; for the Mets fans, it ended with a guy striking out looking in the bottom of the 9th. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Either way, I'm not watching the World Series.

What I'm talking about here, kids, is Fantasy Congress. For those of you, like me, who get most of your daily news from Jon Stewart, hold firm to the belief that Bradley Whitford should still be running the White House instead of a SNL-knock-off, and spend campaign season figuring out ways to play drinking games while the election results are returned (check my blog for details about that), this game is perfect!

Even if you don't know anything about politics, you could always do what I did for Fantasy Football...pick a team based on name recognition and cuteness factor. To review: John McCain = IN (name recognition), Barbara Mikulski = OUT (cuteness factor). Either way, it should be an
interesting way to learn a little more about how a Bill becomes a Law than what the singing piece of paper taught us in 5th grade.

I've set up a league, and I'm inviting you all to join in. Like everything else in life these days, it's pretty darn simple:

1. Log on to the Fantasy Congress website: www.fantasycongress.org
2. Join the League: "StewartColbert 08" (owner mdsnbelle) with the
password "channel64."
3. Draft your team.
4. Sit back and watch as the points are determined.

To make it fair, I'm not going to activate the league until Election Day. Congress should be close to being back for their Lame Duck (otherwise known as the "I've got two weeks left, so screw it all") Session, and the game should be running in real time at that point. In the meantime: sign up, talk a little smack, and let's figure out if we're playing for bragging rights or something a little more substantive.

The invite is wide open.