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"I'm no better than a crack whore,"
said this
Anonymous Baseball Exec, "but man it's fun." |
New York, NY - Major League Baseball
confirmed Monday that it has quarantined all front office personnel league-wide
after the trading of actual athletes in the last two weeks has exceeded
the number of fantasy league trades made during the same time frame. "We
had about 340 actual trades," said spokesman Chuck Glum, "while
a quick Google search showed there were only about 250 rotisserie league
trades executed by geeks at their computers who have no life and get some
pathetic measure of power by creating fantasy teams." According to
Glum, front office execs may have been victims of a variation of "auction
fever," a disease in which bidders at an auction get caught up in
the proceedings, and winning the auction becomes more important than the
auctioned item itself, as in the recent Madonna memorabilia
auction. Or actually, any Madonna auction. Said Glum, "The Dodgers
trading Paul LoDuca? Boston trading
Nomar Garciaparra? These execs were gripped by an evil,
all-consuming white hot demon. Although they did lose weight while in
the fever." The league took notice midway through the weekend when
the Chicago Cubs instigated a five-team trade so complicated
that one of the teams, the Minnesota Twins, didn't even
know it was involved. They became alarmed and called in medical advisers
an hour later after the Cincinnati Reds traded two minor
leaguers for a 1.9% mortgage on an office park and a truckload of Canadian
cigarettes. When the San Francisco Giants attempted to
trade Barry Bonds to Warner Brothers
for the publishing rights to Van Halen, the league shut
down trading immediately. A vaccine of camomile tea and hemp injected
directly into the eyeball has been sent to all front offices. In a related
story, David Lee Roth said he may sue MLB because he
"always wanted to be a Giant."
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